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SPONSORED EPISODE: Rethinking vehicle-protection plans for today’s wide inventory mix with GWC Warranty
Used-car inventory on dealer lots nowadays can range from older, higher-mileage vehicles to EVs, lifted trucks, and modified vehicles. The result is dealers are also having to change the vehicle-protection conversations with customers. In this special sponsored episode of the ... Listen Here
Recapping credit scores & other trends in auto finance with Shams Blanc of FICO
Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report. Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here

Impact Auto Auction adds features to AuctionNow platform

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Auto Remarketing Canada staff
New bidding features, including buyers’ ability to use a new “jump bid” option to bid with a single click, are among Impact Auto Auctions’ latest enhancements to its Impact AuctionNow online vehicle auction platform. Impact Auto Auctions, which is a ... [Read More]

New revenue growth opportunities on horizon for pre-owned dealers

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Sarah Rubneoff, Correspondent
In the current market, revenue opportunities are likely a bit smaller for independent used-car dealers than their franchised counterparts. That said, that may be changing, or perhaps equalizing a bit in the near future. At HGreg.com (as Canadian dealer group ... [Read More]

Super Dave’s Auto Sales looking to ‘stay ahead of the curve’ for independent dealers

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Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
Dave Barrow, owner and president of independent auto dealership Super Dave’s Auto Sales in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, entered the car business in 2010 with no prior “car experience.”  But that didn’t stop Barrow, previously in real estate, from launching into ... [Read More]

New tool from TRADER Corp and vAuto allows customizable vehicle descriptions

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Auto Remarketing Canada staff
Digital marketing company TRADER Corp. and inventory management software company vAuto say that with their new AutoWriter automated description writing tool, retailers can create vehicle descriptions in less than one minute. The companies say the tool simplifies auto retailers’ merchandising ... [Read More]

Collins joins board of Inovatec Systems

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Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Michael Collins became an industry leader as the co-founder and chief operating officer of Curomax Corp., as well as a corporate executive with Dealertrack. While Collins is no longer in the corporate world with either of those companies, he still ... [Read More]

Award-winning Autorama owner encourages dealers to positively impact communities & adapt to ‘tomorrow’s buyers’

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Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
Autorama, a leading used-car dealership in Toronto, is led by owner Nasser Rad, who came to Toronto over two decades ago as a refugee from Iran. And since launching Autorama in 2000, the dealer has won awards not only for ... [Read More]

Unique wholesale strategy at Harvard Auto Sales

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Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
Auto Remarketing Canada caught up with the AR Canada Independent Dealer of the Year, Gary Rubenstein, after the Nova Scotia dealer was honored during the March Auto Remarketing Canada Conference in Toronto. Rubenstein is owner and president of Harvard Auto ... [Read More]

Lane1.ca digital auction serves to help HGregoire grow margins, vertically integrate business

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Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
 HGregoire, or HGreg.com, as it’s known in the U.S., still retains a startup-like culture even after it has been “disrupting” the market for almost 35 years now. That’s according to HGreg.com president John Hairabedian, who spoke with Auto Remarketing Canada ... [Read More]

BMW Financial Group Canada alliance with Dealertrack means more streamlined funding

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Auto Remarketing Canada staff
Through a new strategic alliance between Cox Automotive Canada and BMW Group Financial Services Canada, the premium automotive brand will join the Dealertrack portal as a new client.  Cox Automotive says BMW Group Canada Retailers can now take advantage of ... [Read More]

Amid softening sales, dealers place more emphasis on lender relations

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Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Dealers are looking for finance companies to be even more of an ally. Against a backdrop of declining auto sales in Canada, J.D. Power emphasized that dealers are expecting their lenders to go shoulder to shoulder with them in weathering ... [Read More]

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