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Chip Perry & Dom Pope of sellmyride
Friday, Sep. 26, 2025, 03:08 PM
Chip Perry, founding president and CEO of Autotrader and former CEO of TrueCar, has a new role: chairman of sellmyride, a startup seeking to help dealers source inventory from private sellers. Perry and sellmyride founder and president Dom Pope join ... Listen Here
A Look Back at Last Two Decades of the Used-Car Industry in Canada
Thursday, Sep. 18, 2025, 02:32 PM
In the grand finale of our podcast episodes from Canada’s Used Car Week in June, conference chair and Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits is joined by Brad Hart and Peter Snoyer on a panel celebrating 20th anniversary of the ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: AI & Big Data Deliver Significant Improvements to Inventory Management
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 04:33 PM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Merritt Critcher, Director of Product Management with CDK speaks with Bill Zadeits about the newest trends and potential for AI and big data to meet and exceed the inventory management needs ... Listen Here

VenueVision delivers e-payment solution to new clients

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Thursday, May. 4, 2017, 02:59 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
VenueVision Media Systems announced that it recently introduced its latest mobile solution, Mobile Cashier, to Key West Ford and Kia West in British Columbia.  The express e-payment solution aims to make checkout at the dealership speedy, it sends dealer-branded notifications ... [Read More]

Rundown of Canadian CPO car sales in April

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Thursday, May. 4, 2017, 02:26 PM
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
The U.S. certified pre-owned market followed its second-strongest month on record with modest year-over-year gains in April, according to Autodata Corp. And reports from automakers in Canada are showing positivity, as well.  Porsche, for example, had its best April ever ... [Read More]

Auto group set to launch e-commerce retailing

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Thursday, May. 4, 2017, 02:21 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
Koch Automotive Group recently announced that it has developed a new e-commerce website that it will roll out across each of its dealerships, starting with Edmonton's Koch Ford Lincoln and DK Ford. The new platform for buying cars will allow ... [Read More]

Used-car prices up overall, but many segments soften

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Thursday, Apr. 27, 2017, 02:40 PM
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
Canadian used-car prices were up around 1 percent last month, despite the fact that many individual segments are seeing their values soften. The RVI Used Vehicle Price Index was up 0.9 percent month-over-month in March and climbed 1.1 percent year-over-year. ... [Read More]

OMVIC launches all-in price advertising consumer awareness campaign

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Thursday, Apr. 27, 2017, 02:24 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
The Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council announced it recently launched a province-wide multi-media campaign to increase awareness of all-in price advertising. OMVIC said it started the campaign following research the council conducted that showed some Ontario car dealers continue to add additional ... [Read More]

How Q1 certified car sales fared in Canada

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Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2017, 03:44 PM
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
The certified pre-owned market in Canada appears like a healthy one for those reporting monthly and quarterly sales to Auto Remarketing Canada. Starting with Audi, not only was March its best-ever month, the first quarter was Audi’s best-ever start to ... [Read More]

Dilawri opens Vancouver Nissan

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Thursday, Apr. 20, 2017, 04:03 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
Dilawri Group of Companies announced the opening Vancouver Nissan, its fifth Nissan dealership. The group now owns and operates a total of 63 franchised dealerships across Canada. "With the opening of Vancouver Nissan, we continue to expand our relationship with ... [Read More]

Ackroo integrates reward solution with CDK’s DMS

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Thursday, Apr. 20, 2017, 02:40 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Ackroo announced on Tuesday its launch of Ackroo Anywhere, a platform integrated with CDK Global's dealer management system (DMS) that allows dealers to easily distribute rewards to customers in order to drive key marketing initiatives for their respective dealerships. With ... [Read More]

Canadian used prices steady, but slight softening likely

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Thursday, Apr. 13, 2017, 05:16 PM
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
It won’t be a drastic change by any stretch, but Canada appears headed toward a modest softening in used-vehicle pricing. And like the U.S., that dip is expected to be more pronounced for cars than for trucks.  As it stands, the ... [Read More]

AutoCanada buys Mercedes store, expands luxury portfolio

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Thursday, Apr. 13, 2017, 02:42 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
AutoCanada announced that it is set to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of Mercedes-Benz Rive-Sud, which has been open in the greater Montreal region for almost to 50 years. "We are honored to acquire this dealership from ... [Read More]
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