Used Car Week Hall of Fame honoree Jared Kalfus of Black Book
We finish our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with a conversation featuring Black Book president Jared Kalfus. Kalfus describes what it takes to be successful in sales and why face-to-face conversations are still vitally ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Prospects for more auto refinancing with Gravity Lending
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing. Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Bob McConkey of McConkey Auction Group
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... Listen Here
J.D. Power exec named new CEO of PAVE as co-founder moves into advisory role
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
PAVE’s co-founder is stepping down as CEO, and a J.D. Power executive is stepping in. The Toronto-based provider of artificial intelligence-powered vehicle inspection technology said Kenny DellaPorta has been appointed CEO, while co-founder and current CEO Brian Steinhauser transitions to ... [Read More]
Grand opening event celebrates EBlock’s first ‘omnichannel experience center’
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
EBlock celebrated its new “omnichannel experience center” in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a grand opening event. The company called last week’s event “a significant milestone” in its commitment to deliver “an evolved and seamless approach” to wholesale vehicle transactions by ... [Read More]
Clutch adds former Carvana executive to help scale its online used-car business
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
A Canadian online used-car retailer is adding an executive who had a hand in the explosive growth of a U.S. counterpart. Richard Ball, who led Carvana’s inspection operation from 2016-2022, has joined Clutch as chief production officer. Clutch said Ball ... [Read More]
CFLA selects Meridian OneCap’s Swandel as its new board chair
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Hugh Swandel, president of Meridian OneCap Credit Corp., has been named the new chair of the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association. The association introduced its new leader during its 2025 annual conference, held last week in Swandel’s hometown of Winnipeg. ... [Read More]
Service visits rising as Canadians keep vehicles longer in face of high car prices
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
As car prices rise, so do trips to the repair shop. That correlation was illustrated neatly by J.D Power’s latest research, which showed dealership service department visits at their highest level in four years. The J.D. Power 2025 Canada Customer ... [Read More]
Report shows high volume doesn’t equal high profits in service department
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
In November, many Canadians flock to their dealership service departments to have snow tires put on their vehicles. While that might seem like a windfall, a new report from Reynolds and Reynolds shows that’s not exactly the case. The annual ... [Read More]
PODCAST: A look back at last 2 decades of used-car industry in Canada
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
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 the 20th anniversary of ... [Read More]
Carfax Canada launches new weapon to fight Canada’s VIN Clone Wars
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
The Clone Wars aren’t just in a galaxy far, far away. They’re right here on the roads in Canada. Cloned VINs are fact, not science fiction. According to data from Carfax Canada, VIN cloning — a type of auto fraud ... [Read More]
Hyundai Hope on Wheels donates $100,000 to Alberta hospital to support childhood cancer patients
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Hyundai Canada’s charitable foundation, Hyundai Hope on Wheels, took another big step toward its goal with $100,000 donation to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation to support children and youth receiving cancer care at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. Hyundai Canada ... [Read More]
Decline in Canadian wholesale used-car values continues
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Canadian wholesale used-vehicle values continued their downward trend last week. The market dropped 0.29% for the week ending Sept. 6, picking up speed from a 0.16% decline the previous week, according to Canadian Black Book’s weekly Market Insights report. Just ... [Read More]
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