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
Canadian car owners’ earnings through Turo reach $300 million milestone
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Turo has reached a milestone. Or, rather, the car owners who use it have. The car-sharing marketplace, which bills itself as the world’s largest, said the total amount earned by Canadian car owners sharing their vehicles on the platform since ... [Read More]
Flat week for cars in Canada’s wholesale used-vehicle market
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
In an often volatile market, Canadian wholesale used-car prices were remarkably stable — at least for a week. Values for the car segments tracked by Canadian Black Book’s weekly Market Insights report fell just 0.04% for the week ending July ... [Read More]
IBC urges government to act as auto theft claims costs soar in Alberta
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
The cost of auto theft has spiked dramatically in Alberta over the past three years, according to data from Insurance Bureau of Canada. The national trade association representing insurers said auto theft claims costs in the province have risen 65% ... [Read More]
Car segments take a steep dive in Canadian wholesale used market
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
If there’s one thing that can be said about the trend in the Canadian wholesale used-car market for the week ending June 28, it’s that it was consistent. According to Canadian Black Book’s weekly Market Insights report, car values were ... [Read More]
Axis Auto Finance goes private to complete next step toward dissolution
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Axis Auto Finance has taken its latest step toward going away. The Mississauga-based direct-to-consumer subprime lender, which sold its auto finance business to Fionic Canada in December, announced it has completed the process of going private by consolidating the company’s ... [Read More]
Tricor partners with Signal Technologies to expand Canadian dealer exports to U.S.
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
North American dealer-owned finance and insurance provider Tricor Automotive Group has joined with Signal Technologies in a strategic partnership designed to streamline and optimize Canadian dealers’ used-vehicle sales in the U.S. Tricor, based in Ontario, serves more than 220 Canadian ... [Read More]
Hyundai Canada’s new charitable foundation donates $250,000 to BC Children’s Hospital
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Hyundai Canada’s new charitable foundation has made its first big splash. Hyundai Hope on Wheels, launched in Canada this year, presented BC Children’s Hospital Foundation with a $250,000 donation to support children and youth receiving cancer care in British Columbia. ... [Read More]
Amid issues with affordability, fraud & tariffs, message to Canadian auto lenders is: ‘Don’t Panic’
Andrew Friedlander, Associate Editor
“Don’t Panic.”
That’s the message on the cover of the fictional Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
And while the Canadian auto finance market isn’t soaring through the cosmos to the end of the universe, Mike Buckingham said the same message applies. Are there problems to be concerned about and addressed?
Of course — affordability, tariffs, rising fraud, sinking used-car supply. But ... [Read More]
COO Fleming to become Mazda Canada’s first woman president and CEO
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Mazda Canada will soon have a new leader. And she will make history. The automaker announced president and CEO David Klan is retiring effective Oct. 1, and his successor will be senior director and chief operating officer Amy Fleming. Fleming, ... [Read More]
AutoTrader study shows Canada’s EV plan veering off course
Andrew Friedlander, Associate Editor
The Canadian government has big plans for electric vehicles.
The question is whether its plans match those of the Canadian public.
While the federal government has mandated 100% of new light-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035, with mandatory targets of at least 20% by 2026 and at least 60% by 2030, the latest research from AutoTrader indicates that might be ... [Read More]
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