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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
Matt Rice
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
Experian on how much auto refinancing is gaining traction
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 01:53 PM
Melinda Zabritski, Experian’s head of automotive financial insights, said consumers are looking for ways to secure more favorable vehicle financing terms, especially with interest rates leveling out and perhaps a cut coming next week from the Federal Reserve. The base ... Listen Here

In Canada, median retail prices up for used sedans, SUVs, trucks

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Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, 07:51 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Compared to July 2018, Canadian median used-vehicle prices have risen by 6.8%. Asian-manufactured used vehicles, at 10.3%, showed the largest year-over-year price increase. And the Ford F-150 was the most commonly searched vehicle on autoTRADER.ca from late June to late July. ... [Read More]

Mobials aims to generate credit-qualified leads through AutoVerify revamp

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Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, 02:59 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Mobials Inc. announced this week that it has revamped its AutoVerify product to answer common questions that might arise when consumers are doing vehicle research, and in the process of doing so, generate credit-qualified leads. The user flow of AutoVerify ... [Read More]

Birchwood Auto Group finds success in growing out separate subprime business

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Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, 02:44 PM
Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
The Birchwood Automotive Group, considered the largest automotive network in Winnipeg, Manitoba, sells everything from Jaguar and BMW to Kia and Hyundai and everything in between at their franchised locations. But in recent years, the dealer group with 23 franchised ... [Read More]

New AI-driven vehicle data capture service provides multiple uses of images

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Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, 08:11 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada staff
Cox Automotive Canada said its planned new vehicle data capture service will provide seamless integrations between Dealer.com websites and Manheim's new dealer-to-dealer digital auction platform MUVIT. According to the company, that will invite dealers to have multiple uses of images ... [Read More]

DRIVING INSIGHTS: Millennials — Not only online

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Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, 04:08 PM
Drew Harden, CARFAX Canada
New generation, new hurdles. Do you know what millennials are thinking when they visit your dealership? This generation loves to begin their used-car search online, find the vehicle they’re interested in, research it extensively, then come into the dealership armed ... [Read More]

CarGurus debuts Canadian CPO Partner Program with Kia, GM

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Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, 03:54 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
CarGurus said this week it has launched a Certified Pre-Owned Partner Program in Canada, bringing on Kia Canada and GM Canada as the first partners. “We’re very excited to kick off our CPO Partner Program with Kia and GM as ... [Read More]

PowerBand continues active year with acquisition of US finance company

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Wednesday, Jul. 31, 2019, 09:07 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
A new board member, a new high-level executive, a new remarketing network in the U.S., and now the acquisition of a finance company that specializes in vehicle leasing. Thus far, 2019 has been quite an active year for PowerBand Solutions. ... [Read More]

Canada’s CPO car sales show strength

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Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2019, 01:44 PM
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
The certified pre-owned vehicle market in Canada looked promising yet again.  Here’s a rundown of how CPO sales fared in the first half: Hyundai has sold 5,096 certified vehicles so far this year, compared to 4,553 in the first half ... [Read More]

DRIVING INSIGHTS: Used-car buyers are testing your knowledge – Can you pass?

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Thursday, Jul. 18, 2019, 02:43 PM
Drew Harden , CARFAX Canada
Attention dealers: used-car buyers are testing your vehicle knowledge. Fifty-one percent of Canadian used-car buyers told us the last time they bought a vehicle, they tested the sales person by asking a question they already researched the answer to. There is ... [Read More]

Wanted: US dealers to beta-test Mobials’ trade-in algorithm

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Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2019, 06:36 PM
Auto Remarketing Canada staff
A new algorithm from Mobials Inc. calculates the value of consumers’ trade-in vehicles.   Now, Mobials, which is the parent company of AutoVerify, is looking for U.S. dealers to beta-test the algorithm. Once Mobials launches the algorithm, every U.S.-based dealer signing up ... [Read More]
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