Dealership real estate finance firm hires Darvish as COO
Friday, April 13, 2018 - 10:48am
Friday, April 13, 2018 - 10:48am
Tamara Darvish is embarking on another automotive industry endeavor. Capital Automotive Real Estate Services — which orchestrates custom tailored financing packages for dealers — announced that Darvish joined the company as its new chief operating officer. Capital Automotive highlighted that Darvish will... Read More
Autotrader highlights April's top CPO deals
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 2:01pm
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 2:01pm
Car shoppers looking to update their current rides with the arrival of the spring season can take advantage of serval attractive offers and incentives for certified pre-owned vehicles this month. Autotrader has come out with its latest list of top deals available for shoppers to seize both this month and beyond. This... Read More
The CarMax Foundation, KaBOOM! team up to bring new playsets to military kids nationwide
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 4:26pm
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 4:26pm
In recognition of the Month of the Military Child, longtime partners KaBOOM! and The CarMax Foundation have come together to build a community playground, as well as provide organizations that serve military families 10 grants for outdoor playsets. The partners are set to host 11 community events for the children of... Read More
Online campaign yielding 17% of Texas dealer group's brand sales over 30 days matches buyers with ads
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 12:15pm
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 12:15pm
Aimed at helping dealers justify their ad budgets, a proprietary digital solution designed to show just where ad dollars are going each month can match car buyers with the exact display campaign messages that initially brought them in the door. A Texas dealer group that used the solution called... Read More
Relaunched Carfax webinar series for dealers to cover how to optimize accident cars
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 11:29am
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 11:29am
The best practice webinar series for dealers from Carfax will relaunch Thursday, and is now called the Carfax Insiders series, the company recently announced. Carfax's revamped webinar series includes two webinars that are geared toward helping dealers apply best practices at their used-car... Read More
Dealer associations cheer Supreme Court ruling that service advisers are exempt from overtime
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 10:34am
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 10:34am
National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) and the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association (NIADA) both celebrated this week when the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling in their favor. The associations recapped that on Monday the Supreme Court ruled automotive service advisers are not covered by the Fair... Read More
Slower CPO car sales? Not the case in March, as industry sets record
Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 12:27pm
Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 12:27pm
Granted, March tends to bring the year’s best certified pre-owned sales results anyway, but the CPO market was especially impressive last month, showing no signs of leveling off. In fact, last month had the strongest CPO sales total of all time, according to Autodata Corp., which said dealers moved 258,970... Read More
Karma Automotive to debut 2nd TV spot during Masters Golf Tournament
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 2:00pm
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 2:00pm
Karma Automotive announced Wednesday that it will run a spot featuring the Revero being driven in several Southern California locations during CBS' pre-coverage of the 2018 Masters Golf Tournament. Titled "Born in California," the spot is the company’s second network television... Read More