Kicking off our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from the Live Stage at Canada’s Used Car Week is a conversation with Blair Earle, who is managing director at IAA Canada. Earle and Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby discuss changing Canadian driving habits, vehicle affordability, used-vehicle supply, used-car values and what dealers, remarketers […] [Read More]

Next up on our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from Live Stage at Canada’s Used Car Week is a conversation with United Car Dealers Association leaders Jim Hamilton, Christy Fines and John Tangreda. They talk with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about the biggest challenges facing dealers in Ontario and how UCDA […] [Read More]

America’s Auto Auction has a new assistant general manager at its Boston area location. And the new executive didn’t have to travel far. Joining America’s Auto Auction Boston as assistant GM is Liz Morich, who brings 25 years of remarketing experience to the role, including her most recent post as GM of ADESA Boston. Morich […] [Read More]

Perhaps inspired by the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity, the auctioning of a 2019 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara during this week’s NIADA Convention & Expo in Denver generated $26,500 for the NIADA Foundation. According to a news release from the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association, these auctions have raised nearly $165,000 for the NIADA Foundation. […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive announced that Mallorie Hollenbeck, a student at Northwood University in Midland, Mich., has been named this year’s recipient of the $10,000 National Independent Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Northwood University Scholarship. The annual scholarship, given during this week’s NIADA Convention & Expo in Denver and supported by Cox Automotive in collaboration with Manheim and […] [Read More]

It’s a risk component buy-here, pay-here dealers absorb each time they complete a delivery. How long will their customers maintain car insurance? To help mitigate that risk, CheckMy Driver by Modives and Auto Master Systems (AMS) expanded their partnership to deliver enhanced insurance verification, monitoring, and portfolio protection capabilities to BHPH dealers across North America. […] [Read More]

Just like some buy-here, pay-here dealers, PassTime is diversifying while using one of its strengths. This week, PassTime launched TruGuard, a new commercial asset protection and visibility brand designed to help businesses protect, track, and manage high-value mobile assets across demanding real-world operations. Built specifically for commercial and operational environments, PassTime highlighted TruGuard can deliver […] [Read More]

For years, automotive retail has approached digital advertising as a volume game. The prevailing assumption has been that more traffic, more impressions and more leads naturally translate into more sales. However, as inventory costs rise, margins tighten and consumer demand fluctuates across segments, many dealers are discovering a difficult reality: not every vehicle on the […] [Read More]

Amid “a resilient consumer credit landscape,” the latest edition of CreditGauge from VantageScore showed the average auto loan balance in May rose to $25.100, increasing modestly month-over-month and 2.5% year-over-year. Analysts also indicated the balance-to-loan ratio ticked up 0.13% to 64.06% in May and is now 0.25% above the year-ago level. VantageScore said the balance-to-loan […] [Read More]

HGreg is approaching Montreal Canadiens levels of trophy winning in its hometown. The used-car retailer has won the Consumer Choice Award in the Used Car Dealerships category in the Greater Montreal area for the 16th time, HGreg said last week. “Receiving the Consumer Choice Award for the 16th time is an incredible honour and an […] [Read More]