The wholesale vehicle market has made a strong start to 2026, with industry indices pointing to several indicators of market health in the first two months of the year. Starting with Black Book, its monthly Used Vehicle Retention Index for February was down 1.0% from a year ago but climbed 2.3% month-over-month as the “seasonal […] [Read More]

Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners continue with Patrick Manzi, who is the chief economist at the National Automobile Dealers Association. Manzi, who got his first subscription to Car and Driver in his early teens, talks with Auto Remarketing senior editor Joe Overby about how his affinity for cars and his economic […] [Read More]

The used electric vehicle market has entered growth mode and so has one of its emerging retail leaders. Recharged — a Richmond, Va.-based used EV marketplace with online and brick-and-mortar elements — closed a $15 million Series A funding round in November, led by Isogone Ventures, and rolled out new locations in Fairfax, Va., Charlotte, […] [Read More]

American Financial Services Association general counsel Philip Bohi sent a letter this week to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought, addressing an information request from the regulator about its consumer response intake form. AFSA said the CFPB made some “important” changes in February to the consumer complaint portal to reduce the volume of […] [Read More]

A team of nearly 100 AutoNation associates biked, walked and ran while raising more than $260,000 in support of life-saving cancer research and care during the recent Dolphins Cancer Challenge DCC XVI event at Hard Rock Stadium, the national auto retailer said. The event included the donation of bikes built by AutoNation employees for 20 […] [Read More]

Flexcar is flexing its muscle in the Atlanta area. The month-to-month car lease company has opened new locations in the metro area, with sites opening north of the city in Marietta and to the south in Morrow. In a news release, Flexcar said its Atlanta customers have already surpassed 150 million miles driven in its […] [Read More]

Ask car dealers how things have been going and they’ll likely tell you not so good. But ask them about what’s ahead and the answer shifts to the positive. Spring is coming, and dealers see the sun shining and business poised to pick up, according to Cox Automotive’s Q1 2026 Dealer Sentiment Index. The index, […] [Read More]

Call it the subprime surge. According to Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market Report: Q4 2025, subprime consumers made up 15.31% of total vehicle financing in the quarter. That’s up from 14.54% in the closing quarter of 2024. Furthermore, Experian determined the level represents subprime consumers’ largest share of the total vehicle finance market […] [Read More]

The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association reported that independent stores retailed 9.8 million vehicles in 2025, nearing 2020 total sales. That’s the top headline from NIADA’s revived Used Car Industry Report, which features more than 100 pages of information, including details about the dealer landscape in each state. “We’re very excited about bringing the UCIR […] [Read More]

The reprieve is over. And yet, not all is bleak in the Canada’s wholesale used-vehicle market. Yes, Canadian Black Book’s Used Vehicle Retention Index for February sank 1.2 points from January to 132.2 and was down 4.8% — that’s 6.7 points — year-over-year. But CBB senior manager of industry insights and residual value strategy Daniel […] [Read More]