United Auto Credit has named its 2025 Auction of the Year: North Carolina’s Greenville Auto Auction. The auction, which also won this award in 2023, was recognized for its strong performance, operational excellence and organizational culture. United Auto Credit said the award shows Greenville AA’s “reputation as one of the most efficiently run auctions in […] [Read More]

The leader of America’s Group’s ultra-aggressive expansion strategy has taken another step up the corporate ladder. Chris Elliott, who has served as the company’s vice president of mergers and acquisitions for the past two-plus years, announced on LinkedIn he has been promoted to senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions. Since joining America’s in November […] [Read More]

After announcing a 43% increase in retail sales in 2025, bringing total retail sales to 596,641, the Carvana executive team talked about everything from recon and GPU health to artificial intelligence and post-sale opportunities on their most recent earnings call. Looking back at the year, the quarter, and the company’s current position, Carvana CEO Ernie […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive announced a partnership with Toyota Motor North America to integrate Cox’s VinSolutions with the automaker’s digital retailing platforms. The Vin Desking features of VinSolutions’ CRM and Deal Central are now integrated with Toyota SmartPath and Lexus MONOGRAM retailing, which Cox said allows “a seamless consumer experience” from online to in-store and a consumer-to-management […] [Read More]

Michelle Bowman, who serves as vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, testified on Thursday during a hearing in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Senate Banking Committee. How Bowman said the Federal Reserve approaches supervisory and regulatory activities of banks under her watch might have made auto-finance companies cheer if they were in the […] [Read More]

The No. 1 Buick and GMC dealer in Alabama is now part of the brands’ dealer advisory group. Taylor Bentley Conner, dealer principal of Howard Bentley Buick GMC in Albertville, Ala., has been appointed as a Southeast Region representative to the Buick GMC National Dealer Council, the dealership announced. Conner will serve a three-year term […] [Read More]

Reynolds and Reynolds is growing its Spark with a boost from Intermedia. The dealership software provider has partnered with Intermedia, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered cloud communications systems, to expand the reach of Reynolds’ Spark AI unified data layer, designed to allow AI tools to operate with accurate, de-duplicated and complete data. In a news […] [Read More]

Asbury Automotive Group’s drive toward “portfolio optimization” has shifted into high gear. The Atlanta-based dealership group has already closed on the sales of 10 dealerships in 2026, all in February, which the company said are part of its ongoing capital allocation and portfolio optimization efforts. The latest divestitures include six Plaza Motors locations in the […] [Read More]

The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association hosted a leadership meeting in Dallas this week, gathering state executive directors, staff and board presidents for two days of training, networking and exchanging ideas. NIADA’s board of directors also presented the association’s five-year strategic plan, which included: —Growing education and resources for dealers —Expanding advocacy efforts —Increasing membership […] [Read More]

Experian senior director for automotive Jim Maguire made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to recap findings from the company’s latest dealer survey that examined the impact of fraud at dealerships. Maguire then touched on the balance dealers and lenders have to create to still have a smooth path to vehicle acquisition for consumers while […] [Read More]