Volkswagen has hired dealer website and digital retailing company DealerFire to drive a new digital advertising initiative to help Volkswagen dealers increase their U.S. vehicle repair business. DealerFire, which automotive retail software company DealerSocket acquired in 2015, will offer three packages under the Volkswagen Service and Parts Advertising program. Those packages are eligible for a 50% retail […] [Read More]

PAR North America, a division of KAR Auction Services, handed out its Agent of the Year and LPR Agent of the Year, Resolution Champion and Compliance Champion, Regional Choice and other award winners during its 2019 PAR Agent Event in Indianapolis earlier this month. According to a news release sent to SubPrime Auto Finance News […] [Read More]

­­As part of Auto Remarketing’s Top 100 Used Car Dealers: Franchised Edition, we highlight some of the leading lenders in the space. The Top Used-Car Lenders Among Franchised Dealers ranking is based on data from  Experian Automotive, which includes the top 20 lenders with the greatest share of used-car loan origination units among franchised dealers in […] [Read More]

Rick Griskie has a simple way of describing the new “natural language” search functionality on ADESA.com that the company says makes finding vehicles faster, easier and more robust. He describes it as a “Google-like search.” Griskie, who is ADESA’s chief information officer, explains that today, most people find vehicles through features. The searcher first enters […] [Read More]

Michael Collins became an industry leader as the co-founder and chief operating officer of Curomax Corp., as well as a corporate executive with Dealertrack. While Collins is no longer in the corporate world with either of those companies, he still involved in auto finance and technology activities, joining the Inovatec Systems board of directors. According […] [Read More]

This installment of Auto Remarketing’s annual Top 100 Used Car Dealers is the first in a two-part series and focuses on franchised dealers. Included in the June 1 print and digital edition of Auto Remarketing, this is where we highlight some of the strongest used-car selling franchised stores in the country. The dealer rankings data […] [Read More]

AutoNation made a “strategic decision” to focus on new-vehicle margins and finance and insurance sales, Lithia Motors expects to resume buying dealerships after a year-long hiatus and both companies are laying groundwork to enhance their digital retailing platforms. That is according to the companies’ chief executives during their respective first-quarter earnings calls in April. Carl Liebert, […] [Read More]

Autorama, a leading used-car dealership in Toronto, is led by owner Nasser Rad, who came to Toronto over two decades ago as a refugee from Iran. And since launching Autorama in 2000, the dealer has won awards not only for the dealership itself, but also because of his unique story and commitment to community. Rad […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing Canada caught up with the AR Canada Independent Dealer of the Year, Gary Rubenstein, after the Nova Scotia dealer was honored during the March Auto Remarketing Canada Conference in Toronto. Rubenstein is owner and president of Harvard Auto Sales, located in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. The business owner got his start in the […] [Read More]

 HGregoire, or HGreg.com, as it’s known in the U.S., still retains a startup-like culture even after it has been “disrupting” the market for almost 35 years now. That’s according to HGreg.com president John Hairabedian, who spoke with Auto Remarketing Canada in late April. He said that since its launch, the company has been focused on […] [Read More]