Agora Data and PassTime last week announced a partnership, bringing together the non-prime auto fintech platform with the provider of GPS-based asset tracking and recovery solutions. Through this partnership, Agora dealers can receive access to special discounted pricing on select PassTime devices to deliver enhanced asset protection, improved recovery capabilities, and meaningful cost savings. Participating […] [Read More]

GM Financial announced its overall Most Valuable Auction of the Year award Friday, along with five regional Auction of the Year honorees, and recognized two auctions with Perfect Audit Score awards. These are all part of the captive’s annual Auction of Excellence program, which evaluates auction partners’ performance in retention, operational metric, presale activities and […] [Read More]

Four auto auctions were honored by Consumer Portfolio Services as winners of its 2025 Auction Awards, recognizing the subprime auto finance company’s top-performing auction partners for their outstanding contributions throughout 2025. The awards were presented during a private event last month in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The award winners were: Top Gun Award (Auction of the […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing is recognizing the 2026 Women in Remarketing honorees in the April edition of the magazine and will be posting Q&As with each of these outstanding leaders on the website.  Next up, in alphabetical order by first name, is Kerri Rotunda, who is general manager at America’s Auto Auction Erie. The Women in Remarketing program is […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing is recognizing the 2026 Women in Remarketing honorees in the April edition of the magazine and will be posting Q&As with each of these outstanding leaders on the website.  Next up, in alphabetical order by first name, is Kathy Hopkins, who is regional director at ADESA | Carvana The Women in Remarketing program is presented […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing is recognizing the 2026 Women in Remarketing honorees in the April edition of the magazine and will be posting Q&As with each of these outstanding leaders on the website.  Next up, in alphabetical order by first name, is Joni Allen, who is vice president/operations manager at Lehigh Valley Auto Auction. The Women in Remarketing program […] [Read More]

Kathi Kruse, the Automotive CFO-To-Go who brings her financial expertise — born through years of experience as a dealership chief financial officer — to dealers needing help in that area, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. In this episode, she faces a “lightning round”, providing quick-hit takes on some of the many articles she’s […] [Read More]

A family of dealers that’s been in business more than 100 years is bowing out of the Omaha area as a growing dealership group moves into Nebraska for the first time. Morrie’s Auto Group announced it has acquired Beardmore Subaru, Beardmore Hyundai and Beardmore Chevrolet in Bellevue, Neb., from the Beardmore Auto Group, giving Morrie’s […] [Read More]

Swickard Auto Group is taking its partnership with Reynolds and Reynolds to another level — the AI level. The Las Vegas-based dealership group said its expanded partnership with the dealership software provider will deploy advanced artificial intelligence tools designed to improve customer engagement, strengthen retention and drive more consistent communication throughout Swickard’s 53 locations in […] [Read More]

DriveCentric’s newest AI agents are on their own. The customer engagement platform announced it has expanded the capabilities of its artificial intelligence-powered agents to include autonomously executing several “critical workflows” that dealerships often struggle to cover consistently. The agents, built into the DriveCentric platform, are designed to augment existing tools such as Automation Hub and […] [Read More]