Auto/Mate Dealership Systems is preparing to host its national Customer User Summit in San Antonio from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio. The three-day fall event features breakout sessions designed to train attendees to competitively leverage Auto/Mate's dealership management system. The company announced Monday that there are open event sponsorship and […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive's Dealertrack will welcome industry controllers, office managers and chief financial officers in Park City, Utah for the company’s second ELEVATE controller conference set to begin on Monday. Along with exploring Dealertrack’s DMS 360, which was first introduced at NADA 2018 in March, from May 21 to May 24, this year’s ELEVATE conference attendees can enjoy […] [Read More]

Former Tesla vice president Diarmuid O’Connell is now a key executive at another company on the forefront of automotive innovation.   O’Connell, who was Tesla’s vice president of business development for 11 years before leaving the company last fall, has been named chief strategy officer at Fair, a provider of flexible car ownership. He will […] [Read More]

Car owners now have a new way to donate unwanted vehicles to deserving drivers and causes when researching on Kelley Blue Book’s website. KBB announced Thursday that in addition to making it easier to donate a vehicle, it has also redesigned the owners pages on its website to help consumers more confidently decide to sell or trade-in […] [Read More]

The U.S. financial market might become an even more important catalyst for car sales in Canada, too. As Canadian auto sales have been on the rise, two of the Big Six Canadian banks have turned to the U.S. term asset-backed securities (ABS) market for additional fuel, according to a report published on Monday by S&P […] [Read More]

Regulatory compliance is every dealer’s business. That means issues such as advertising compliance, data and cybersecurity and making sure consumers know or can find out when the vehicle they purchase has an open recall, should be near the top of every dealers’ to-do list, according to dealer trade groups, attorneys, and others that represent dealer […] [Read More]

Perhaps independent dealerships and buy-here, pay-here operators aren’t expecting to see their vehicles roll over the curb at the pace previously seen in recent years.  The economic and corresponding retail sales growth expectations of independent dealers were a bit more subdued to begin 2018 than a year earlier, according to the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s […] [Read More]

As the subprime auto finance company’s field representatives are generating more business from their active dealer network, state and federal regulators are keeping the compliance team at Credit Acceptance busy, too. The latest filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission showed Credit Acceptance has encountered nine different regulatory matters since December 2014, including actions from […] [Read More]

The National Automobile Dealers Association is gearing up for its dealership manager professional training series beginning next month. Participants can now choose from sales, office, parts and service management disciplines to complete a certification in just three months. The professional series is designed for new or high-potential department managers, according to NADA. Through Dec. 21, manager […] [Read More]

Automotive reconditioning software provider AutoMobile Technologies has become the latest member to join the large CDK Global third-party partner program. As an approved CDK Partner, AutoMobile Technologies is now part of a marketplace of applications and integration choices developed to help automotive dealers compete. The integration of AutoMobile Technologies’ ReconMonitor solution with the CDK Drive DMS can […] [Read More]