A new vice president is now in charge of implementing the ADESA Canada dealer sales strategy, ADESA, a business unit of KAR Auction Services, announced Wednesday. The company has chosen Steve Langdon, who has already spent 15 years at KAR, to serve as ADESA Canada VP of dealer sales. Langdon was most recently senior director of […] [Read More]

CarAdvise and consumer-focused vehicle protection company CARCHEX have come together to provide consumers with discounted pricing on car maintenance services at more than 20,000 automotive repair shops across the country. This follows the news from October that CARCHEX partnered with CarMD last year to provide CarMD Garage customers with $100 off CARCHEX vehicle protection plans. According to […] [Read More]

Amid a backdrop of companies in the wholesale automotive space investing in mobility, Manheim opened a 20,000-square-foot Retail Reconditioning facility at its San Francisco Bay location on Wednesday that will serve new vehicle mobility providers, along with the auction company’s more traditional customer base of dealers and commercial consignors. The $500,000 facility is part of a […] [Read More]

Operators feeling charitable can help the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association next week. For the sixth consecutive year, ADESA, a business unit of KAR Auction Services, will auction off a premier vehicle during the NIADA Convention and Expo to benefit the NIADA Foundation. This year's vehicle is a silver 2018 Honda Accord sedan with a […] [Read More]

Mazda is taking an extra step to ensure recalled vehicles it has manufactured are repaired, especially units with faulty Takata airbags. CCC Information Services announced on Wednesday that it is working with Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) to address vehicle safety, creating a new method for the automaker to identify recalled vehicles and help third-party […] [Read More]

Don’t be surprised if some of the stores along “car row” in your market undergo a major ownership change some time before the end of the year. According to the latest Blue Sky Report released this week, Kerrigan Advisors is expecting 2018 to be an active year for dealership buy/sells with an increasing number of […] [Read More]

DAA Seattle has appointed a new assistant general manager with human resources experience, the company announced Monday. Chosen for the position is Brian McConkey, who joined the auction in 2013. Prior to joining DAA Seattle, McConkey spent time at Nordstrom, where he worked in corporate human resources at the company’s downtown Seattle flagship store. Furthermore, […] [Read More]

World Class Automotive Group recently broke ground on a new Lincoln dealership that is part of a 25-acre, $140-million mixed-use redevelopment at the historic Braniff International Airways facility at Dallas Love Field. While renovations are predicted to be finished by summer 2019, the redevelopment of the historic site conducted in partnership with the Texas Historic Commission […] [Read More]

Last week, my daughter needed a yellow shirt for a school dance performance. Instead of heading to the store that evening, I turned to Amazon and had it ordered in less than five minutes flat. And when I picked up my coffee at Starbucks the next morning, I ordered it on their mobile app so […] [Read More]

Perhaps the tightening of underwriting is leading to stabilization of delinquencies on the cusp of repossession as well as a bit of an improvement among those contracts that are behind but could possibly be brought back current. The newest State of the Automotive Finance Market Report from Experian Automotive indicated the percentage of 30-day delinquencies […] [Read More]