Mercedes-Benz Canada announced Wednesday that this year each of its 11 corporate stores will now report to the newly appointed vice president of corporate retail — Robert Muller. Previously, the company’s seven Toronto Retail Group (TRG) and four Vancouver Retail Group (VRG) locations were managed separately. In December, Mercedes-Benz Canada announced that Muller would succeed Philipp von Witzendorff […] [Read More]

Canadian Black Book’s second-ever release of its Used Vehicle Retention Index points to a wholesale car market that closed the year with quite a punch. Wholesale vehicle values were up 3.8 percent year-over-year in December, keeping alive the used-car price gains from 2010, CBB said. Meanwhile, the 0.6 percent month-over-month increase in values was the strongest […] [Read More]

As independent auto dealers look to bolster their competitiveness and strengthen their performance, many are turning to practices franchised dealers have been using for some time to increase their service business and retain customers. One practice, which automotive consultant Ed French of AutoProfit says “builds the cadence of turn” is to offer buyers prepaid maintenance […] [Read More]

This week, White Clarke Group highlighted that one of its tools is being leveraged by Toyota and Lexus Financial Services throughout the United Kingdom. The captives launched the new NGage system nationwide for instant, seamless and transparent customer finance quotations and agreements. White Clarke said that Toyota and Lexus dealers across the U.K. are making the […] [Read More]

Along with a trio of perspectives from the auction and dealer worlds, the Black Book Market Insights report looking at the first full week of activity in 2018 showed truck segments with larger depreciation than cars. Editors also determined only one vehicle group — subcompact luxury crossovers — maintained its value from the previous week. […] [Read More]

Demand for luxury models didn’t impact lease-transfer applications in December as much as the analyst team at Swapalease.com typically sees during the closing month of a year. Swapalease.com on Wednesday reported vehicle-lease credit applicants registered a 62.0 percent approval rate for December. The reading decreased slightly from November’s rate of 67.5 percent. Site analysts explained […] [Read More]

Recovery professionals often see the greatest saturation of 60-day delinquencies within states near or along the Gulf of Mexico. While a pair of those states constituted two of the top three as tracked by Experian Automotive, the state that registered the highest 60-day delinquency rate as of the third quarter actually sits against the Chesapeake […] [Read More]

Morgan Auto Group announced Monday that it has named Dan Like the regional director of its north Florida operations in Jacksonville and Gainesville. Like most recently served as general manager for six years at Morgan Auto Group’s Honda of Gainesville store. “I am so pleased that Dan Like will have this opportunity to grow his influence […] [Read More]

Consumers likely are not just shopping for their next vehicle with their mobile device. They’re probably going to be making installment contract payments with those devices, too, if they’re not doing so already. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston recently released results of an elaborate study with multiple Federal Reserve Banks and other financial institutions […] [Read More]

CARite received an injection of funds to expand its leasing portfolio from a finance provider that has an understanding of what the company is trying to accomplish within the subprime market. On Wednesday, Crystal Financial announced the completion of a $45.0 million senior credit facility for CARite. Headquartered in Madison Heights, Mich., CARite sells and […] [Read More]