On track to complete its five-year, $17 million investment in its four southern California auction locations in 2018, Manheim this week highlighted how dealers and commercial consignors are already benefitting from what the company says is a simpler, faster and easier client experience. Manheim emphasized that enhancements to its physical and digital properties at Manheim […] [Read More]

As online bidding evidently intensified, Black Book also noticed the price strength of cars continued last week. The latest Black Book Market Insights report showed that overall car values, when looking at volume-weighted data, appreciated slightly by 0.09 percent last week as opposed to the average weekly depreciation rate of 0.19 percent seen during the […] [Read More]

Group 1 Automotive on Monday announced the appointment of Daryl Kenningham to the new position of president of U.S. operations effective May 1. Currently, Kenningham serves as Group 1’s regional vice president of the dealer group’s Western region. In his new role, the company said Kenningham will be responsible for all of Group 1’s U.S. […] [Read More]

Over recent years, car shoppers’ increased attraction to research vehicles via a mobile device represented a noticeable shift within the industry, says Libby Murad-Patel, who is marketing and strategic insights vice president at Jumpstart Automotive Media. In March, Murad-Patel and her team released Jumpstart’s Insights Book; A Collection of Consumer Insights Illustrating Today’s Auto Shopping Paths — […] [Read More]

When compiling the 19th version of the buy-here, pay-here industry benchmarks, Ken Shilson noticed a metric climb to a level never seen previously — the allowance for bad debts. On one hand, the president of Subprime Analytics and the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers acknowledged the figure could be viewed negatively because of how […] [Read More]

Autodata Corp. determined the industry in March turned the second-highest amount of certified pre-owned vehicles ever. According to information shared with Auto Remarketing, dealers retailed 243,277 CPO units in March, off by just 0.3 percent year over year when the all-time sales record was established. That’s when the industry delivered 243,944 certified models. The March […] [Read More]

Black Book announced on Tuesday that its vehicle valuation insights are now available to eAutoAppraise dealer partners because the company now serves as the online trade-in solution’s new trade appraisal engine. “We’re excited to partner with eAutoAppraise, a superior online appraisal engine that offers dealers a chance to close more deals quicker and make strong profit margins,” […] [Read More]

As the industry continues to gather for the Auto Remarketing Canada Conference and the Women & Automotive: Canadian Leadership Forum, platinum sponsor TradeRev announced on Tuesday a series of exclusive relationships with some of Canada’s largest dealer groups. TradRev highlighted the collection includes the Dilawri Group of Companies, AWIN Group, The Humberview Group, Open Road […] [Read More]

The website of the multi-platform brand ran by TIME’s content and creative collective The Foundry — TheDrive.com — has added a new research and shopping page named SHOP, which instantly gives users access to the latest new and used-car data and connects prospective buyers with nearby dealers. Currently, the new digital innovation integrated across The Drive’s […] [Read More]

Kelley Blue Book senior analyst Alec Gutierrez shared an enthusiastic yet cautious assessment of the $100 million initial public offering launched by Carvana, the online used-vehicle retailer that said in its filing paperwork that it has sold and delivered approximately 27,500 vehicles to customers through its website during a three-year span from its inception through […] [Read More]