On Tuesday, Black Book released its latest insights white paper titled, “Data Analytics: Critical for Driving Today’s Automotive Decisions.” Officials highlighted the paper offers an in-depth look at the role data analytics are now playing for automotive professionals and how they can be used to make more profitable business decisions. Ever since the recession, Black […] [Read More]

GPS telematics products provider PassTime recently announced it has hired Blair Witter as the company’s new vice president of sales for the Southeast region. Witter brings with him decades of industry experience, coming from Credit Acceptance.  Witter worked at Credit Acceptance for nearly 11 years, serving as a market area manager and more recently as […] [Read More]

The 2017 Automotive Website Awards honored 37 of the best automotive digital marketing companies and one individual for their automotive websites and technology. More than 200 industry leaders were in attendance during an event that coincided with last week’s National Automobile Dealers Association Convention. “This year’s lineup impressed our team and showed true innovation. We […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive presented Ford’s Linda Silverstein with its 12th annual Barbara Cox Automotive Woman of the Year Award during a breakfast at the NADA Convention on Saturday. The remarketing and rental operations general manager was recognized for her business leadership, community advocacy and commitment to advancing the automotive industry. “Linda is exactly the type of […] [Read More]

Formed through thousands of conversations with the nation’s leading dealership principals and finance companies, EFG Companies finalized four predictions and recommendations for 2017. President and chief executive officer John Pappanastos summarized the results on Tuesday, saying these insights reflect an air of cautiousness for the F&I market. But Pappanastos added there are many options for […] [Read More]

Dominion Dealer Solutions announced on Saturday it launched an automotive equity plug-in tool that allows dealers to use any automotive customer relationship management system (CRM) in conjunction with its automotive equity mining solution, DealActivator. "We recognize that automotive dealers want the flexibility to use DealActivator’s best-in-class equity mining software without having to change CRM providers,” […] [Read More]

Success in certified pre-owned can help dealers generate additional new-car sales, retain service customers and manage excess off-lease inventory, JM&A Group’s Brian Walwyn says in an interview here at the NADA Convention & Expo. And that, he said, more than makes up for the additional monetary investment dealers have to make in certifying the cars. […] [Read More]

Global automotive professional services and technology company motormindz recently announced that former AutoNation officer and senior vice president Scot Eisenfelder will join its team as senior partner, professional services. The company highlighted Eisenfelder has driven innovation across multiple auto sectors. He was senior vice president of strategy at AutoNation, responsible for major change initiatives in ecommerce, […] [Read More]

Advocates for more regulation by federal agencies over the auto finance industry and other financial services providers might describe the latest executive order by President Trump as “one step forward and two steps back.” The White House released the latest order involving regulations on Monday, saying that whenever an executive department or agency publicly proposes […] [Read More]

The Appraisal Lane, a used-car trade network and communications platform,  announced recently that it has added the Grappone Automotive Group and Lee Auto Malls, to its growing dealer community who use the real-time platform to submit used cars for appraisal from their smartphones and receive cash offers from a live network of used-car experts. The additions […] [Read More]