Spireon Inc., best known for its vehicle-tracking solutions, has debuted its new service provided exclusively through used-vehicle dealers, called Kahu, which allows customers a way to link their vehicle to their smartphone and track its whereabouts. According to the company, the Kahu service includes an installed device on the car that connects the car’s location and […] [Read More]

Among the automakers that have reported monthly certified pre-owned sales results so far, two had their best Novembers ever for their CPO programs. And one notched its best month for used sales on record. First up, Audi Canada notched another record month for CPO sales, reporting its best November for certified on record. The automaker sold […] [Read More]

Automotive data mining and trade-cycle management platform AutoAlert on Tuesday completed the acquisition of MotoFuze, a customer experience management (CEM) platform. Officials indicated MotoFuze will be transitioned to a fully integrated product of AutoAlert.  MotoFuze chief executive officer Mike Dullea and co-founder Tom Walls have been appointed as AutoAlert’s chief sales and marketing officer and […] [Read More]

Third-party auto shopping and research site CarGurus announced Tuesday the launch of its U.K. website, CarGurus UK. This is CarGurus’ first site in the European market, and the company says it hopes to offer something new for car shoppers in the region. Langley Steinert, the co-founder of TripAdvisor who founded CarGurus in 2007, looks forward to […] [Read More]

Listen up, folks. The same old wholesale trends you have come to expect this year are changing — and changing fast. Those watching the auction lanes this year have seen the truck segments outperform their smaller counterparts throughout most of 2015, but over the course of November, trucks started to lose a bit of their […] [Read More]

Certified pre-owned sales reports for November are just now beginning to surface, but here’s an early look at how some brands fared last month: At Ford, its CPO programs combined for 22,371 sales in November, compared to 22,552 in November 2014. Through 11 months, they have sold 270,194 CPO units, against 249,095 certified sales in […] [Read More]

The major delinquency metrics Experian Automotive tracks on a quarterly basis remained nearly flat across the board as analysts generated their third-quarter figures. According to Experian’s most recent State of the Automotive Finance Market report, 30-day delinquencies associated with the total number of outstanding auto loans decreased by 13 basis points year-over-year in Q3 to […] [Read More]

This evening, another round of the College Football Playoff rankings will be released, with teams (OK, arguments aside) ordered based on how they stack up against the rest. Much like college football on the sports landscape, certified pre-owned is crazy popular in automotive. But how would they stack up in a top 10 ranking?  Edmunds.com tackled […] [Read More]

Toronto’s AutoShare will take on a new name Monday: Enterprise CarShare. AutoShare became part of the Enterprise CarShare network in 2014, and the aforementioned change is one of the final steps in the integration process after Enterprise acquired the company last March. After Monday, the AutoShare website will also automatically reroute veiwers to www.enterprisecarshare.ca. "This […] [Read More]

Amid quickly approaching holidays and the close of another year, the International Automotive Remarketers Alliance has a reminder for those looking for something new in 2016: Membership enrollment in IARA begins Jan. 1. IARA is encouraging existing and prospective members to visit its website to take advantage of the January membership enrollment. Current members simply […] [Read More]