Cox Automotive’s Dealer.com announced Wednesday it has joined with Yahoo and Bing for their respective partner programs. Dealer.com today joins the new Bing Ads Elite SMB Partner Program, which the company says is for Bing business partners who have proven and trusted expertise in driving growth to both small- and medium-sized businesses via the Bing […] [Read More]

Analytics company CarStory has notched a patent for its CarStory Market Reports’ technology. CarStory parent company Vast.com Inc. has been awarded U.S. Letters Patent no. 9,104,718, titled, Systems, Methods and Devices for Measuring Similarity of and Generating Recommendations for Unique Items. The newly patented technology works to automatically compute similar alternative choices from a pool […] [Read More]

Two companies recently announced they have joined RouteOne Canada’s auto financing portal: Rifco National Auto Group and Desjardins Group. First up, in light of the partnership with Rifco National Auto Group, participating dealers who have a relationship with Rifco can now process credit applications and contracts through RouteOne. “We are excited to add the RouteOne […] [Read More]

From commercial livestock to used vehicles, auctioneer Dean Fumasi has sold it all. Now, after spending the last 30 years with the Brasher’s auction family, he has been awarded the ARI Auctioneer of Distinction award for “his dedication to ARI and the dealers in the auction lane,” becoming one of only six auctioneers to have […] [Read More]

Volkswagen has been fitting devices to diesel cars to enable them to pass emissions tests. The view of automotive engineers — a group to which I most certainly do not belong — is that when the problem is “fixed” the vehicles will run terribly. But if owners attempt to ignore the issue, their cars will […] [Read More]

Mitsubishi Motors has officially launched a new certified pre-owned program that began rolling out across the country at participating Canadian dealerships at the beginning of December. The company says the new program is designed to bring a “new level of confidence” and quality assurance to shoppers looking for a Mitsubishi car, crossover or sport utility […] [Read More]

The combination of investor money and an online platform created by what the company calls an “A team” of industry veterans who have collectively more than 110 years of experience in automotive, below-prime automotive finance, billions of dollars of securitization execution and asset performance management generated a new website — SpringboardAuto.com. On Wednesday, the site […] [Read More]

ACA International dissected the 2015 fiscal year annual report by the CFPB Ombudsman’s Office that’s generated for Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Officials found the recently released report focused heavily on three potential changes to the CFPB’s consumer complaint database to make it a more effective tool for companies that participate […] [Read More]

Auto Financial Group — an online provider of innovative financing products including CarMark Auto Finance for credit unions and banks — announced year-to-date growth figures this week, revealing increasing momentum in new customer signings with AFG’s balloon lending and remarketing programs. Since August, Auto Financial Group highlighted that it has signed nine new credit unions […] [Read More]

F&I training specialist Rebecca Chernek is hosting a comprehensive, three-day educational workshop in an attempt to help dealerships and their managers to get into position for their most successful year yet. Among the 10 workshop highlights Chernek plans to cover during the event are: — Why inconsistency in F&I product and pricing kills profits and […] [Read More]