The April collectible car market continued strength trends seen earlier this year, and prompted Black Book editors to cite value appreciation in this market area as “astounding.” The collectible cars market is performing well, with exotic cars seeing the highest year-over-year change. The exotic vehicles saw a 38.3-percent year-over-year jump in price this past month, and […] [Read More]

Dominion Dealer Solutions announced that Dominion ACCESS, its dealer management system, is now an approved integration partner of Nissan’s Dealer Business System. Nissan’s new system integrates the Dominion ACCESS DMS with real-time, secure communications across several of a dealer’s departments and is available to Nissan and Infiniti dealerships nationwide. “Completing the integration between Dominion ACCESS […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing has learned that Volvo has new leader for its certified pre-owned program to replace Steve Golow, who is now aftersales operations manager for the Southern region at Volvo Cars of North America. Now serving as the national pre-owned manager for Volvo Cars North America is Robert Zilinski, who came over to the company […] [Read More]

Manheim Louisville is set to host its Cruisin’ for Wishes car show and fundraiser next week, the proceeds of which will benefit Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Scheduled for May 16, this will be the first year the annual car, truck and bike show will benefit this specific chapter of the Make-A-Wish foundation. “We are honored […] [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a report on Tuesday finding that 26 million Americans are what the agency is calling, “credit invisible.” The bureau explained this figure indicates that one in every 10 adults do not have any credit history with a nationwide consumer reporting agency. Officials noted the report also found that Black […] [Read More]

While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn’t have direct jurisdiction over how dealerships operate, a new survey conducted by eLEND Solutions showed 80 percent of dealers expect bureau regulations will be implemented in the near future, further impacting their businesses. What’s even more telling, the survey also indicated that less than half of dealers have […] [Read More]

EFG Companies recently taught Northwood University’s inaugural reinsurance class at the university’s Michigan campus. The two-part curriculum took students from the most basic definitions of traditional insurance (such as premium, commission, reserve and more) to an overview of reinsurable F&I products like service contracts. The instruction included global reinsurance domiciles all the way through to […] [Read More]

As we come to the end of the spring selling season and tax-time highs, one branch of the market isn’t losing momentum. The truck market continues to be strong, said industry analysts in the latest Black Book Market Insights report. In fact, the Black Book editors explained they are tracking a continued pattern of strength […] [Read More]

Dealer website and digital marketing provider DealerOn officially joined the Mitsubishi Diamond Digital Solutions (DDS) website program, becoming the fourth website provider in the program connected with Mitsubishi Motors North America. Through DealerOn’s participation in the DDS program, officials indicated the company automatically can deliver Mitsubishi dealers integrated OEM incentives and automated corporate image and […] [Read More]

On Tuesday, ARI launched what the company dubbed ARI SustainableWorks, a consulting service designed to help organizations configure best-in-class fleets supported by clean, efficient and cost-effective fleet solutions. The company highlighted ARI SustainableWorks is designed to help clients develop and implement forward-thinking sustainable strategies that are tailored to each fleet’s unique objectives, needs and operating […] [Read More]