Cox Automotive and Westlake Financial Services are among the companies involved in overhauled and pilot programs to provide vehicles for Uber, the online transportation service provider that’s grown in popularity in some of the largest U.S. metro areas. Uber explained this week that its revamped leasing program for its network of drivers dubbed Xchange Leasing […] [Read More]

Fortunately for Canadian dealers, the recent agreement between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States is not expected to have any sort of negative market impacts for the brand in Canada. That’s according to Geoff Helby, the regional director of industry solutions for the Canadian arm of ALG. […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing Canada learned this week that the dealers who lost a class-action suit against General Motors of Canada Ltd. — the results of which were announced earlier this month — will appeal the ruling that GM did not did not breach any common law or statutory obligations toward the dealers related to the wind-down agreements sent in […] [Read More]

It was announced last week that Reynolds and Reynolds is partnering with the Nova Scotia Automobile Dealers Association (NSADA) to develop new F&I forms in an effort to help dealers simplify and smooth F&I transactions. As part of the partnership, Reynolds Document Services has worked up three new F&I documents, including a vehicle purchase agreement, […] [Read More]

Since its debut, more than 45 percent of new-car sales for the Tesla Model S have come from California, according to data from Polk and Edmunds.com. But on the used-car side, the Golden State’s share is much smaller — in fact, it’s just over 30 percent. States like Florida, Washington and Texas have poached pieces […] [Read More]

In a development cheered by the National Automobile Dealers Association, a proposal to modify how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversees indirect auto financing took one step forward on Wednesday, moving beyond the House Financial Services Committee now to be considered by the entire chamber. Rep. Frank Guinta, a New Hampshire Republican, introduced H.R. 1737 […] [Read More]

TrueCar and Sonic Automotive announced a settlement Wednesday resolving a trademark dispute, prompting the dealer group to end its policy against doing business with the online marketplace. Sonic executive vice president of operations Jeff Dyke said in a statement that the company is “open to evaluating from a corporate level whether its dealerships will participate in […] [Read More]

Those interested in sharpening their auction skills can look forward to an upcoming National Auto Auction Association standards training event in Michigan next month. The upcoming NAAA Auction Standards Training Program will feature two days of classroom and hands-on training for vehicle inspectors, operations managers, account coordinators, arbitration managers or anyone else interested in enhancing […] [Read More]

Stores that are a part of Larry H. Miller Dealerships in Colorado are joining with Denver’s 9NEWS and the Volunteers of America (VOA) for the 14th annual “Stuff for Students” school supply drive. During the entire month of August, officials highlighted the seven Larry H. Miller Dealership locations statewide will be collecting essential school supply […] [Read More]

VinSolutions announced Wednesday that it has integrated its VinConnect Desking tool with Autosoft’s dealership management system Autosoft FLEX F&I. Via the integration, VinSolutions hopes to reduce some of the redundancy of duplicate data entry between the two programs and increase visibility between a dealership’s departments and its DMS solutions. Through real-time integration, Autosoft data is […] [Read More]