Raymond and Joey Wilkes, a father-son team with more than 50 years of automotive experience, on Friday opened Capital City Auto Auction, a new independently owned and operated facility in Ohio. The owners highlighted their management and staff are committed to combining the warm and friendly feel dealers enjoy at auctions with technology and all […] [Read More]

Carfax announced Wednesday it’s now able to provide instant automobile accident reports. This is done by utilizing Crashdocs.org, which helps provide crash reports from police departments all over the United States, with the number of agencies providing data growing. According to the company, insurers, lawyers and other such interested parties can order the reports and […] [Read More]

This week’s introduction of a Congressional measure to “reform and refocus” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — changing the bureau’s structure from director led to a bipartisan five-person commission appointed by the president — received immediate cheers from eight different organizations representing banks, credit unions and finance companies. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, chairman of the Financial […] [Read More]

Along with highlighting company successes since new chief executive officer Edgars “Edz” Sturans took control last September, BillingTree also explained the potential benefits of leveraging “omnichannel” platforms. BillingTree head of corporate marketing Dave Yohe said the “omnichannel” bandwagon is gaining steam because the term is a buzzword and is spreading throughout the business world. “It […] [Read More]

Enterprise Car Sales generated a record $483 million in loan volume to more than 28,000 credit union members during 2014. Enterprise Car Sales is a service of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the largest rental car brand in North America, and specializes in working with credit unions of all sizes to increase auto loans. Enterprise's record loan volume […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing has learned of new leadership within the pre-owned operations of General Motors. There is a new position — manager of used-vehicle strategy — that is being filled by Douglas Kaczmarski, who led the rental sales team for GM Fleet and Commercial over the past seven years, according to the automaker. In the new role, […] [Read More]

Last month was the best February ever for certified pre-owned sales, and one automaker reported its best month of all time (February or otherwise). Sharing final certified pre-owned sales numbers on Thursday morning, Autodata Corp. provided these statistics and an updated CPO figure.  The firm said there were 197,540 certified sales for the month, which […] [Read More]

Coming off what organizers hailed as a successful best-practices event this past January in Dallas, the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers now is gearing up for its annual signature gathering. The 17th annual BHPH Conference has new sessions and what NABD is calling the largest exhibit hall at an industry event. NABD structured the […] [Read More]

In January, TRADER Corp. announced an agreement with Mobials, which allows dealership websites using the Mobials ReviewMii platform to include their customer reviews within the autoTRADER.ca marketplace. And ReviewMii officially launched on autoTRADER.ca this past Wednesday. The ReviewMii tool that Mobials offers allows dealers to display consumer reviews on the vehicle listings on autoTRADER.ca and […] [Read More]

Anyone who has read one of Dealertrack Technologies’ TradeTracker Used-Vehicle Market Reports in the last few months won’t be surprised by what they see, once again, on top of the appraisal charts. The Ford F-150 remains the top overall most-appraised vehicle in Canada for the month of February, followed once again by the Toyota Corolla, […] [Read More]