BillingTree recently expanded its leadership team with a trio of appointments. First, Nils Krumins now is senior director of professional services. The company also promoted Chad Probst to vice president of sales and business development. BillingTree indicated both of those appointments are focused on expanding the company's leading payment technology and services offerings following the […] [Read More]

In an effort to enhance the celebration of its 19th year of operation, subprime auto finance company National Auto Lenders rolled out a new logo and tagline. The marketing strategy is all part of NAL continuing to expand into new territories to work with both franchised and independent dealerships. The company is already well-established in […] [Read More]

Announced during the 2015 Auto Remarketing Canada Conference in Toronto last week, XLane Holdings Inc. will work as a technology provider to power a new Digital Showroom program for FCA Canada Inc. FCA Canada — the inaugural winner of the Auto Remarketing Canada Tech Titan award — explained this new tool is designed to offer […] [Read More]

Lithia Motors president and chief executive officer Bryan DeBoer isn’t backing down from his objective that each of the group’s 130 dealerships in 14 states turn at least 75 used vehicles each month. In fact, DeBoer pointed to a pair of reasons as to why the company can see a lift from the average of […] [Read More]

MD Johnson, which provides guidance on purchase, sale, analysis, succession, valuation and restructuring of dealerships, recently helped to orchestrate the successful sale of BMW of Tri Cities from Tim Bush to Ralph Martinez. Officials indicated the dealership will remain named BMW of Tri Cities at its current state of the art facility off of Interstate 82 […] [Read More]

Porsche Financial Services announced Thursday its agreement with Safe-Guard Products International to offer a fully branded suite of Protection Plan Products through Porsche, Bentley and Lamborghini dealers in the United States. Non-Porsche products for Bentley and Lamborghini pre-owned vehicles, at participating dealers, will use the QualityShield name as a non-branded private label program. “Safe-Guard is […] [Read More]

Texoma Hyundai of Sherman, Texas, ranked No. 1 in service customer satisfaction in the U.S. for 2014, marking the second year in a row the dealership was the national champion for the Hyundai brand. The store bested more than 820 Hyundai dealerships to notch the title. "We are proud of the service department at Texoma […] [Read More]

Selling cars becomes more and more like running an electronics store every year with the massive amounts of in-car technology becoming prevalent. Cars today can do things like tell you where to go, control the temperature, beam your favorite songs from space and protect you from that car in your blind spot that you missed […] [Read More]

If you’re an F&I manager, how many times have you seen a weary buyer arrive in your office ready just to take delivery and depart the dealership? But it’s your job still to make the pitch, right? As frustrating of a situation that might be for store personnel, a new study from MakeMyDeal, a Cox […] [Read More]

As analysts offered some assessments of what moves the Federal Reserve might make, data through March generated by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian indicated auto loan default ticked lower on a sequential basis but edged up slightly year-over-year. The auto loan reading for March came in at 1.03 percent, 3 basis points lower than […] [Read More]