The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association is organizing its own resources along with colleagues from Oregon’s independent dealer association in an effort to prevent a bill from becoming law in the Beaver State that could radically alter how buy-here, pay-here dealers can operate. Officials from the Oregon IADA and the newly created NIADA Buy-Here, Pay-Here […] [Read More]

A name familiar to the automotive industry, especially the buy-here, pay-here segment, resurfaced this week as Rod Heasley established a consulting agency to service independent agents specializing in both prime and subprime financing. Heasley, who has 37 years of industry experience, formed KISS Concepts Group, which already has its corporate headquarters in North Carolina and […] [Read More]

Dealertrack Technologies and Digital Air Strike announced Monday that they have entered into channel and product agreements to help their dealer clients drive lead response and generation opportunities. According to the companies, the agreement facilitates the information from the DAS Response Logix Smart Quote to be integrated into Dealertrack’s Dealer.com digital marketing solution and Payment […] [Read More]

All of that profit dealers are generating with record-setting certified pre-owned metal and other used vehicles are keeping wholesale prices at slightly higher levels than a year ago. Although wholesale prices fell in the final two months of this year’s first quarter, Manheim determined that the average level for Q1 came in 1.6 percent higher than […] [Read More]

The Best of State awards, given annually to recognize excellence in various categories ranging from arts and entertainment to sports and recreation in the state of Utah, were announced this week. Three automotive companies were recognized in the merchandising and consumer services division. In the category of Best of State new auto dealers, the Larry […] [Read More]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced several sizeable recalls that were reported to NHTSA in March, the majority of which have remedies planned for April. The following data is provided by the NHTSA. Toyota Recalls Toyota is recalling certain model year 2015 examples of the 2015 Camry, Camry Hybrid, Highland, and Highlander Hybrid as […] [Read More]

In the landscape of the digital auto world, Greg McGivney of Cars.com points out, there have been a number of advancements in price transparency on both the used- and new-car side that have helped consumers make confident decisions in their vehicle and dealership selections. So why not make a similar move on the service side, […] [Read More]

If you need convincing of the capacity challenges facing the vehicle transportation industry, consider what United Road Services president and chief executive officer Kathleen McCann had to say during a keynote address at last month's NAAA/IARA/CAR Conference in Las Vegas. As part of her presentation on “What’s Ahead in Car Haul … Capacity, Compliance, Customer Experience […] [Read More]

For the most part, used electric-vehicle prices continue to be very soft, a trend that has remained pretty steady over the past couple of years and has been compounded as of late due to low gas prices. And with many of the newer model-year EVs, such as the 2014 Chevy Volt, set to hit the […] [Read More]

The Canadian government announced on Monday that is has entered an agreement to sell all of its remaining shares, totaling more than 73 million, of General Motors Co. common stock. The unregistered block trade, between the Canada GEN Investment Corporation, a Canadian federal Crown corporation, and Goldman, Sachs & Co., will complete the sale of […] [Read More]