Soaring commercial consignor volumes continue to drive overall auction sales, which climbed slightly from year-ago figures in June and are up 8% through the first half of the year. That’s according to AuctionNet data from the National Auto Auction Association provided to Auto Remarketing on Friday. There were 521,978 units sold at auto auctions in […] [Read More]

Next up on our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from the Canada’s Used Car Week Podcast Stage is a conversation with Megan Mahon, head of sales enablement at Premier Truck Rental. Mahon talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about her session “Find Your Fight Song,” which shows how music can help […] [Read More]

Next up on our “Consignor Conversations” series of the Auto Remarketing Podcast is an interview with George Koditek, who is manager of fleet remarketing at Hyundai/Genesis Motor North America. Koditek sat down with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby during the Auto Intel Summit + National Remarketing Conference in April to discuss his journey […] [Read More]

A little inside baseball here (or football, rather): One of the best training grounds for journalism, and not just sports reporters, is to cover high school football for a newspaper — or at least the version of the latter that existed through the 2000s. It requires precise and constant notetaking, especially if you are recording […] [Read More]

When a car shopper is looking for a particular type of vehicle — for example, a used Honda Civic — and you happen to have one on your lot, how do you convince the shopper that your Civic is better than a similar one at your competitor’s car lot? What if the car shopper asks […] [Read More]

The Internal Revenue Service sent a reminder to dealers this week that had nothing to do with filing tax returns or sending mandated funds to the federal government. Considering the recent ransomware attack aimed at dealers, the IRS is warning individuals and businesses to remain vigilant against these attacks, especially when criminals portray themselves as […] [Read More]

AutoNation has added to its board of directors with the appointment of Claire Bennett as an independent director, effective July 8. The company called Bennett “a tenured global leader with an extensive customer experience, general management and consumer services background,” citing her experience as a senior executive “to help drive significant transformation in large, complex […] [Read More]

First, Edmunds highlighted how much negative equity and lengthening terms surfaced within auto financing booked during the second quarter. Then, Cox Automotive pointed out how difficult it might have been to get approved for auto financing at all last month. The newest Dealertrack Credit Availability Index showed access to auto credit declined again in June […] [Read More]

No one should blame Gene Daughtry if he often hums the Johnny Cash song “I’ve Been Everywhere.” After all, the senior consultant for Auto Master Systems likely has been to many of the same cities included in the chorus of that country tune. While he didn’t burst into song during his latest visit for the […] [Read More]

Wait, did I say if? I meant when! In this business, something will always eventually go wrong. Whether it’s because of outside forces or it’s self-inflicted, it’s only a matter of time before something disrupts how we operate. You can’t rely on things running smoothly all the time. It simply doesn’t work that way. You […] [Read More]