IntelliChoice.com announced its 2013 Certified Pre-Owned awards Tuesday afternoon at Used Car Week, and receiving the Best Popular CPO Program Award was Hyundai, while Volvo took honors as the Best Premium CPO Program Award winner. Hyundai has won the popular category two years in a row, and Volvo extended its streak of premium category wins […] [Read More]

Snow filled the Washington sky on that November morning, but it didn’t keep DAA Northwest from holding its first-ever sale. The auction didn’t end up selling much that day (less than a dozen, DAA says), but perhaps the real triumph was that the DAA Northwest team managed to dig the vehicles out of snow banks, […] [Read More]

Used-car pricing trends, residual values, the salvage auction market, consignment activity. Government regulation and compliance, emerging technologies, the forwarding model, collections and skip-tracing. These are just some of the topics of discussion on tap for Day 3 of Used Car Week as both the National Remarketing Conference and Re3 event kick off. With NRC and […] [Read More]

General Motors Financial on Tuesday announced alliances with both OPENLANE and DataScan Field Services to support a new online remarketing program for off-lease vehicles. The GM Financial DealerSource program is designed to be used by GM dealers when leased vehicles financed by GM Financial begin to come off of a lease. GM Financial launched its […] [Read More]

Auction Edge said on Tuesday that it tapped the former director of auction systems at Manheim to be its general manager of auction systems Taking on the role within the division that includes the ASI business line based in North Carolina is Watson McClam. “Watson brings decades of highly relevant experience to Auction Edge,” said […] [Read More]

Auto Data Direct decided on Tuesday to donate a portion of the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) reporting fees for vehicles damaged by Hurricane Sandy. ADD is sending funds to the Brother’s Brother Foundation (BBF) relief effort. The company reiterated federal law requires insurance companies and auto salvage entities to report total loss […] [Read More]

Fleet services provider ARI recently celebrated the grand opening of its newest state-of-the-art call center in Houston. The facility located at 13805 West Road already employs nearly 50 local residents and has the capacity to employ 185 individuals. This facility is the sixth ARI call center in North America, and officials said it will help […] [Read More]

After revealing earlier this week that Kia Motor Co. and Scion have both partnered with Cars.com to promote their certified pre‐owned vehicles, the site revealed the results of a study that shows CPO vehicles continue to gain interest among car shoppers. The study results — taken from a survey of nearly 900 online car shoppers […] [Read More]

Even after Hurricane Sandy hit, damages from which are expected to push used-vehicle prices up, wholesale prices experienced a steep decline in October, according to NADA Used Car Guide’s Guidelines report. But the wholesale volume fallout from the storm is expected to spur a price hike in the near future. October’s report shared that at […] [Read More]

HOUSTON — Since the intimate training event the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers conducted last summer went so well, the organization is ready to do it again to begin 2013. NABD said it will host its second-ever BHPH boot camp in Monroe, N.C., on Jan. 12–13. The boot camp is set up to provide […] [Read More]