Dealer review website DealerRater revealed the winners of the 2012 Dealer of the Year Award Program on Sunday at the NADA Convention in Las Vegas, and receiving the honor as the overall 2012 Dealer of the Year was Beechmont Ford of Cincinnati. This rooftop is part of the Lorinn Williams Auto Group, owned and operated […] [Read More]

When the industry veteran chosen as the 2012 national TIME Dealer of the Year got a taste of the car business, he said he knew it was where he belonged. And in honoring this year’s winner, the industry makes it evident it agrees. After Auto Remarketing published the nominee profiles leading up to the NADA […] [Read More]

Wholesale values “took a turn south” last week and posted the year’s most dramatic weekly decline yet, according to Black Book’s Ricky Beggs. What’s more, the proportion of wholesale value adjustments that were positive changes was the smallest it has been in four weeks, he noted. The overall change was a decrease of $52. The […] [Read More]

It appears that the New York Giants might not have been the only ones earning an upset victory Sunday night. According to analyses of online traffic trends, the car brand that perhaps surprisingly stole the show and benefited significantly from Super Bowl advertising was Fiat. The third-quarter commercial for the Fiat 500 Abarth wasn’t as […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing continues to follow the debate regarding whether factory-mandated image programs are worth the investment for dealers. And as many stores still question the validity of these programs, the National Automobile Dealers Association released a new study that Stephan Wade, outgoing chairman of the NADA, hopes will help restore “reason and common sense” to […] [Read More]

Experian Automotive launched a new online business intelligence tool at the NADA convention on Sunday that it says can enable dealers to better understand the market, the vehicles that are selling and the people who are buying them. Sharing more about Velocity, officials noted that its "unique combination of data and analytics empowers users to […] [Read More]

Dominion Dealer Solutions recently announced a partnership with OPENLANE that will allow its dealers to tap into OPENLANE inventory through Dominion Inventory sourcing tools. Officials noted that mutual customers of the companies can utilize the Dominion Inventory application to easily source vehicles, as well as post units for sale. OPENLANE sends its auction listings to […] [Read More]

FordDirect — a joint venture between Ford and its franchised dealers — just launched a new Web 2.0 platform, which is designed to make it even easier for consumers to search through Ford and Lincoln dealers’ inventories. Tapping into the prevalence of social media usage, the new DealerConnection Vehicle Showroom  — based on SiSTeR’s Technologies’ […] [Read More]

Manheim announced the winner of its eighth annual Barbara Cox Anthony Automotive Woman of the Year Award on Sunday, bestowing this year’s honors upon Rachel Richards, who is Sonic Automotive’s vice president of retail strategy and chief marketing officer. Richards was given the award and honored at Northwood University’s annual breakfast during the National Automobile […] [Read More]

Polk and AutoTrader.com recently reached out to almost 1,500 luxury vehicle owners to figure out what makes these buyers loyal to — or defectors from — a particular luxury brand. What their study found is that the motivator most often cited for sticking with a luxury make is brand affinity. Almost half the respondents listed […] [Read More]