The Tim Lamb Group has added Canadian auto industry veteran Paul Gilroy as a director, responsible for leading franchised dealership mergers and acquisitions throughout Canada. The dealership M&A firm said in a news release Gilroy’s expertise includes dealership sales and valuations, facilitating buy/sell transactions and the development and renovation of auto retail facilities. The Ontario […] [Read More]

George Chamoun briefly touched on ACV Auctions’ “Project Viper” during the opening comments of the company’s first quarter earnings call , but he later expanded on the potential of the service product during the Q&A portion. “I never, ever in my entire career have had a product where I’ve had this much demand,” Chamoun, who is CEO of ACV, said Wednesday.  ACV has described Project Viper as ... [Read More]

For months now, everyone has been talking about tariffs and what might happen. Now here we are in the tariff era. So what is actually happening? In this episode of the Auto Remarketing podcast, AutoTrader vice president of insights and intelligence Baris Akyurek answers that question from the Canadian point of view. Akyurek, who will […] [Read More]

To succeed in an increasingly uncertain and volatile market faced with rising costs for vehicles and financing, Canada’s auto lenders need to go the extra mile. That’s the conclusion of J.D. Power’s 2025 Canada Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study, an analysis of 5,974 finance provider evaluations from new-vehicle dealerships in Canada, conducted in February. “In the […] [Read More]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of the May edition of Auto Remarketing, which will focus entirely on a new special feature: Who to Watch. This special feature will recognize auto industry executives and companies — selected by Cherokee Media Group’s senior editors — who are significantly shaping the future of the used-car industry. This […] [Read More]

Credit Union Leasing of America (CULA) recently partnered with Self Inspection, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence-powered inspections that gained $3 million in seed funding in February. The initial fruit from that seed is CULA highlighting the success of a program already utilized by more than 11,000 lessees that has reduced lease-end vehicle turnaround times […] [Read More]

On Monday, YASSI announced the launch of RapidRepo, a national portal designed to dramatically speed up the title process for finance companies during the repossession process. YASSI highlighted that RapidRepo addresses costly industry challenges, including storage fees, insurance costs, depreciation and traditional title processing methods that can be slow, fragmented, and vary drastically between states. […] [Read More]

Dramatic changes at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau keep surfacing, with the latest including the withdrawal of nearly 80 guidance documents, policy statements and interpretive rules released since 2011. Furthermore, there’s likely going to be a change in the nominee to lead the bureau. On Friday, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced President Trump’s […] [Read More]

Repairify has hired former OPENLANE executives Srisu Subrahmanyam and Keith Crerar as the company’s new CEO and chief transformation officer, respectively. Subrahmanyam, the new Repairify CEO, was most recently executive vice president of operations at OPENLANE, where he also was president of services and international markets. “As a longtime customer of asTech and BlueDriver, I’ve […] [Read More]

The next step toward widespread commercial use of autonomous vehicles might be here. California-based technology company Autolane said the first full-scale, end-to-end test site for its OpenCurb OS is now live in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing a demonstration of the system’s real-world capabilities. OpenCurb OS is a curbside operating system designed to manage […] [Read More]