Cherokee Media Group has launched a new awards program recognizing executives at the peak of auto industry leadership. Industry Elite: The C-Suite spotlights the most influential, inspiring and innovative executives in the retail, remarketing and finance segments of automotive. The inaugural honorees will be recognized in the May edition of Auto Remarketing and at the Used Car […] [Read More]

Automotive retail M&A has matured. Capital is abundant. Buyer demand is strong. Close to 700 franchises changed hands in 2025, with a similar volume expected across the nation’s 18,300 franchised dealerships in 2026. On paper, dealers are in the driver’s seat. In reality, when a serious opportunity surfaces, an unsolicited offer, a strategic inquiry, a […] [Read More]

Two dealers. Same city. Same compressed market. One has been grinding through the auction lanes for years, absorbing reconditioning costs and watching margins shrink with every hammer drop. The other made a deliberate pivot 12 months ago, investing in a structured buy center operation designed to source inventory directly from private sellers. Today, that second […] [Read More]

We’ve experienced a run on issues related to GPS and starter interrupt devices lately, so we thought we’d give this subject some attention. Is a device disclosure being provided? If so, who wrote it? The existence of the installation of a GPS or starter interrupt device must be disclosed to the buyer of the vehicle. […] [Read More]

Ahead of next week’s North American Repossessors Summit (NARS) in Orlando, Fla., the American Recovery Association (ARA) on Thursday established a standardized industry guideline for reporting violent incidents encountered during field recovery operations. Association leadership said this initiative reinforces the ARA’s ongoing commitment to improving safety, consistency, and professionalism across the repossession industry. “As the […] [Read More]

As spring arrives, many Canadians will be looking to buy used cars. But, Carfax Canada warns, they also need to look out. Used car scams such as re-vinning and odometer rollbacks create serious risks for Canadians, the vehicle history report provider said in a news release. “Criminals can be extremely sophisticated,” Carfax Canada president Shawn […] [Read More]

America’s Group has gone global. The auto auction group said Thursday that it has acquired U.K.-based G3 Remarketing, a British independent vehicle auction company that operates as G3 Vehicle Auctions. This is America’s Group’s first expansion outside the U.S. The purchase, which includes G3’s locations in Castleford and Bedford, goes beyond broadening the physical footprint, […] [Read More]

Less than a year after it opened, the only Porsche dealership in Iowa has been sold. The Ed Morse Automotive Group announced it has acquired Porsche Des Moines from Woodhouse Auto Family, which launched the store last July to bring a Porsche retail outlet to the city for the first time since 2008, when Ramsey […] [Read More]

For the second time in about a month, CarMax has reached a settlement to resolve allegations of wrongdoing. The newest one is in connection with the district attorney for Riverside County in California. According to a news release distributed at the end of March, CarMax has been ordered to pay $1.1 million to resolve a […] [Read More]

Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners wrap up with Satyan Merchant, who is senior vice president, automotive and mortgage business leader at TransUnion. Merchant recollected how his interest in data started when studying statistics on the backed of baseball cards as a youngster and how it translated into a career of explaining […] [Read More]