Next up on our series from the podcast stage at Canada’s Used Car Week last month is a conversation with Tatiana Siuchak, technical product manager at VW Credit Canada and one of Auto Remarketing Canada’s 2023 “Remarketing’s Under 40” honorees. Siuchak chats with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about improving the customer experience, […] [Read More]

After the largest month-over-month decline in more than three years, wholesale vehicle prices have continued to ease in July, according to a Cox Automotive analysis. The company’s mid-month Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index is at 213.1, as wholesale prices are down 1.0% from June and 11.1% softer than the full month of July 2022, when […] [Read More]

Alan Ram’s Proactive Training Solutions is bringing back its individual subscription service for auto dealership salespeople. The automotive sales and management training provider said it made the decision “due to strong demand from numerous auto dealerships.” Director of dealer engagement and training Susan Gaytan said reinstating individual subscriptions, which “Alan championed,” is a highlight of […] [Read More]

Car-shipping platform Super Dispatch said Tuesday it has launched a video podcast that focuses specifically on the auto transport industry. Leading the monthly “Auto Transport Co-Pilot” show each month will be Super Dispatch founder and CEO Bek Abdullayev. The episodes will hone in on industry insights and challenges through conversations with shippers, brokers, carriers and […] [Read More]

Dealer retailing system CarNow has joined with multiple service providers and dealer partners to donate $76,100 to The Make-A-Wish Foundation. The donation was raised in March at the second annual UNConference, an automotive leadership conference for dealerships and technology partners hosted at CarNow’s headquarters in Atlanta. “We are truly grateful for the incredible generosity shown […] [Read More]

Overall satisfaction with automotive manufacturer websites has been steadily increasing since 2022, according to J.D. Power’s latest survey. The 2023 U.S. Manufacturer Website Evaluation Study – Summer showed a customer satisfaction score of 713 (on a 1,000-point scale) in the mass market segment, up five points from the 2023 winter survey and eight points from […] [Read More]

That “summertime slowdown” Black Book previously mentioned is intensifying quickly, as analysts spotted the largest single-week wholesale value drop since mid-January. According to the newest installment of Market Insights, Black Book reported that wholesale prices sunk 0.73% last week even as the estimated average weekly sales rate improved “slightly” to 47%. “Sellers are beginning to […] [Read More]

Peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace Turo has been chosen as GO Transit’s official car sharing partner. Turo and GO Transit are partnering to allow Ontario riders to request vehicle delivery at GO stations, located across Canada’s Greater Golden Horseshoe region. The secondary region of Southern Ontario is the most densely populated and industrialized in Canada. A […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive said “June marked an important turning point” in connection with credit being available to consumers to acquire vehicles. But the subprime segment remains on a downward trend. The Dealertrack Credit Availability Index for all types of auto financing indicated access to auto credit improved in June after hitting a two-year low in May. […] [Read More]

Some operators consider their buy-here, pay-here dealerships to be “no-frills” businesses. That happens to be the moniker SVR Tracking gave its latest GPS tracking device. This week, the provider of asset management solutions for the automotive industry released SVR Repo, which is designed to a simple, low-cost GPS solution for dealers whose only goal is […] [Read More]