A team of nearly 100 AutoNation associates biked, walked and ran while raising more than $260,000 in support of life-saving cancer research and care during the recent Dolphins Cancer Challenge DCC XVI event at Hard Rock Stadium, the national auto retailer said. The event included the donation of bikes built by AutoNation employees for 20 […] [Read More]

Flexcar is flexing its muscle in the Atlanta area. The month-to-month car lease company has opened new locations in the metro area, with sites opening north of the city in Marietta and to the south in Morrow. In a news release, Flexcar said its Atlanta customers have already surpassed 150 million miles driven in its […] [Read More]

Ask car dealers how things have been going and they’ll likely tell you not so good. But ask them about what’s ahead and the answer shifts to the positive. Spring is coming, and dealers see the sun shining and business poised to pick up, according to Cox Automotive’s Q1 2026 Dealer Sentiment Index. The index, […] [Read More]

Call it the subprime surge. According to Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market Report: Q4 2025, subprime consumers made up 15.31% of total vehicle financing in the quarter. That’s up from 14.54% in the closing quarter of 2024. Furthermore, Experian determined the level represents subprime consumers’ largest share of the total vehicle finance market […] [Read More]

The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association reported that independent stores retailed 9.8 million vehicles in 2025, nearing 2020 total sales. That’s the top headline from NIADA’s revived Used Car Industry Report, which features more than 100 pages of information, including details about the dealer landscape in each state. “We’re very excited about bringing the UCIR […] [Read More]

The reprieve is over. And yet, not all is bleak in the Canada’s wholesale used-vehicle market. Yes, Canadian Black Book’s Used Vehicle Retention Index for February sank 1.2 points from January to 132.2 and was down 4.8% — that’s 6.7 points — year-over-year. But CBB senior manager of industry insights and residual value strategy Daniel […] [Read More]

PAVE.AI and CarDr.com are teaming to bring OEM-level diagnostics intelligence into artificial intelligence-powered vehicle condition reports. Through a joint initiative announced by the companies Wednesday, CarDr — which is an automotive diagnostics technology company — will integrate its CarDr OBDIQ device into the PAVE inspection workflow. PAVE is an AI-driven vehicle inspection and condition reporting […] [Read More]

Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners begin with Jessica Caldwell, who is head of insights at Edmunds. Caldwell talks with Auto Remarketing senior editor Joe Overby about her journey from working for automakers on the product planning side of the business to her nearly 20 years as an analyst with Edmunds. Caldwell […] [Read More]

The auction hammer is coming down at a rate Black Book has seen only three times since May 2022. According to the newest installment of Market Insights released Tuesday, Black Book said the auction conversion rate jumped by 4 percentage points during the last week of February to land at 66%. The rate hit that […] [Read More]

Lease End sees its chance to provide dealerships with a path to more profitability through their used-car inventory. The fintech company wants to connect dealerships with consumers who are near the end of their contracts with launch of Lease End Marketplace. It’s designed to help lessees exit their contracts early while providing dealerships a “front-run” […] [Read More]