Toyota earned Best Resale Value: Brand honors from Kelley Blue Book for the sixth time in the last nine years, and corporate sibling Lexus won Best Resale Value: Luxury Brand for the third time overall. On Monday, KBB released its 20th annual Best Resale Value Awards, which spotlight the 2022 model-year vehicles expected to retain […] [Read More]

It’s likely been experienced by you first-hand or by one of your dealership colleagues or managers. It’s the test drive that turned wild; almost into something from Hollywood. Well, perhaps now we can have a chuckle about the incident and make a comparison to some of the most famous movie segments that involved vehicles traveling […] [Read More]

Our recaps of merger-and-acquisition activities now are back in the banking sector. On Monday morning, TD Bank Group and First Horizon announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for TD to acquire First Horizon in an all-cash transaction valued at $13.4 billion or $25 for each common share of First Horizon. Through what it […] [Read More]

After opening its whitepaper series last fall about systems change called Innovation in Implementation, Alfa released the next installment last week. The provider of systems and services to some of the world’s most complex auto and equipment finance companies highlighted that new paper in its series is focused on data migration. Titled Agility in Data […] [Read More]

F&I Sentinel — a leading compliance solutions provider with respect to the financing of F&I products — announced its founders have partnered with Calera Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm.  According to a news release distributed on Monday, terms of the transaction that created a majority recapitalization of the business were not disclosed. “With […] [Read More]

Kroll Bond Rating Agency had the opportunity to use an adjective to describe its latest auto-finance data that’s quite familiar to executives and managers. Analysts included the word “seasonal” when recapping its January indices that are based on information accumulated through the securitization market. “January remittance reports showed weaker credit performance across prime and non-prime […] [Read More]

It appears the frenetic M&A activity in auto retail has found its way to the wholesale space. ACV said Monday it has acquired Monk SAS, an imaging and vehicle inspection platform designed to automotive vehicle damage detection through artificial intelligence. Within the last week,  E Automotive Inc. and its EBlock brand have purchased the FastLane Auto […] [Read More]

For decades, you could walk into an ADESA facility (or any auto auction, for that matter) and generally know what to expect on sale day. A multitude of lanes, each with a block where an auctioneer would call bids, as vehicles would slowly drive through as dealers put in their bids. The auction format has […] [Read More]

The recent trend of companies going through a rebranding continued this week with one of the industry’s largest service providers. On Thursday, Cox Automotive launched DRiVEQ, the official branding of the company’s data intelligence capabilities that powers its portfolio of automotive solutions and services. Leadership highlighted DRiVEQ combines Cox Automotive’s portfolio of first-party automotive data, […] [Read More]

Used-vehicle market resiliency is likely to be on display again this month, as one projection has February retail sales improving from the opening month of 2022. Meanwhile, if franchised stores actually have new models to retail, they’re generating grosses that sometimes only their used departments can. TrueCar said on Friday that used-vehicle sales this month […] [Read More]