Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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Edmunds on why appeal of used EVs could surge as gas prices keep rising & affordability remains challenging
Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2026, 10:30 AM
PODCAST: Carleton’s Tim Yalich on how critical accurate payment information is to today’s car shoppers
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2026, 10:57 AM
Already the top factor holding back dealership business, potential economic headwinds build
Monday, Mar. 9, 2026, 10:53 AM
Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Sean Morgan, who is executive vice president of finance and operations at Westlake Financial. Morgan talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby ... Listen Here
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners continue with Tom Kontos, who now is analytics advisor for Auto Auction Holdings. Convinced to come out of retirement and get back in the business last fall with the growing wholesale ... Listen Here
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Mike Clark Jr., operations manager of C& C Cars in Pinellas Park, Fla. Clark is a third-generation dealer and helps run the family business ... Listen Here
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM
USED CAR WEEK 2023 PODCAST: Top 3 recovery challenges & ideas for resolution
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, 12:28 PM
Nick Zulovich
We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features a panel discussion titled, “The Top 3 Recovery Challenges & Ideas for Resolution,” with Starr Haynes-Sawalqah ... [Read More]
Credit Acceptance taps Real-Time Payments from Citizens to speed dealer funding
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, 11:30 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Credit Acceptance wants to make doing business with its dealership network smoother, so the finance company that specializes in subprime recently began to use Real-Time Payments from Citizens. Now, Credit Acceptance dealership customers can receive funds faster on deals they ... [Read More]
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The Dealer’s Guide to Smarter GPS Tracking
A Buyer’s Guide for Independent Dealer, BHPH, and Auto Finance Leaders Reducing Risk, Unlocking Opportunity Independent dealers and finance companies...
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Used Car Turn Vendor Management Checklist
Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Edmunds: 2 used-car financing records set in Q4
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, 11:29 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Used-vehicle financing set a pair of records during the fourth quarter, according to data compiled and shared by Edmunds. Edmunds reported on Wednesday that down payments in Q4 jumped $201 year-over-year to $4,122. The figure got to that record by ... [Read More]
TurboPass honors 7 dealers
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, 11:44 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
During the holiday season, TurboPass gave gifts to seven dealerships that use its verification solutions designed to reduce fraud and improve customer service. Winners of the TurboPass 2023 Dealer of the Year Awards include: National Dealer of the Year: Toyota ... [Read More]
3 associations roll out VPP compliance initiative
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, 11:40 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Three national trade groups want the industry to start the new year on the right compliance path. In late December, the Guaranteed Asset Protection Alliance (GAPA), Motor Vehicle Protection Products Association (MVPPA) and Service Contract Industry Council (SCIC) launched an ... [Read More]
Resolvion & RDN integrate to smooth database processes for agents
Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, 10:25 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Resolvion made another technology-driven move on Tuesday aimed at making repossession complexities smoother for both its employees and its network of agents. The provider of national repossession management, skip-tracing, remarketing, license plate recognition, heavy equipment and specialty recovery announced today ... [Read More]
Exeter partners with Pagaya to leverage AI tools
Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, 10:01 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Exeter Finance now is leveraging artificial intelligence from Pagaya Technologies to boost underwriting, funding and working relationships with more than 13,000 dealerships in its financing network that often book non-prime paper. By integrating Pagaya’s AI-driven auto product, which includes access ... [Read More]
ARA president calls for significant safety precautions after 2 agents shot and killed on consecutive days
Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, 09:59 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
It’s literally been a deadly week in the repossession world. American Recovery Association president Vaughn Clemmons recapped in an industry message on Friday that repossession agents were shot and killed in separate incidents in Alabama and California. Clemmons indicated the ... [Read More]
After Fed keeps rates steady, business optimism improves while consumers still feel ‘the pinch’
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, 10:58 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
With one automotive economist acknowledging consumers are still feeling “the pinch,” some of the largest businesses in the U.S. now have some optimistic expectations for 2024 fueled in part because interest rates might finally have peaked. The Federal Reserve kept ... [Read More]
USED CAR WEEK 2023 PODCAST: Women in Collections and Recoveries panel
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, 02:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features some of this year’s honorees among Women in Collections and Recoveries for a conversation led by ... [Read More]
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