Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 3:37pm

Joe Overby, Senior Editor

Skeptics of the vehicle subscription model may, in fact, be right to pose questions about how the segment is addressing some very important concerns. Many of those questions came to light during a keynote presentation from auto industry consultant Maryann Keller at the Automotive Intelligence Summit in July, and later... Read More

Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 12:28pm

Auto Remarketing Staff

With the industry still sifting through units impacted by Hurricanes Florence and Michael, Carfax shared new information on Thursday, highlighting how many vehicles damaged by flooding remain operation. Compared to this point last year after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit the U.S., Carfax reported 478,000 flooded... Read More

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 1:30pm

Joe Overby, Senior Editor

The brisk air and color-changing leaves may say otherwise, but October is looking a lot like September. Edmunds is predicting 3.3 million used-car sales this month, which is the same figure reached in September, based on its data set. The resulting used-car SAAR for the month is projected at 39.6 million – also on... Read More

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 2:50pm

Jim Leman, Correspondent

The Germain Automotive Group has increased front-end gross per car by $300 since beta testing a new inventory management concept from Dale Pollak and the vAuto team at Cox Automotive. This new philosophy — and the data product behind it, called Profit Time — looks at inventory aging in a unique way,... Read More

Monday, October 22, 2018 - 1:26pm

Joe Overby, Senior Editor

As it turns out, dealers are more likely than the shoppers buying their cars to believe personal vehicle ownership will decrease drastically in the next five years. But does this mean that dealers are worried about the impact this will have on their business? Not necessarily. According to a study released Monday by... Read More

Monday, October 22, 2018 - 11:47am

Auto Remarketing Staff

It’s been more than a month since Hurricane Florence soaked the Carolinas and other locations in the Southeast. On Monday, Jumpstart Automotive Media uncovered more than a half dozen metrics and other trends through its post-Florence shopping analysis, pinpointing what types of vehicles are being considered and... Read More

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 2:31pm

Daryl Lubinsky, Correspondent

Some used-vehicle dealers jack up the pricing on their fresh inventory to offset the lack of gross on their aged vehicles. Don’t do that. And don’t advertise your vehicles online without double-checking the pictures and descriptions, either. Unfortunately, those are just two of the many... Read More

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 9:09am

Auto Remarketing Staff

More than a year later, Hurricane Harvey still is influencing how wholesale prices and used-vehicle sales are analyzed. The record-setting storm that blasted Texas created comparisons that might make metrics appear odd. According to ADESA Analytical Services’ monthly analysis of wholesale used-vehicle prices by... Read More