Why Capital Structures Matters in Today’s Market Dealers actively expanding or acquiring real estate are often constrained not by opportunity—but...
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Garcia applauds ADESA Clear performance, reveals further physical infrastructure plans
Monday, May. 4, 2026, 03:27 PM
Dealer news: Asbury leadership transition complete; Zinn honored by Northwood; Carlock heads north
Monday, May. 4, 2026, 02:57 PM
Part I: How used-car operations at public retailers fared in Q1
Monday, May. 4, 2026, 02:00 PM
This Month's Focus
Artificial Intelligence
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CARS Protection Plus taps Circuitry.ai Warranty Decision Intelligence to help adjusters resolve claims faster
Here’s an example from the car-warranty industry where companies are leveraging artificial intelligence to help people, not replace them. On Tuesday, CARS Protection Plus, a provider of vehicle service contracts, announced it has gone live with Circuitry.ai’s Warranty Decision Intelligence ... Read More
DealerOn’s dual launch includes AI search visibility platform, ‘intelligent layer’ touching full dealership
DealerOn has done NASA one better. While the space agency recently launched the first astronauts to visit the moon in more than 50 years, the provider of auto dealership websites and digital sales and marketing technology boasted two launches on ... Read More
Newest Experian tool designed to reduce risk within AI-driven commerce
Experian found another way to connect people and technology. And the newest tool emphasizes the component of a transaction including a real person. Last week, the company launched Experian Agent Trust, a framework that designed to establish a secure, verifiable ... Read More
FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more
Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here
Byron Oldham of Honest Autos & FIADA
Byron Oldham is president of the family-owned Honest Autos dealership and is president of the board at the Florida Independent Automobile Dealers Association. In this episode, Oldham talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about the upcoming Southeast ... Listen Here
Automotive CFO-To-Go Kathi Kruse talks dealership finance, accounting in ‘lightning round’
Kathi Kruse, the Automotive CFO-To-Go who brings her financial expertise — born through years of experience as a dealership chief financial officer — to dealers needing help in that area, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. In this episode, ... Listen Here
Retail
Dealer news: Feldman’s big deal; acquisition in Paris (Texas); Luther earns gold in Twin Cities
Feldman Automotive Group made its biggest deal yet. The dealership group, based in New Hudson, Mich., has acquired Firelands Auto Group from Patrick O’Brien, a transaction that includes four stores in Northern Ohio. The addition of Firelands Chrysler Dodge Jeep ... [Read More]
Hertz moves closer to its retail future with new digital showroom on eBay
Hertz is known for renting cars, but its future is in sales. The latest new venture for Hertz Car Sales is a digital retail presence on eBay, one of the world’s largest online automotive marketplaces, which “advances Hertz’s strategy to ... [Read More]
Wholesale
Carvana keeps ‘em coming with another integrated auction/recon site set for ADESA Chicago
Carvana’s integrated auction-recon sites are coming fast and furious. On the heels of last week’s announcement of a combined facility at ADESA Syracuse, the online used-car retailer revealed plans for its next such site, this one at ADESA Chicago in ... [Read More]
McLeod claims world auto auctioneer title at WAAC
Toya McLeod of Southlake, Texas won the top prize as the world champion auto auctioneer at the 2026 World Automobile Auctioneer Championship last week at Dealers Auto Auction Memphis in Eads, Tenn. Another Texan, Graci Sherman of Lubbock, claimed the ... [Read More]
Technology
DealerOn’s dual launch includes AI search visibility platform, ‘intelligent layer’ touching full dealership
DealerOn has done NASA one better. While the space agency recently launched the first astronauts to visit the moon in more than 50 years, the provider of auto dealership websites and digital sales and marketing technology boasted two launches on ... [Read More]
TrueCar adds two new leaders to help shape its continuing ‘transformation’
Scott Painter’s makeover of TrueCar now includes two new additions in leadership roles. The digital auto retail platform announced it has hired former INFINITI executive Nikole Wells as senior vice president of dealer sales and Steve Moretti, who worked with ... [Read More]
Analysis
Even with supply up 14%, used EVs sell 27% faster in Q1
Something seemingly odd happened in the used electric vehicle market during the first quarter. Used EV supply was up more than 14% year-over-year, but the turn time on these cars was 18 days faster than it was in Q1 2025, ... [Read More]
Amid unusual monthly rise in used-car retail prices, ‘silver lining’ remains for consumers & dealers
Customers are likely to bristle at the money they shell out to buy a used car these days. Percentagewise, the jump in price from March to April was about three times the typical sequential change for a given month, says ... [Read More]
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