It has been quite an odd and unprecedented week for the auto industry and its largest annual event. Amid the historic snowstorm that hit New Orleans on Tuesday and hampered travel into the city for NADA Show 2025, the president and CEO of the National Automobile Dealers Association released a statement Thursday morning, providing an […] [Read More]

Educating consumers is widely considered a key to increasing sales of electric vehicles. So RockED and J.D. Power are teaming up to create more EV experts. The auto sales enablement platform announced an alliance with J.D. Power to launch the J.D. Power EV Expert Certification program, powered by RockED. The program is designed to deliver […] [Read More]

We continue our episodes of the Auto Remarketing Podcast originating from Used Car Week 2024 in Scottsdale, Ariz., with a Speed Session featuring Dan Dionne, who is vice president of sales with RockED. Dionne acknowledged dealership salespeople often have to have “difficult conversations” with potential buyers when challenges arise such as bruised credit, negative equity […] [Read More]

With its signature event set to begin next week in New Orleans, the National Automobile Dealers Association is reaching out to help, in light of the city’s New Year’s Day terrorist attack. NADA announced it has donated $25,000 to the New Orleans Relief Fund, established by the United Way of Southeast Louisiana to provide direct […] [Read More]

Tire distributor and service provider Dealer Tire is teaming with auto sales and service training platform RockED to develop and launch a new tire sales certification program for parts and service associates at select dealerships, combining Dealer Tire’s expertise in tire distribution and services with RockED’s micro-learning and gamified training systems. In a news release, […] [Read More]

With affordability continuing to loom as a major factor in auto retail, insurance costs have emerged as a key factor in auto sales. And according to the latest data from embedded automotive insurance marketplace Polly, the younger the car buyer the more important it is to take care of insurance at the dealership. Polly’s 2025 […] [Read More]

For Rita and Rick Case, the philanthropic seed was planted in 1980 when they were moved by the number of children who came into their northeastern Ohio motorsports and bicycle stores wishing for a bike. So the Cases, through public service announcements, asked the community to donate bicycles they or their children no longer needed, […] [Read More]