Auto Remarketing is proud to celebrate our annual Women in Retail awards, a program sponsored by CarGurus. With these awards, we recognize top leaders on the retail side of the auto industry, including honorees from dealerships, dealer groups and third-party providers/vendors. In addition to Q&A features in the July issue of Auto Remarketing, honorees will be recognized […] [Read More]

After launching a pilot program last year, Spiffy said last week that it has expanded its partnership with MSX International and Hyundai Motor America to begin rolling out mobile service capabilities across Hyundai’s U.S. dealer network. With the expanded partnership, Spiffy will provide its end-to-end mobile service platform to additional HMA dealers, while MSX will […] [Read More]

EV Auto is the first used electric vehicle dealership to join Amazon Autos, the EV retailer said Monday. And for CEO and co-founder Alex Lawrence, whose background before automotive was tech, the decision was an easy one. “As soon as Amazon Autos was announced, I knew we wanted to be there immediately, instantly,” Lawrence told […] [Read More]

Dealers who use CarGurus to market their used-vehicle inventory online have about two weeks to shore up all the details included in those listings, especially connected with fees as demanded by the Federal Trade Commission. This spring’s attention-getting move by the FTC is continuing to impact moves by service providers in automotive retailing, as CarGurus […] [Read More]

Dealers can now seek guidance about insurance and more from four experienced experts who joined EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants this week. The national insurance brokerage and consulting firm providing specialized services and products across select industries and client sectors announced that auto dealership F&I experts Ryan Hoff and John Jacobi have joined the firm. […] [Read More]

For years, automotive retail has approached digital advertising as a volume game. The prevailing assumption has been that more traffic, more impressions and more leads naturally translate into more sales. However, as inventory costs rise, margins tighten and consumer demand fluctuates across segments, many dealers are discovering a difficult reality: not every vehicle on the […] [Read More]

AutoCanada took another major step towards divesting its U.S. properties, selling Toyota of Lincolnwood in the Chicago area for $40 million in cash (CAD) to Serra Automotive. The deal closed Monday. AutoCanada anticipates selling the rest of its remaining U.S. dealerships by the end of the year. Since classifying its U.S. segment as discontinued operations […] [Read More]

Carvana has teamed up with the Jimmie Johnson Foundation to help fast track the career development of aspiring automotive professionals. The online used-car retailer and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion have debuted Driving Brighter Futures, a grant program that aims to foster and improve career and technical education (CTE) in automotive and engineering programs at […] [Read More]

For car buyers of a certain age (43, in my case), the analog days of affordable vehicle hunting meant keeping your eyes peeled, head on a swivel for those “For Sale” signs. Black background, bright orangey-red letters. Usually somewhere on the vehicle’s dashboard. As a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s looking to […] [Read More]

RockED has launched a new program to help dealers, dealership managers and frontline teams prepare for Federal Trade Commission pricing enforcement, promote advertising transparency and continue to adapt to evolution in the regulatory environment. The “FTC Pricing Enforcement: A Dealer Information Series” course is free to all dealers across the U.S. and includes 12 short […] [Read More]