Used-car managers now have another tool to check if that vehicle they’re about to take as a trade-in has an open recall. On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) unveiled a new cloud-based recall dashboard designed to make searching for auto safety recall data easy and efficient. NHTSA highlighted the dashboard offers user-friendly […] [Read More]

Driven Data, which is an advanced software marketing provider and digital marketing agency for the retail auto industry, announced the closure of a $4.5 million Series B fundraising round led by Dealer.com co-founder and private investor Rick Gibbs along with JHCapital, LLC. Gibbs is the chairman of Driven Data. “To say Driven Data’s platform is […] [Read More]

Ken Robinson, who is market research manager at Motus, joins the podcast to talk about new research report from the company titled “A Shift in Service Delivery: On-Demand Services Shape 2021.” Robinson discusses the “hybrid” approach to digital automotive retail, on-demand delivery of vehicle maintenance services, an online marketplace approach to car insurance and more. To […] [Read More]

Carvana stands one market shy of offering as-soon-as next-day vehicle delivery to customers in 300 different locations. On Wednesday, the online used-vehicle retailer officially rolled into market No. 299, as Carvana announced through a news release that it’s working with buyers in Wichita, Kan. About a month ago, Carvana expanded into seven markets in Washington, […] [Read More]

Dominion DMS president Sharon Kitzman joins the show to talk about the company's VUE DMS, findings from the 2021 DMS Dealer Sentiment Survey and much more. Earlier this month, the company released results of its 2021 DMS Dealer Sentiment Survey, a commissioned independent study involving 220 DMS decisionmakers from dealerships to determine attitudes toward their […] [Read More]

Sam Samarghandi is a buyer at Nexcar in Houston. Samarghandi described how he’s benefitted from high-resolution, optimized 3D images generated by Fyusion and available through Manheim Express. Samarghandi shared his perspectives through a news release from Fyusion, which announced it has surpassed 1 million 3D vehicle images created for Manheim Express, a digital app for […] [Read More]

TradePending, which provides vehicle valuation and merchandising software to car dealerships, has named a chief financial officer and a director of product. Hired for the CFO post is Tom Parker, who previously held the same position at Agility Recovery. His experience also includes time at Dun & Bradstreet, Global Compliance, CT Corporation and Kroll. Meanwhile, […] [Read More]

Shift recently created the position of chief accounting officer and filled it with an executive familiar to chief financial officer Oded Shein. The auto ecommerce platform announced on Thursday that Jason Curtis has been appointed as chief accounting officer in a move that was effective on June 1. In this role, Shift said Curtis will […] [Read More]

Volkswagen dealerships have another option when working with their service-drive customers who encounter repair costs higher than they expected and cannot pay with available cash. As a result, participating stores collectively already are seeing millions in additional service revenue. On Wednesday, Sunbit, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology for everyday needs and services, announced it has […] [Read More]

It’s been an active month for Automotive Ventures. Two weeks ago, chief executive officer and founder Steve Greenfield announced the final closing of the firm’s inaugural venture fund. Then according to a news release distributed on Wednesday, Automotive Ventures’ name surfaced again as it was involved with Lender Compliance Technologies (LCT) — a company that […] [Read More]