Sales were up for the third straight year and the number of cars up for sale at auto auctions reached a five-year high, according to the National Auto Auction Association’s 2025 NAAA Market Intelligence Report released Monday. There were more than 8 million vehicles sold through NAAA-member auctions last year, beating 2024 figures by 3%. […] [Read More]

Independent Auction Group executive director Dave Blake was named the winner of the Award for Industry Excellence as Cox Automotive presented its 17th annual Independent Auction Awards at an awards dinner in conjunction with the Automotive Remarketing Alliance’s and National Auto Auction Association’s 2026 Spring Remarketing Exchange in Dallas. Blake was honored as “a respected […] [Read More]

No doubt, plenty of fraudulent activity is happening in automotive nowadays. Exposure is likely to surpass $10 billion this year, according to estimates from Point Predictive. For example, fraudsters are generating invalid employment and income documents, or they’re creating synthetic IDs to be granted credit. But fraudsters are now increasingly targeting the vehicles themselves and […] [Read More]

The growth that spurred the best year for auction sales since 2019 hasn’t taken a break. Thanks to another lift in commercial sales, overall wholesale vehicle sales at auction improved again last month. And that includes a big bump in off-rental vehicles hitting the market. According to the latest AuctionNet data from the National Auto […] [Read More]

ACV is not in the auction business. Or even in the wholesale business. Nor is it in the finance or transport business. Oh, sure, it does all those things. But during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call, CEO George Chamoun affirmed the company’s overarching purpose. “When you think about our differentiator, we’re not only in […] [Read More]

America’s Group has announced a second acquisition in less than a week and added yet another state to its footprint. After making its Iowa debut with the purchase of Plaza Auto Auction, America’s Group said Monday it has acquired Dealers Auto Auction of the Southwest, its first location in Arizona. The auction was founded in […] [Read More]

The wholesale vehicle market has made a strong start to 2026, with industry indices pointing to several indicators of market health in the first two months of the year. Starting with Black Book, its monthly Used Vehicle Retention Index for February was down 1.0% from a year ago but climbed 2.3% month-over-month as the “seasonal […] [Read More]