This Month's Focus
Turbocharged Finance
Arvest Bank sees early successes with FICO Auto Score 10
COMMENTARY: The secret to accelerating funding in indirect auto lending
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Bob McConkey of McConkey Auction Group
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive
We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of ... Listen Here
Bankruptcy filings rise 17% at 2023 midpoint
BHPH Report Staff
Buy-here, pay-here dealers might be seeing vehicle shoppers fresh off a bankruptcy filing if they haven’t already. According to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, there were 217,420 total bankruptcy filings during the first six months of 2023, representing a 17% ... [Read More]
Byrider broadens footprint in Kentucky
BHPH Report Staff
One of Byrider’s franchisees started the second half of the year by expanding its footprint in Kentucky. Byrider announced this week that franchise ownership group Garber Ventures opened a location in Elizabethtown, Ky., representing Byrider’s seventh location in the Blue ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Tales from the BHPH trail with Gene Daughtry
BHPH Report Staff
Gene Daughtry’s travels take him from Texas to Connecticut and elsewhere, examining buy-here, pay-here dealership operations and offering recommendations to sharpen collections, reconditioning and other business segments. The senior consultant with AMS Consulting was in Las Vegas last month for ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Checkup on BHPH operator financial health with Agora Data’s Steve Burke
BHPH Report Staff
For the second time this year, Cherokee Media Group’s Nick Zulovich had the opportunity for an in-person conversation with Agora Data’s Steve Burke on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Connecting at NIADA’s annual convention in Las Vegas, Burke described how dealership ... [Read More]
BHPH dealers see challenges & opportunities in their numbers
Andrew Friedlander, Associate Editor
The buy-here, pay-here business is all about numbers — especially when times are tight. So with the economy wavering and uncertainty all around, a panel of successful BHPH dealers talked about numbers in a session at last week’s NIADA Convention ... [Read More]
4 key features of new NextGear Capital mobile app
BHPH Report Staff
For independent dealers who want to work with NextGear Capital, there’s now an app for that. The company announced on Thursday that it has developed a mobile app for its account portal with plans to unveil it at the National ... [Read More]
Alan Ram’s Proactive Training Solutions unveils program aimed at independent dealers
BHPH Report Staff
Alan Ram’s Proactive Training Solutions is poised to launch a newly updated sales training course tailored for independent dealers. Dubbed, “Accelerate U,” the firm highlighted the new program is designed to help dealers leverage all their leads and create proactive ... [Read More]
Ignite experts react to FTC’s look at spot deliveries
BHPH Report Staff
On the last day of May, the Federal Trade Commission acknowledged it received a petition to regulate spot deliveries by dealerships and auto finance companies. The experts at Ignite Consulting Partners offered their reaction to this effort championed by six ... [Read More]
May bankruptcy filings soar 23% higher year-over-year
BHPH Report Staff
Bankruptcy filings continue to increase from the reduced volumes experienced during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the primary finding according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, which said total bankruptcy filings in May spiked 23% year-over-year from ... [Read More]
NIADA adds Solera as new National Corporate Partner
BHPH Report Staff
Solera closed May with a notable move, becoming a National Corporate Partner of the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. “NIADA has been a vital advocate for independent used car dealers for several decades,” Solera senior director of inside sales Karen ... [Read More]
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