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Auto Dealer Extravaganza Shows Customer Is King
Drive sales, streamline operations and increase service retention.
By Sunil Marolia • July 3, 2018 -
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Russian Auto Dealers, European Automakers Sign Pact
The memorandum of understanding signed by the Association of European Businesses and the Russian Automobile Dealers Assn. has the two groups developing good practices for each of their operations and combining them in a single document.
By Alan Harman • July 3, 2018 -
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Automakers are evaluating their long-term strategies, revisiting their product mix, and approach to both retail and manufacturing approach along the way.
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’19 Chevy Silverado Sees Pricing Drop on Volume Model
The nameplate’s volume LT model sees its suggested retail price drop $700 to $40,795 for the 2-wheel-drive crew cab/short box.
By James M. Amend • June 29, 2018 -
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Automakers Face Challenges from Popular Used Vehicles
Because the off-lease mix includes plenty of utility vehicles and pickups, many customers are opting to purchase them rather than their new counterparts.
By Steven Finlay • June 28, 2018 -
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Automotive Study Shows Costs of Saying ‘No’ to Callers
“We try to understand what happens on each call,” says Marchex’s Matt Muilenburg.
By Steven Finlay • June 28, 2018 -
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Seven Trends Altering the Auto-Dealership Landscape
On the surface, these trends challenge dealers. But in every challenge lies an opportunity.
By Scot Eisenfelder • June 27, 2018 -
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Auto Dealers Should Do These Five Transformative Things
Frank Ferrara offers new-age advice during a presentation entitled “The Dealership as the Neighborhood Mobility Center.”
By Steven Finlay • June 26, 2018 -
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Auto Dealership Group Ready for Customers on All Fronts
“We just want to make sure wherever the customer wants to be, that’s where we are.” says Gee Automotive President Jeff Jackson.
By Tom Beaman • June 21, 2018 -
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Manheim Opens Silicon Valley Recon Center
The facility will provide services to dealers, commercial consignors, manufacturers and mobility providers in the evolving automotive sector.
By Steven Finlay • June 19, 2018 -
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Car Dealership e-Contracting Arrives After All These Years
Reynolds & Reynolds consummated its first digital car deal – including credit approval and the myriad mandatory documentation necessary to buy a car – with Mercedes-Benz Financial. It took seven minutes.
By Steven Finlay • June 18, 2018 -
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FBI Tells How Car Dealers Can Fight Cyber ‘Bad Guys’
“Dealerships are in control of some important data and protecting that data is critical to both themselves and their customers,” says FBI Special Agent Edward Parmelee.
By Tom Beaman • June 15, 2018 -
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Autonomous-Tech Suppliers Want Regulation, Clearer Marketing
Rules and standards are needed for making safer autonomous vehicles, while marketing can be a hindrance to their safe operation, say panelists.
June 14, 2018 -
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Auto Financing Changed Industry and Society
For better and worse, car loans have come a long way in the past 100 years.
By Steven Finlay • June 13, 2018 -
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Volvo Cars Retools Marketing, Will Skip Geneva Show
“The ongoing change in the car industry is creating new audiences for Volvo Cars and new ways of bringing products to the market,” says Björn Annwall, vice president-strategy, brand and retail. “Automatic attendance at traditional industry events is no longer viable.”
By Alan Harman • June 11, 2018 -
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Survey Says Auto Dealership Customers See Value in Service Contracts
“Vehicle service contracts can be extremely valuable to drivers, especially since there are so many reasons out of the driver’s control that cause them to go into effect,” says Protective Asset Protection’s Rick Kurtz.
By Steven Finlay • June 11, 2018 -
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Car Dealership Online Vehicle Trade-In Calculators No Longer Novelties
Some auto dealers still look sideways when it comes to the do-it-yourself vehicle-valuation technology for consumers, but customers have come to expect it.
By Steven Finlay • June 7, 2018 -
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Frederic Lissalde Named BorgWarner President, CEO
Frederic Lissalde’s appointment is effective Aug. 1, the same day James R. Verrier will step down as president and chief executive.
June 7, 2018 -
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Best States to Open a Dealership
The ranking is based on yearly average sales, weekly employee earnings and initial costs associated with licensing and bonding.
By Todd Bryant • June 6, 2018 -
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New School Expects to Meet Demand for Qualified Vehicle Techs
“As we hear every day from our employer partners, there is a clear, significant and unmet demand for trained automotive and diesel technicians,” says UTI’s Steve McElfresh.
By Steven Finlay • June 5, 2018 -
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Time Is of Essence in Dealership F&I Offices
One way to streamline sessions in the F&I office is to electronically provide the business manager with data garnered from a car shopper’s digital activities.
By Steven Finlay • May 16, 2018 -
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Boutique Car Dealerships Coming Soon?
“In the future we may see dealerships with smaller footprints,” says Jim Hoostal of Interbrand.
By Steven Finlay • May 10, 2018 -
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Auto Consumers Like Leather, From Basic Black to Screaming Green
Katzkin CEO Tim Clyde acknowledges he personally “wouldn’t necessarily” go for an entire seat swathed in, say, electric lime. “But touches of it look distinctive.”
By Steven Finlay • May 7, 2018 -
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New App Lets Car Dealers Create Fast, Content-Rich Listings
By shooting a series of walk-around photos, Manheim Express users can post a vehicle in 360-degree imagery.
By Steve Finlay • May 2, 2018 -
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Company Goes from Cookies (the Edible Ones) to Computer Technology
In a Q&A with WardsAuto, Bill Wittenmyer of ELEAD1ONE discusses how far he thinks online car buying will go; talks about the irony of customers supposedly disdaining price negotiating; and polishes his crystal ball for a few predictions on car dealerships of the future.
By Steve Finlay • May 2, 2018 -
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Waves of Off-Lease Vehicles Keep Coming, But Now They’re Different
As batches of formerly leased CUVs, SUVs and pickups descend on the used-vehicle market, they will threaten new-car segments, says Cox Automotive’s senior economist.
By Steve Finlay • April 27, 2018
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