Auto Retail News

Car dealer adds quick bays, “buzzers’, from Tire Business. WACO, Texas—Waco Honda dealer Greg May was desperate to serve more service customers, realizing he “had no room left, we had to grow.” The owner of Greg May Honda in Waco sa

The Essential Elements of an Effective Dealership Website, from Speed Shift Media. How effective is your dealership website? As more and more consumers turn to the web during the automotive research process, it has never been more critical to maintai

Mr. Buffett: Want more car dealerships? Become a “car person”…, from Driving Sales. Warren Buffett’s purchase of Van Tuyl Auto Group is an opportunity to raise the bar on diversity in automotive retail… On March 8, the world celebrated Inte

4 Tips to Supercharge Your Buy Here Pay Here Sales Training Program, from NCM Institute. Is your Buy Here, Pay Here (BHPH) sales training lousy? That is the cleaned up version of what I hear from most dealership owners and managers when I ask how the

Why Auto Dealers Fail, But You Don’t Need To, from Dealer Marketing. “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” —Ellen DeGeneres Where to begin with quotes on success and failure? Ellen’s is only one of countless goo

Zig Ziglar said “You have the perfect processes in place to give you exactly what you got last year.” I’m betting most dealers and managers would like to have a more productive and more profitable year this year versus last year. Increase servi

TPMS – Making sure the light comes on when it’s supposed to!, from AutoPro Workshop. “The light wasn’t on when I got here!” Your customer is adamant that the funny looking yellow warning light now brightly illuminated on his instrum

OTC launches industry-first wireless OBDII dongle tire pressure monitoring system device in North America, from Motor Age. OTC has released the industry’s first all-in-one tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) tool with wireless OBDII dongle, acti

Service Scheduling – Meet Shop Watch, from AutoPoint. We’d like to introduce you to the service-scheduling feature within our Shop Watch system, which was recently acquired along with Service Dynamics. Shop Watch is a Service Management System de