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Digital Tools Improved New-Car Buyers Process in 2024
New-vehicle buyers reported a record 75 percent satisfaction rate with the overall shopping experience, the highest ever record in the 15 year history of Cox Automotive’s 2024 Car Buyer Journey (CBJ) Study. According to analysis, the surge is attributed to...
Best Practices to Ensure Retailers Are Securing Digital Deal Jackets
In today’s digital age, the automotive industry has embraced many technological advancements to streamline operations and enhance customer experiences. Among these, the digitalization of Deal Jackets—the comprehensive records that encapsulate every aspect of a vehicle...
Gentex Unites the Connected Car and the Smart Home with the Next Generation of HomeLink
Gentex Corporation unveiled the newest version of its HomeLink car-to-home automation system at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The latest HomeLink will be compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, operate a broad range of smart home products from leading brands such as...
U.S. Has Reached Peak Truck: Dave Cantin Group’s 2025 Market Outlook Report
The U.S. auto industry has reached peak truck, electric vehicles are here to stay, Korean brands are outpacing competitors, and technology is reigniting customer excitement and dealer profitability. Those are some of the forecasts from the latest Dave Cantin Group...
NADA 2025: automotiveMastermind introduces new generative AI talk tracks for dealerships
automotiveMastermind, has launched new enhancements around Actionable Intelligence with Mastermind CoPilot, a generative AI-enabled sales talk track generator built on Mastermind's extensive data and predictive analytics. Mastermind CoPilot provides dealership sales...
NADA 2025: RecovR, KEYper Systems Team Up to Modernize Dealership Key Management
Kudelski IoT and KEYper Systems recently announced a strategic collaboration to transform key management for car dealerships. The partnership brings together the secure key storage and checkout solutions of KEYper Systems with the advanced, real-time dealership-wide...
NADA 2025: FordDirect, Cox Automotive Strengthen Their Smart VINCENT Integration Partnership
VinSolutions announced it has strengthened its partnership with FordDirect through a new integration with Smart VINCENT. This new integration benefits Ford Dealers and Lincoln Retailers currently enrolled in the CRM Data Edge program, by simplifying and expediting the...
NADA 2025: Repair OnDemand Announces Data Integration With Cox’s vAuto
Repair OnDemand announced a data integration with Cox Automotive’s vAuto platform to provide benefits for mutual dealer customers of both Repair OnDemand and vAuto. Repair OnDemand’s advanced diagnostic tool, BlueDriver MAX, will now be integrated into the vAuto...
NADA 2025: Conversica Announces New AI Agents For Automotive Dealerships
Conversica announced the introduction of its new AI Agents powered by AnswersIQ for Auto, its proprietary product solution featuring auto inventory capabilities. A leading provider of Conversational AI solutions for enterprise revenue teams, Conversica’s new AI agents...
NADA 2025: Effectv, Clarivoy to Partner to Serve Automotive Advertisers
Two leaders in the television automotive advertising space are partnering to provide better metric information to industry leaders. Effectv, the ad sales division of Comcast Advertising, and Clarivoy, the auto industry’s leading provider of multi-touch sales...
NADA 2025: KeyTrak, TrueSpot Build on Real-Time Location Partnership
KeyTrak is unveiling its next major advancement at the NADA Show 2025, building on its partnership with real-time location services company TrueSpot. KeyTrak systems now allow dealership personnel to locate vehicles and their keys faster from the palm of their hand....
NADA 2025: vAuto Enhances ProfitTime with Centralized Inventory Management
vAuto, a Cox Automotive, Inc. brand, rolled out two new innovative enhancements to ProfitTime GPS and Provision at NADA 2025: Centralized Inventory Management to support dealer group oversight and a new appraisal experience, which help dealers win more trade-ins in a...
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