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New Franchise Rules Signed into Law by North Carolina Governor
According to Auto Remarketing, new franchise rules signed into law by North Carolina governor. The North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association applauded Gov. Pat McCrory signing several new motor vehicle franchise law provisions into the books last week. The signed...
Top 6 Cars in Class with High Resale Value
The top 6 cars in class with high resale value, from Bankrate. ALG, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based automotive research firm, and Kelley Blue Book, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of new- and used-car information, each year release their residual value awards, which...
Think You Can Sell a Purple Car? Chevrolet Bets You Can!
According to USA Today, Chevrolet comes out with crazy new paint jobs. There's something about the smallest of cars that lend themselves to wild paint jobs. But purple? And pink? When it comes to its two smallest models, Sonic and Spark, Chevrolet is plumbing the...
A $34 Billion Loss and a $295 Billion Opportunity
Annual new car sales have risen steadily since the economic collapse of 2009 when a mere 10.3 million cars were sold. In fact, 2013 is on track to see sales somewhere north of 15 million. While this is wonderful news, these numbers fall way short of sales the previous...
DealerRater Launches New Dealer Panel Account Management Hub for Certified Dealers
DealerRater, the world’s premier car dealer review web site, today announced the launch of a new and freshly designed Dealer Panel account management hub for DealerRater Certified Dealer partners. DealerRater’s Dealer Panel provides Certified Dealers with immediate...
GM Rolls Out New Parts Initiative
According to Search Auto Parts, GM rolls out new parts initiative. General Motors has launched a new parts initiative that will increase inventories of select parts at dealer service departments, and will incentivize parts managers to purchase more parts directly from...
P-F Pull Kits are Fast and Versatile
Portable Pull Kits from Porter-Ferguson make it easy for auto body repair operations to turn a 4-ton or 10-ton jack assembly into a multi-directional pulling assembly. There are two kits: the 4-ton PF0153 Speed Midget® Pull Kit and the 10-ton Hydro-Chief™ Pull Kit....
Incentives You Should Offer to Your Auto Body Shop Website Visitors
Incentives you should offer to your auto body shop website visitors, from Stratosphere Studio. When we talk to auto body shop owners about their digital marketing, a common concern among them is the process of lead acquisition. Because lead acquisition is essential...
Sell the Appointment, Not the Car!
Like everyone else you’re spending thousands of dollars a month to generate “leads.” The problem is that you don’t want the lead. You want the appointment and the test drive. This webinar will focus on how you can turn more of your leads into appointments that...
U.S. Automakers Thrive as Detroit Goes Bankrupt
According to Bloomberg, U.S. automakers thrive as Detroit goes bankrupt. The Motor City was the car capital of the world when David Cole graduated from a Detroit high school in 1955 and headed off to college to study auto engineering. Six decades later, the “motor”...
CFPB Takes Fire
According to F&I and Showroom, CFPB takes fire. It took nearly three years for the auto finance industry’s newest regulator to make its presence felt, and it did so in a big way. On June 27, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered U.S. Bank and its...
Auto Loan Defaults Drop to New Low in June
According to SubPrime Auto Finance News, auto loan defaults drop to a new low in June. The auto loan portion of the latest S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices dropped to the lowest level ever recorded by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian. In June,...
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