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Dealers and dealership personnel named 71 companies in 35 categories as their favorites in the 2019 Dealers’ Choice Awards.
Enrollment is now open for classes held at The ACE Group’s new automotive training facility at the company’s Kansas City-area headquarters.
The results of Kerrigan Advisors’ first annual dealer survey show Subaru and Toyota franchisees lead the industry in believing their dealerships will increase in value, outpacing all other brands — including highlines.
Auto/Mate has integrated its dealership management system with Servisell’s sales and service conversion system.
Xtime announced the integration of CenPOS’s payment solution with Xtime’s Spectrum platform, offering a new payment option to dealership service customers.
The U.S. PIRG Education Fund issued a damning report after finding one in every nine used vehicles for sale at 28 AutoNation-owned locations in 12 states is subject to an open recall.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed AB 179, enacting new dealer protections against below-market warranty reimbursement rates and OEM-ordered facility upgrades. The bill also allows dealers to issue recall notices without violating new data privacy rules.
Auto dealers are using the smartphones in nearly every customer’s pocket to capture and retain service business with a friendly and familiar interface: dealer-branded apps.
GoMoto and VenueVision have partnered for an integration and reseller campaign that will bring GoMoto-built self-service kiosks to more Canadian auto dealers.
Former Epicor division head Scott Thompson has joined CDK Global as senior vice president and business leader for CRM and layered applications.
A federal grand jury has charged a Kentucky dealer and two alleged accomplices with defrauding a manufacturer — thought to be Toyota — of more than $4 million by running 350 used pickups through a consumer buyback program.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says BMW Cleveland violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act when it terminated two older salesmen and failed to rehire a former service manager.
Hyundai North America has sued a Pennsylvania dealer for fraud, claiming he bilked the automaker for $5 million by buying up hundreds of used Sonatas and purposely damaging their engines beyond repair.
An enhanced integration with iRecon will allow dealers using vAuto Provision to manage inventories and reconditioning at the same time, an ‘end-to-end’ process billed as the industry’s first.
Once treated as classified information, factory parts data is now shared freely. Opportunistic franchised dealers are seizing the opportunity by selling unneeded inventory to independent repair shops.
