Auto Service World

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Steering through the world of second-hand vehicles can be tricky, especially when finding a dealer you can trust. This, however, can make your car buying journey more challenging. Transparency: Trustworthy dealers are typically forthcoming with information about their vehicles. So, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff?

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AutoSuccess

JUNE 13, 2025

At risk is the vast amount of sensitive customer data car dealerships handle, including financial details, personally identifiable information (PII) and vehicle telematics. Third-Party Vendor Breaches Dealerships rely on multiple vendors for financing, service management and CRM systems.

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AutoSuccess

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While this is a significant concern, other employees are responsible for internal processes that are equally complex and vital to dealership operations. One such process is the time-consuming vehicle registration and ownership transfer process. This crucial aspect of the sales process requires speed, accuracy and expert knowledge.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore these gaps and discuss why they are crucial to the success of car dealerships in the digital age. The Digital Transformation of Car Dealerships The digital transformation of car dealerships has been nothing short of revolutionary.

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The Mechanic Doctor

MAY 25, 2024

The Mechanic Doctor - Resources for Amateur and Pro Auto Mechanics Are you in the marketplace for new wheels but navigating the labyrinth of financing options? Enter Buy Here Pay Here dealerships , the underdog heroes of automotive international. The third misconception is that buy-here-pay-here dealerships are unregulated entities.

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AutoSuccess

MAY 21, 2024

Among the myriad of industries, car dealerships stand out for their keen adoption of innovative financial practices to sustain profitability. The Cost-Saving Potential For car dealerships, where transactions are typically high-value, the cost savings from adopting these strategies can be substantial.

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Jalopnik

JANUARY 10, 2024

Happy Wednesday! It’s January 10, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 8, 2024

It seems like there’s almost never a time when a car dealership doesn’t do something wrong. From selling a car that a customer brought in for repair to taking a customer’s money and then making them go through hell to get it back, even simply doing what they’re in business to do can turn into fraud.

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Tire Review Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Wholesale Tire boasts a sales mix of 95% tires and 5% vehicle service. Of its tire sales, 90% is retail, with the remaining 10% wholesale to area car dealerships. Wholesale Tire boasts a sales mix of 95% tires and 5% vehicle service. Wholesale Tire offers its customers financing, Wi-Fi, and secure overnight key drop.

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Tire Review Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Wholesale Tire boasts a sales mix of 95% tires and 5% vehicle service. Of its tire sales, 90% is retail, with the remaining 10% wholesale to area car dealerships. Wholesale Tire boasts a sales mix of 95% tires and 5% vehicle service. Wholesale Tire offers its customers financing, Wi-Fi, and secure overnight key drop.

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Auto Remarketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For car dealerships, this translates to websites that mirror the positive online shopping experience customers have elsewhere. A dealership’s website is the battleground for converting digital window shoppers into potential buyers. To succeed, traditional relationships must be supplemented with strong digital engagement.

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AutoSuccess

MARCH 22, 2025

Car makers spend billions of dollars yearly on vehicle design and new model advertising. Slick and visual new-model-year brochures were a car dealerships best point-of-sale desire-builders for many years. The customer mentions the vehicle of interest, and the associate pops it into the DVP on their laptop or smartphone.

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Auto Remarketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Auto dealerships are also embracing new AI tools for enhancing customer service and reshaping how they price their vehicles. In a traditional book value pricing method, auto remarketing dealerships list the base retail value on their website, leaving out factors such as mileage and vehicle condition.

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AutoSuccess

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Car buyers’ trust in dealers is a key indicator of how transparent they perceive the car-buying process — even with access to digital tools to complete key elements of their purchase. Using online soft credit pulls and pre-qualification, car buyers can enter a dealership with a sense of their pricing options.

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Auto Remarketing

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Independent car dealerships had to navigate a number of trends in 2024, from supply constraints to consumers reacting to new economic pressures. No matter what curveballs are around the corner, there are key strategies used-car dealers should consider to consistently boost profitability. Are your local buys aging out?

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Jalopnik

JULY 12, 2024

New vehicle dealer inventory once again climbed in June, with 2.96 million vehicles just sitting on lots. million vehicles a month earlier. It’s also a million more vehicles than where it was at the same time last year – 1.95 That works out to about a 76-day supply, and it’s up from 2.89 Read more.

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AutoSuccess

AUGUST 23, 2024

For car dealerships, this translates to websites that mirror the positive online shopping experience customers have elsewhere. A dealership’s website is the battleground for converting digital window shoppers into potential buyers. To succeed, traditional relationships must be supplemented with strong digital engagement.

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AutoSuccess

JULY 9, 2024

While supply constraints have been a major focus, it’s also important to consider how demand dynamics are influencing the used car market and complicating dealerships’ ability to source inventory effectively. Emphasis on Buying Rather Than Selling In the automotive world, car dealerships and selling are often synonymous.

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Jalopnik

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As it turns out, car dealers seem to know even less than buyers do when it comes to electric vehicles , and they don’t really seem too keen on learning about them. The Washington Post spoke with a number of customers who said dealers tried to redirect them to gas cars or gave them unclear or downright incorrect answers … Read more.

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AutoSuccess

OCTOBER 4, 2024

So, what is the best tech to invest in to revitalize your dealership? Embracing Change In the past, car dealerships were often characterized by a high-energy sales environment dominated by face-to-face interactions. Before I answer that, let’s first discuss where there is room for improvement within the current system.

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Jalopnik

JULY 18, 2024

A Florida dealership is in hot water after failing to deliver a vehicle that a customer purchased for over $200,000. Read more.

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Jalopnik

AUGUST 7, 2024

A Honda dealership in Bowie, Maryland is facing civil charges after it allegedly engaged in “unfair or deceptive trade practices at nearly every stage” of new vehicle sales , according to Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown. Read more.

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Jalopnik

MARCH 23, 2024

A sucker walks into a new car dealership every minute. Dealership showroom floors are practically delivery rooms for freshly-born suckers. There are shiny new cars on the floor, and rapacious young sales professionals just waiting to lure you into something you can’t afford , don’t need, or otherwise shouldn’t own.…

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles are spending nearly three months sitting on dealer lots. Data shows that it took Mercedes dealers an average of 82 days to sell the automaker’s battery-powered EQ models , according to Automotive News. Read more.

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Jalopnik

DECEMBER 14, 2023

New numbers about non-Tesla EV market share and how many dealerships are selling electric vehicles are showing just how much Tesla’s market edge has shrunk in the past few years, according to data compiled by iSeeCars.com. Read more.

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Jalopnik

AUGUST 9, 2024

Right now, electric vehicle sales are hitting a bit of a slowdown. Don’t get me wrong, the market is growing , but it’s not growing as fast as some may have predicted. We know automakers (for the most part) want to build EVs , and we know customers (for the most part) want to buy EVs, but what about the third party… Read more.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The pre-owned car market is still in a weird place. Some segments like electric vehicles have some hefty savings , but most pre-owned cars are still selling for inflated prices. If you happen to come across a used car that seems too good to be true, make sure the dealer can answer these questions. Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 16, 2024

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, July 16, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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Jalopnik

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A lot of car dealers don’t have much interest in selling EVs ; some are politically opposed to the idea on its face, some just don’t want to make the massive investment their brands are demanding to update their stores to EV readiness and some are just philosophically opposed to learning anything about products and… Read more.

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Jalopnik

JANUARY 9, 2024

The VinFast VF8 is a bad car , and with a base price of nearly $50,000, you can’t even make the argument that it doesn’t need to be fancy because it’s cheap. Despite that (and all the negative reviews that came from the press launch), VinFast decided to start selling its cars in the U.S. Or at least attempt to sell… Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 17, 2024

A crew of car thieves hitting dealerships in the Detroit Metro Area made off with a pricy luxury car by blasting through the showroom window last week. The good news? The thieves are potentially down one member; a 14-year-old boy now in police custody. Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 6, 2024

Fisker officially filed for bankruptcy last month, and despite a “going out of business” sale that saw prices of its Ocean EV slashed by thousands , the automaker still has a few thousand leftovers that didn’t sell. Fisker may have found a buyer for all those EVs and, as TechCrunch reports, it’s willing to let them go… Read more.

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AutoSuccess

MARCH 12, 2024

KPA recently announced the results of its 2024 KPA Dealership Trust Survey conducted by The Harris Poll. The survey reveals that about one-third of Americans have experienced things like deceptive selling, hidden fees or dishonest salespeople at car dealerships. 76% don’t trust car dealerships to be honest about pricing.

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AutoSuccess

JANUARY 22, 2025

In the fast-paced market of car dealerships, Conversicas AI Agents powered by AnswersIQ for Auto address complex customer inquiries, differentiating our offering with consistent and accurate answers that provide real-time inventory updates. In March 2020, Conversica launched its first GenAI solution, Answers, partnering with Google.

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Jalopnik

JANUARY 3, 2025

In 2024, car buyers got a very slight respite from the record-high car prices weve seen for almost half a decade now , and it seems like that trend will continue through 2025 thanks to dealers offering more and more cash on the hood of new cars.

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Jalopnik

AUGUST 13, 2024

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, August 13, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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