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How high-performing dealers increase trade capture rates

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Don’t Let Potential Inventory Drive Off the Lot: How High-Performing Dealers Increase Trade Capture Rates

The next vehicle your dealership needs to add to its inventory may already be sitting in your service lane or parked in front of your showroom. While wholesale prices rise and margins on acquired inventory shrink, dealers are finding success by focusing on a source that’s close at hand: their own customers. In a recent […]

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How a Dealer Group Lifts its Trade Appraisal/Capture Rate

In this vAuto podcast, Ken Fisher, West Coast director of inventory optimization for the Holman Automotive Group, shares how he/his team are working to achieve a new KPI: Capture 50 trade-ins for every 100 vehicles they sell. The effort’s helped Ken/team go beyond traditional Look to Book metrics and rely less on auction-purchased vehicles. Find […]

Six Must-Do's for a Smarter, Faster Sourcing Strategy This Year

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Six Must-Do’s for a Smarter, Faster Sourcing Strategy This Year

Summary Affordability pressures are pushing more shoppers toward used vehicles, and trade‑in volume continues to swing week to week. Dealers can’t rely on instinct alone. To stay competitive this year, you need a sourcing strategy that helps you buy smarter, move faster, and consistently protect your margins. The top performers aren’t guessing. They’re leveraging better data, broader visibility, and tighter evaluation workflows to stay stocked with the right […]

Driving Dealer Success: AI-Powered Strategies for Smarter Inventory Management

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Driving Dealer Success: AI-Powered Strategies for Smarter Inventory Management

Artificial intelligence is transforming how dealers manage inventory and stay competitive. In this episode of In the Driver Seat with Automotive News, Derek Henson, SVP of Dealer, Lender, and Inventory Management Solutions at Cox Automotive, explains how dealers are optimizing acquisition strategies across channels and leveraging AI-driven insights to appraise and price vehicles with precision. He shares […]

Optimizing Profitability Across Diverse Acquisition Channels and Rooftops

With more used inventory coming from multiple sourcing channels, dealers now manage a diverse mix of vehicles with varying profit potential. The challenge is aligning sales volume and profitability objectives with the channels where you perform best. In this ASOTU Edge webinar, hosts Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier are joined by Derek Hansen of […]

How vAuto Powers Mohawk Auto Group’s Strategy

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How vAuto Powers Mohawk Auto Group’s Strategy

The team at Mohawk Auto Group uses vAuto to power every stage of their used car strategy – from precise stocking and in-lane sourcing to reconditioning and retail. With tools like ProfitTime® GPS and iRecon fully integrated, their team moves faster, prices more competitively and stays aligned on high-value decisions. And, with their Mohawk Exchange […]

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Transforming Vehicle Appraisals: How AI and vAuto Drive Transparency and Accuracy

In this Fixed Ops Roundtable segment, Patrick Janes joins Ted Ings and Sarah Vantine to explore how dealerships can bring AI into their appraising process to minimize variances and speed up vehicle condition assessments and customer offers. Janes shares how vAuto’s AI-powered data and solutions, including integration with AI imaging technology, helps dealers acquire more […]

How York Automotive Establishes, Executes its Used Vehicle Inventory Strategy

Pointers to Determine the “Right Money” with Every Appraisal

In this vAuto podcast, Patrick Janes and Micah Tindor discuss common appraisal process variances and customer disconnects that can result in missed opportunities to acquire a vehicle or appraisers putting the wrong money on the right car. They detail appraisal process steps where the “right” money often goes wrong. Plus, they share how dealers can […]

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How vAuto Helps Dealers Navigate the New Landscape of Used Vehicle Sourcing

If there’s one thing that’s top of mind for almost every dealer, it’s the pressure they face and feel around used vehicle sourcing. Every dealer’s aware that, thanks to the disruption the COVID-19 pandemic created for new vehicle production in recent years, the supply of available used vehicles is constrained. Further, retail demand for used […]