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Navigating Affordability Trends in this Automotive Market

Helping Dealers Navigate Today’s Vehicle Affordability Challenge Few dealers would argue that it’s more difficult than it’s ever been to make new or used vehicle deals with customers due to affordability challenges. With an average price of a new vehicle at nearly $48,000 in 2024, auto loan interest rates at their highest levels in decades […]

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Avoid the Weight of Aging New Cars eBook

The new car side of your business has likely seen big swings in the past several years. You went from losing money on new car sales to selling some cars over MSRP for unprecedented profit. That was fun while it lasted. But now, market conditions are swinging again, causing the issue of new car aging. […]

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Then and Now, Four Ways Inventory Management Has Changed – vAuto

Today’s market is unpredictable—which is why top-performing dealers have dramatically shifted the ways they make critical decisions of what to buy, how much to pay and how best to retail or wholesale used vehicles. Learn how those dealers are using new strategies fueled by market-based insights to reshape their appraisal, pricing, merchandising and stocking decision-making […]

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Reflecting on Cars and Mobility Moments

On our way home from dinner the other night in Austin, TX, my son, Samson, and I did a double take as we stopped at a red light along Cesar Chavez Street. A car pulled up alongside us that made us both wonder: Are flying cars next? The odd vehicle sighting, which I’ll explain more […]

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Can We Stop the “Chase” in Our Used Vehicle Pricing?

As I talk to dealers week after week about their aged and distressed inventory, it doesn’t take long to uncover a distinct pattern: Someone is pretending the vehicle deserves a shot to make gross despite all signs suggesting otherwise. I see the pattern in the inventories of ProfitTime GPS dealers, where the system recommends a […]

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Hello Auto Group and vAuto Performance Manager Testimonial | vAuto by Cox Automotive

If you ask a dealer what they like best about vAuto, it’s not just the software. It’s the dedicated Performance Manager who helps them run their business better. That’s the story at California-based Hello Auto Group, where managing partner Ellen Schmidt and vAuto Performance Manager Steve Rost share a relationship that’s built on mutual support […]

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Keeping An Eye Out for Opportunity and Showing Compassion

If you haven’t read former dealer Todd Caputo’s post on how the confluence of Hurricane Helene, the longshoreman strike (which, thankfully has been tentatively resolved), the escalating conflict in the Middle East and the upcoming presidential election may affect the car business, I’d encourage you to do so. Caputo offers a thoughtful, prescriptive take on […]