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5 Key Opportunities for Any Dealer Group

In this vAuto podcast, vAuto’s Senior Director of Customer Program Management, Dan Winchester, addresses five performance improvement opportunities for groups. The opportunities flow from his work advising dealer groups on ways to improve their businesses. The specific opportunities include ways to bring more consistency to appraisals across group rooftops; how to ensure each vehicle retails […]

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Driving Dealer Success: Strategies for Sourcing Inventory in a Shifting Market

In this dynamic panel from the Fixed OPS Roundtable, Micah Tindor and Patrick Janes of Cox Automotive join Ted Ings and Sarah Vantine to explore how dealerships can thrive amid rising tariffs and affordability challenges. Learn how to turn your service drive into a high-value inventory source, align fixed and variable operations, and leverage integrated […]

Quarterly Quick-Takes: A Torrent of Tariff-spurred Sales in Q1 2025

A Better Way to Optimize Your Group Performance

Managing Your New/Used Inventories as Tariffs Turn the Market

Goal-Minded: How McGrath’s is Meeting its 10 Percent Growth Objective

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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 […]

Inside a Dealer’s Playbook: Moving “Brown Banana” Vehicles and More

A Sneak Preview of Dale Pollak’s New Book, Invested

In this vAuto podcast, vAuto founder and Cox Automotive Executive Vice President, Dale Pollak shares a sneak peek of his new book, Invested: The New Science, Strategy and System of Used Vehicle Investment Management. Pollak shares: Why he believes market conditions now require dealers to adopt investment management principles to contend with higher vehicle costs […]