“It lowers our costs and every car sells. There's no stress. Upside takes care of everything.”
Jim Farkas
Germain Motor Company
Products Used: Upside, Provision, Conquest, iRecon
Growing the business to become a vehicle acquisition center, Jim Farkas needed a defined process for buying cars while staying profitable. They saw the most gains when they started taking in every customer’s car, leveraging the pairing of Kelley Blue Book® Instant Cash Offer and Upside™. They now have an efficient way of acquiring more cars for retail while making extra money on the cars they wholesale.
"Our PM is with us every step of the way."
Ellen Schmidt
Hello Auto Group
“It lowers our costs and every car sells. There's no stress. Upside takes care of everything.”
Jim Farkas
Germain Motor Company
“Upside has single-handedly saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Mike Maheras
Phillips Chevrolet
“Conquest is instrumental in helping me get ahead, stay ahead”
Hatcher Williams
Williams Auto Group
“We used ProfitTime GPS by the book for 100 days. The results were amazing.”
Mike Cirona
Scott Robinson Honda
“If Velocity® was an eye-opener, ProfitTime is a mind-blower.”
James Mason
Steven Toyota
“We were very profitable. Most people would say if it’s not broke don’t fix it. But we said, if it’s great let’s break it and make it better. And ProfitTime did.”
Gary Wexler
Honda of Downtown Chicago
“Our gross profit has gone up over 50% on used cars.”
Paul Caruana
Roberts Toyota
“iRecon allows you to move and pivot very quickly... So, you're not stuck in this linear process - iRecon makes it very fluid. ”
Alex Andreus
Murgado Automotive Group
“We hear the good, the bad and the ugly. [Nick] let’s us know.”
Charles Fancher
Wichita Falls Ford Lincoln Mercury
“Thanks to Provision, I don’t have a job. I have a fun career.”
Bradley Berndt
Auto Haus on Velp
“Now we’re making more money total, because we’re selling more cars.”
Lisa Diskin
Team Toyota
“Conquest helps us turn more vehicles – and a lot faster than our competitors.”
Russ Zakei
Sheehy Volkswagen
“Conquest is the best tool on the market to manage your new car inventory.”
Ryan Seaman
Hansel Toyota
“Conquest is a fantastic hub for everything new car.”
Paul Suchanek
Niello BMW
“Stockwave has helped us generate more gross and make better decisions.”
Trent Waybright
Kelley Automotive Group
“Our profitability has gone through the roof. I can’t imagine going back to the old way.”
Simon Fields
Lexus of Louisville
“Stockwave puts the cars in front of us, saves time, and gets us a better cost of goods.”
Tony Rammer
Auto Kingdom
“I’ve always known how to turn my inventory fast, but with vAuto my turn is even faster than I ever imagined possible.”
Adam Simms
Toyota Sunnyvale
“Conquest has been key to helping me turn — even marketing the car before it gets here.”
Ben Klein
Southwest Kia
“How did we top four generations of success in our used vehicle operations? We applied the power of Provision — the results speak for themselves.”
Justin Hansel
Hansel Auto Group
“We have roughly 700 new cars in stock. I couldn’t imagine handling that many cars without a tool like vAuto’s Conquest.”
Bobby Sims
Central Houston Nissan
“With vAuto’s Provision, our cars attract more customers.”
Tom Kelley
Kelley Automotive Group
“vAuto’s Provision Performance Managers didn’t teach us to run software. They taught us to win.”
Jason Frampton
Ken Garff Automotive Group
“I like numbers because I don’t like surprises. But I sure like the surprise of an extra $600 PVR.”
Jim Blickle
Paragon Honda & Paragon Acura
“It’s nice to have someone to talk strategy along with the software.”
Steve Ivey & Martin Tomayo
TennMotors