The dealer group realized its 17th consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year growth in earnings per share, with net income from continuing operations reaching a record $117 million in the end-of-year quarter.
Read More →GM Financial officials said Ally shouldn’t be surprised by GM’s decision to internalize its lease program. The company ended the year with a 50% share of GM’s lease business.
Read More →January’s total new-vehicle sales increased 13.7% from a year ago to 1.51 million units, according to Autodata Corp. January’s seasonally adjusted annual rate was 16.66 million, a slight dip from the 16.92 million SAAR recorded in December.
Read More →Rep. Ken Ivory (R-Utah) has introduced legislation that would send the sales-tax revenue from car sales to the hometown of the car buyer, instead of the city where the dealership is located.
Read More →The owner and operator of a Pennsylvania dealership has been accused of taking money from at least 40 customers and not submitting title and registration paperwork and fees to the state’s Department of Transportation.
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Jeffrey Brown, who headed up Ally’s dealer-financial services business, will succeed Michael Carpenter, who is retiring from his post and from the company’s board after five years.
Read More →Vehicle depreciation is expected to increase in 2015 as a larger used-car supply and off-lease volumes place pressure on retention rates, according to a report from Black Book and Fitch Ratings.
Read More →IHS Automotive is predicting an increase of 2.4% in global automotive sales in 2015, continuing an unbroken five-year run of growth and sales recovery from the Great Recession.
Read More →The research firm attributed the 2% gain in used-vehicle sales to higher CPO sales and a growing inventory of fresh off-lease vehicles. Even independents felt the trickledown effect of quality used vehicles.
Read More →Flick Fusion added 2015 make and model-year cars to its expanded library of PicMotion new vehicle inventory videos.
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