Recovery Yet to Reach Showrooms
Nonprime auto finance continues to show signs of recovery, but dealers say they will need more than just good feelings to ride out the storm.
June 28, 2010
Nonprime auto finance continues to show signs of recovery, but dealers say they will need more than just good feelings to ride out the storm.
June 28, 2010
The industry shows signs of improvement in July and August, with AmeriCredit reporting a 4Q profit and DealerTrack increasing its number of active finance sources.
September 1, 2009
I was asked at the magazine’s September F&I Conference and Expo when I thought this mess we’re in would turn around. My response was, “Ask me again this time next year.”
November 1, 2008
Have we as an industry forgotten about the fifth component of the lending Cs? You know, character. It’d be a shame if F&I managers lost the ability to call up a buyer or lender rep to fight for their customer. Isn’t that what made this industry fun?
May 1, 2008
Did you catch that news item about “subprime” being voted the Word of the Year? Apparently, the American Dialect Society thought the adjective dominated the attention of the press and the public throughout 2007.
February 1, 2008
I’m sure you’re tired of all the media coverage surrounding the subprime mortgage arena, and all the doom-and-gloom talk floating around. But it’s not going to stop. What’s important is that you read between the lines.
January 1, 2008
Is it me or is just about everyone looking for that one kink in the armor of our business? Yes, blame the subprime-mortgage market all you want, but the reality is that it’s going to be guilt by association from here on out. What’s important now is that we don’t prove those “Chicken Littles” right.
October 1, 2007
Talk about birth by fire. Four days, two shows, about 500 photos and two notebooks crammed with notes. And out of the notes I took during the third-annual F&I Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, the one comment that stood out was the one made by this one brave soul who grabbed the microphone at the conclusion of a panel discussion on compliance and uttered, “I’m afraid to go back to my dealership.”
January 1, 2007