Automotive Fleet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Analysis: The actions of the UAW will reverberate through the larger auto business, but nowhere near what was experienced in April 2020. Rental car companies may return to the used car market like they did in 2021 and 2022, driving prices higher. Sales into fleet could suffer in 4Q if a strike is wide and persists.

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Auto Remarketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While the groundhog hasn’t delivered his forecast yet, it seems spring might be on the way in the wholesale car market. Used-vehicle prices were down again as January ended, but the pace of depreciation is decelerating, according to the latest report from Black Book. In turn, that is helping to drive down the cost of used cars.”

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Auto Remarketing

APRIL 10, 2024

First, we need to look at our “short-term gain” decisions we made back in 2020. New cars were at a premium that year, and many dealers decided to “make hay while the sun shines” so, according to NADA, as a result, the new per-vehicle gross profit by 22% nationally. Meanwhile, used-car values are trending down.

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Auto Remarketing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The car-buying public has a message for the used-car industry, and it’s this: We don’t want to pay too much for a vehicle. That message was clearly conveyed in CarGurus’ latest Quarterly Review, which found sales of lower-priced used cars rising and high-end vehicle sales falling. “As

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Auto Remarketing

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Used Car Week is returning to Scottsdale, Ariz., Used Car Week combines six different tracks in an effort to unite all corners of the used-car industry from the auction lanes to the dealer lot to the investment world and beyond. But no one knew yet just how big. You just cannot replace that human connection.

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Auto Remarketing

AUGUST 14, 2024

In sales, supply and demand added up to charging premiums above and beyond the suggested retail price on new models, and a 20% to 30% increase in used car pricing. The national labor rate, according to NADA Year End 2020, was $120 an hour; by year-end 2023, it was $173. In service, it meant bumping up the labor rate.

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Auto Remarketing

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The wholesale used-vehicle market ended the third quarter with some stability, but the duration of that steadiness likely hinges on how the United Auto Workers strike unfolds. As one analyst put it, the used-car market has reached a “crossroads.” Black Book’s Used Vehicle Retention Index for September came in at 159.3,

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Auto Remarketing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

My view is inventory levels, at least for a not too extended strike, are probably adequate to keep things going on the new-car front. On the used-car front, it’s a positive because for the very same reasons that I said the chip shortage was a positive used-car values, but maybe led to exorbitantly high values for a period of time. “To

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Auto Remarketing

AUGUST 7, 2024

Starting with Black Book, its Used Vehicle Retention Index came in at 145.0 higher than the final pre-pandemic reading March 2020, however. “In for July, which was down 1.1% month-over-month and off 15.2% from July 2023.

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Auto Remarketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Even as electric cars gained traction, the plug-in hybrid segment remained under-sung. The overall average drop for 2020 EV models hit 29% in November 2023, unprecedented depreciation in a remarkably short period. The second takeaway is used EVs don’t maintain their value nearly as well.

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AutoSuccess

MARCH 19, 2024

At 33, the profitability index fell to its second-lowest score ever, behind only Q2 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in the second half of 2022, the index has dropped significantly and, in Q1 2024, hit 41 – the lowest point in the survey’s history excluding Q2 2020. “The vehicle market in the U.S.

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Auto Remarketing

JULY 23, 2024

Perhaps of most interest to used-car managers, Edmunds said that its data through June showed 51% of all Teslas traded in to a dealership went toward a purchase or lease of a new ICE vehicle. That’s the lowest reading in Edmunds’ data set that went back to 2019. It does not include direct-to-consumer sales.

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