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OCTOBER 21, 2024

While some dealerships are happy sending their used car manager to the auction, others who aren’t satisfied with that approach need to get a little scrappy and think outside the box. Finding a good used car buyer is one of the biggest hurdles dealers face when trying to explore alternative acquisition channels.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

When using a private-party management software, dealers see up to an 84% reduction in acquisition costs and two to three times total purchases per month. Bryan Bough, used car manager at one of the largest auto groups in Boise, Idaho, recently said to us: “If you’re not buying cars from the public, you’re making a huge mistake.

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APRIL 10, 2025

When you think car business, you immediately picture a salesperson. We put all our energy into selling and almost nothing into buying cars. Used cars generate 33% of a dealerships revenue, not even counting service. Vehicle acquisition management software is changing the game. But weve got it backwards.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We talked with their used car manager, Bryan Bough, about their private-party buying program. They didnt just tweak their existing process; they completely reinvented how they acquire used cars. Higher Margins: The dealership earned an average of $7,000 per car by combining front-end sales, financing and service revenue.

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JULY 3, 2024

In response to the recent security breach crippling CDK Global customers, ABCoA, a trusted provider of dealership management software (DMS) since 1983, is extending a helping hand to automotive dealerships nationwide. Decades of Experience: ABCoA has been providing dealership management software to automobile dealers since 1983.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

While dealerships focus on reconditioning used cars, the efficiency of the PDI process for new cars is equally vital. When cars spend less time in the PDI phase, they can be delivered to customers faster, reducing inventory holding costs and improving overall dealership profitability. Here’s how: 1.

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Solera

AUGUST 8, 2023

Industry Trends in 2023 While the used car boom that sent prices sky high may be winding down, there is still a large demand for quality used vehicles. Here are some ways they do just that. Be sure to offer choices for those with everything from excellent to below-average credit. The more choices your customer has, the better.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The latest book from Rapid Recon founder Dennis McGinn, “ASPIRE to Predictable,” outlines ways the dealership reconditioning software company brings predictability to a general manager’s day. This problem has been – and continues to be — a challenge for used car profitability, particularly regarding mechanical repairs.

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Auto Remarketing

JUNE 3, 2024

Used-car sales have surged since the end of 2023 thanks to trends that offer long-term opportunities for dealers, according to a new eBook from marketing and data software firm ZeroSum. The report, “Driving Profits: The Importance of Data-Driven Decisions in the Used Car Market”, showed used-car movement is up 16.6%

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Tomorrow's Technician

JUNE 27, 2024

Although the dust has settled on the VW Diesel gate scandal, the story is still not over for diesel cars that were bought back by VW. You may have noticed that there are a lot of 2009-2015 diesel Jettas, Bugs and Golfs hitting used car lots. If you have the correct scan tool software, you can actuate the valve to test operation.

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JUNE 6, 2024

If you want to manage inventory holding costs and bolster your earnings per share, consider how your used car reconditioning operates. Cars get sale-ready within three to five days of acquisition. You’re buying the wrong cars if this isn’t consistently happening. When recon is run well, it is dialed in and efficient.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Dealers today enjoy more predictable used car results because they leverage strategic reconditioning software’s robust efficiency metrics called time-to-line or T2L, a process we introduced to the market in 2010. The profitability of used cars has been, until now, primarily determined by demand and availability.

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JULY 17, 2024

Inter-departmental cooperation is more importance than ever, so here we provide actionable strategies for improving communication and efficiency, and highlight the benefits of using reconditioning software designed from a fixed ops perspective.

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MARCH 17, 2025

The software itself and the platform truly make it a one-stop shop. Giron says the dealerships used car manager can view the videos and pictures on his phone to check the work thats being done to recon cars, allowing him to effortlessly approve a vehicle for use.

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JUNE 3, 2024

This enhancement introduces new solutions focused on Used Car Pricing, Service Management, and New Car Sales Negotiation, further empowering dealerships to optimize their operations and profitability.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The software suite includes a user-friendly dashboard that offers analysis and reporting across key dealership areas including digital marketing, inventory retailing, lead handling, sales performance and finance performance. .”

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This profit per vehicle strategy couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Jared Ricart, president of the Ricart Automotive Group, whose used car operation sells 600 to 800 used cars monthly. Increase profits from parts, customer-pay services, and used cars. Eliminate chargebacks to sales.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

After pouring countless amounts of energy into the never-pretty process of getting used cars through the shop faster and on the lot for sale — then what? It’s common knowledge that the real rewards and internal gains only come when the car finds its new owner.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Rapid Recon has announced in a press release a new complimentary feature for users of the company’s T2L used car reconditioning workflow software. Custom Forms is designed to help auto dealers personalize, customize and digitize the many forms used in fixed and variable operations.

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MAY 4, 2024

New VIN-scan tools that integrate with reconditioning software can provide deep, rich mechanical systems data and accurate reconditioning parts and labor costs for the vehicle make, model and year. This is critical information to have in hand when used by any dealer — and especially by public groups — seeking to bolster earnings per share.

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Meister Werks European & Import

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

When purchasing a used car from either the dealership or used car lot, they may offer you a warranty for an additional fee. Most used cars are ‘As Is’ with no warranty. If you don’t need to use the money, just let it keep growing. A used car will eventually need a large repair.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency accused Volkswagen of equipping its diesel vehicles with software designed to manipulate emissions tests, and while litigation was pending, Volkswagen dealers had to issue a stop sale on all their TDI vehicles. One of the main reasons we had pursued [Volkswagen] was because of the TDI,” Church says. “You

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