The Dealertrack Credit Availability Index improved to 95.4 in January, a 2.9% year-over-year improvement driven in part by a 100-basis-point market share gain for subprime borrowers. +
NADA analysts say U.S. dealers were on track to sell 15.6 million new units in 2025 at the end of January, a fifth straight year-over-year increase but a minor letdown following a strong December. +
TransUnion now offers a creditworthiness score based on the applicant’s banking activities, potentially adding options for car buyers without access to “mainstream” credit. +
The Oklahoma Insurance Department accused Select Auto Protect of selling vehicle service contracts without a license following an investigation spurred by consumer complaints. +
A memo sent to Nissan dealers and reviewed by Automotive News’s Urvaksh Karkaria suggests the automaker has launched an aggressive new tiered sales bonus program. +
President Donald Trump levied new tariffs of 25% on goods imported from Canada and Mexico and 10% on imports from China with no exemptions for vehicles or auto parts. +
Analysts say econtracting adoption has slowed for consecutive quarters but improved dramatically compared with the fourth quarter of 2023. +
WardsAuto’s Alysha Webb offers tips dealers can use to counter an expected shortfall of more than 1 million off-lease units and help prevent future shortages. +
A new partnership that pairs Reynolds and Reynolds’s DMS with Sunbit’s prescreening technology was designed to allow dealers to deliver automated financing offers to service customers. +
In a survey of 3,900 U.S. franchised dealers, Presidio Group analysts found gross profit per vehicle fell in 2024 while new vehicle sales, F&I income and total revenue improved. +
