EFG Companies issued its 2018 predictions and recommendations for the retail automotive and powersports F&I markets this week. These insights reflect another year of cautiousness as well as opportunity for dealers to navigate an uncertain business climate.
While the digital application channel generated significantly higher levels of overall satisfaction in J.D. Power’s 2017 U.S. Consumer Financing Satisfaction Study, many consumers are waiting longer for a credit decision than those utilizing dealer representatives.
Launched in 2016, AutoGravity rapidly expanded from 100,000 users in its first six months to more than one million users less than a year later, according to officials. In 2017 alone, car shoppers have request more than $1 billion in vehicle financing through the fintech firm’s car-buying app.
The new platform gives users of Pearl’s VehicleXchange incentive-based marketing solution the ability to know which consumers are new or pre-owned buyers, and can target by propensity, APR, payment amount, term and credit score, and more.
A new survey from Roadster shows that when it comes to millennials, the car business ranks just behind 'politician' and 'tax collector' as occupations they'd like to avoid.
Fair’s latest funding round was led by BMW iVentures and includes investments from Penske Automotive Group and other investors. The startup also raised nearly $1 billion in debt funding from a group of investment banks and a Sherpa Capital-led entity.
‘Like I See It’ has already achieved best-seller status based on preorder sales. The book devotes chapters to margin compression, increased OEM control and financial reliance of their dealer partners, technology disruption and consumer preferences for digital retailing.
The fintech firm named Chuck Schofield vice president of dealer sales. The new executive previously served as a regional senior manager for Mercedes–Benz Financial Services. He now joins AutoGravity cofounder Aleks Bogoeski in expanding the firm's dealer network development program.
Fastlane offers dealers an Amazon-like checkout process for consumers who want to buy their car online. It has chosen Market Scan to provide its ecommerce platform with real-time payment and rebate information from every car manufacturer, bank and credit union in the country.
ICC’s Command Center software enables CU Direct to more easily manage the 2.5 million vehicles in dealer partner inventory on the AutoSMART platform and shopping site.
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