March/April 2006 Silver Still the Vehicle Color of Choice For the fifth consecutive year, silver is the most popular color for passenger cars in North America. The annual survey by automotive finish producer PPG Industries indicates a slow shift in second choices, however.
March/April 2006 Matching Vehicle and Buyer for Maximum Returns To obtain maximum return when remarketing vehicles, fleet managers should use a remarketing service, which helps eliminate hidden losses associated with continued depreciation and tracks the status of the used-vehicle market.
March/April 2006 How to Tell Whether a Car Has Been Flood Damaged While flooding can happen almost anywhere at almost any time, because of the storms that hit the Eastern U.S. in the fall of 2005, there is a chance that unscrupulous parties will attempt to sell cars that have been under water.
October/November 2004 Data Mining & Intelligent Systems in the Near Future As consignors become more comfortable with technology, they will hone their own requirements for doing business online, thereby necessitating system modifications to meet those demands.
January/February 2004 The Next Generation of Remarketing Will Combine the ‘Old’ With the ‘New’ The best the existing system, such as auctions, dealers, lessors, factories, and other remarketers, will be combined with new thinking, new technologies, the Internet, and new people from both within and outside the auto industry.
January/February 2004 What Can Remarketers Do to Guard Against VIN Cloning? VIN cloning is the latest theft technique to impact the automotive business. Thieves remove VIN plates from auto parts yards to give stolen vehicles a new identity.
January/February 2004 Leverage Technology to Drive Down Repossession Costs A new Web-based program, LiveRepos.com, allows financial institutions to track repossessed vehicles online from assignment to auction, while measuring agent performance.
January/February 2004 New Survey Reveals Continued Growth of Upstream Remarketing Senior-level remarketing managers from 25 banks, captive finance units, and fleet lessors were surveyed. Captive lenders report that upstream channels reduced turn time on vehicles by an average of more than 20 days.
January/February 2004 Mistakes Remarketers Make in Marketing Sales The objective is to increase auction attendance and enhance overall portfolio sales value. However, many remarketers commit one of four common errors in marketing sales.
January/February 2004 How Effective Are Your Remarketing Results? You know how you are performing benchmarked against your history, but how do you measure up against a national market benchmark? Are you missing opportunities to generate incremental dollars?
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