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NAAA Expects Auction Volumes to Set Record

By Ted Craig

Auction volumes are on pace to set a new record this year, although a second quarter slowdown creates some concerns.

National Auto Auction Association chief economist Ira Silver said the auctions are set to run 9.7 million units in 2016.

That tops the old record of 9.6 million units set in 2004.

The record won’t stand for long, however. Silver projects volumes of 10 million units next year.

The increase in consignment comes from higher volumes from commercial consignors.

Dealer consignment is growing more slowly because retail new-car sales have slowed. This has the industry wary about increased incentives from the manufacturers.

“That’s always the concern when sales weaken,” Silver said.

Being on pace for a new record is diferent than setting a new record, however, and recent data from Kelley Blue Book does raise some doubts about the industry reaching that mark.

Kelley reports that auction volume has declined slightly, despite peaking in the ﬁrst quarter of 2016 from of-lease vehicle returns.

Year-over-year auction volume

is up 11 percent, but there was a 2 percent decrease in the number of vehicles running through the lanes in the second quarter.

“Despite what we know about the increase in lease returns for the foreseeable future, it’s interesting to note that Kelley Blue Book ﬁeld analysts are seeing a decrease in auction inventory from last quarter,” said Kelley analyst Sean Foyil.

“With auction volume at an alltime high for 2016, it is unusual that the overall average decline in auction values matched last year’s pace.”

3.6 percent, or roughly $671, in the second quarter of 2016.

While the ﬁrst quarter was unusual, the second quarter decline was less drastic than Kelley Blue Book analysts expected.

One segment that is doing especially well this year is sports cars, Kelley reports.

Low fuel prices and seasonal trends caused the sports car segment to outperform every other segment in the used-car market in the second quarter.

Overall, auction values for used 1- to 3-year-old vehicles declined

In fact, nearly every vehicle within the segment outperformed the overall market average, with a yearto-date increase of 1.5 percent.

Photo courtesy of DAA Northwest ROCK AND ROLL: Vehicles line up before the annual Rock & Roll sales at DAA Northwest. While events draw extra large consignments, all sales are seeing larger runs this year as off-lease inventory boosts volumes.

Judge OKs Residual Loss Suits for GM Vehicles

DETROIT (AP) – A federal judge has ruled that owners of General Motors cars recalled for defective ignition switches can sue the company for any loss in the cars’ value.

But the judge threw out broader loss-of-value claims from owners of GM cars that weren’t recalled.

Judge Jesse Furman in New York issued the ruling on a motion from General Motors to dismiss the claims.

He wrote in a 103-page opinion that the ruling “signiﬁcantly curtails” the size of the plaintifs’ potential recovery.

Seattle attorney Steve Berman says the split decision still allows owners of at least 11 million to 12 million cars that had defective ignition switches to sue the automaker. But Furman’s opinion said the argument that all GM cars lost value because of the recalls was unsound.

GM spokesman Jim Cain said the decision was a big win for the company be-

cause the judge tossed out the broader claims that a series of recalls in 2014 damaged the company’s reputation and devalued all GM cars.

Had the plaintifs won on the reputation claim, it would have exposed the company to many more lawsuits and could have placed any manufacturing company with a recall at risk of lawsuits, Cain said.

Yet to be decided are lossof-value claims for cars involved in other GM recalls.

In 2014, GM issued over 60 recalls covering more than 25 million vehicles.

The embarrassing recalls included 2.6 million small cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt for ignition switches that could slip out of the run position and cause cars to unexpectedly stall.

That would knock out power steering and brakes, causing crashes. The air bags also were disabled. The ignition switches are linked to at least 124 deaths and 275 injuries.

Cain said other ignition

switch recalls weren’t as serious and were ﬁxed with changes to keys, so loss of value claims will be hard to prove.

Berman, the lead attorney for economic loss plaintifs, says he plans to appeal the ruling on the broader lossof-value claims.

Economist George Hofer said the amount consum-

ers might get for their value claims should be less than other settlements, such as Toyota’s unintended acceleration case that cost the automaker more than $1 billion.

Hofer has been an expert witness in several such cases involving vehicle values.

The Toyota case involved vehicles that carried a high

resale value, Hofer said.

The cars in the GM case always took big hits in the used market, even before the ignition switch issue.

“They’ll have a tough time proving diminution of value,” he said.

(Used Car News reporter Ted Craig contributed to this story.)

NEWS BRIEFS

FTC Issues Refunds for Bogus Warranties

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 5,970 refund checks totaling more than $4 million to people who were bombarded with illegal robocalls and tricked into paying thousands of dollars for bogus “extended auto warranties.”

The checks, which were mailed July 20 and provide full refunds, are the result of the FTC’s extensive efforts to collect the entire $4,255,209 judgment entered against the defendants Fereidoun “Fred” Khalilian and his company, The Dolce Group Worldwide LLC.

The FTC’s June 2010 complaint alleged the defendants, doing business under the name My Car Solutions, conned people into paying thousands of dollars by leading them to believe that the company was afliated with auto dealers and manufacturers, and that it was ofering to sell them extended auto warranties. In reality, no one received an actual warranty extension and people who tried to get their money back found it nearly impossible.

The ﬁnal court order settling the FTC’s charges bans the defendants from telemarketing or helping others to telemarket, prohibits them from making any misrepresenta-

tions or omissions when selling any goods or services, and includes the $4.2 million monetary judgment.

Rust Consulting Inc. is the refund administrator for this matter.

IAA Expands Auctions

Insurance Auto Auctions recently announced several major facility investments.

IAA will expand and improve three locations in Texas: Corpus Christi, Houston and McAllen.

IAA Corpus Christi underwent an expansion, and now covers approximately 12 acres. Chosen for expansion based on space demands and to assist in potential future catastrophe (CAT) situations, the enhanced location was ofcially operational as of May 1. In line with IAA’s environmental philosophy, reclaimed asphalt was used in the development of the new acreage.

IAA Houston, the company’s largest branch, recently completed a building extension to accommodate an additional fourth lane for the live IAA Run & Drive segment of the auction. With over 1,200 units sold per week at this location, expanding the Run & Drive capabilities and hiring another auctioneer will further accommodate the volume in one of

IAA’s largest growth markets.

As of July 1, IAA McAllen also opened a new live Run & Drive lane to increase the pace of vehicle sales at the facility and increase capacity for IAA’s growing buyer base.

IAA also announced the recent expansion of its branch in Culpeper, Va. The facility now encompasses 10 additional acres of usable property, presenting IAA with increased capacity to enhance operational capabilities. One of six locations in Virginia, the now expanded 32-acre Culpeper facility will enable customers to select from a larger inventory of vehicles with increased convenience, while also providing more ﬂexibility and service to buyers and sellers. The Culpeper site expansion incorporates many enhanced features, including a brand new garage and motorcycle storage area.

CarMax Plans for Fall Growth on Both Coasts

CarMax is hiring for two new stores as it expands on both coasts. CarMax is currently hiring more than 40 associates for the company’s new store in Maple Shade, N.J. The store is scheduled to open in September at 531 Route 38 West. This location is CarMax’s second

store in New Jersey.

CarMax is also hiring more than 130 associates for the company’s second store in the Bay Area. The store is scheduled to open at 44100 Christy Street, Fremont, Calif., in November.

Manheim Adds Retail Solutions Site

Manheim opened its new Retail Solutions Center in a renovated 50,000-square-foot facility in Flat Rock, Mich., to provide Detroitarea dealers with greater access to services that produce retail-ready vehicles.

The property was recently transformed to build out the Flat Rock Retail Solutions Center. The remainder of the site will continue to serve as a marshaling operation for several of the company’s clients. To support the Flat Rock Retail Solutions Center, Manheim will ﬁll approximately 75 positions.

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Vol. 22 • No. 9

Tesla Motors Drops Resale Guarantee

DETROIT (AP) – Tesla Motors has ended its resale guarantee program in North America

The program – which began in 2013 – guaranteed that Tesla vehicles would have a higher resale value after three years than premium sedans from manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk personally backed the program, saying

he wanted to give buyers peace of mind. Buyers who used Tesla ﬁnancing were eligible.

A Tesla spokesperson said that the program reassured customers in Tesla’s early years when its cars didn’t have a track record. But Tesla sedans are now holding their value even better than the resale value guarantees, so the program is no longer necessary.

Group Defends Devices

By Ted Craig

An association of GPS and starterinterrupt providers has rebranded itself as a way to announce that it plans on serving a wider segment of the automotive technology industry.

The former Payment Assurance Technology Association now calls itself the Telematics Solutions Provider Association.

The main focus remains devices that help buy-here, pay-here dealers and other creditors keep customers current in their payments or, failing that, more easily repossess the vehicle.

The TSPA’s board consists of executives from Spireon, PassTime and CalAmp.

The group has been very active in defending this technology in the political arena.

In 2015, it monitored 70 bills in 26 diferent state legislatures and one bill at the federal level.

Brad Jarvis, Spireon’s chief strategy ofcer and TSPA president, said they were able to either stop the bills entirely or change the focus to best practices.

One of the bills that the TSPA worked on was in New Jersey. Dealer Michael Brill, president of B&B Automotive, joined their campaign and spoke about his experience at this year’s National Alliance of Buy-

Here, Pay-Here Dealers conference.

Brill owns several stores in Pennsylvania and planned on opening a store in New Jersey when he heard about the bill.

He went down to Trenton for the hearings on the proposed law.

What he heard shocked him. The bill, which would have banned the use of payment assurance devices, was based on practices described in a New York Times article titled “A day late in a car payment? Good luck moving that vehicle.”

“It would have sailed through because they were so misinformed,” Brill said.

He worked with Corinne Kirkendall, Passtime’s vice president of compliance and a member of the TSPA’s board.

The bill did make it through the state assembly, the state Senate has yet to take up the bill.

Brill said the lack of dealer attention to this legislation troubled him.

“I was disappointed that I was the only dealer there,” he said.

The TSPA wants more dealers to join its association.

The group works to educate dealers that don’t join by presenting at events like the NABD conference.

It also meets with consumer advocate groups to create a dialogue.

“They need to understand the devices,” Jarvis said.

Store Defrauds Banks

The manager of a now-defunct New Jersey used-car dealership and two co-workers have pleaded guilty in bank ﬁnancing scams that netted $1.4 million in fraudulent loans for luxury cars.

Hector Marquez, the general manager of D.I.B Leasing in Teterboro, pleaded guilty to first-degree money laundering and seconddegree misconduct by a corporate ofcial. Marquez also pleaded guilty to second-degree insurance fraud in a separate indictment involving a $139,000 Bentley purchased at his dealership and later torched and reported stolen to an insurance company.

The state has agreed to recommend a sentence not to exceed 16 years in the dealership case. In the insurance fraud case, the state has agreed to recommend a sentence not to exceed seven years, to run concurrent to the ﬁrst sentence.

Marquez’s sentencing is scheduled for Jan 20, 2017.

“The lengthy prison time he faces should serve as a deterrent to anyone who thinks this kind of fraud is a path to easy money,” said Acting Attorney General Porrino.

Marquez is the third defendant to plead guilty in the D.I.B. Leasing case.

The dealership’s ﬁnance manager, Paul Russo, pleaded guilty to second-degree money laundering and second-degree misconduct by a corporate ofcial.

The state has agreed to recommend a prison term not to exceed 10 years, when Russo is sentenced on Sept. 16.

The dealership’s title manager,

Lisa Ghobrial, recently pleaded guilty to third-degree misconduct by a corporate ofcial. The state has agreed to recommend a threeyear probationary term when she is sentenced on Sept. 16.

The trio, along with a loan applicant assistant, a bookkeeper and the owner of the dealership, were all charged in connection with the conspiracy.

Prosecutors said the defendants created fake employment records, inflated incomes and supplied false pay stubs and fictitious employee verifications to dupe banks into approving auto financing for customers whose income levels did not qualify them for loans on the pricey vehicles.

Four of the loans were taken out in the names of customers who had submitted personal information to apply for ﬁnancing but ultimately did not buy cars from the dealership, prosecutors allege. The ﬁfth loan was in the name of a person who had never been to D.I.B. Leasing or applied for a car loan there, prosecutors alleged.

The loan money obtained from the banks was for personal beneﬁt by the various employees of the dealership, prosecutors said.

The remaining defendants have all been indicted on charges of conspiracy and money laundering in the ﬁrst degree and with a seconddegree charge of trafcking in personally identifying information pertaining to another person. Those defendants are:

• Patsy Galasso, owner of D.I.B. Leasing;

• Jennifer Perez, who assisted with loan applications;

• Michael Ricciardi, who did bookkeeping for the dealership.

Galasso and Ricciardi are also charged with second-degree identity theft, and 62 counts of theft by deception – two in the second degree and 60 in the third degree.

Galasso is also charged with second-degree misconduct by a corporate ofcial.

Hector Marquez

DEALER LIFE

INDEPENDENT DEALER TRAVELS FAMOUS

ROUTE FOR BIRTHDAY

By Jeffrey Bellant

Some people celebrate their 60th birthday with a cake and a family party.

But independent dealer Guy Strohmeier instead went on a month-long hike from the French Pyrenees to northwestern Spain to mark his six decades.

Strohmeier, owner of Guy Strohmeier’s Auto Center in Lakeport, Calif., couldn’t ﬁgure out what to do for his milestone birthday. Then his wife Sandy watched a movie called “The Way,” about a father who takes a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in honor of his son.

The trail, also known as the

along the way,” Stroheimer said.

He started an April 24 and ﬁnished on May 25 and took three days of in between to rest.

It wasn’t a spiritual journey as much as a vacation and time with his son, Strohmeier said.

He started at the Pyrenees in France at a place called St. Jean Pied de Port, which hundreds of people use as their starting point each day.

Strohmeier is not a regular hiker. Before this trek, the longest he had ever hiked was 10 miles.

But on this trip, he averaged about 18 and-a-half miles a day.

Way of St. James, was a route of pilgrimage going back to the Middle Ages that people took to visit the shrine of the Apostle James at the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain.

His wife told him about the movie when he returned from auction and made him watch it.

“She said, here’s what you need to do,’” Strohmeier said. “’Why don’t you call (their son) Daniel and see if he wants to go?’”

Daniel Strohmeier had just recently left the military and was attending school in New York. He accompanied his father for 15 days of the 33-day hike.

“I did the rest by myself and all the other people

tels and albergues (shelters) to stay.

“You pay so much and stay the night,” Strohmeier said. “You might stay in a hostel with 10 people or you might stay in one with 100 people.”

“I carried the backpack the whole way,” Strohmeier said. “I carried a change of clothes, a light sleeping bag, rain gear if needed and a pair of ﬂip-ﬂops to relax.”

The trip brought other challenges, including a painful sprained ankle and a pair of kidney stones.

Fellow travelers helped each other out during the journey.

“People would share blister packs and I would share some ibuprofen or someone would share some kinetic tape for my ankle,” Strohmeier said. “The saying is, ‘the Camino provides.’”

Travelers who want to sleep in a tent can do that, but along the way there are numerous towns with hos-

A typical day on the Camino was about $12 for the hostel, $12 for food and maybe $6 for drinks, Strohmeier said.

One of the things that made the trip so special was the people he met along the way.

“You meet people of every country, every nation and every language,” he said. “You might walk alongside someone for a couple of days and then see them ﬁve days later or eight days later. You might have dinner with them and ask them how the day went.”

He walked with the young and old. He walked for two weeks with one family from Leon, Spain, who’s children were 3, 5, 7 and 11 years old.

The oldest person he saw was an 84-year-old man who was traveling the route for the third time.

He also got a potential sale along the way.

“I met a guy who is going to be ﬂying to the U.S. to buy a car from me because he wants a particular car,” Strohmeier said.

“But I have a dozen new close friends.”

Strohmeier admitted it was very emotional when he completed his 550-mile journey.

“When you get to the end, there are literally hundreds

of people who are also coming in, ﬁnishing (their travels),” he said. “So it’s emotional, tearful and joyful.”

There’s a place where you take a rock and drop it of at the foot of a cross, as people lay their burdens and prayers down, he said.

The traditional endpoint is Santiago de Compostela, but there is an extended route travelers can take.

“If you walk three more

days, you can get to Finisterre, which is what they call ‘the end of the world,’” Strohmeier said. “I stopped at Santiago de Compostela. I ﬁgure I’ll take my wife back to hike those three days.”

Strohmeier has lots of memories as he took about 700 pictures along the way.

“And it was a great way to lose 14 pounds,” he said.

Feds Claim Fiat Chrysler Inﬂated New Car Sales

customers and not on reported vehicle sales to end customers.

But the statement doesn’t address the company’s monthly sales reports.

DETROIT (AP) – Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Fiat Chrysler violated securities laws by getting dealers to falsely report sales of new cars in order to inﬂate the company’s numbers.

The company conﬁrmed that it is cooperating with investigations by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Napleton lawsuit alleges that a competing dealership reported 85 false new vehicle sales and got tens of thousands of dollars in return. It also says FCA ofered to pay the $20,000 to Napleton disguised as co-operative advertising support.

FCA has said the lawsuit is without merit and pledged to defend itself.

Karl Brauer, senior analyst for Kelley Blue Book, doesn’t think Fiat Chrysler cheated a huge amount to keep its streak of monthly sales increases going.

The probe apparently stems from a lawsuit ﬁled in January by the Illinois-based Napleton dealership group alleging that competing dealers were given thousands of dollars to report false sales.

The group alleges that an FCA executive ofered Napleton $20,000 to falsely report sales of 40 new vehicles.

The lawsuit also alleges that the false sales give the appearance that FCA’s performance is better than it actually is.

The Italian-American automaker with U.S. operations based in Auburn Hills, Mich., has reported 75 straight months of year-overyear sales increases since it left bankruptcy protection in 2009, a lengthy string for any automaker.

The SEC and Justice Department in Washington would not comment on the probe.

FCA’s statement says that it records revenue in its quarterly and annual ﬁnancial statements based on shipments to dealers and

But he said there may have been some questionable sales added to months when the streak was in danger of ending.

Exactly what constitutes a sale has been deﬁned loosely in the auto industry for years, said Brauer, who has been suspicious of wide swings from month to month by many automakers.

“The term ‘sale’ should almost always be in quotes,’’ he said.

The impact of the probe on Fiat Chrysler depends on what the investigators ﬁnd, Brauer said. If it leads to a tightening of the deﬁnition of sales and no widespread fraud is found, then the impact will be minimal.

But the company could face penalties if it recorded sales “in ways that not remotely, under any deﬁnition, could be called sales.”

The company said it conﬁrmed the probe following media reports about it.

Karl Brauer

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Manheim Promotes Execs

Manheim recently announced the selection of two new members to its leadership team. Efective imme-

diately, Derek Hansen is vice president of Digital Inventory Solutions, and Angela Babin is vice president of Retail Solutions.

Hansen was promoted from the interim position he has held since January. Hansen now assumes full responsibility for Manheim’s digital operations.

Prior to his work with Manheim, Hansen was senior director of strategy for Cox Automotive.

Babin is responsible for executing a strategy designed to maximize market return and client service.

Babin recently joined Manheim after serving in a variety of roles with Pep Boys, Central

Parking System, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Afrmative Insurance and Zag.com.

MetroGistics Hires

Development Director

MetroGistics has announced the hiring of Terry Mollica as director of business development.

His duties will include helping to expand MetroGistics’ presence to its growing customer base, using his experience to focus on the remarketing segment.

Mollica has more than 18 years of sales and marketing experience, including automotive, captive finance remarketing and consumer industries. Prior to joining MetroGistics, he was the vice president of business development at WeGoLook LLC and the director of business development at DataScan Field Services LLC.

Mollica also worked for SGS Automotive North America.

AFC Taps Vice Presidents

Automotive Finance Corp. announced that Tif Arcella has joined the company as vice president of sales and that Devra Callaghan has been promoted to vice president of marketing and business development.

Arcella joins AFC with nearly 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and management with an emphasis in technology solutions that serve automotive dealers.

Prior to joining AFC, Arcella was with CDK Global for more than 10 years serving most recently as the director of sales.

Prior to that, Arcella spent three years in business development with Sutton Ford/ Suzuki in Matteson, Ill., and Webb Ford in Highland, Ind.

Callaghan joined

AFC in 2013 as director of marketing.

BSC America Adds Manager

Tommy Rogers has joined Bel Air Auto Auction as general manager of its Clayton Station Auction Center.

As part of the BSC America management team, Rogers will also perform regional oversight for Tallahassee Auto Auction, working closely with Tallahassee’s general manager Doug Rodriguez Clayton Station is located in Edgewood, Md., near Bel Air, and sells run & drive/ scratch & dent rental vehicles, car & truck repossessions and donations.

Tech Firm Names Team Integrated Auction Solutions LLC (IAS), which recently acquired AWG Simulcast and AuctionMaster Technologies, has announced its new executive team.

IAS has chosen the following:

•Greg Levi, managing member, IAS

• Peter Levy , vice president of sales and marketing

•Marc Holstein, vice president of operations, Europe

•Matt Addams, vice president of development, AMT

•Lisa Feijo, director of support

•Chris Rivera, director of product

•Nick Pentell, director of implementation Levy will handle dayto-day operations.

The Clayton Station Auction Center is also home to BSC America’s Specialty Division, which includes power sports, boats, RVs and monthly truck and equipment auctions.

Derek Hansen

Angie Babin

RETAIL MARKETS

MASSACHUSETTS

John Perro, owner, Perro’s Auto Sales, Auburn, Mass.:

“This company started in 1965.

“We have two locations. One’s in the city of Worcester, which we grandfathered out of. It is a service center. That’s where we have an auto body center. We have a dealership and rental company in Auburn, Mass.

“We have maybe 80 cars on paper, but not all are on the lot. As far as retailready, we have about 50.

“We sell an average between 20 and 25 per month.

“In this industry (it’s challenging because) a customer will ask, ‘How can that car be X-amount of money with that many miles and why would it cost more than the same car next to it?’ I say the reason is because the other car has a Carfax that shows this lady pampered this car at the dealership. To me, it’s less money for me to spend (in service).

“We service every car be-

fore it’s sold. Average recon is $175 to $200 a car. The average safety check is $175.

“We do that work at our service facility.

“All the work we do on a car goes to Carfax.

“I’m looking to get licensed to do buy-here, payhere. We will do some subprime with lenders that we feel won’t take advantage of our client.

“Our average retail price is around $20,000. We also have cars for $8,995, because you get people who can’t aford a lot.

“Average model year is 2005 and up. As far as mileage, we’re not really targeting (a certain amount). We’re targeting quality.

“We look at (Carfax and Autocheck). Also, we look at Safercar.gov to check recalls, a recommendation from National Independent Automobile Dealers Association and Melissa Otis, our state executive director. Don’t rely on (vehicle history reports) for recalls because they can be a month

or two behind on recalls.

“We carry more trucks than cars. I’d like it to be 8020 pickups, because I could sell those trucks easier. So it’s 60 percent pickups, 20 percent SUVs and 20 percent cars.

“One recent car I sold was a 2013 Cadillac ATS all-wheel drive, 3.6 performance. It had 42,000 miles on it. I got $25,000 for it. That was over book value.”

TEXAS

Robert Beck, president, Stop ‘N Drive Motors, San Antonio, Texas:

“We have one location and we opened up in 2005.

“We usually stock about 40 to 50 cars. We have relationships with local newcar dealers that have on-site auctions. So we go to their place and try to outbid everyone else.

“We also buy at regular auction – Manheim auctions. When we go to the auction, we try to only buy new-car trade-ins.

“Over the course of the

year, we sell an average of 15 a month.

“We are 100 percent buyhere, pay-here. Down payments vary. During tax season, people have more of a down payment than they do now. Over the course of the year, I’d say it’s about $2,000.

“Average retail price is about $13,900.

“It used to be, when we opened up, we’d try to keep term lengths at 36 months. Now that’s crept up, probably, to 42 or 44. But cars have gotten more expensive since we opened up. I remember our plan was to buy a $4,500 car. You can’t get much for $4,500 now.

“The average year is probably a 2007, maybe a 2008.

“Average mileage is going to be anywhere between 100,000 and 120,000.

“My partner’s a good buyer. He has to shake the bushes, but he always comes up with some good pieces.

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“Our niche is mainly trucks and SUVs. We have some sedans, because some customers will want a rig with good gas mileage. But guys who work need the pickup truck to work or they need the SUV to carry their kids in.

“We’re mainly domestic. We’ll pick up a few imports if we come across a good deal.

“Average reconditioning is about $500. We do it ourselves.

“We do very little advertising. We do some on Facebook and Google. We also have our website.

“Repeat and referral is a big part of our business. We have a CRM tool that we developed years and years ago in-house. We contact customers on a regular basis.

“We’d always like to get more trucks. Right now, we only have one truck, but that’s because we recently sold a few. Normally, we’d like to have four or ﬁve trucks.

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WHOLESALE MARKETS

ARKANSAS

Shane Wood, general manager, 71B Auto Auction, Springdale, Ark.:

“We’ll have been in business six years this October. We have ﬁve lanes.

“Business has been good, we’ve done really well.

“Volumes have been around 850. It’s about the same as last year – actually, maybe 50 to 75 more per week.

“(Conversion rates) are steady in the mid- to upper50s. It’s about the same as last year. Our percentages usually stay about the same.

“About 99 percent of our volume is dealer consignment. We also have a few bank repossessions.

“We average 300 to 350 buyers (in the lanes). We may have had a 10 percent increase from last year. We draw buyers from Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.

“Dealers’ business is hot and cold. Right now, the new-car stores seem to be doing well. The used-car stores are struggling.

“I know in June (dealers said their) business was of, but it was our second biggest month of the year. So they’re still buying cars.

I don’t really understand that.

“We have an in-op sale once a month. It’s the second Tuesday of the month. It starts at 8:30 a.m. before our regular sale at 9 a.m. We’ll run 25 to 30 in those sales.

“Those sell well. But the price is way down because the price of steel is down.

I know a year-and-a-half, two years ago; anything would bring $300 – no matter what it was. Now it will bring $100.

“For new-car stores, we tow their in-op cars through the lanes weekly, just because they want that of their books (as soon as possible).

“In the regular sale, the average price coming through the lanes is about $5,700. When tax time is strong,

“Our last sale of the

month, we kind of do a front-line sale. That’s when the new-car stores bring their aged inventory, so that will bump up the average price to about a $6,700 to $6,800 average.

“America’s Car-Mart is based here in northwest Arkansas, so every week, we’ve probably got 10 to 12 diferent Car-Mart stores buying cars here. That $5,000 to $9,000 car brings more money here than anywhere else, in my opinion. We’ve got several big buy-here, pay-here lots that buy here.”

NORTH CAROLINA

Jerry Barker, general manager, Greensboro Auto Auction, Greensboro, N.C.:

“We just celebrated our 30th anniversary in April.

“We have 16 lanes and volumes have been good.

“We’re running about 3,500 cars a week. I’m going to say that’s at least 15 percent up from last year. I just think that’s because there’s

a lot of cars coming back of-lease. Repos are up a little bit due to how well they are funding deals. Credit has deﬁnitely loosened up.

“Probably 75 percent of our volume is ﬂeet-lease and commercial.

“(Conversion rates) have been in the 65 percent range. For this time of year, I think that’s a pretty good percentage.

“Dealer consignment is down a little bit. I think a lot of folks have ﬁgured out how to recondition their trade-ins and put them back in (to their lots) to sell. So it’s brought (fewer) cars to the auction.

“(We have numerous commercial consignors) including manufacturers Ford, Chrysler, Kia, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Hyundai.

“We also simulcast our sale through all 16 lanes. We use AWG.

“We run about 60 or 70 units in our salvage sale every week. We may have 40 one week and 80 to 85 the next week. So it ﬂuc-

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tuates depending on what consignors are running that week. I’d say that’s one of the better percentage lanes.

“We don’t have any special sales or GSA. We sell motorcycles in our regular sales, but nothing (separate). We also have a classic car sale we run three times a year. That’s a pretty big deal for us.

“Our average price in the lane is about $16,000. That’s probably up about $500 a car over this time last year.

“Trucks are hot. They are just unreal. It’s the low gas prices and interest rates are cheaper so (buyers) can ﬁnance a larger dollar amount for the same payment. It doesn’t matter whether it’s two-wheel or four-wheel drive. We’re in that mid-market where we can sell both. They’re all bringing pretty good money.

“I think the small fourdoor cars and the real subcompacts have taken a hit because of the price of gas being down.”

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DISCONNECTED JOTTINGS FROM TONY MOORBY

Reﬂecting on Great Britain’s recent actions to quit the European Union made me think of “The Swinging Sixties,” now 50 years ago. I was

edgy and clean cut, shedding almost any references to the pre-war years of deprivation and class diferences. It was an exciting time of change and

Tony Moorby

• 40-year veteran of the industry

• President from 1997–2000 of ADT Automotive

• Served as ADESA’s executive vice president of sales and marketing

• Moorby & Associates 2006–present

• Awarded the Ring of Honor by NIADA

• NAAA Hall of Famer

just 18 years old then and London felt like the center of the universe. It would be nice to think that the British could re-invigorate the sense of optimism that pervaded society at every level back then.

With the post-war years of shortages, food rationing, bombed-out buildings and drab clothes of the ‘50s, the ‘60s heralded a new feeling of gritty ‘can do’ attitudes.

I think it had as much to do with the physical rebuilding of the city – modernism was

challenge, greeting anything new with eager acceptance rather than wary suspicion.

Bright, new, stylish buildings and homes were replacing our playground of weed-ridden bombsites. Employment was growing and spending was freer, perhaps still not frivolous but there was certainly a willingness to spend on things that recognized the changing times. My parents bought new furniture, we even got a ‘fridge, a TV and a phone.

By Miles Mellor

Across

1. ____ GTV6, 2 words

6. Classic Lotus sports car

9. Baseball score

11. All set for a race, perhaps, 3 words

14. Ford muscle car

15. Owned by

17. Jeep model

18. “Stop”, “Yield” etc

21. A drive, in slang

23. Car

25. Power____ warranty

27. He releases company news

28. Scarlet or burgundy

29. Saturn model

31. Ford crossover

32. Classic Lamborghini

35. Carpentry tool

36. 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, say

37. Journey and Durango

41. Boxster, Barchetta, etc

42. “Look ____ the hood!”

44. Original manufactured equipment, for short

45. Important time

46. Kia minivan

47. “___ Me,” Withers hit

Down

1. Plymouth ____ GT

2. Classic ___ 308 GTB/GTS

3. Go, as a car

4. Floor cover

5. Web site address ending

Fashions felt like they were changing every week. Gone were the baggy shapeless suits and trilbies and even the leather jackets and jeans of “the Teddy Boys” were shed for new colorful outfits including flowered shirts, even for the ofce. Young men sported natty outfits and slimfitting suits, pointed toe, winkle-picker shoes replaced the clodhoppers of yore.

Cool hairstyles took the place of hats like the workingclass ﬂat cap or the trilby. Hats for men are still a rarity, even now.

For the girls, mini-skirts; some so short you didn’t need an imagination. As a teenager, hormones were already out of control without the need for further titillation. Girls wore their hair up in boufant styles or down with ﬂick-ups at the ends. Brassieres seemed to emulate the bumpers of a ‘57 Cadillac!

My twin brother and I had a part-time Saturday job at Liberty’s of Regent Street and took the Tube to Piccadilly Circus and walked up

Carnaby Street to the staf entrance of the posh department store. Our weekly walk along the Mecca of fashion ensured that we were up with the latest and spent our newly earned money on what was on display.

Music thundered out onto the street from every storefront – new music from a new source. Pop groups were taking over the whole music scene and even caused the “British Invasion” over here, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

We used to go to a ‘working men’s club’ in Hammersmith (beer was cheaper at these places and the drinking age was 16 back then) and many of the groups used to appear there for practice and jam sessions – the Stones used it occasionally before their regular gig at The Craw Daddy Club in Richmond.

I remember standing next

to Brian Jones in the men’s room. The Yardbirds, Clapton and many others were an arm’s length away. The Kinks’ drummer, Mick Avory, used to drink at our local pub and I went to see The Beatles twice at the Hammersmith Odeon. Muscle cars were the big thing over here for getting around, while in Britain we had Mini Coopers, Ford Anglias and Cortinas. Tuned versions were ‘souped up’ and lots of companies produced high quality versions. The ﬁlm star Peter Sellers spent a fortune on his Wood & Pickett Mini – it had a ﬁnish as good as any Rolls Royce.

So much was happening that pushed new boundaries and opportunity beckoned at every turn.

I sincerely hope the new position that Great Britain ﬁnds itself in promotes the same aspirations to put the ‘Great’ back where it belongs.

7. Classic Aston Martin

8. City light

10. Crowd disapproval noises

12. Lamborghini model

13. Sharer’s word

16. Parent of Maserati and Ferrari

19. Antagonist

20. Above

21. Classic Triumph sports car

22. Ace

24. Direction things are going

26. Increase, prices say

30. Maxima and Sentra

32. Dodge nameplate

33. Advantages

34. Luxury sedan from Oldsmobile, also means dawn

35. Road, for short

38. Approximately, 2 words

39. Having had a previous owner

40. ___, mean fghting machine

43. Before (poet.)

AROUND THE BLOCK

AUCTION HITS MILESTONE

In 1953, a gallon of gas would run about 20 cents, a brand new car cost about $1,650, and Flint Auto Auction opened its doors as Flint, Mich., first dealer-only auto auction.

the grand prize: a $1,000 travel voucher.

The entire office and lanes were decked out in nautical-themed decorations, and the staff dressed in cruise-themed attire complete with flower leis.

Ally joined the celebration, running two lanes at Flint’s anniversary sale.

At the end of the run, Ally gave away a custom Detroit Tigers corn hole game, two Detroit Tigers chairs and two Tigers hats.

Other featured consignors at the anniversary sale included GM Financial (open and closed), Chrysler Capital and US Bank.

Overall, 2,499 units ran at the anniversary sale, and 1,580 were sold for a 63 percent sale.

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Company Helps Feed Hungry

During its Drive Away Hunger campaign, fom June 13-24, Cox Automotive companies teamed up with Feeding America’s nationwide network to reach more than 40 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other community-based agencies across the country.

This marks the 10th year of the campaign.

Each year, team members load up as many bags as they can carry and drop them of at the nearest donation bin.

The drive focuses on food items that food banks have deemed mostneeded, which includes canned meat and ﬁsh, dry pasta, fruit juices, soups and healthy snacks, among other items.

On June 22, the auction celebrated its 63-year milestone by throwing a cruise-themed anniversary sale.

Food vendors like the El Guapo Taco Truck and an ice cream truck were on hand to feed customers, dealers could catch a beach ball to win a pair of shorts, and one dealer won

Flint Auto Auction is a member of ServNet, a group of independent auto auctions from across the United States, and has been serving dealers since 1953.

Manheim Statesville collected the most amount of food, with 5,312 pounds donated in this two-week period.

We invite news items and top-quality photos from our readers to be considered for “Around the Block.” Please include the name of a contact person and a telephone number. Send items and photos to: Jeffrey Bellant. Mail: Used Car News, 24114 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores, MI 48080. Fax: (586) 772-9400 e-mail: jeff@usedcarnews.com

SALES TEAM: Ally rep Ron Vargo, from left, stands with Nicole Jobson, Flint Auto Auction’s Ally supervisor; Nicole Grathoff, GM Financial factory manager; and Ally rep Justin Werth as they prepare for a sale at Flint Auto Auction.

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Improve Your Customer Retention

Rich or poor – customers like to change vehicles! On a standard retail car sale or even a buy-here, pay-here sale, once that customer leaves your lot, there’s no guarantee they will come back to your dealership to get their next car. They can go anywhere to trade that vehicle. Used car leasing solves that problem! The Lease’T’Own® business model has proven to bring dealerships increased customer retention.

while doing buy-here, pay-here was 24% – the national average at that time.

It wasn’t surprising that he received approximately 24% of the cars back on Lease’T’Own as well.

The huge diference between the two models is that 80% of the cars he repo’d with buy-here, payhere went directly to the auction. It wasn’t worth trying to ﬁx them.

Of the cars he took back with

With used car leasing, the dealer remains the titled owner of the Lease’T’Own® car. The customer can’t go anywhere else but back to YOUR dealership if they want to change cars.

Lease’T’Own® dealers are trained on “rolling” customers from car to car and “rolling” cars from customer to customer! You can provide transportation for life to your customers!

A large buy-here, pay-here dealer from Texas decided to try out Lease’T’Own®. After being on the program for a few years, he reported some valuable statistics. His average repossession rate

Lease’T’Own®, none went to the auction. 55% of those customers who returned their Lease’T’Own® vehicles came back to the dealership for another car once they got on their feet financially. How is this possible? Because a key benefit of Lease’T’Own® is the flexibility! Your customers know they can return the car at any time, for any reason, without penalty. They know they can come back at any time to get another car. Expectations are clearly explained at the time of the deal and the door for communication is left wide open. Doing Lease’T’Own® and doing it right, will gain you customer’s for life!

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Since 1972, Credit Acceptance has ofered automobile dealers ﬁnancing programs to help them sell vehicles to consumers, regardless of their credit history.

These programs are ofered through a nationwide network of automobile dealers who beneﬁt from selling vehicles to consumers who otherwise could not obtain ﬁnancing.

Credit Acceptance is unique in that enrolled dealers using the Portfolio program share in the cash ﬂows from the contract, which creates an alignment of interests and is a critical element of its success.

One misconception of the Credit Acceptance program is that it only works for older model vehicles.

In fact, it works well with nearly any vehicle; many low-mileage, late-model vehicles (as new as 2015) yield the greatest advances.

And, its Credit Approval Processing System (CAPS®) enables dealers to easily structure proﬁtable deals with payments customers can aford.

As Credit Acceptance reports to the three national credit reporting agencies, an added beneﬁt of the program is that consumers

can improve their credit with ontime payments and move on to traditional ﬁnancing sources.

It is now easier, faster and more proﬁtable than ever to do business with Credit Acceptance.

A signiﬁcant beneﬁt is eContracting, which enables customers to sign contract documents electronically.

This eliminates the need to send contract packages via courier, saving dealers money and considerably reducing funding times.

Many deals are funded the same day. Additionally, CAPS® interfaces with multiple vendors (including Dealertrack®) to help dealers easily get applications and leads into the system without duplicate entry.

Credit Acceptance has also made enhancements to approval stipulations to streamline the funding process.

A proven leader, Credit Acceptance paid dealers over $2,065,409,992 in advances and $202,678,019 in portfolio proﬁt in 2015 alone.

Visit CreditAcceptance.com to ﬁnd out how you can sell more cars and make more money.

Control the Approval Process, Sell More Cars

Software technology continues to evolve in ways that make our lives so much easier. Whether you are using a computer, tablet or phone, the software that powers these devices is really where the magic is. DealerCenter is webbased software ofering a comprehensive dealer management system (DMS).

DealerCenter’s software technology is taking the traditional DMS to the next level. By combining the basic inventory, customer and paperwork management with lender decision automation, dealers can use DealerCenter to get loan approvals 24/7/365.

This powerful software has been developed and perfected over the past ﬁfteen years.

DealerCenter has worked closely with Westlake Financial Services to create a one-of-a-kind program that enables dealerships to control the entire lending approval process.

By simply running a customer’s credit report, the system can use

the information to automatically make a lending decision.

Dealers can work the deal by changing down payment, term, monthly payment or even adding a co-buyer and the system will instantly update the decision.

For a dealer, that is huge! Most dealers are open evenings and weekends when many banks are not available to process loan applications. With the ability to use this software to structure deals and get approvals instantly, dealers are no longer handcufed by banker hours. Dealers can sell cars and secure ﬁnancing at any time with this technology.

The next update is coming soon and will enable dealers to extend this technology to their customers via their website.

If a dealer has all their inventory listed on their website, a customer will be able to enter their information and the system will show them all of the cars they qualify for. This technology will help dealers sell more cars.

Keys to Future Dealer Success: Customer Service & GPS Technology

Did you know that the most frequent month of auto loan default is the 4th or 5th month after loan origination?

Or that 1 in 8 car dealers in California have sold the same vehicle to at least 3 different car buyers?

Delinquencies and defaults are very much a part of the buy-here, pay-here world, so several steps must be taken to ensure that these vehicle collateral losses are prevented or don’t cut into business profits.

With the trending rise in payment delinquencies and collection costs, more and more buy-here, pay-here dealerships may soon run the risk of losing even more profits.

One of the smartest strategies that car dealers can adopt today to avoid delinquencies, bad debt, or charge-offs, is to invest in GPS vehicle tracking.

Having a GPS device embedded within a vehicle enables you to locate a car within seconds, without requiring you to rely on a third party repo agency.

There’s a reason why

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Our reputation for being the industry standard is demonstrated by our 3 million active vehicle subscriber base and our community of 8,000 dealer customers nationwide who use Spireon GoldstarGPS.

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In the off-chance that your hardware is not fully functioning, our representatives help you get back on track over the phone to ensure that your vehicle locates are coming through.

Additionally, we offer the industry’s first express installation service with certified, trained technicians available to complete GPS device installations within 24-48 hours at your dealership.

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You won’t have to rely on vehicle data that’s been generated days or hours ago. CDMA offers a much more reliable connection, and keeps dealers connected to their collateral in real-time.

Wider Reach & Coverage:

By choosing Spireon, you’ll be choosing a GPS provider that gives you network coverage in four of the major network carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T. We’ll be able to connect your vehicles in the most remote or rural areas of America.

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With the incoming sunset of 2G GSM connections, devices operating on 2G will no longer be working in 2017. Our CDMA-enabled

devices are made to operate for the wireless advances of tomorrow.

Dealers who purchase 2G or 3G GPS devices from other providers will be forced to invest in new devices within the next year or two.

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When you need information on vehicle locations and patterns, big data insight will prove to be useful.

Our proven cloud platform is able to collect millions of data points and support over 3 million vehicle connections, so you won’t have to worry about our technology breaking anytime soon.

For more information on how you can protect your vehicles with the best GPS tracking provider in the industry, call Spireon at (888) 517-3630 or visit www.spireon.com.

Empowering Dealers with Flexible Fees

Jonathan Neubauer, President & CEO, Vehicle Acceptance Corporation

The economy is constantly changing. The market lives, breathes and evolves over time. Your ability to change is critical to your success. A single option fee schedule may not fit your business as well as you would like, though that is what most floorplanners ofer. Do you wish you had a better fitting option based on your cash flow, the time of year, or on a unit by unit basis?

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Strengthen Lender Partnerships with Best-In-Class VSC Coverage

Trying to convince a customer of a vehicle service contract’s (VSC) value is no easy task.

Not long after you get a customer to agree to a monthly payment, you’re potentially risking the sale by ofering products that increase the monthly ﬁgure. It’s a challenging catch-22!

Fortunately, the solution is simple – ofering a VSC to 100% of your customers 100% of the time. In doing so, relationships with lenders will improve too.

How, you ask? It starts with working with your lenders to ensure that every deal has a back-end allowance to account for a VSC.

It may take some negotiation and you might have to ask more than once, but lenders understand that the top reason customers default is because of unexpected repairs that hinder a customer’s ability to make their monthly payment.

Remind lenders of this and leverage a company like GWC Warranty that has been in business for 20-plus years and paid more than $375 million in claims.

This assurance will help lenders

understand that the advance you’re requesting is to accommodate a product that will ensure they continue to get paid.

And when it comes to negotiating with customers, having this back-end advance as standard practice helps you build it into the initial monthly payment discussion so there are no surprises once you hit the F&I ofce.

Simply put, adding a VSC onto every deal beneﬁts everyone involved. You stand to get better advances from lenders, your lenders experience fewer defaults and your customers are protected from unexpected repair costs.

Factor in the repeat and referral business generated by those happy customers, and it’s clear to see the vast array of beneﬁts from putting a VSC on every car you sell.

Get More From Your GPS

In the subprime lending space

GPS devices are commonplace. If you’re in the space, you’ve likely used one sort or another.

As these devices have been in the market for well over a decade, the “newness” has long worn of and we can truly evaluate their efectiveness.

Nearly everyone would agree that a reliable GPS device improves repossessions and recovery eforts. They are relatively inexpensive, simple to install and easy to use.

GPS should allow an agent to recover a vehicle faster. Vehicles recovered quickly are generally in better shape, cost less to recondition and less to recover. Additional tools from device providers can enhance this process as well.

What is less clear is how much GPS alone can help with collections. Enhancing GPS devices with collections technology improves collections in a variety of ways.

A recent study conducted by Leedom and Associates evaluated the impact of automated collection tools. The study covered more than 12,000 loans representing more than $100 million in receivables.

In the group of accounts with an automated collection technology

device on the vehicle, nearly 94% of accounts made their payment within 30 days.

Keeping almost 94% of accounts current within 30 days not only represents actual revenue for the creditor in terms of loan payments, but also the percentage of consumers not slipping into a repossession status.

Many customers are yearning to get more out of their GPS devices.

By combining collection technology with GPS, the lender has a solution that facilitates improved customer payment performance with the added beneﬁt of GPS location features for accounts that require it.

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Collection technology added to GPS helps collectors take on more accounts, keep delinquencies down and still ofer the beneﬁts of GPS.

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CAR Financial Offers Proven Experience

Underwriting, control of accounts, recovery of collateral, mitigation of risk….All of these should be big concerns for every dealer.

Making consistently good returns in the buy-here, pay-here segment has always been tough, but in today’s world of competition, increased regulation and ﬂuctuating wholesale values, diligence and persistent adherence to a proven plan should be at the top of the list for all dealers!

In order to overcome the market concerns posed by today’s buy-here, pay-here industry, dealers must have a relationship with a ﬁnance company that will help them follow a more secure path.

Dealers should be looking for a company that has been in the market through ups and downs and can help guide them through the pitfalls of crazy market swings. To find a ﬁnancial relationship that meets these criteria, the dealer should look deeper than simply seeking the company that ofers the highest possible up front advance.

Dealers should find a company who helps mitigate risk while achieving the dealer’s short and long term finance goals. That finance company should have proven experience and longevity in a variety of market climates, strict compliance policies and a desire for shared success. CAR Financial is that company.

CAR Financial has a proven track record of over 25 years in the auto ﬁnance industry and can help you in all economic times by customizing a purchase/service program that meets your needs while providing quality service through a single dealer point of contact that is located near your dealership.

CAR Financial strives to understand your day-to-day business so they can structure a program designed to meet your long term goals and objectives. Whether purchasing a stream of payments, purchasing all or part of your accounts outright, or simply servicing your buy-here, pay-here portfolio, the trusted professionals at CAR Financial are interested in working with you to meet your dealership needs.

CAR Financial operates in 45 states and is continually evolving its programs to meet the ever changing needs the buy-here, pay-here market. Interested in more information on CAR Financial Services’ programs and services?

Go to www.carﬁnancial.com or call 877-570-8857.

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