Bulk Used Cars for Sale
Posted by Mike Kane on 09/07/2011Auto Industry, Press
A quick tutorial on how rental fleets buy/sell cars: You might already know this, but right after Labor Day, particularly in the midwest, the car rental business really slows down. So, car rental companies need to defleet units to match [...]
Finding blocks of used cars
Posted by Mike Kane on 08/18/2011Auto Industry, Press
A good used car manager knows what’s going on in their market generally within 100-150 miles. But, if you are a used car manager or dealership owner that needs vehicles for stock, but your area is just screaming hot with [...]
Finding Used Cars in Bulk
Posted by Mike Kane on 08/12/2011Auto Industry
I watch the automotive news pretty closely every day, and this article here puts the “tight supply” issues in pretty crisp terms: Click here to view the article VRCG, Inc. spends all day swimming around in the rental -and – [...]
Buying Used Rental Cars
Posted by Mike Kane on 08/12/2011Auto Industry, Press
Just today there’s another article about Manheim scaling back their bricks and mortar footprint: Manheim Merges Some Auctions Together as It Repositions Business to Current Market Needs …although Manheim is a fine company and provides a great service for many [...]
Excellent article, but it leaves out a big, big point!
Posted by Mike Kane on 07/15/2011Auto Industry
Tom Webb of Manheim Auctions is one of the most respected used car analysts in the nation, and he’s very much “on point” with his commentary here: Webb Believes Some Wholesale Volume Patterns Will Persist; Manheim Releases Enhanced Mobile Site [...]
Excellent News for the Rental Car Industry – courtesy of our manufacturers!
Posted by Mike Kane on 06/17/2010Auto Industry
The renting public has been really gouged by state, county and local municipalities over the last ten years, as they’ve been specifically targeted for rental-car-specific taxes, etc. – and oftentimes the tax money went to support things that had NOTHING [...]
Read Excellent News for the Rental Car Industry – courtesy of our manufacturers!
An Outstanding Article
Posted by Mike Kane on 06/01/2010Auto Industry
What lessons can we all learn, as taxpayers, from the GM bankruptcy, which was one year ago today? What parallels can one draw from the GM fiasco vs. what’s happening with units of government in the U.S., from your local [...]
More “help” from Washington
Posted by Mike Kane on 05/24/2010Auto Industry
Now the Federal Government wants to legislate how dealers get retail buyers financed. Lord help us all, they have such attention to detail on other things like Fannie, Freddie, etc. http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100524/RETAIL03/305249954/1137 It’ll be funny (or shameful…) to see where we [...]
I live 8 miles from Chrysler HQ, so I hope they’re right…
Posted by Mike Kane on 04/21/2010Auto Industry
…when they say Chrysler’s new CEO is a “miracle worker”… Read on… http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/21/autos/chrysler_marchionne_profit.fortune/index.htm
Read I live 8 miles from Chrysler HQ, so I hope they’re right…
Great Day for GM!
Posted by Mike Kane on 04/21/2010Auto Industry
Great Day for General Motors, and the US Taxpayer! http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/21/autos/gm_loan_repayment/index.htm?hpt=T1 …congratulations to all the workers, engineers, white collar and executives that are working together to make the “new GM” a reality!
