Categories: Dealer Ops, Showroom

Four months after factory executives put a stop to a similar campaign at an Alabama dealership, Carolina Ford is offering a free rifle, American flag, and...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358964/s-c-ford-dealer-revives-gun-giveaway-promotion

Noncompliant and outright illegal behavior by dealers, managers, and staff have generated headlines throughout the year. Less heralded are the instances in...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358955/when-dealers-catch-criminals

Categories: Compliance, Dealer Ops, Showroom

A jury deliberated for less than an hour before deciding Reagor Dykes’ Bart Reagor owes Ford Motor Credit Co. the full amount it demanded following an...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358862/jury-orders-reagor-to-pay-ford-credit-53m

Categories: Auto Finance, Dealer Ops, Industry, Showroom

U.S. sales of new cars and light trucks fell 12% year-over-year in September, suppressed in part by a Labor Day weekend allotted to August. Few were spared...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358845/detroit-japan-factories-suffer-in-short-september-sales-report

Categories: Compliance, Fixed Ops, Showroom

Hyundai North America has sued a Pennsylvania dealer for fraud, claiming he bilked the automaker for $5 million by buying up hundreds of used Sonatas and...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358809/hyundai-claims-dealer-fraud-forced-5m-in-repurchases

Categories: Compliance, Dealer Ops, Showroom

Five motorcycle dealerships owned by Microsoft executive Howard Crow were suddenly shuttered last week. Managers and staff have returned, without pay, to...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358781/mystery-surrounds-seattle-dealership-closings

Categories: Dealer Ops, Showroom

Courtney Cox Cole, the former sixth-generation co-owner of Indiana’s Hare Chevrolet and member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, has died at 48 from...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358724/ind-dealer-courtney-cole-loses-cancer-battle

Categories: Auto Finance, Dealer Ops, F&I, Industry, Showroom

Stock are on the rise following the second quarter-point reduction to the federal funds rate in less than two months. No further cuts are planned for this...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358304/fed-cuts-interest-rate-again-stock-market-responds

Categories: Dealer Ops, Fixed Ops, Industry, Showroom

Motorcars Honda of Cleveland Heights has been purchased and renamed by the nine-store Foundation Automotive group. The Ohio store was recognized by BP as...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358291/worlds-first-carbon-neutral-dealership-changes-hands

Categories: Auto Finance, Compliance, Dealer Ops, Industry

National Automobile Dealers Association officials have told the FTC that proposed new provisions to the Safeguards Rule may be unnecessary and could cost...

https://www.fi-magazine.com/358185/nada-mounts-opposition-to-enhanced-safeguards-rule