Vanguard Dealer Services News

• Mickey Quinn is featured on Dealership News July Podcast
• Mickey Quinn and Neil Brennan featured in the P&A 2019 Industry Trends for 2019 article
• James Polley quoted in Automotive News – How vendors avoid ineffective overload
• Vanguard Dealer Services has been the honored recipient of EasyCare’s Globe Award for 10 years in a row!
• Pitching products in the service drive works. Just ask Nestor.
• ‘Why F&I is so critical’
• Using Tech in Down Economy
• Vanguard Dealer Services Celebrates 10th Anniversary Providing F&I Products, Dealership Consulting
• Vanguard Dealer Services Improves Dealerships’ Profitability By Offering MOTOR TREND® Recommended Best Buy F&I Products
• Vanguard Dealer Services Named Automobile Protection Corporation’s Largest Agency For Seventh Consecutive Year
• Vanguard Dealer Services Celebrates 15 Years of Dealership Profitability
• Vanguard Dealer Services Launches New State-Of-The-Art Website

F&I Industry News

• Ford Credit wants to give customers options
  Ford Credit is a significant profit generator for the automaker. Jim Drotman, executive vice president for Ford Credit's U.S. and […]
• BMW i Ventures takes minority stake in AutoFi
  AutoFi, a San Francisco provider of software that automates online vehicle sales and financing, will use the additional funds to […]
• Regulators, 2020 election lead hot topics at AFSA
  How to interpret the Military Lending Act, the rise of state-level consumer financial protection bureaus and who will occupy the […]

Automotive Industry News

• Japan creates task force to deal with coronavirus impact on auto industry
  The group will monitor developments and coordinate communication, and work with the Japanese government on measures to help smooth the flow […]
• VW will start search for new CFO, report says
  VW Group CFO Frank Witter, who was instrumental in steering the automaker through the diesel scandal that cost the company […]
• Daimler retools management at Mercedes-Benz, van units
  CEO Ola Kallenius will take over the struggling vans unit, while CFO Harald Wilhelm is replacing the longtime finance chief […]
• China considers extending EV subsidies after sales slump, report says
  Talks are at a preliminary stage and there is no guarantee the subsidies will be extended, sources told Bloomberg. As […]
• American Honda auto division chief Arcangeli steps down
  Henio Arcangeli Jr., a newcomer to the auto industry when he joined American Honda in 2017, is leaving the company […]
• French prosecutors step up Ghosn probe over palace party, report says
  Officials in Nanterre have been looking into a party Carlos Ghosn threw for his wife at the Versailles palace, among other financial dealings. A […]
• KAR Global Q4 net income down on TradeRev costs
  CEO Jim Hallett said he expects TradeRev, the company's mobile app-based vehicle trading platform, to break even sometime in 2021.
• Former UAW official sentenced to 28 months in corruption scandal
  U.S. prosecutors say Michael Grimes, who worked as an assistant in the UAW’s General Motors department, conspired with two unidentified […]
• Nissan faces global parts shortage due to coronavirus, report says
  Nissan procures more than 800 parts from factories in the outbreak epicenter of Hubei to make cars worldwide and is […]

Fixed Operations Industry News

• Dealers offer expertise, but factories should help them stay competitive on repairs
  Knowing the job is going to be done properly by a technician who knows my car inside and out is worth paying a premium. But […]
• Parts lines help dealers be more competitive
  Both Ford and General Motors dealers are well positioned to go after drivers of 6- to 10-year-old, out-of-warranty vehicles by offering a line of value-priced […]
• Porsche's glasses connect service techs with factory in real time
  Porsche's Tech Live Look technology uses online augmented-reality technology to enable dealership techs to communicate in real time with the automaker's Atlanta-based technical support team […]