Vanguard Dealer Services News

• Mickey Quinn and Neil Brennan Promotions at Vanguard Dealer Services
• New Business Strategies for the Post-Pandemic Shopper by Mickey Quinn
• Mickey Quinn and Mike Vierzchalek featured in Spiro’s latest Case Study talking about accurate sales forecasting
• 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

F&I Industry News

• Mini rolls out online retail platform Mini Anywhere
  The company is touting the new platform as a fully digital end-to-end shopping tool for customers who want to buy […]
• Score another one for offering more F&I products online
  A new study from F&I provider Protective Asset Protection underscores industry claims that more F&I product information is accessible online […]
• Wells Fargo, customers reach preliminary settlement in GAP refund case
  The settlement comes after three years of legal battles between Wells Fargo and consumers over a GAP insurance dispute.

Automotive Industry News

• Detroit dealers association promises reveals at 6-day Motor Bella
  The outdoor event scheduled for September in Pontiac, Mich., replaces the North American International Auto Show this year, although organizers […]
• Flex-N-Gate to invest $52 million, create 245 jobs in Michigan
  The move is the result of the supplier winning a five-year contract with an unnamed customer for a new product […]
• Canoo to build plant in Oklahoma
  The plant will include a paint shop, body shop and general assembly and employ over 2,000 people.
• Ford beefs up commercial EV business with fleet charging acquisition
  The acquisition will help it offer commercial customers "end-to-end" EV charging services once its E-Transit van and F-150 Lightning go […]
• Daimler speeds up shift to EVs, report says
  Many of the EVs the automaker has planned for 2024 or 2025 will be moved forward a year and their […]
• Lordstown now says it has no binding purchase orders from customers
  The U-turn comes after President Rich Schmidt said Tuesday the company had firm and binding orders for the first two years of […]
• Mini rolls out online retail platform Mini Anywhere
  The company is touting the new platform as a fully digital end-to-end shopping tool for customers who want to buy […]
• Ford says Q2 pretax earnings will surpass its expectations
  The automaker also noted it's booked 36,000 reservations for the Maverick compact pickup in the nine days since its reveal.
• Workhorse challenges USPS decision to award vehicle contract to Oshkosh
  Workhorse had proposed building an all-electric vehicle fleet for the Postal Service and has the support of many U.S. lawmakers.

Fixed Operations Industry News

• A way to stay on top of a changing world
  Have we put together a Fixed Ops Journal Forum program interesting enough that people will want to attend? Mike Weldon says yes.
• Temp-taking service director connects with staff
  Service director David Blackburn gave 30,000 pandemic scans, measuring his employees' temperatures every day. He learned some management lessons along the way.
• FTC, Congress could intervene in the right-to-repair battle
  Right-to-repair advocates are trying to gin up interest in Congress for federal legislation, and the Federal Trade Commission is hinting that it could write new […]