27
Jun
A dealer that I respect very much told me something profound. He said that he actually welcomes both wholesale and retail loss on used vehicles providing that the loss is on fresh units. He will not tolerate, however, wholesale or retail loss on aged units.
In other words, he acknowledges that you can […]
25
Jun
Last night I went out with my 19 year old son car shopping. I promised to help buy him a car after his first year of college if he got good grades. He apparently took me seriously as he proceeded to rack up straight A’s two quarters in a row. On the way to the […]
Last night and this morning I checked in with two managers for whom I have the utmost respect: Bill Pearson at Finishline Ford in Peoria, Illinois, and Cary Donovan at Sam Swope in Louisville, Kentucky. Both Bill and Cary told me the same thing, and I thought that it would be worth passing along to […]
23
Jun
Having been in the car business since I was a young kid, I have had the benefit of selling used cars in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, England and The United States. My Father drilled into my 3 brothers and I from the beginning of time that you made your profit when you bought the car. […]
20
Jun
Dale Pollak, Founder and Chairman of vAuto, Inc., settles into the co-pilot seat of the turbo prop commander. The fact that he suffers from a form of blindness, macular degeneration, is but a minor hindrance. Jeff Green, friend, dealer and pilot issues commands that help Pollak maneuver the plane to the end of the […]
11
Jun
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11
Jun
Last Sunday, my wife Nancy chaired the third annual Vision Walk at Soldier field in downtown Chicago. The event drew over 600 people and raised, so far to date, $203,000 for the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB). FFB is the largest non-governmental research funding source for degenerative retinal diseases, the leading cause of blindness in America.
This […]
9
Jun
Bob Tasca III, friend, dealer and world class funny car racer, invited my family and me to watch him race at the Route 66 Nationals in Joliet, IL. Tasca races a nitro-methane fueled, 8000HP Ford funny car that does 0 to 100 in .8 seconds. Yes, .8 seconds!! It covers the length of a football […]
5
Jun
Literally, every day, we are all watching gas prices skyrocket. There couldn’t be any environment that more dramatically highlights the fact that the theory of dealers stocking based on their “core inventory” is just plain wrong. If any dealer today stocked their lot based on their past core inventory, they’d be purchasing gas guzzlers and, […]
4
Jun
As you requested, below please find the 5 hottest gas sippers in your Portland market. As a client you, can get this information on your own in the future by using your vAuto stocking tool, based on any vehicle type, class, make, year or price range. Please let me know if you need to learn […]
