An expanding Swickard Auto Group entered Southern California via a majority stake purchase of John Elway’s Crown Toyota in Ontario, one of the Japanese automaker’s highest-volume U.S. dealerships. And the dealership’s price tag also fetched near-record blue sky value, according to the broker who facilitated the sale. Blue sky is the intangible value of a […]
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Hot on the heels of the fully electric 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV that just went on sale, Mercedes has revealed a smaller, more dynamic alternative in the form of the 2023 EQE SUV. The EQE SUV will go on sale in 2023 as a 2023 model. An AMG-enhanced EQE SUV was revealed on Sunday alongside
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A 2011 Chevrolet Impala isn’t likely to attract attention from collectors, unless it’s a NASCAR Cup Series race car driven by four-time champion Jeff Gordon, that is. Miami-based Speedart Motorsports is selling Hendrick Motorsports’ Chassis 678, which Gordon drove in the 2011 Cup Series (then known as the Sprint Cup) season. It was recently refurbished
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Over the years, we have seen plenty of hypercar replicas based on mainstream models, but a Honda-based build from Georgia stands out from the crowd. The reason for that is its radical widebody long-tail conversion, making it look like a mid-engined monster. The one-off was created by a US bodyshop called RD General Auto Repair
There’s no question that many in the automotive enthusiast community love speed and that at times, exercise questionable judgment. A new video from a street racing accident in St. Louis demonstrates just how tragic the consequences can be when a person behind the wheel engages in street racing. The clip shows a crash that killed
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Chris Mackey, managing member of Mackey Auto Group, distinctly remembers when he decided servicing commercial vehicles at his Ford dealership wasn’t going to cut it. Mackey, who formed the group in February 2019 with his son, Christopher, after having bought a Ford and a Subaru dealership, was not long into his store ownership when he
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New technology from Point Predictive and a CreditMiner-TransUnion partnership allow dealerships to take a more active role in preventing borrower fraud. BorrowerCheck for Dealers is “the first in a planned series of products for dealers” leveraged from the fraud analytics firm’s vast database of records including income reports, loan applications, fake employers and fraudulent loans.
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What do you do when you buy a coupe and then need more space to carry your equipment to work? The most common solution is to trade it for a pickup, but a Honda owner opted for the hard way, integrating a bed at the back of his Civic. The bespoke pickup is based on
Slowing sales helped inventory levels recover further to 1.32 million vehicles in September, a significant jump over where they were a year earlier but still historically low, according to Cox Automotive and the Automotive News Research & Data Center. Cox said the figure — the highest since June 2021 — represented a 42-day supply, based
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One of the biggest attractions at this year’s reborn Detroit auto show stemmed from a grassroots movement that began as a way to spread cheer among Jeep owners during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. After watching the social media-fueled phenomenon known as “ducking” spread rapidly, Jeep embraced it by setting up the world’s
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