Auto Remarketing Podcast

DAS Technology CEO & co-founder Alexi Venneri joins the show from NADA Show 2024 in Las Vegas, where she talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about helping dealers navigate the customer experience, digital retail myths, the company's study and much more.

Cars Commerce said in its 2024 Automotive Trends report there is roughly a 10.2 million-unit deficit in the number of 1- to 3-year-old vehicles expected to re-enter the pre-owned car market in the near future, leading to a “sparse and expensive” picture for dealers’ used-car inventories. How should store managers handle that situation? Brian Kramer, executive vice president at Cars Commerce and ge...

Before spending a few minutes with Cherokee Media Group to elaborate about the used-car market, National Automobile Dealers Association chief economist Patrick Manzi gave a press conference on the NADA Live Stage. Hear what else Manzi had to say about the franchised dealership world from Las Vegas during NADA Show 2024 through this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

The CARS Rule from the Federal Trade Commission was one of the primary topics at NADA Show 2024, and Adam Crowell offered his expert perspectives, too. The vice president of legal and corporate development at KPA discussed the FTC and other regulatory matters during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast recorded in Las Vegas.

It’s a joint episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast and the PAL Podcast, featuring their respective hosts, Joe Overby and Jeremy Louisos. Joe and Jeremy connected at NADA Show 2024 last month in Las Vegas for a conversation in which each asked the other five surprise questions. They chatted about everything from electric vehicles and the Boston Bruins to exploring Vegas by foot and a punk rock mu...

Cherokee Media Group listened in as Tim Reuss of the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association appeared at NADA Show 2024 in Las Vegas. In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, hear what Reuss had to say about the challenges dealers in Canada are facing and the infrastructure struggles as more electric vehicles enter the market.

Continuing our series from NADA Show 2024, CARFAX editor-in-chief Patrick Olsen and CARFAX Car Care general manager Paul Nadjarian join the show for a conversation about electric vehicles, the company's presence in the wholesale market, the certified pre-owned market, the various factors impacting vehicle history and much more.

Credit Union Leasing of America president Ken Sopp and vice president of business development Mark Chandler elaborated about the company's prospects, the state of credit unions and the ongoing challenge to grow used-vehicle leasing during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast recorded in Las Vegas at NADA Show 2024.

Next up on our series of episodes from NADA Show 2024, Erin Kerrigan, who is co-founder and managing director of Kerrigan Advisors, connects with Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby during the J.D. Power Auto Summit. They discuss dealership buy-sell activity, dealer groups diversifying their lines of business, the state of used-car standalone stores and more.

Artificial intelligence can do a lot of things, but solving all of challenges within auto financing doesn’t appear to be one of them yet. Pete MacInnis, founder and CEO of eLEND Solutions, spent some time in Las Vegas at NADA Show 2024 for this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast to discuss AI, the company’s latest industry survey and more.

In late January, Black Book introduced Battery Adjusted Values, which it says are the industry’s first electric vehicle valuations. The valuations incorporate battery condition adjustments based on data from Recurrent, a provider of EV analytics. At NADA Show 2024 last month, Cherokee Media Group connected with Marko Iljadica of Recurrent as well as Laura Wehunt, Jared Kalfus & Alex Yurchenko of B...

Almost seven years ago to the day (March 16, 2017), Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby was in Chicago to record what would end up being the first-ever episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. The guests? Kayne Grau, the co-founder and then-CEO of DRIVIN, and his colleagues John Manganaro and Justin Mahlik. A few trips around the sun and industry evolutions later, Grau is the relatively new CEO of C...

Kanchana Sundaram acknowledged dealerships are fertile places for fraud to happen. But Experian’s senior director of product and innovation for automotive offered several suggestions for how stores can remain car retailers, not vehicle victims, during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast recorded in Las Vegas at NADA Show 2024.

About a month before the company welcomed Sharon Mancero as part of its management team, Agora Data CEO Steve Burke made time for the Auto Remarketing Podcast at NADA Show in Las Vegas. Burke shared his assessment of the financing and securitization markets and how Agora Data is diversifying its offerings.

Continuing our conversations from NADA Show 2024, Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby catches up with Chance Mayfield and Justin Neiser of Carfluent, a provider of artificial intelligence-driven software that helps dealers create bilingual vehicle listings. Mayfield and Neiser share the inspiration behind the company, how the software works, the nuances of translation and the importance of reaching...

Next up on our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from NADA Show 2024, ACV CEO George Chamoun returns to the program to talk about sourcing inventory from consumers, ACV's "TEC Talks," growth areas for the company, its work with a.i.m. recon and much more.

Cherokee Media Group asked Jessica Caldwell of Edmunds a question that undoubtedly many consumers and perhaps some dealerships and finance companies are wondering, too. “Will retail prices for both used and new vehicles ever soften back to what they were say four or five years ago?” Caldwell addressed that question and more during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast recorded at NADA Show...

The FTC’s proposed CARS Rule is currently in legal limbo. So what are the likely arguments and the possible outcomes? And what should dealers be doing to prepare in the meantime? On this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Buckeye Dealership Consulting’s Shaun Petersen shares his considerable legislative, regulatory and compliance expertise as he untangles that issue, as well as discussing wh...

Justin Osburn, founder and CEO of Automotive Reinsurance Concepts and SmartGroups: 20 Groups Reimagined, returns to the Auto Remarketing Podcast fresh off a SmartGroup meeting that included some of the nation’s largest independent dealers. Osburn talks with Cherokee Media Group associate editor Andrew Friedlander about areas those dealers focused on, including opportunities in fixed ops and F&I, a...

Stephen Smith, vice president of product and engineering at Cox Automotive, is the latest to join our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from NADA Show 2024 last month in Las Vegas. He talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about electric vehicle battery health, delving into some of the research, insights and regulations around that and how it impacts EV valuations.

Next up on our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from NADA Show 2024 in Las Vegas last month is a conversation with two executives leading the North American marketplaces at OPENLANE: senior vice president Shiv Dutt, who is also the president of the company's US marketplace; and SVP Trevor Henderson, who is president of the Canadian marketplace.

Continuing our discussions from NADA Show 2024 in Las Vegas last month, Lyamen Savy joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to discuss her new venture, Blabber, where she is founder and CEO. Blabber is a referral platform, where automotive professionals can "rapidly scale your sales through warm introductions." Savy talks with Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby about that new venture and more.

Alternative data isn’t new in auto financing. But Lena Bourgeois, senior vice president of vertical markets at Equifax, explained why alternative data is now more refined to the benefit of finance companies of all sizes. Bourgeois discussed that topic and more during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast recorded at NADA Show 2024 in Las Vegas.

Continuing our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from NADA Show 2024 in Las Vegas, Automobile Technologies managing director Mike Boyd and Repair OnDemand president Randy Kobat join Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby from the expo hall floor to talk repair and recon.

Next up on our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from NADA Show 2024 earlier this month in Las Vegas is a conversation with Derek Hansen, vice president of operations, inventory and management solutions at Cox Automotive.