02/03/2025The business environment for the bold entrepreneurs who own and operate independent auto dealerships face many new challenges. Let’s take a look at five of the biggest. 1. More Competition The internet keeps making the world smaller, so local car dealers no longer just compete with the...
01/29/2025As long as used cars have existed, dealers have been propping the hoods to show a clean, shiny engine to would-be buyers. We all love the aesthetic benefits of a clean engine, and it can prevent corrosion and related problems. So here are a few best practices about how to wash a car engine to get it...
01/27/2025There’s a good reason the song doesn’t talk about driving in a winter wonderland. The onset of cold weather can create havoc with unprepared vehicles and their owners. Here are a few tips to keep your inventory, fleet or daily transportation in good working order. Regularly Che...
01/24/2025Losing a car to theft can feel particularly violating. A car becomes part of our personal identity, and is the second largest purchase most people make, next to a house. Car thieves have favorite makes and models for various reasons. Let’s take a look at what they’re most likely to s...
01/22/2025It’s better to be overprepared than underprepared. We bought dozens of RV trailers to comfortably house our catastrophe response team members while they worked for days and weeks away from home to recover vehicles totaled by insurance companies. But we bought more than we needed,...
01/20/2025Henry Ford may have brought the automobile to the masses with his Model T, but it was Karl Benz who built the first horseless carriage with an internal combustion engine in 1885 with his Benz Patent Motorwagen. Germany has a long tradition of top-quality engineering in everything, especially cars.&n...