AutoNation, one of the largest auto dealers, reported new vehicle unit sales rose 22% to 19, 283.
Maybe so, but it's also tangled in a web of red tape that's frustrating auto dealers.
They met 15 years ago when Mr. Lasorda was signing autographs at a conference for auto dealers.
That would be bullish for many sectors of the economy, such as auto dealers, retailers and home builders.
Ford, Toyota and Honda I think represent the next three biggest auto dealers.
On the other hand, Zerbe said, another tax change Congress is considering could hurt auto dealers--and needs to be rethought.
Financial Analysis of Auto Dealers' Gross Margins by SageworksSales growth, meanwhile, has been healthy for auto dealers in recent years.
Gross margins for auto dealers averaged 16.1 percent in 2012 and 15.1 percent over the last 10 years, according to Sageworks estimates.
Several publicly held auto dealers, too, have reported sales increases this year.
The types of systems used to remotely disable the vehicles are largely designed to replace physical repossessions at so called subprime auto dealers.
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For the last 12 months, sales at the private auto dealers analyzed by Sageworks are an average 15 percent higher than a year earlier.
Sageworks performed a financial statement analysis of privately owned auto dealers and found that average sales have rebounded strongly since 2008 and 2009.
Serial entrepreneur Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar.com, has spent much of his career trying to tell auto dealers how to run their business.
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Sales at auto dealers fell 3.2% compared with the year before, as prices were hiked in response to lower product flows from Japan this quarter.
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From auto dealers, they zero in on people purchasing expensive cars.
Another was proposed by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback to exempt auto dealers from oversight by the consumer financial protection agency that would be created under the Federal Reserve.
These premium players may figure out that those sponsoring financial firms, real estate moguls, auto dealers, etc, are companies that already appreciate brand value connectivity with the Philyanksox franchises.
Under proposed regulations not only banks but merchants, like auto dealers, real estate agents and travel agencies, are obliged to snoop on their customers in hopes of detecting whether money was obtained illicitly.
The program already has 15, 893, or 88 percent, of the nation's approximately 18, 000 registered auto dealers set to participate, said Bailey Wood, a spokesman for the National Automobile Dealers Association.
Now, after enlisting help from auto dealers, manufacturers and other industry leaders, Painter is relaunching TrueCar.com with a more conciliatory approach that he says balances the interests of dealers and consumers.
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DealerTrack sells on-demand software for auto dealers and lenders.
Auto dealers have notched improvements in net profit margin from 2008, when they were barely at break even, to 2012, when they were approximately 3.8 percent, according to preliminary estimates by Sageworks.
They assumed they had a lock on local advertising to individuals with their papers' classified ad departments, and on major advertisers like auto manufacturers, auto dealers and movie distributors and theaters with their display ads.
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Google stepped into the local ad market and allows small firms to try and out bid each other on pay per click ? that helps only Google 2.00 for Orlando auto dealers is not going to bring back a high ROI .
One example that Lodish admires: auto dealers that pitch the notion that now is a good time to buy a big vehicle because the discount will save customers more than enough money to compensate for the extra fuel costs over four or five years.
The fact is that a driverless car would slash hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue, or even trillions, from all sorts of entities: car makers, parts suppliers, car dealers, auto insurers, auto financiers, body shops, emergency rooms, health insurers, medical practices, personal-injury lawyers, government taxing authorities, road-construction companies, parking-lot operators, oil companies, owners of urban real estate, and on and on and on.
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Elsewhere in the auto industry, relations between dealers and manufacturers are often chilly and sometimes hostile.
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