Our Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke joins us once again from his home studio in Atlanta, GA, with the latest on the impacts of COVID-19 on the automotive industry. The latest on COVID-19’s nationwide impact Continuing jobless claims and impacts by…
The global pandemic has played havoc on the U.S. economy and the automotive market, with a forecast of 14.3 million new-vehicle units to be sold in the U.S. this year, down roughly 3 million units from 2019. Despite lower sales…
Auto Remarketing/SubPrime Auto Finance News, Dec. 14, 2020 – Cox Automotive recently launched a new industry measurement called the Dealertrack Credit Availability Index that’s geared to track how the auto-finance market is trending. For the first installment, analysts discovered credit…
Derived from a quarterly survey that Cox Automotive issues to a representative sample of franchised and independent auto dealers from around the country, the Cox Automotive Dealer Sentiment Index (CADSI) measures dealer perceptions of current retail auto sales and sales…
ATLANTA, Dec. 14, 2020 – U.S. automobile dealer sentiment dropped in Q4 returning to its pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest Cox Automotive Dealer Sentiment Index (CADSI). The overall current market index dropped below 50 into negative territory with a…
This week was the worst week yet for the pandemic in the U.S. with record cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Record cases and new restrictions are causing an uptick in the jobless numbers. Job losses soar: Rising COVID-19 cases this fall…
Automotive News, Dec. 14, 2020 – Political confusion and a worsening pandemic clouded dealer sentiment gauged by Cox Automotive’s quarterly Dealer Sentiment Index survey. Dealers reported slightly lower optimism on Cox’s fourth-quarter poll, conducted Nov. 4 to 15 as coronavirus…
Automotive News/Fixed Ops Journal, Dec. 2020 – Ed Roberts, fixed ops director at Bozard Ford-Lincoln in St. Augustine, Fla., has been thinking a lot lately about how Ford’s first three battery-electric vehicles — the Mustang Mach-E arriving this month, the…
Auto Remarketing, Dec. 10, 2020 – Certified pre-owned sales took major tumbles on both year-over-year and month-over-month bases in November, but that shouldn’t cause alarm about the overall strength in CPO, according to Cox Automotive. The 21% decline from November…
Sales of certified pre-owned (CPO) vehicles declined 21% year over year in November with 3 less selling days and were down 20% month over month compared to October, reflecting a normalizing market coming off of a resilient performance in the…
