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NextGear Capital Offers Tips for Independent Dealer Success in 2024

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Let buyers browsing your online offerings learn as much as possible from your vehicle photos. Be aware of how much credit you have — especially if you have multiple floorplan lenders — and stay away from hard money lenders who drain a dealer’s cash flow daily. Stay informed about software options for managing your floorplan.

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The $740 Challenge: How Savvy Dealerships Are Turning the Tables

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Interest Rates and Their Impact: Automotive Market & Leasing Trends 2024 Borrowing costs are deterring many potential buyers, and the previously red-hot job market is beginning to cool. By clearing out excess stock through leases, dealerships can lower their floorplan expenses.

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Haig: Dealerships remain hot properties even as profits and values decline

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Still, Q4 profits remained an estimated 78% higher than they were in Q4 2019, just before the COVID pandemic, which Haig Partners said is helping keep buyers and investors attracted to auto dealerships. “We Sharply rising inventories and floorplan expense are pushing down profits at most stores.

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Fears emissions law ‘loophole’ will leave dealers with cars they can’t sell as makers scramble to hit targets

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That would leave dealers paying significant floorplan interest costs. Industry experts claim the NVES will quash the new-car market by as much as 19 per cent, significantly increasing demand – and potentially prices – for used cars as buyers look to side-step the new regulations.

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Four Ways Electronic Reg & Title Processing Can Save Your Dealership Money

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All of that equals less paper, less fumbling for pens, and a more streamlined process for the dealership and the car buyer. That’s what it costs you in overhead, floorplan and interest just to have a vehicle sitting idle – and those costs erode your profit margin and affect your bottom line.

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Micro-leases, subscriptions, long-term rentals, whatever you call it, will it become a third ‘sales’ channel?

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The study makes a robust case that the dominant vehicle “buyers” of the future prefer the benefits of a subscription/rental over a purchase, and, indeed that may be one of the best ways EVs go “mainstream.” Some automotive retailers are testing the waters right now before inventory grows into a substantial floorplan expense.

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