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EFG Client Davis-Moore Automotive Receives Dealer of the Year Award

Dealer of the Year PhotoF&I and Showroom Magazine recognizes Davis-Moore for the auto group’s commitment to compliance in driving F&I profit

EFG Companies, the innovator behind the award-winning Hyundai Assurance program, is proud to recognize Davis-Moore Automotive for receiving the F&I and Showroom Magazine’s Dealer of the Year and Pacesetter Awards. The annual F&I Dealer of the Year award is given to a dealership or dealer group with a highly profitable F&I department that demonstrates a commitment to regulatory compliance.

Founded in 1955, Davis-Moore is a six-rooftop dealership in Kansas, with five stores in Wichita and the Clint Bowyer Autoplex in Emporia. Earlier this year, Davis-Moore won the Better Business Bureau Integrity Award, as well as a variety of Reader’s Choice awards from Wichita’s local newspaper, The Wichita Eagle.

“We are so proud to count Davis-Moore as part of our family of clients,” said John Stephens, Senior Vice President, Dealer Services, EFG Companies. “Davis-Moore has always been a dealer group with high integrity and an eye toward the future. Their recognition of the importance of compliance and serving the customer’s best interest has helped Davis-Moore raise the bar in this new era of F&I profitability.”

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Are You Prepared for Expanding CFPB Influence?

Karen Klees, Certified Consumer Credit Compliance Professional, EFG Companies

 

Contributing Author: Karen Klees, Certified Consumer Credit Compliance Professional, EFG Companies

For the past few months, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has made headlines with the implementation of their Larger Participant Rule. Now that more lenders are feeling the pressure, dealers can expect the shadow of the CFPB to creep over their operations, starting with documentation.

If you haven’t implemented a version of the National Auto Dealer Association’s (NADA) Fair Credit Compliance Guidelines, now is the time to do so. Expect to have banks, captives, finance companies, etc. asking for your written policies and procedures, as well as documented training, within the next few months as they prepare for CFPB investigations.

The CFPB initially preferred the establishment of a flat rate that does not change from one customer to the next, resulting in a flat fee or a fixed percentage of the amount financed for dealership compensation. However, in their recent settlement with Honda, they allowed for NADA’s guidelines to be implemented.

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Are You Appealing to Millennials?

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Contributing Author: Gabe Aldrete, Vice President, Dealer Services, EFG Companies

When you hear the term “Millennials” paired with the term “car,” what comes to mind? Do you automatically think, “Millennials aren’t interested in cars?” For the past few years, it seemed like a new article was published every month stating that the reason Millennials weren’t buying cars was due to personal preference.

Today, economics has proven that assertion false. According to J.D. Power & Associates, Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2004) accounted for 27 percent of new car sales in the U.S. last year. Millennials have already surpassed Generation X to become the second-largest group of new car buyers after Baby Boomers, and each year, the influence of the Baby Boomer generation recedes and Millennial buying power increases.

It turns out, personal preference had very little to do with Millennials approaching the auto industry. Rather, it had all to do with the economy, the job market, and wage growth. Most of the Millennials with buying power today entered the job market during the economic upheaval in the Great Recession. Because of the lack of prospects, some returned to school, while others moved in with parents or got roommates and stuck it out in low-paying or part-time jobs that did not utilize their post-high school training or education.

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