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From the WSJ:

Why is it that the most important tasks that need to be performed are often the hardest to do?

That may be the case for car remarketers in identifying frame damage. Those remarketers who fail to first identify frame damage and then disclose that information to potential buyers at an auction could face costly consequences—both in terms of real dollars and damage to their reputation.

But while identifying frame is usually difficult to the untrained eye, there are materials and training programs… Continue

First, it was the Cash for Clunkers program. Then, it was some heartening car-sale numbers. Now, it is Adesa's planned $400 million initial public offering.

Things are looking up for the auto industry.

Adesa's parent Kar Holdings Inc. filed for an IPO yesterday. The company did not set an offering date.

In the filing, which you can view… Continue

The Chevrolet Volt, a prototype of which hit the roads of Michigan last week, will reportedly get 230 miles per gallon in city driving. Yes, you read that right, 230 MPG. According to the Wall Street Journal, "the Volt, slated to begin production in late 2010, is ex… Continue

By LAURIE GIESEN

The trade-in prices of some vehicles may have edged up in recent months, but that does not appear to have stopped the decline in the number of negative equity auto loans being made.

With lower gasoline prices causing trade-in values on some cars to increase, the spread between the value of the auto loans being requested and the cars being purchased on negative equity loans has narrowed. That led some auto experts to believe that financial institutions would be more willing to… Continue