This month, we learned more about some retail technology vendors' efforts to help dealerships source used vehicles. In January, when vehicle listings company CarGurus acquired a 51 percent stake ...

The CarGurus Used Vehicle Availability Index for January shows a 3.9% uptick in used-car inventory at dealerships compared to December. Meantime, the year-over-year gap has slowed to 0.8%.

Fixed ops could once again carry outsized influence as a dealership profit center. Especially if the service lane is used to solve a critical challenge: lack of used-car inventory.

A more ambitious expansion of EchoPark dealerships — a network of used-car-only stores owned by new-car dealership chain Sonic Automotive — is off to a promising start, company executives said ...