John Sternal's Blog – December 2013 Archive (10)

Activity, Availability and Access

Following is the Used Car Market Report this week from the editors of Black Book. It is hard to believe another year has come and gone. It is exciting to think about what’s ahead within the used market as volumes continue to…

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Added by John Sternal on December 30, 2013 at 11:07am — No Comments

Active, Yet More Stability

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market. I’m Ricky Beggs, Editorial Director at Black Book. We have completed the final full week of auction and market activity for 2013 as the final two weeks on the…

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Added by John Sternal on December 23, 2013 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Wantalease.com Launches To Help Dealers With Car Lease Shoppers

A new online marketplace at www.WantALease.com has launched with the promise of helping car dealers connect and engage with car lease shoppers online. Dealers currently offer lease deals through a variety of platforms, but WantAlease.com is the first online marketplace to help them sell new leases to customers locally and in other parts of the U.S.



With WantALease.com, car shoppers throughout the country can…

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Added by John Sternal on December 20, 2013 at 3:19pm — No Comments

Student Loan Debt Feels Impact On Car Lease Credit Applications

Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports lease credit approvals were down slightly in November compared with October levels. The year-to-date approvals for customer credit finished November at 72.6%, compared with October levels of 72.8%.



Over the last three months, the lease credit approval rating has slipped to 67.9%, and under the 70% healthy level on the…

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Added by John Sternal on December 18, 2013 at 11:14am — No Comments

Greater Year-Over-Year Depreciation

Here is the latest Used Car Market Report from Ricky Beggs and Black Book. There were definitely some interesting results from the market study and detail analysis. The initial chart I looked at shows the level of change in…

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Added by John Sternal on December 16, 2013 at 2:14pm — No Comments

WHICH LUXURY CAR BRANDS ARE SEEING A DECEMBER TO FORGET?

Many of today’s luxury car brands are promoting their December holiday campaigns. But which luxury car drivers see the current month as a December to forget campaign for their car?



Swapalease.com analyzed all listings of its recent Black Friday holiday promotion, which offered deep discounts to people looking to escape their car lease through transfer. Of all popular luxury brands, Mercedes-Benz saw the largest population looking to escape at 21.6% of total listings. BMW drivers…

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Added by John Sternal on December 12, 2013 at 9:53am — No Comments

Values in Smaller Vehicles Alter During the Holidays

Hello and welcome to this week’s Used Car Market Report from Ricky Beggs and Black Book. The Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday are well behind us and we have had a full week of retail and wholesale activity to…

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Added by John Sternal on December 9, 2013 at 4:19pm — No Comments

Thanksgiving Makes Impact On Used Car Values

 

Here is the latest Used Car Market report, with…

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Added by John Sternal on December 4, 2013 at 12:18pm — No Comments

Ford Leases: More Popular & More Expensive

A recent analysis of prices on today’s most popular car leases from Swapalease.com reveals that the Ford Fusion and Escape have the second- and third-highest jump in prices, respectively, over the last twelve months. Monthly lease prices on the Escape have risen 13.0% since November 2012, and prices on the Fusion have gone up 17.1% during the same period. Only the Infiniti G37 has risen more at 20.2% over the last twelve months. The twist to this data is that a recent Swapalease.com…

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Added by John Sternal on December 3, 2013 at 9:13am — No Comments

Specialty Vehicles Update For December

Welcome to the December edition of Beggs on the Specialty Markets, with data and analysis from Ricky Beggs of Black Book. The Black Book editors that focus their efforts to track and report the specialty markets…

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Added by John Sternal on December 2, 2013 at 11:58am — No Comments

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