MENLO PARK, CA – ATC-Onlane, a North American online auction company for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles, now powers Ford Motor Credit Company’s North American online remarketing program, called Accelerate, giving Ford Motor Credit dealers across the U.S. and Canada access to an off-lease vehicle inventory. More than 6,000 dealers representing North American Ford Motor Company brands, including Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, and Volvo, have access to a nationwide inventory of off-lease vehicles before they are made available anywhere else.
“Having instant access to a nationwide selection of off-lease vehicles has made a dramatic difference to our dealership in terms of time and cost savings, as well as overall operational efficiency,” said Mike Shireman, certified pre-owned manager at Stadel Volvo in East Petersburg, Penn. “I am able to manage my inventory in a more effective way and, in turn, increase customer satisfaction because I can now get the vehicles my customers want easily and quickly. Accelerate (Volvo version of Accelerate is VCFRide) provides me with access to a huge pool of virtual inventory – if I don’t have a vehicle that a retail customer is looking for on my lot, I can still close a deal by finding and buying that car on the site, and then having it shipped directly to my dealership.”
By offering thousands of vehicles for sale upstream via the Internet, Accelerate allows dealers to buy the vehicles they need with a faster time to sale. Specifically, the Accelerate sites allow dealers to:
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