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The Detroit News recently posted an article about Ford’s decision to enhance it’s certified used car program. Partially due to the recent slump in the economy, Ford’s decision should offset the decline in sales of new cars and trucks. Recent surveys by J.D. Power and Associates and Wachovia show overall demand for used cars, and for certified used-car sales particularly, is increasing.

The latest initial quality study commissioned by Ford shows the automaker in a statistical dead-heat with Toyota and Honda.

Toyota, which also saw a decline in new car sales, is also focusing on their certified used car plan to boost sales. Meanwhile, just announced, Toyota Motor Corp. beat General Motors Corp. in first-quarter sales by 159,000 vehicles, challenging the U.S. automaker’s 77-year reign as the global leader with gains in emerging markets that offset U.S. declines.

On February 4th, 2008, Automotive News posted an article about Jim Hudson, president of the Jim Hudson Automotive Group. Mr Hudson will be taking on the role of the 2008 chairman of the American International Automobile Dealers Association. As the leader of the AIADA, Mr. Hudson will tackle may important issues on behalf of american dealers and vows to “…support them in any way I can.” One such issue is the South Korean free-trade agreement, which could allow dealers to sell more imported pickups.

Jim Hudson, who grew up on a tobacco farm in Turkey, N.C, became a first generation dealer in 1980 when he opened his first Oldsmobile dealership. Since then, the Jim Hudson Automotive Group has grown to include eight franchises – Pontiac, Buick, GMC, Saab, Toyota, Lexus, Scion, Hyundai – in five locations, all in the Columbia area, as well as a Lexus dealership in Augusta, Georgia.