Carfax Used Car Listings

FAIRFAX, Va. July 5, 2005: Carfax today celebrates the one-year anniversary of its exclusive used car listing service, Carfax Hot Listings. Since its launch, Carfax-subscribing dealers have made nearly six million used cars available to shoppers through Hot Listings. Each vehicle comes with a free Carfax Vehicle History Report provided by the listing dealer. Every vehicle in Hot Listings is backed by the Carfax Buyback Guarantee.

"Hot Listings has far exceeded our expectations in its first year," said Larry Gamache, communications director at Carfax. "Thousands of consumers visit our Web site each day and have looked at the cars our dealer customers post in Hot Listings more than 35 million times over the course of this past year. Partly because of the success of Hot Listings, used car shoppers have come to expect vehicle history reports with cars listed for sale online."

Hot Listings helps the 25 million annual carfax.com visitors find the right used car faster and easier. Consumers can quickly choose from thousands of vehicles posted each month by entering specific search criteria (i.e. make, model, year) and also opt to receive emails each time a new match is added to Hot Listings.

By simply running a Carfax Vehicle History Report, the 25,000 Carfax-subscribing dealers can automatically add their vehicles to Hot Listings.

"One customer called about an Audi A4 I had just taken in on a trade two hours earlier," said Dave Mitre, pre-owned manager at Walter's Auto Sales & Service in Riverside, CA. "We hadn't even put the car in the shop yet and I wondered how she knew about it. It was pretty amazing to discover she had found it in Carfax Hot Listings!"

Consumers can sign up for Carfax Hot Listings by visiting carfax.com. Dealers interested in becoming a Carfax subscriber can do so at carfaxonline.com.