Cars.com Celebrates Summer By Awarding Car Leases
1 July 1999
Cars.com Celebrates Summer By Awarding Car Leases
New Sweepstakes Drives Consumers to Vie for Hot Summer Cars
CHICAGO, July 1 -- The mercury is rising outside and so is
the excitement among car lovers everywhere as cars.com announces "The Cars of
Summer" Sweepstakes. Beginning June 30 and running throughout the month of
July, sweepstakes entrants will be eligible to win one of two grand prizes.
Each grand prize winner will be awarded a one-year lease on their favorite
Summer Car of choice.
Consumers can enter the national Sweepstakes by logging onto the cars.com
Web site at http://www.cars.com or by mailing in their entry(1). Winners of the Cars
of Summer Sweepstakes will be revealed on the cars.com Web site in mid-August.
"Cars.com is combining the best aspects of summer: fun, sun and cars, to
offer one of the hottest sweepstakes available online," said Mitch Golub,
general manager of cars.com. "The cars.com focus is not only on educating
consumers on their car purchases, but also making the site entertaining and
exciting for our visitors. Providing our visitors with a chance to drive the
summer car of their dreams is one way of achieving this."
About cars.com
Cars.com, at http://cars.com, simplifies car shopping on the Internet.
Affiliated with more than 130 local newspapers, the e-commerce publisher
currently has inventory in 71 markets, including 25 of the top 30 markets in
the United States. Cars.com, the only automotive web site to provide daily
updates of dealer inventories, allows consumers to search vehicle listings by
zip code, vehicle make, model and year. In addition to vehicle pricing,
cars.com provides consumers with trusted automotive information, including
rich editorial content pertaining to real life issues such as how to purchase
a vehicle and tips for parents of young drivers. The site also provides
consumers with tools such as an auto loan calculator, news and reports
on new and used vehicles, more than 3,500 independent automotive reviews
(1983-present), vehicle performance data, and vehicle recall information.
Cars.com is a division of Classified Ventures, based in Chicago, Ill.
About Classified Ventures
Classified Ventures provides nationally branded online services for the
emerging e-commerce opportunities in the classified advertising marketplace
that build upon the capabilities and local expertise of a national affiliate
network. The company currently operates the apartments web site
Apartments.com, http://www.apartments.com, the auction web site Auction Universe,
http://www.auctionuniverse.com, the automotive web site cars.com, http://www.cars.com, the
moving information site MovingCenter, http://www.movingcenter.com, and the real
estate web site NewHomeNetwork, http://www.newhomenetwork.com . Classified Ventures
will also launch HomeHunter(TM), a resale real estate service, later this
summer.
Classified Ventures, Inc. was formed by eight leading media companies:
Central Newspapers, Inc.; Gannett Co.; Knight Ridder; The McClatchy Company;
The New York Times Company; The Times Mirror Company; Tribune Company and The
Washington Post Company. For more information on Classified Ventures, please
contact Mark Smith at 312-396-9718, mark_smith@pr21.com or visit the
Classified Ventures Web site at http://www.classifiedventures.com
CONTACT: Nevenka Todorovic of cars.com, 312-575-2700 ext. 2768, or
e-mail, ntodorovic@cars.com; or Leilani Monsalud of PR 21,
312-396-9736, or e-mail, leilani_monsalud@pr21.com
(1) To enter by mail, send a 3x5 card on which you have handprinted your
first and last name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if
available) to: Cars.com "Cars of Summer" Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 3821,
Department Y, St. Cloud, MN 56397-3821. All U.S. mail-in entries must be
postmarked by July 31, 1999 and received by August 4, 1999. LIMIT ONE ENTRY
PER PERSON, REGARDLESS OF MEANS OF ENTRY; ONLY THE FIRST ENTRY WILL BE
ACCEPTED.