Autoco.com Announces New Web Site Design and Services
4 April 2000
Autoco.com Announces New Web Site Design and Services- Offers B2B E-commerce and Online Consumer Financing Options - MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 4 Autoco.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AOOO; http://www.autoco.com) today announced TheMotorPages.com revised website, increasing the suite of e-commerce services available to automotive dealers and consumers. "This new and improved platform promotes further awareness of TheMotorPages.com and its services as the premiere search engine for automobiles available to consumers and dealers throughout North America," explained Chairman and CEO, Max Wandinger. New services include e-commerce on-line financing for the consumer, ensuring an easy purchase process between dealer and consumer and on-line classified advertising opportunities. Current services such as the online tendering system designed for dealer-to-dealer auction services and an updated database, providing information on franchised and independent car dealers, are added services to accelerate TheMotorPages.com business opportunities and future expansion into North America. An ongoing media campaign is in place to complement TheMotorPages.com continued expansion, leveraging the established reputation of this high traffic website. Recent exposure through advertisements in MacLean's magazine and Autoworld Magazine, compliment the Company's continued efforts to increase traffic and automotive enquiries to the site and to provide car dealers with access to updated automotive information. Ongoing advertisements in the Canadian Black Book, an integral resource to car dealers will be launched in April. Autoco.com, Inc. is focused on providing innovative Internet solutions to the automotive industry's emerging requirements for online vehicle sales, auctions, services and parts through a network of strategically positioned subsidiaries. For more information or to request a detailed Investor Package, please contact Investor Relations at 800-773-7317. Note: Any statements released by autoco.com that are forward-looking are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Editors and investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements invoke risk and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business prospects and performances. These include economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors discussed in the statements and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Disclaimer: This transmission was intended only for the party or parties to whom it was directed. If you have received the transmission in error or by other means, it must be destroyed and by no means circulated, copied or otherwise duplicated without the express permission of its author(s). Nothing in the contents transmitted should be construed as an investment advisory, nor should it be used to make investment decisions. There is no express or implied solicitation to buy or sell securities. The author(s) may have positions in the stocks or financial relationships with the company discussed and may trade in the stocks mentioned. Readers are advised to conduct their own due diligence prior to considering buying or selling any stock. All information should be considered for information purposes only. No stock exchange has approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.