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Chrysler Brand Offering NewCarTestDrive.com Reviews on the Web

4 May 2000

Chrysler Brand Offering NewCarTestDrive.com Reviews on the Web

    TROY, Mich., May 4 New Car Test Drive, Inc. (a.k.a.
NewCarTestDrive.com ) has announced that its test drive reviews of Chrysler
Brand Vehicles are now available to consumers on the Chrysler brand website
(http://www.chrysler.com ).  The agreement was reached with Chrysler and Organic,
Chrysler brand's Internet solutions provider.
    NCTD drives and reviews more than 200 domestic and imported cars and light
trucks each year with Editor-In-Chief Mitch McCullough and an editorial group
of more than 15 thoroughly experienced auto journalists.  NCTD is the leading
provider of car reviews on the World Wide Web.
    "This new relationship with the Chrysler brand confirms our leadership as
a content provider in the burgeoning Internet automotive marketplace," said
John Tipp, founder and CEO of New Car Test Drive.  NCTD has affiliations with
or licenses its content to; Autobytel, Autoweb, AutoNationDirect, Kelley Blue
Book, Greenlight, Autotrader, Autogiant, Automallusa, Priceline, Go.com,
Carclub, Carsmart, Carprices, Driveoff, Dealernet, Samsclubauto, Uautobid, and
many others.
    "We are pleased that Chrysler brand is the first of the premiere global
automotive companies to host third party car reviews and has selected New Car
Test Drive as the source for its content," said Dennis Thrasher, COO of the
company.
    "It's important to provide unbiased third party reviews on our extensive
line-up of vehicles," said Dan Glinicki, Chrysler's brand Internet Manager.
"The consumer is now in the driver's seat.  We wanted to add site content that
kept these drivers at our site.  Their party content, including New Car Test
Drive and Kelley Blue Book, represents our first steps toward making
Chrysler's site a one-stop source for the most rounded OEM automotive brand
content available on the Internet."
    New Car Test Drive, Inc. is a totally independent and privately held
corporation with no ownership affiliations or ties to any automobile
manufacturer or similar organization.  It was founded in 1994 with the
publishing of annual newsstand editions of the New Car Test Drivecar buyer's
guide that continues today.  NCTD went on-line in 1995 as an early leader in
the Internet explosion with its own site, http://www.nctd.com .  Extensive licensing
activities in the meantime with over 40 automotive Web sites, has elevated
NCTD to being the world's leader in car review readership.