CarsDirect.com Named One of the 100 Best Sites for 2001; Company Honored by Yahoo! Internet Life for Online Performance
8 January 2001
CarsDirect.com Named One of the 100 Best Sites for 2001; Company Honored by Yahoo! Internet Life for Online Performance
LOS ANGELES--Jan. 8, 2001--CarsDirect.com, the leading direct online automotive provider, today announced the company has been selected as the Best Car-Buying Hub and one of the "100 Best Sites for 2001" by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.This honor reaffirms CarsDirect.com's commitment to provide consumers with an outstanding car buying experience. The CarsDirect.com listing can be found at http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0101/100best_shop2.html.
Yahoo! Internet Life, the world's leading consumer lifestyle magazine covering the Internet with more than 5 million readers monthly, chose CarsDirect.com for its excellence in past performance and believes the company represents the best of the Internet as it unfolds in 2001. The editors of Yahoo! Internet Life monitored the performance and potential of a wide spectrum of Web sites in their own areas of expertise, arriving at the 100 best through rigorous analysis.
"By acting as a liaison between buyers and dealers, CarsDirect.com pioneered a new business model that makes it almost as easy to purchase a car online as it is to buy a CD," said Cree McCree, senior editor, Yahoo! Internet Life. "We believe this innovative service will continue to set the standard in the coming year."
CarsDirect.com is the first nationwide online service that puts consumers in control by providing a more satisfying, end-to-end car-buying experience, from up-front pricing to industry recognized customer service. The company was recently honored by Gomez, an e-commerce authority for consumers and e-businesses, as the best car-buying site on the Web for the fourth straight quarter. In addition, CarsDirect.com is a Forbes.com "Best of the Web" Honoree.
"CarsDirect.com is thrilled to be honored by one of the Internet's most respected consumer publications," said Chuck Hoover, vice president of marketing at CarsDirect.com. "The award is further validation that CarsDirect.com continues to place consumers in command of the car-buying process."
The "100 Best Sites for 2001" appears in Yahoo! Internet Life's "Top of the Net" January 2001 issue. The list of award-winning sites can also be found on the Yahoo! Internet Life Web site (www.yil.com), where it will remain archived for future reference.
About Yahoo! Internet Life
Yahoo! Internet Life (www.yil.com), the world's largest consumer lifestyle magazine covering the Internet, is a monthly publication of Ziff Davis Media. With its mission to entertain, engage, educate and empower Internet enthusiasts, Yahoo! Internet Life serves the New American Consumer(TM). Reaching one in nine of all daily Internet users in America and read monthly by over 5.3 million people, Yahoo! Internet Life chronicles the culture, content and community of the Internet. In January 2001, the four year-old magazine will surpass a circulation of 1.1 million copies per month, solidifying its place as one of the fastest-growing magazines in the history of publishing. Notable accolades include recognition as one of Advertising Age's Best Magazines of 1998; a Circulation Excellence Award from Circulation Management magazine; inclusion as one of Folio magazine's Top 10 Launches for the 90s; as three consecutive Top 10 Hottest Magazine citations from Adweek; and an award from Capell's Circulation Report as Top 10 Best Performer of 1999.
About CarsDirect.com
CarsDirect.com (http://www.carsdirect.com) is a leading direct online provider of new automobiles and related products and services, such as loan and lease financing and extended warranties. CarsDirect.com allows consumers to research, price, configure, order, purchase and finance a vehicle online. The company's user-friendly, intuitive Web site offers consumers product information for nearly every make, model and style of new automobiles available in the United States today, as well as the ability to simultaneously compare the specifications of competing vehicles. CarsDirect.com offers an online shopping experience that features competitive, up-front, no-haggle pricing on new vehicles. The company sources vehicles through a priority dealer network of more than 2,500 automotive dealer franchises nationwide.