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Auction of ZAP's First SMART Car on eBay Reopened

Auction of ZAP's First SMART Car on eBay Reopened

SANTA ROSA, Calif., June 4 -- Bidding on the 60-MPG SMART car from Europe resumed after being halted for several hours Wednesday night and Thursday morning on online auction website eBay, said U.S. distributor ZAP (BULLETIN BOARD: ZAPZ) . Bidding reopened on June 3 at 11:36:58 PM for the SMART car at http://www.ebay.co ... Continue reading

Autobytel Consumer Data Suggests Rising Gas Prices Are Fueling Car-Buying (and Political) Decisions as Summer Buying Season Heats Up

Autobytel Consumer Data Suggests Rising Gas Prices Are Fueling Car-Buying (and Political) Decisions as Summer Buying Season Heats Up

* Nearly 2 out of 3 Survey-Takers Say They'd Be Less Inclined to Buy a Truck/Large SUV Today Than Last Summer; Only 3.6% Say They'd Be More Inclined * Requests to Buy SUVs/Trucks Drop Dramatically, While Requests for Smaller Passenger Cars Rise Sharply - Bucking Years-Long Industry Trends * Roughly Half of Those Polled ... Continue reading

Automotive Site to Offer Advertisers Customized Audience Segments

Automotive Site to Offer Advertisers Customized Audience Segments

NEW YORK--May 24, 2004--Revenue Science, the premier provider of customized audience segments for Web publishers and advertisers, announced today that Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com), the No. 1 automotive information site according to Nielsen//NetRatings and J.D. Power and Associates, will use its full-service behavioral ta ... Continue reading

AutoTrader.com Renews Exclusive Partnership With Univision.com

AutoTrader.com Renews Exclusive Partnership With Univision.com

Industry Leaders Continue to Bring Ground Breaking Tools to Hispanics ATLANTA, May 17 -- AutoTrader.com, the world's largest automotive marketplace, and Univision Online, the leading Spanish-language web destination in the U.S., announce the continuation of their successful partnership. The two industry leaders partner ... Continue reading

Autobytel Inc. Honored at AeA High-Tech Awards

Autobytel Inc. Honored at AeA High-Tech Awards

Recognized as Outstanding Public Company by Leading Technology Industry Association IRVINE, Calif., May 17 -- The Orange County Council of AeA celebrated technology growth at the Eleventh Annual High-Tech Awards and honored Autobytel Inc. as the 2004 Outstanding Public Company. Acknowledging the exciting momentum and p ... Continue reading

NADAguides.com Registers Record-Breaking Traffic

NADAguides.com Registers Record-Breaking Traffic

Website Registers Highest Traffic of All-Time; Site Visitors Grow 23% From January '04 to April '04 COSTA MESA, Calif., May 11 -- NADAguides.com, a leading vehicle information website, today announced it registered record-breaking online traffic at its website in April -- the highest traffic ever recorded at the site s ... Continue reading

Autobytel #1 in Providing Tools and Services for Top 100 eDealers in U.S.

Autobytel #1 in Providing Tools and Services for Top 100 eDealers in U.S.

According to Ward's Dealer Business Magazine, Autobytel's Web Sites and Customer Management Tool, Web Control, Are Used by More Top e-Dealers in America Than Any Other Program IRVINE, Calif., April 28 -- Leading Internet automotive marketing services company Autobytel Inc. was ranked at the top of the prestigious Ward' ... Continue reading

Autobytel Reports Results for First Quarter 2004

Autobytel Reports Results for First Quarter 2004

IRVINE, Calif.--April 22, 2004--Leading Internet automotive marketing services company Autobytel Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. Highlights for the quarter: -- Net income of $2.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, a 138% increase quarter over quarter -- Cash generati ... Continue reading

Mike Kidd Finds a New Position Among Old Friends in Advanstar's Powersports Group

Mike Kidd Finds a New Position Among Old Friends in Advanstar's Powersports Group

SANTA ANA, Calif.--April 15, 2004--The Powersports Group, one of the largest producers of trade and consumer shows worldwide for the motorcycle, Big Twin and ATV markets, today announced the group has just hired on 35-year powersports industry veteran Mike Kidd as Business Development Director. Kidd, most recently a Vi ... Continue reading

Autobytel Acquires Stoneage Corporation

Autobytel Acquires Stoneage Corporation

IRVINE, Calif.--April 15, 2004-- Acquisition Expected to Be Highly Accretive in 2005; Further Extends Autobytel Market Share Leading Internet automotive marketing services company Autobytel Inc. today announced that it has acquired Stoneage Corporation, one of the nation's top Internet automotive buying services and ow ... Continue reading

Autobytel Inc. Completes Acquisition of iDriveonline, Inc.

Autobytel Inc. Completes Acquisition of iDriveonline, Inc.

IRVINE, Calif.--April 9, 2004--Leading Internet automotive marketing services company Autobytel Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of iDriveonline, Inc., a leading provider of customer loyalty and retention marketing programs for the automotive industry. Based on the closing price of Autobytel's ... Continue reading

PRIMEDIA Launches IntelliChoice Buyer's Guide Magazine; Quarterly Publication Brings Trusted Automotive Cost and Value Data to Newsstands

PRIMEDIA Launches IntelliChoice Buyer's Guide Magazine; Quarterly Publication Brings Trusted Automotive Cost and Value Data to Newsstands

NEW YORK & CAMPBELL, Calif.--April 5, 2004--PRIMEDIA Inc. , the leading targeted media company, today announced the launch of the IntelliChoice Buyer's Guide, a quarterly magazine for consumers featuring the nation's most trusted automotive cost and value data. The Buyer's Guide extends IntelliChoice's leadership as th ... Continue reading

Steven Sewell To Head Motorock Trans-Am Series Technical Committee

Steven Sewell To Head Motorock Trans-Am Series Technical Committee

CONTACT: Justin Anderson, Ph: 704-348-9400, Cell: 517-927-3614 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STEVEN SEWELL TO HEAD MOTOROCK TRANS-AM SERIES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AS TRANS-AM TECHNICAL OPERATIONS ARE BROUGHT UNDER CHAMP CAR BANNER INDIANAPOLIS (March 16, 2004) ‹ As part of his joining the Bridgestone Presents Champ Car Worl ... Continue reading

Samsung Unveils PC-TV Combo LCD Monitor

Samsung Unveils PC-TV Combo LCD Monitor

Samsung Electronics said on Sunday that it rolled out two liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor models for desktop PCs that can receive TV broadcasts with a simple TV cable plug-in. Customers needed to buy and install separate PC video cards for their desktop PCs to watch TV broadcasts with previous flat panel monitors. ... Continue reading

BMW Dominates, Mercedes Almost Eliminated on LeaseCompare.com Top 10 List

BMW Dominates, Mercedes Almost Eliminated on LeaseCompare.com Top 10 List

CINCINNATI--Feb. 10, 2004--Automobile Consumer Services, Inc. (ACS), the leader in online direct-to-consumer auto leasing, released a list of the top 10 most requested vehicles from its popular auto leasing website www.LeaseCompare.com for the fourth quarter of 2003. BMW models took three out of the ten spots on the ne ... Continue reading

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