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Kelley Blue Book Launches Hot Used-Car Report, Helping Dealers Better Understand Consumer Used-Car Interest

Kelley Blue Book Launches Hot Used-Car Report, Helping Dealers Better Understand Consumer Used-Car Interest

Kelley Blue Book Launches Hot Used-Car Report, Helping Dealers Better Understand Consumer Used-Car Interest PR Newswire IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 27 IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 27 -- Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new car and used car information, today announces the launch of its monthly Hot Used-Car Repo ... Continue reading

Edmunds.com Forecasts September 2010 Auto Sales: Auto Industry Lacks Momentum

Edmunds.com Forecasts September 2010 Auto Sales: Auto Industry Lacks Momentum

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--This month's new car sales (including fleet sales) are expected to be approximately 936,900 units, a 27.9 percent increase from September 2009 but a 5.5 percent decrease from August 2010, according to Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information. Retail sales are expected to ... Continue reading

Full Size Spare; Can You LOVE A Car Without One?

Full Size Spare; Can You LOVE A Car Without One?

Full Size Spare, E-Carmony is a new web site that provides vehicle buyers with the power to find their perfect match in their next vehicle. If having a full size spare in your car is important to you, put it (and other needs, wants, dimensions, capacities and performance criteria) at the top of your e-Carmony Prioritie ... Continue reading

2010 Motorist Choice Awards: IntelliChoice and AutoPacific Announce Motorist's Top Picks in both Popular and Premium Categories

2010 Motorist Choice Awards: IntelliChoice and AutoPacific Announce Motorist's Top Picks in both Popular and Premium Categories

IntelliChoice and AutoPacific Announce Motorist's Top Picks in both Popular and Premium Categories Irvine, Calif. (September 21, 2010) - There is only one annual automotive award handpicked by active consumers in the marketplace that goes beyond the editorial and performance test data and provides a window into the wan ... Continue reading

Auto Dealers in The Digital World

Auto Dealers in The Digital World

ATLANTA September 20, 2010; Jim Ziegler, auto retail industry speaker, trainer and dealership consultant will conduct a special session at the upcoming Digital Dealer Conference in Las Vegas on October 12- 14, 2010. This is the premier auto retailing technology event, and Jim Ziegler's appearance is one of the many not ... Continue reading

Used Hybrids Good Value Now - Blue Book

Used Hybrids Good Value Now - Blue Book

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 20 -- Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, a provider of new car and used car information, today reports that now may be a great time to buy for those who purchase hybrids with the intent of reducing emissions and greenhouse gases as opposed to savings at the pump, as covered in the company's Blue Book M ... Continue reading

NADAguides iPhone Site Provides Car Shoppers With Vehicle Pricing and Information Where and When They Need It

NADAguides iPhone Site Provides Car Shoppers With Vehicle Pricing and Information Where and When They Need It

-NADAguides pricing and information consistently growing since late 2009, NADAguides has developed an iPhone site to satisfy the increasing consumer need for instant access to car shopping tools and information on the go. With this free iPhone site, users can build and price new cars with options and research used car ... Continue reading

Totally Chevrolet

Totally Chevrolet

Get th specs prices and cp Chevrolet (also known as Chevy) is a brand of automobile, produced by General Motors (GM). It is the top selling GM marque and the best known brand of GM worldwide, with ''Chevrolet'' or ''Chevy'' being at times synonymous with GM. Chevrolet offers over 20 vehicles and many different enhanced ... Continue reading

Ready for Labor Day Car Sales? Cars.com Names 10 Best Deals for Consumers

Ready for Labor Day Car Sales? Cars.com Names 10 Best Deals for Consumers

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 -- As Labor Day approaches, car dealers and manufacturers are unveiling sales specials to help move what's left of the 2010 model year inventory. Shoppers looking for a holiday bargain can rely on the experts at Cars.com to help find the best deal. The site has evaluated incentives from all manufacture ... Continue reading

U.S. Auto Parts Completes Acquisition of the Whitney Automotive Group, One of the Nation's Largest, Most Trusted Online Auto Parts Retailers (Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen)

U.S. Auto Parts Completes Acquisition of the Whitney Automotive Group, One of the Nation's Largest, Most Trusted Online Auto Parts Retailers (Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen)

CARSON, Calif., Aug. 17 -- U.S. Auto Parts , one of the largest online providers of automotive aftermarket parts and accessories, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Whitney Automotive Group for the purchase price of $27.5 million and assumption of approximately $11 million in trade-related and ... Continue reading

FinanceAcar Launches World's First Car Finance Comparison Engine

FinanceAcar Launches World's First Car Finance Comparison Engine

LONDON, Aug. 11 -- UK car finance specialist, http://www.financeacar.co.uk/, announced today that it has launched the world's first car finance comparison engine. It fills an estimated 11.5 billion pounds gap left by traditional comparison websites in the UK such as Moneysupermarket.com that only compare car finance pr ... Continue reading

USAA Redefines Car Buying with Launch of Auto CircleTM: Find, Finance, Insure on Mobile App

USAA Redefines Car Buying with Launch of Auto CircleTM: Find, Finance, Insure on Mobile App

SAN ANTONIO--Buying a car? USAA has an app for that. “Think of Home Circle as an all-access pass for our members. Through this program they can now tap into the same comprehensive listing information available to real estate agents” From the industry leader that created Deposit@MobileTM, USAA is making its me ... Continue reading

Kia Motors UK Goes Live With Merced Systems to Drive Incentive Compensation Management Visibility and Accuracy

Kia Motors UK Goes Live With Merced Systems to Drive Incentive Compensation Management Visibility and Accuracy

Merced Systems extends its market position as largest ICM vendor in Europe REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. and LONDON, Aug. 4 -- Merced Systems, the leader in sales performance management and service performance management solutions, today announced that Kia Motors UK - one of the world's fastest growing car manufacturers - has ... Continue reading

J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Light-Vehicle Retail Sales Fall off Pace During Latter Half of July, but Improvement from June Holds

J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Light-Vehicle Retail Sales Fall off Pace During Latter Half of July, but Improvement from June Holds

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 2 -- The sharp improvement in new-vehicle retail sales experienced during the first half of July slowed during the final two weeks of the month, pulling down the retail selling rate to approximately 9 million units from a previously projected rate of 9.4 million units, according to J.D. P ... Continue reading

J.D. Power and Associates and Compete Inc. Report

J.D. Power and Associates and Compete Inc. Report

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., July 29 -- Among the 77 percent of new-vehicle buyers who use the Internet in the shopping process, more than two-thirds (68%) visit at least one manufacturer website in the six months leading up to purchase, while a larger percentage--nearly eight in 10--visit at least one third-party website ... Continue reading

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