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YONKERS, NY — August’s Consumer Reports Index, a measure of overall consumer sentiment, fell to its lowest level since December 2009 and registered its sharpest drop in two years, as recent events in Washington about the debt ceiling debate fixed

According to a story from Autoblog.com, Nissan may start using the social networking site for more than just posting interesting content. The story said the automaker responds to all of the posts on its Facebook wall, positive and/or negative, from i

RESTON, VA – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in July with 65.1 percent of search queries cond

Dealers are using their ad dollars more and more for marketing on social media sites online than actually at their dealerships, according to a story from USAToday. The story said dealerships don’t have actual sales that they can contribute to their

Auburn Hills, Mich. – Chrysler Group LLC announced a “No Payments for 90 Days” promotion on all 2011 and 2012 Chrysler, Jeep®, Dodge, and Ram Truck models financed through Ally Financial. This deferred retail payment program is effective i

Third quarter is almost over and only four months left to go in 2011 before we close the books. Hopefully sales are up over last year and growing. How is your profitability year to date? Are you meeting your profitability targets for 2011? If you are

Isn’t it interesting in our industry how much time and effort we put into the new car side of our dealerships?  All the work we put into selling the number of cars that is our market share responsibility each year.  The training we do for our sal

NEW YORK — The Pivot Conference released findings from its industry survey of 230 brand managers, executives, and marketing professionals. The research, mainly conducted to reveal the interest in and utilization of Social Advertising, provided hi

Adrian, MI – Adventure in the Great Outdoors for American families who love the outdoor lifestyle just got better.  Today Venchurs announced the newest member to the XPLORE family with the Adventure Series Toyota 4Runner. As with all XPLORE vehic