DEARBORN, Mich. — FordDirect, a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and its franchise dealers, announced today the appointment of two executives – Ryan Soffa, senior vice president of product development and Fadi Aoude, senior vice p

In my last column, I suggested that “provisioning” is a more apt description for determining the types of vehicles that are appropriate for a dealership’s inventory and marketplace. I like this term as a replacement for “stocking” because i

According to a data from Dataium, the conversion rate of the average unique visitor to shopper was up 54% during the month of November 2011. This information is based on statistics for national automotive Internet behavior for November 2011. Below ar

RESTON, VA – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending October 2011. The study sur

SAN FRANCISCO — Representatives from Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., (MMNA), along with San Rafael Mitsubishi, conducted the very first fleet delivery of the all-new 100% electric-powered 2012 Mitsubishi i to the California Bay AreaR

I was training with a dealer group the other day, and during a break the Internet managers were jovially reminiscing about the days – way back in 2003 and 2004 – when dealers were still not sure they even needed a website. I was working for Deale

DEARBORN, Mich. — FordDirect, a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and its franchise dealers, announced today that Meri Glade has been named general counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the Company. Ms. Glade joins FordDirect to overse

SAN FRANCISCO – The Presidio Group LLC, through its subsidiary, Presidio Merchant Partners LLC, is pleased to have advised Tori Shuken and Jon Shuken on their recent sale of Vista Lexus in Woodland Hills, CA to Oremor Automotive Group. Vista Le

VENICE, Calif. ––  Mota Motors, a leading provider of online vehicle certification and selling platforms, today announced the launch of SureSale™  Certified, a comprehensive certified pre-owned (CPO) marketing program.  Designed to