Dealer OPS & Leadership
All-new 2011 Dodge Durango Wins Awards for November
Auburn Hills, Mich. - The new Dodge Durango continues to garner awards and high praise from experts impressed with its best-in-class capability, style, spaciousness, interior craftsmanship and driving dynamics. With its four-wheel independent suspension, near 50:50...
General Motors Endorses Digital Air Strike as First Full Service Automotive Social Media and Reputation Management Partner Approved for iMR Turnkey Funds
Scottsdale, AZ – Digital Air Strike, the nation’s leading automotive social media marketing and reputation management agency, was recently chosen by General Motors (GM) to provide social media marketing and online reputation management to its dealerships across the...
Fans to Pick Their Favorite Vehicle in Cars.com’s Shoppers’ Choice Award
CHICAGO -- Cars.com, the premier online resource for buying and selling new and used cars, today announced that voting has opened for its Shoppers' Choice Award, an honor bestowed to the make/model that receives the most votes in the site's annual popularity poll....
Consumer Reports: Freshened Mazda5 and Nissan Quest Score Excellent Road Test Scores
YONKERS, N.Y. -- Both the freshened Mazda5 microvan and the redesigned Nissan Quest minivan did well in Consumer Reports' tests of the two vehicles in the magazine's December issue. The Mazda5 received an Excellent road test score of 88 vs. the Quest's Excellent 81....
Toyota Announces Plans to Export U.S.-Built Sienna to South Korea
New York, NY – Toyota today announced plans to begin exporting U.S.-built Sienna vehicles to distributors in South Korea. The Sienna is produced at Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Princeton, IN. A top seller in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, this is the first time the...
Dealers United Levels the Playing Field for Single-Point Dealers Against Growing Conglomerates
Sarasota. FLA - Dealers United, the first service to leverage the buying power of single-point and family-owned dealerships, today introduced their new service to help battle against a growing surge of conglomerates in the industry. The concept is simple: be the...
Survey Projects an Increase in Mobile and Online Shopping for the 2011 Holiday Season
LOS ANGELES -- With the holiday shopping season officially in full swing, PriceGrabber®, a part of Experian, just released results of its second winter holiday shopping survey, revealing where consumers plan to shop for gifts this year. When consumers were asked to...
2011 Model Year Inventory Running Out Quickly
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information, noted today that October may officially be the turning point for the automotive model year. In October, 2012 model year vehicles made up 52.3 percent of new car sales; in...
October Auto Sales Announced Today; Chrysler Reports 27% Increase
According to J.D. Power and Associates, October new-vehicle retail sales are projected to come in at 828,300 units, which represents a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of 10.5 million units. The year-over-year increase in the selling rate is expected to...
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