Trending Auto Retail News
Audi A7, Audi Q7 Win 2012 Active Lifestyle Vehicle of the Year Awards
CHANDLER, Ariz. -- The Audi A7 and the Audi Q7 won their respective categories in the 2012 Active Lifestyle of the Year Awards, which stands as the only competition of its kind in the U.S. to combine the opinions of automotive journalists and elite athletes. Both Audi...
TrueCar.com: New Vehicle Sales Expected to Reach Highest SAAR Since August 2009
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- TrueCar.com, the authority on new car pricing, trends and forecasting, today released its October 2011 sales and incentives forecast. The forecast shows the following: For October 2011, new light vehicle sales in the U.S. (including fleet) is...
NADA Chairman Outlines New Study of Factory Image Programs
DETROIT -- New-car dealers who have been hit hard by the economic recession need less financial pressure—not more—especially when faced with tough decisions to remodel their dealerships, said Stephen W. Wade, chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association....
Kelley Blue Book teams with Experian Automotive to make AutoCheck® vehicle history reports available to the millions of car shoppers on kbb.com
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- Experian Automotive today announced that Kelley Blue Book has incorporated AutoCheck® vehicle history reports into www.kbb.com classified experience. Dealers utilizing Kelley Blue Book's online classified section will now have the opportunity to...
Black Book introduces Black Book Risk Score, the unique benchmark that protects auto lenders by scoring vehicles according to their collateral risk
Gainesville, GA – Black Book® revealed a new industry-advancing product today called Black Book Risk Score. The scores help to reliably predict the vehicle collateral risk associated with auto lending that can lead to volatile swings and great variability in lenders’...
Top 15 Most Talked About Fuel Efficient Vehicles
ALPHARETTA, GA. – Contact At Once!, the leading chat provider to the automotive industry, today named the top 15 fuel efficient vehicles chatted about across its Dealer Chat Network. The list order is based upon the number of times a specific vehicle was mentioned by...
Edmunds.com: Female Car Buyers Embrace Domestic Automakers, Porsche
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Female car buyers are making up a larger customer base for some of the top domestic auto brands, but none approach the gains that Porsche has made with women this year, according to an analysis by Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for...
U.S. Mobile Social Media Audience Grows 37% in the Past Year
RESTON, VA - comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, released results of a study on mobile social media usage based on data from its comScore MobiLens service, which showed that 72.2 million Americans accessed social networking sites or blogs on their...
Is Halloween Weekend the Best Time to Buy a Car?
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- This Halloween, don't be scared to walk into the dealership and take advantage of some frighteningly great deals available on 2011 and 2012 models that can save consumers more than 21 percent off a new car. TrueCar.com, the only transparent...
New guide offers blueprint for founding profitable auto sales business
ORLANDO, Fla. -- "Car Business 101" (ISBN 1463779488) by 20-year automotive sales veteran John A. DaRe, offers step-by-step instructions for founding a business, obtaining a dealer license, purchasing vehicles and reselling them. Since 1998, DaRe has helped thousands...
October New-Vehicle Retail Selling Rate Holding at a Higher Level
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — After a strong September, new-vehicle retail sales in October remain stable above a 10-million unit level, according to J.D. Power and Associates, which gathers real-time transaction data from more than 8,900 retail franchisees throughout...
Chrysler to Invest $165 Million to Add Body Shop to Mich. Assembly Plant
Auburn Hills, Mich. - Chrysler Group LLC announced that it will invest $165 million to add a new one million square-foot body shop to its Sterling Heights (Mich.) Assembly Plant. This follows an announcement in December 2010 that the Company would invest nearly $850...
Join us for Digital Dealer Las Vegas 2021