CarAdvise and consumer-focused vehicle protection company CARCHEX have come together to provide consumers with discounted pricing on car maintenance services at more than 20,000 automotive repair shops across the country. This follows the news from October that CARCHEX partnered with CarMD last year to provide CarMD Garage customers with $100 off CARCHEX vehicle protection plans. According to […] [Read More]

Carfax now identifies vehicles that have Ceramic Pro finish protection products applied by certified installers via its myCarfax Service Shop program. The company said as part of the new partnership, the myCarfax Service Shop program now provides information on vehicles treated with Ceramic Pro on Carfax Vehicle History Reports and the myCarfax.com mobile application. The […] [Read More]

OnApproach wants another characteristic of credit unions to be as synonymous to those financing providers as their reputation and servicing to members: collaborative analytics. And to help credit unions leverage the possibility of collaborate analytics, OnApproach recently established a pathway for institutions to access new tools that’s familiar to anyone with a smartphone: an app […] [Read More]

DealersLink is now offering website services to used-car dealerships interested in attractive simple, responsive websites that can generate more leads and convert more visitors. DealersLink announced Tuesday that dealers can choose from new webpage templates designed to provide fast load times across both desktop and mobile devices. Just earlier this year, DealersLink announced a new pricing tool that gives […] [Read More]

Mobile messaging is now available on Car and Driver.com, via Contact At Once! technology that can foster direct consumer-to-dealer connections from vehicle detail pages on Car and Driver’s vehicle listings platform. Contact At Once!, a LivePerson company and Car and Driver provider Hearst Autos, announced Tuesday that the companies have partnered to add mobile messaging capabilities to Car and […] [Read More]

Binary Automotive Solutions announced Monday that it has added Joe Turner, Matt Ward and Troy Scheer to the company’s executive team. The company said that Turner will serve as its new chief operating officer, while Ward and Sheer have been appointed to serve as chief marketing officer and divisional vice president, respectively. The three new Binary […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive announced Monday that it has brought aboard Marianne Johnson to serve as the company’s new chief product officer. The company said that Johnson not only brings 30 years of experience in innovation and technology,  she has helped shape the financial technology field, as well. In her new role, Johnson will head the development of company […] [Read More]

HyreCar is looking for investors to provide quite a financial lift to the car-sharing start-up via a $10.5 million initial public offering. In explaining the need via its filing submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission, HyreCar acknowledged two dozen risk factors to its business that’s based on a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platform that can […] [Read More]

The leadership team at CarGurus is no stranger to online ventures in other verticals — the prime example being founder and chief executive Langley Steinert, who co-founded online travel marketplace TripAdvisor. So, perhaps it’s fitting that Thursday’s addition to the newly created CarGurus board of directors is the co-founder and co-chairman of Wayfair: Steve Conine. […] [Read More]

Just 48 hours after opening its 10th car vending machine in the Washington, D.C. area, Carvana announced Thursday that its 11th Car Vending Machine is now available in Orlando, Fla. Carvana’s latest car vending machine joins two other Sunshine State locations in Jacksonville and Tampa. Standing eight stories high, the new Orlando car vending machine can […] [Read More]