A trio of vehicle history report providers — Carfax, CARCHEX and VINSnoop — each shared a new company development this week, ranging from shop integrations to becoming an exclusive shopping site provider to launching a new site and affiliate program. First, SHIFTMobility teamed with Carfax to improve its ShopLite mobile solution by becoming part of […] [Read More]

Dominion Dealer Solutions announced Tuesday that Dominion ACCESS, the company’s Windows-based dealership management system, is now a fully integrated partner of the Toyota DMS Integration Program. Toyota’s Dealer Daily Open Access (DDOA) program integrates with Dominion ACCESS through live, secure communications across multiple departments, including F&I, service and accounting. The DDOA interface, developed based on […] [Read More]

ADESA has rolled out several enhancements to its website that aim to make buying and selling through ADESA.com easier. Among the main changes listed by the company include the following, as listed by ADESA in its news release: — Direct link from the homepage to inventory eligible for ADESA Assurance, enabling customers to quickly view […] [Read More]

Dealertrack Technologies and Digital Air Strike announced Monday that they have entered into channel and product agreements to help their dealer clients drive lead response and generation opportunities. According to the companies, the agreement facilitates the information from the DAS Response Logix Smart Quote to be integrated into Dealertrack’s Dealer.com digital marketing solution and Payment […] [Read More]

J.D. Power released a report today which measures the usefulness of automotive third-party websites during the new- and used-vehicle shopping process. In its third year, the J.D. Power 2015 Third-Party Automotive Website Evaluation Study focused on four measures to rank the sites: information/content, appearance, navigation and speed. According to the company, which ranks the sites […] [Read More]

IHS recently acquired the business assets of Dataium in a move company officials said can provide enhanced capability to IHS Automotive offerings through the extensive compilation of online automotive shopping behavior. Every month, Dataium observes more than 20 million automotive shoppers across automotive websites and then aggregates, indexes and summarizes this data into key and […] [Read More]

Carvana announced today that it has continued its expansion in the southeast with free next-day delivery to customers in Birmingham, Ala. This location is the fourth in the region for Carvana, which expands their reach to 2.2 million consumers with next-day delivery there as well as in Atlanta, Nashville and Charlotte. “In the last year, […] [Read More]

Cell My Ride announced recently that auto dealers nationwide can utilize the company’s automatic text message marketing solution for simply the price of a few minutes of their time after participating in a five-minute demo of its system. “Cell My Ride has been proven to generate quality leads after normal business hours, when a lot […] [Read More]

Insurance Auto Auctions on Friday launched the vehicle assignment feature for Android as part of the CSAToday by IAA mobile app. This development follows the feature’s successful November launch on iOS devices, which can enhance the CSAToday customer experience by offering "anywhere" access to begin an assignment with IAA. The feature also enhances the application's […] [Read More]

AU.TO, which markets itself as the “Google for cars,” announced this week that a beta version of its site has gone live, which it claims is the “largest truly organic search engine for cars.” True to its name, AU.TO (which is also its URL) aggregates vehicle sales and collects both vehicle and dealer data and […] [Read More]