EasyCare — which administers CarMark, a certified program offered by the Pre-Owned Automobile Dealers Alliance — and Carfax created a partnership this week aimed at providing an automatic link to participating dealers’ Carfax Vehicle History Reports from their EasyCare CoVideo messages. Carfax is a POADA Partner company. [Read More]

vAuto announced a partnership with Manheim this morning that will allow dealer customers to more easily find inventory. Dealer clients can now tap into Manheim’s run lists from vAuto’s propriety stocking module.   “Partnering with Manheim is the first of many exciting integrations with our new AutoTrader.com relationship,” says Keith Jezek, vAuto’s president. [Read More]

Along with recapping how the company performed in 2010, Dealer.com announced it acquired selected assets of EpikOne. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; […] [Read More]

In its efforts to tap into the numerous benefits of positive consumer-to-consumer recommendations and bearing in mind the importance that auto shoppers place on research, Infiniti has been gathering feedback from owners and sharing these responses on its website. And soon — early this year, in fact — Infiniti customers will be able to post […] [Read More]

More than 80 Dallas-Fort Worth area dealerships have joined into a negotiating website meant to connect them with shoppers ready to buy. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; […] [Read More]

INCISENT Technologies, the maker of FirstLook Inventory Management Systems, has launched a new business unit, MAX Systems, that’s already landed integration with AutoTrader.com. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; […] [Read More]

Thanks to a newly formed partnership between the two companies, Kia Canada now has DealerTrack Canada’s Market Data product at its disposal, giving the automaker a resource it can use as a guide for determining prices and making other decisions. By using Market Data product, Kia Canada can tap into transactional, non-personal data for examining […] [Read More]

This week, NADAguides.com launched its newly designed Car Finder and Compare Cars vehicle shopping tools. The site insists both solutions were developed to make shopping easier and more personal for consumers in the market for new or used vehicles.   Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; […] [Read More]

CarWoo said Thursday that it has eclipsed a new landmark for the number of dealers tapping into online portal, and its network of dealers is still growing at a robust pace. The company also revealed two new partnerships, as CarWoo has teamed up with DriverSide and NADAguides.com. Per these partnerships, these two websites will aid […] [Read More]

Which brand’s website delivers the best information and provides a consistently satisfying experience across all points of entry? This year, J.D. Power and Associates thinks Honda’s site does the best job. That’s the finding of J.D. Power’s 2011 Manufacturer Website Evaluation Study — Wave 1, which was released Wednesday. Normal 0 false false false EN-US […] [Read More]