While rolling out the 2012 Acura TL this week at the Chicago Auto Show, the brand’s vice president of sales highlighted how Acura has now enjoyed 12 straight months of double-digit year-over-year sales increases. Jeff Conrad also mentioned Acura finished 2010 with a 27-percent sales increase and he thinks he knows the reasons why the […] [Read More]

General Motors believes its popular models can contend against any unit from its domestic and foreign competition so it’s launching its “Main Street in Motion” campaign to prove it. The automaker is holding the campaign’s first stop at Disney’s Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., beginning today and running through Sunday. The company says this one-of-a-kind […] [Read More]

Toyota Motor Sales, USA commemorated a major certified pre-owned milestone on Wednesday at its Chicago Auto Show exhibit. The company honored its 3 millionth CPO customer — Chicago resident Sara Hirschhorn — by giving her a $22,470 reimbursement check for the 2008 certified Toyota Sienna she bought. The model represented the 3 millionth CPO ride […] [Read More]

Ford is seeking input from consumers and asking them to share their adventurous sides in a new campaign designed to stimulate interest in the revamped 2011 Ford Explorer. The “Go. Do. Adventures” campaign asks consumers what they would do with an Explorer for a week. Consumers’ stories about their adventures can be essays, photos or […] [Read More]

Hertz Corp. and AirTran Airways broadened their partnership that’s been established since 1993, this time to boost the Hertz Rent2Buy online sales program. Officials explained a new partnership element provides 16 AirTran Airways A+ Rewards credits, redeemable for a round- trip coach ticket valid to any AirTran Airways destination, to A+ Rewards members who purchase […] [Read More]

The Automotive Industries Association of Canada has signed on to the Canadian Automotive Service Information Standard. The voluntary agreement aims at ensuring the automotive aftermarket has access to service information, diagnostic tools and training information from all vehicle manufacturers in Canada.   [Read More]

Results from a nearly yearlong federal study revealed Tuesday determined Toyota vehicles did not contain electronic flaws that could create unintended acceleration, delighting automaker officials but still leaving some industry analysts skeptical. 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 […] [Read More]

Along with the announcement of the 2011 Time Dealer of the Year, this past weekend’s National Automobile Dealers Association Convention included a wide-ranging pledge by new chairman Stephen Wade. The multi-franchise dealer from St. George, Utah, told 18,000 total attendees he plans to work with manufacturers, regulators and Congress to ensure that the nation’s economic […] [Read More]

The American International Automobile Dealers Association held its 41st annual Meeting and Luncheon on Monday in San Francisco, where it welcomed its 2011 chairman and also named the David F. Mungenast Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. The new chairman is Jim Smail, who assumed the new post at the event. [Read More]

During the National Automobile Dealers Association’s Convention & Expo, CarMark Certified Pre-Owned, a nationwide certification program designed to be equivalent to manufacturers’ CPO programs, announced the launch of a completely redesigned website at www.carmarkcertified.com. [Read More]