FordDirect and Ford recognized the Ford and Lincoln-Mercury Internet Dealers of the Year for 2011 at the National Automobile Dealers Association Convention earlier this week. Winning the respective 2011 awards were Galpin Ford, of North Hills, Calif., and Hines Park Lincoln, which is located in Plymouth, Mich. This marked the second straight year Hines Park […] [Read More]

ADP Dealer Services recently shared developments on several fronts, including a partnership with Hertz Corp. for its Hertz Rent2Buy program, an update on its Cobalt acquisition and more. 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; […] [Read More]

FordDirect recently rolled out a new service that it says gives Ford and Lincoln dealers a bevy of digital marketing tools to help them offer an improved online shopping experience, which can be quite crucial in today’s auto-shopping environment. One of the tools offered by the DealerConnection Premier Advanced Inventory Service — which dealers can […] [Read More]

Toyota Motor Sales USA recently revealed it has successfully developed new open-standards-based interface capabilities for its dealer communications system, Dealer Daily. 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; […] [Read More]

Created to mirror the front-line inventory that franchise dealers have on their physical lots, AutoTrader.com on Monday launched a new feature dealing with how new-vehicle listings are presented through searches on its website. 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 […] [Read More]

Along with bolstering its collaborative relationship with Polk, Reynolds and Reynolds announced this past weekend it will offer its basic mobile website solution free to all U.S. franchised dealers, regardless of their dealership management system or website provider. 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; […] [Read More]

In addition to other news, Dealerskins, a premier provider of websites for dealers nationwide and a division of Dominion Dealer Solutions, announced its sister company XIGroup will unite under the Dealerskins brand.   The merger of the two Dominion website businesses is part of an overall company strategy to provide a complete website, CRM and […] [Read More]

During the National Automobile Dealers Association’s convention this past weekend, DrivingSales announced the winners of the second annual Dealer Satisfaction Awards.   The awards measure auto dealer satisfaction with services provided by vendors during 2010 in more than 12 categories, including CRM, new car leads, used car advertising, vehicle pricing, websites, SEO and social media. […] [Read More]

Another major media brand is joining the fray of connecting online used-vehicle shoppers with dealers. Late last week, Car and Driver launched an online shopping website officials say already contains an inventory of millions of used vehicles. Officials explained the CARandDRIVER.com used-vehicle site includes a new, more tightly integrated search platform powered by Vast.com. It’s […] [Read More]

Cars.com has added a new search option to its site that can help Carfax-subscribing dealers attract more shoppers online. Under the expansion to the two companies’ existing partnership, there is now a search category on Cars.com that allows shoppers to tailor their vehicle searches to just pull up the units that have Carfax Vehicle History […] [Read More]