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Winner: Tescocars.com | Produced by Tesco Cars Commended: motorrange.co.uk, eddiewright.co.uk THERE’S nothing like a shake-up in the market place to get dealers both talking and scratching their heads. The launch of Tesco Cars in 2011 was probably the biggest news to come out of the motor trade. There was speculation as to whether it was [...]

Winner: Citroen.co.uk | Produced by Dagobert Commended: Volkswagen.co.uk, Audi.co.uk WITH huge budgets and the capability to speak to some of the biggest names in web design, you would think that car manufacturers have the best sites in the business. That, unfortunately, is not always the case. In fact, there are some makers out there who [...]

Winner: Daksh Gupta Commended: Peter Vardy, Ling Valentine THIS was a brand new category to find the best user of social media in their respective business. It could be anyone – from a dealer principal to a product or service. The only stipulation was that the winner had, in the last 12 months, had to [...]

Winner: Peter Vardy Commended: Louis and Reg Rix, Daksh Gupta THE motor trade is full of personalities – from top dealer principals to Nigel and his used car lot under the railway arches. But there are few personalities who have a moralistic approach to doing business, and share this among their customers on the internet. [...]

Winner: Citroen DS4SEEKERS | Produced by Candyspace Commended: Mercedes-Benz ‘Escape the Map’, Google+ THE Innovation of the Year category set out to find a website, programme or special campaign that really made our judges stop and think for a moment. That’s a tall order when you consider our judging panel helps develop innovative websites every [...]

TODAY is the last day for nominations for the Car Dealer Ewards – held in association with Autotorq.com. If you want to be in with the chance of winning one of our top gongs then you need to get a move on. We’re looking for the best automotive websites in eight categories – FOUR of [...]

THE deadline for submitting your website for Ewards 2011 is rapidly approaching. JAMES BATCHELOR takes a final look at one of this year’s entries and our judges give their thoughts. In his entry for Ewards 2011, Jason Harwood sums up what frequently occurs every year in our search to discover and celebrate the best dealer websites. [...]

IN contrast to the dealers who hold one or more manufacturer franchises or an independent trader selling what he can, a specialist dealer has a completely different customer who they need to speak to, and a totally distinct business model. It’s this very situation that becomes clear in our Ewards and allows a specialist dealer to [...]

Has your website got what it takes to stand out? We’re starting our hunt for the best automotive websites of 2011. But you have to be in it to win it. Here’s how you can take part. The internet is one of those rare things that no matter what size of dealership or operation you [...]

THE deliberation is over, the votes have been cast and we can now reveal who’s won what in the inaugural Car Dealer Ewards. Held in association with Motors.co.uk, the gongs have been handed out to the very best automotive trade sites on the web. We had literally hundreds of entries from across the UK as [...]

AS NEW starts go, they don’t get much more successful than this! Lifestyle Europe launched their new website just two weeks before the judges picked it as number one in the Car Dealer Ewards – and the dealer group couldn’t be happier. The firm’s winning website was produced by G-Forces – whose marketing director Tim [...]

MOTORPOINT lays claim to being Britain’s ‘biggest and best’ car supermarket – and now the firm can add ‘with the best independent dealer website’ to that slogan too! The five-site giant was head and shoulders ahead of the competition in the independent category and was heaped with praise from the judges. The website is a [...]

IT WAS the fiercest fought category of the lot, but as the votes rolled in it was soon clear one manufacturer was managing to claw itself a healthy lead – Jaguar! A classy combination of excellent information, flash and video eventually helped seal victory, with the Ewards judging panel very impressed with the car maker’s [...]

ALTHOUGH it didn’t get enough votes to pick up the Car Manufacturer Eward, judges felt Fiat’s visually stunning site was worthy of its own recognition. The website really is a showcase for what is achievable online when firms think outside of the box. Looking like a virtual showroom, it combines flash images, video and fantastic [...]

THE Car Dealer Ewards are judged completely independently – as described in this article – so who were the chosen few that picked the winners? Here we introduce the eight judges that handed out those all important points and find out what they were looking for in the winning entries. If you think you should [...]