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Winner: ThameServiceStation.co.uk Produced by: GForces Highly commended: Mccarthycars.co.uk Highly commended: Motorite.co.uk Even independent dealers can compete with the big boys online and our Eward winner for 2010 is a perfect example of that. Thame Service Station has produced a stunning website for its new and nearly new sites in Oxford, High Wycombe and Aylesbury which highlights stock [...]

Winner: Citroen.co.uk Produced by: Dagobert Highly commended: Audi.co.uk Highly commended: LandRover.com JUST because they’ve got a budget the size of a small country to produce their website, it doesn’t mean they all get it right. Take a look at some of the websites for the biggest selling brands in the UK and you’ll find countless lessons [...]

Winner: Citroen C3 ‘Wash Me If You Can’ Produced by: The H Agency Highly commended: Nissan Juke microsite Highly commended: Vee24.com THE Special Achievement of the Year Eward is handed to a website, web-based product or digital project connected to the motor trade that judges feel has achieved something remarkable. This year the winner was [...]

Winner: Nissan Juke microsite Produced by: Digitas Highly commended: Citroen.co.uk Highly commended: Carsite’s RAC videos The Web Innovation Eward is handed to a web-based product or service for the motor trade that has done something truly innovative this year. We stipulated that it needed to be as revolutionary as possible – and our winner has hit the nail on the head! [...]

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 seven categories – four of [...]

AS Thursday’s Ewards deadline fast approaches, James Baggott takes a final look at one of the entrants. Time is running out to get your website in front of the Car Dealer Ewards judges! The awards, being held in association with Autotorq.com, will be voted for this month and the winners announced in the next issue. [...]

How many reports and spreadsheets appear on your desk or inbox every month and how many go unopened or only get glanced at due to other pressures? A danger of the digital age is that anyone can easily produce glamorous spreadsheets and reports that look impressive on your screen, but in reality tell you nothing [...]

This independent’s website has really impressed our judges, reports James Baggott THE most important thing for car dealers to remember when designing a website is the end user. And one of the latest Car Dealer Eward entrants, Specialist Cars of Stoke, did just that. Owner Umesh Samani wanted his car sales site to put all [...]

If you asked me for three reasons why you should get started in social media, I would probably find it easier to give you three reasons why you shouldn’t! It’s all too easy to create a Facebook page, start Tweeting or follow lots of people and assume that your occasional input (after the initial excited [...]

Entries to this year’s Car Dealer Ewards are already flooding in – here James Baggott and a selection of our judges look at one entry THE wonder of the worldwide web means even small dealerships can fight with the big boys. You only have to look at one of the very first entries in the [...]

It’s that old chestnut we all keep reciting – ‘90 per cent of car buyers start their research online’ – but how many of us really realise the implications of this for our business and actually do something about it? There was a time when having a website was an option, and even more recently [...]

FANCY bagging yourself a free subscription to Car Dealer Mag AND the chance to win a Garmin sat nav? Well, you’re in luck! All you need to do to secure yourself a free 12-month subscription (worth £17.24) is nominate your favourite automotive website in any of the following categories. As part of the Car Dealer [...]

I AM delighted that autotorq is sponsoring the Car Dealer Ewards again this year and based on the 2009 judging session, we are in for more healthy and heated debate on what makes a good website. Over the past year, consumer expectations and sophistication have increased rapidly, driven by advanced offerings in the retail and [...]

TODAY we launch our search for the best automotive websites in the Car Dealer Ewards 2010! Now in their third year, these gongs being held in association with Autotorq.com aim to find the very best automotive retail websites out there in seven categories. Because the needs of franchised dealer websites can differ dramatically depending on [...]