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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 [...]

SHOULD car dealers be using social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote their business? It’s a question many dealers – both large and small – are asking themselves up and down the country. Already many have jumped in and set up social media pages, but they’re in the minority. We wanted to find [...]

CAR Dealer’s Car Supermarket Website of the Year Eward winner Autoquake is launching a special festive competition. The online car supermarket is running a new competition on Twitter – and the winner wins a an early Christmas present. Simply, correctly predict the top-three cars in this year’s European Car of the Year and the winner, chosen [...]

NISSAN GB chief Paul Wilcox has declared the Juke’s launch as the most successful in the firm’s UK history. Speaking exclusively to Car Dealer as we handed over the Web Innovation of the Year Eward, Wilcox told us he was over the moon with the Juke’s success so far. He said the marque had an incredible 3,000 [...]

THE wait is finally over! Today we can reveal winners of the Car Dealer Ewards 2010 in association with Autotorq.com. On our website today – and in the latest issue of Car Dealer Magazine – we announce the worthy winners of our coveted Ewards. We’ve named the winners in five categories, which are: Multi-Franchised Dealer Website [...]

Winner: Autoplanet.co.uk Produced by: Spidersnet Highly commended: smc-cars.com Highly commended: hrowen.co.uk This year the multi-franchised Eward was a new category and was added to reflect the challenges these businesses have of placating a variety of manufacturers. Group franchised dealers have to tread a fine line between getting their own branding across on their website while [...]

Winner: Hillsford.co.uk Produced by: GForces Highly commended: audinorthwest.co.uk Highly commended: alandayvw.co.uk Talk about a photo finish! This category was the closest of any we’ve judged in the three years we’ve been running the Ewards with just a point between first, second and third places! This category is aimed at franchised car dealers that represent just [...]

Winner: Autoquake.com Produced by: Autoquake Highly commended: CarShop.co.uk Highly commended: TheCarPeople.co.uk Stack ’em high, sell ’em cheap! It’s the motto of the car supermarket, but with so much stock and so much choice, producing a decent website to highlight it all is very hard work indeed. Nowhere is the importance of countless pictures, detailed descriptions [...]

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. [...]