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ESSEX Auto Group is so confident in the future of internet on smartphones, it has financed a new website. The booming popularity of phones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry have seen the car dealer approve the new web development. ‘The internet is shifting off the desktop and into the hands of consumers who are [...]

CAR dealers can get their own professionally-presented video for their website with a new tool from Starkwood Media Group. The Autopresenter tool lets dealers create a bespoke, unique high-quality video for their site. This can ‘introduce’ the website to visitors. Dealers can choose from a range of real presenters, who will deliver around 250 words [...]

NEW website UKcarexchange promises dealers higher returns for their unwanted PX stock – and listing on the site is free! The website utilises a unique ‘price-drop auction’ approach and the concept here is simple: Cars are listed for 14 days and every 24 hours the price drops by a pre-set amount. The idea is that [...]

JCT600 has launched an all-new car buying website after significant development and investment. The Yorkshire car dealer says it has done so because 40 percent of its motors are now sold online. This is a massive increase from just 2 years ago, where little more than a quarter were sold online, says chief exec John [...]

BEN has launched its new company website as the latest part of the charity’s growing new media strategy. More useable and accessible than before, the new site has been completely redesigned and redeveloped. What’s new? Well, the design is the most obvious change. But, delve deeper, to discover new features including events booking sections, blogs, [...]

AUTOTORQ.COM has scored ‘stratospheric’ results in an independent survey by top-rated Forrester Research. Outstanding marks were recorded by autotorq.com throughout the Web Site Review Scorecard. The car dealer websites rated were chosen at random from autotorq.com’s 260 Citroen UK sites. In a scale of total score that ranks from -50 to + 50, the firm [...]

CAR supermarket buyers now get added functionality from a big site’s relaunch – going live right now. Carsupermarkets.co.uk offers, for the first time, the ability to search through all its stock, throughout major outlets across the UK. This enables cars to be hunted down via a range of parameters, including: • Make • Model • [...]

SUZUKI is the latest car maker to drive aftersales with a dedicated area of its national customer site. The ‘My Suzuki’ area of Suzuki’s website is encouraging customers to ‘get interactive’, both with Suzuki aftersales and local Suzuki dealers. It’s similar to a scheme already launched by Vauxhall, and is being launched with a special [...]

CAR auction prices have risen for over half a year now – meaning owners should consider a car swap. Online car buyer webuyanycar.com advises car owners that now is the time to sell and trade to a different motor. It predicts that values have now stabilised. The big £400-plus increases of early 2009 will now [...]

NEWS ALERT: Nissan’s constant drive for innovation… has led to the creation of something unique. A new global digital platform, that is breaking new ground in the way markets are reached and relationships built. Nissan.co.uk looks and performs like nothing else; it is part of a vision encompassing a pan-European, and eventually global, business development [...]