Internet marketing and SEO practices have been known to be the best way to market your business online and one testimony to that respect is that of the strategy being employed by Santa Fe Ford. One factor that can be trace to this is the fact that more people are turning to the web to find used cars and this seems to be the secret weapon of Greg Waitcus, Vice President, Santa Fe Ford.

As you are well aware, most car companies today are desperately hanging on to dear life, much brought about the recession. While the “Cash for Clunkers” deal is being seen as a catalyst to change all that, used cars may yet offer something better as far as trade-in value is concerned.

And should that be the case, it would not be surprising in some cases where some cars may be bought at higher prices compared to the trade-in value that was set by the government when it comes to the CARS rebate program.

(Source) Press

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Recently is was reported that a third Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang, the world’s most expensive production car with only five produced, had been listed for sale on the global online luxury marketplace JamesList. It seems a fourth Pur Sang has showed up for sale at Florida’s exotic auto dealer Forza Collezione.

The car for is said to be the first of the five Pur Sang’s assembled and apparently the pricetag is $3.8 million. This means only one of the remaining five Pur Sang’s stays in private hands. This special edition supercar with exposed carbon fiber and aluminum bodywork sold out within 24 hours of its first announcement.

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Add another luxury sports car dealer to the growing list of companies filing for Chapter 11. The latest auto dealer is Champion Motors, which declared that it had between $10 million and $50 million in debt and a similar range for assets.

The bankruptcy petition is filed under the name Copans Motors, doing business as Champion Motors, at 500 W. Copans Road. The petition does not state which divisions of Champion Motors are involved in the bankruptcy. A Web site for the Champion Motors Group at the same address states that the company includes the world’s largest Porshe dealer.

The Champion Motors Group’s Web site said the company’s Champion Motorsports division has locations in 20 states besides Florida, in South American countries and eight other foreign countries. U.S. locations are in Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Ohio, New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Illinois, Connecticut, Colorado, California, Arizona, Alabama.

(Source) MSN Money

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For their continuous service and assistance for people looking for the ideal car, TK Carsites has been named the recipient of the Diamond Award in the Best Website Provider category of the Auto Dealer Monthly 2009 Dealers’ Choice Awards.

Richard Valenta, President and CEO of TK Carsites, Inc. said, “This is our fifth year in a row that we have been honored by the industry by winning the Dealer Choice Awards. We are indebted to our dealer clients for their loyalty and support over the years, and that translates into our continued passion and focus on providing the best dealer websites in the business. We are also proud of our new TK5 search optimized web products which have brought more search engine visibility to every dealer on the platform.”

With continued improvements in design, navigation and Web 2.0 functionality TK Carsites continues to offer dealers a cost effective solution to building an online showroom that Internet auto shoppers find friendly and easy to use. This means higher conversion rates and increased sales for dealers.

This is the fifth year Auto Dealer Monthly has recognized the most highly regarded vendors, suppliers and finance companies in the retail automotive industry, as voted on by dealers and dealership personnel. The survey provided dealers and their employees the ability to offer their collective selection of the top providers to the retail auto industry.

(Source) Press

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