Car Dealer News for 19-Jul-2006
'Credit Challenged Car Buyers Find Help Online (Hornell Evening Tribune) (ARA) - Eighty percent of all Americans have at least one blemish on their credit reports. And a third of all consumers have credit scores so bad that they may have difficulty securing a car loan.
'Car crush Mark takes lead from The Simpsons (Rhyl, Prestatyn and Abergele Journal) A JINXED new car which has been repaired over 30 times will make one final journey back to the dealer. Mark Fell-Crook plans to take a unique form of revenge on Peugeot by crushing his £16,000 307 into a cube and returning it, after three-and-a-half years of misery.
'ADP Dealer Services Celebrates Grand Opening of Historic, Minority-Owned Harlem Dealership (The Auto Channel) HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., July 17 -- General Motors Corp.'s Harlem Auto Mall, Harlem's first new-car dealership in 40 years, celebrated its grand opening in June. Billed as "GM Harlem Day", ADP Dealer Services joined GM's Minority Dealer Association (GMMDA) and notables such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner, in honoring GM and
'Where the summer car deals are (CNN Money) In the heat of summer, it's still a long time to New Year's Day. But for car companies next year is already here.
'Shoppers Want Actual New Vehicle Photos, Not Stock Photography on Dealer Web Sites (SYS-CON Media) According to a new study conducted by Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research among in-market car buyers, 90 percent of vehicle shoppers would prefer to view actual photos of new vehicles currently on the dealer's lot than view stock photography of a vehicle they are interested in buying.
'Owner of Smart car is no dummy (Detroit News) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Heads turned as John Robinson drives his diminutive Smart car along U.S. 1. Is it a shrunken minivan? An oversized Hot Wheels?
'Need Help Getting a Car Loan? (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch) (ARA) - Are you driving around in a car that has faded paint, power windows that no longer work, a rusty muffler and an odometer that stopped somewhere around 115,000 miles? If so, it's time to get a new car!
'So You Want To Be A Newspaper Carrier (The Times-Reporter) As a Times-Reporter Carrier you would be in business for yourself, just like a car dealer. The car dealer buys cars from the manufacturer just as you would buy newspapers from The Times-Reporter. He sells these cars to his customers as you would sell newspapers to your customers.
'Car dealer pleads guilty to drunken driving (The Muskegon Chronicle) A West Michigan car dealer admitted Tuesday to driving drunk and crashing his SUV near his Grand Haven residence, then walking home and denying to police he was the driver.
'Car salesman jailed for dodgy dealing (Reading Chronicle) A SECONDHAND car dealer who wound back mileometers and illegally obtained £40,000 worth of loans for his clients has been jailed for 12 months. Reading Crown Court heard 37-year-old Thatcham father-of-two Justin Tidbury was involved in 'dodgy dealing' between November 2003 and May last year.
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