CarsDirect Wins 2005 Dealers' Choice Award.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- CarsDirect, a leader in the online automotive services category, has been named the top New Vehicle Lead Provider by the industry's Auto Dealer Monthly magazine and AutoDealerDaily.com. As the "Diamond" award winner in this category, CarsDirect was honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. for consistently delivering the very best performance, value, cost structure and customer support among all third-party providers offering new vehicle lead products. Dealers cited lowest cost per sale and high lead quality as the primary reasons for their overall satisfaction with CarsDirect. Nearly 14,000 votes were cast by dealers ranking 19 categories of products and services. The annual awards program has been designed to tap into dealers' critical knowledge base, personal experiences and satisfaction by providing their collective selection of the top providers to the entire retail auto industry. "Our promise to our 3,000-plus CarsDirect dealer partners has always been to deliver the most qualified and serious new vehicle buyers in the industry," said Mark Miller, senior vice president, dealer and industry relations. "It is this proven ability to attract buyers deep in the purchase funnel that has driven such high dealer satisfaction with our lead programs." Dealers have consistently expressed their satisfaction with CarsDirect's exceptional close rates, positive customer feedback and unique value-added val·ue-add·ed adj. Of or relating to the estimated value that is added to a product or material at each stage of its manufacture or distribution: programs like monthly Dealer Scorecards that track a dealership's performance versus local and national averages. Each month, over seven million individuals choose CarsDirect and its sister site Autos.com to research, compare and buy their next new vehicle. About CarsDirect Los LOS Length of stay, see there Angeles-based CarsDirect is a leading operator of a growing portfolio of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the media and ecommerce See e-commerce. sites for "large ticket" consumer categories. Through the company's two automotive websites, CarsDirect.com and Autos.com, the company offers product and pricing information, new and pre-owned automobiles and related products and services. The CarsDirect.com website has been named one of the "50 Best Websites" by Time Magazine, chosen a "Forbes Forbes , B(ertie) C(harles) 1880-1954. American publisher and businessman who founded and edited (1916-1954) Forbes magazine. His son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Favorite" three times by Forbes Magazine and selected as a "Top 100 Internet Site" for three consecutive years in PC Magazine. In recent months, CarsDirect has added to its rapidly growing portfolio of consumer services Consumer Services refers to the formulation, deformulation, technical consulting and testing of most consumer products, such as food, herbs, beverages, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hair products, household cleaners, [paints, plastics, metals, waxes, coatings, minerals, designed to take the hassle Hassle () is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936. It comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with out of high-value, complex consumer transactions on the Web. In Fall 2004, the company extended its award-winning service and technology expertise to the home mortgage lending market with the launch of LoanStore.com, providing easy-to-digest consumer information about mortgage terms and loan types, and access to a full-service brokerage. In January 2005, CarsDirect acquired the well-known and award-winning consumer brands BestRate.com and LoanApp.com from Myers Internet Inc., the leading provider of website and backoffice technology to the mortgage and real estate industries. |
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