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CarsDirect.Com Teams With Kelley Blue Book to Provide Consumers Direct Car-Buying Option.


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LOS LOS Length of stay, see there  ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000

CarsDirect.com, a leading direct online automotive provider, has formed an alliance with Kelley Blue Book, the most popular automotive book in the U.S.

CarsDirect.com will now have a presence on the Kelley Blue Book Web site, creating a new channel for qualified car buyers to access CarsDirect.com's services.

This agreement enables Kelley Blue Book visitors to select, order and complete the vehicle purchase online. Through the link, consumers can research vehicles on the Kelley Blue Book site and complete their purchase on the CarsDirect.com site. CarsDirect.com is the first nationwide online service that puts consumers in control by providing a more satisfying, end-to-end end-to-end

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 car-buying experience, from upfront pricing to industry-recognized customer service.

"We are the new car buyer's advocate and provide a convenient and objective way to purchase a vehicle on the Internet," said Chuck Hoover, vice president of marketing, CarsDirect.com. "Because of Kelley Blue Book's reputation, this affiliation will also help drive a well-qualified source of Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks.  to our Web site."

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 Stephen Henson, director of marketing and business development at Kelley Blue Book, "This alliance with CarsDirect.com further advances our strategy to 'empower' the car-buying consumer by offering unbiased, accurate information, as well as a choice of car-purchasing experiences."

About Kelley Blue Book

Since 1926, Kelley Blue Book has been the nation's de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard.

de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO,
 in automotive pricing and value information. As an automotive icon, Kelley Blue Book maintains some of the strongest brand equity and name recognition in the world. Today, as the nation's most popular automotive Web site, kbb.com attracts 3 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions.  a month generating over 21 million pricing reports on new and used vehicles. Kelley Blue Book continues to enhance the consumer experience positioning the company as a one-stop shopping guide for the car buyer. For more information, visit www.kbb.com.

About CarsDirect.com

CarsDirect.com (http://www.carsdirect.com) is a leading direct online provider of new automobiles and related products and services, such as loan and lease financing and extended warranties The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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. CarsDirect.com allows consumers to research, price, configure See configuration.

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, order, purchase and finance a vehicle online. The company's user-friendly, intuitive Web site offers consumers product information for nearly every make, model and style of new automobile available in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  today, as well as the ability to simultaneously compare the specifications of competing vehicles. CarsDirect.com offers an online shopping experience that features competitive, up-front, no-haggle pricing on new vehicles.

The company sources vehicles through a priority dealer network of more than 2,500 automotive dealer franchises nationwide.
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