CarsDirect.com Named One of the 100 Best Sites for 2001; Company Honored by Yahoo! Internet Life for Online Performance.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001 CarsDirect.com, the leading direct online automotive provider, today announced the company has been selected as the Best Car-Buying Hub and one of the "100 Best Sites for 2001" by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. magazine. This honor reaffirms CarsDirect.com's commitment to provide consumers with an outstanding car buying experience. The CarsDirect.com listing can be found at http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0101/100best_shop2.html. Yahoo! Internet Life, the world's leading consumer lifestyle magazine covering the Internet with more than 5 million readers monthly, chose CarsDirect.com for its excellence in past performance and believes the company represents the best of the Internet as it unfolds in 2001. The editors of Yahoo! Internet Life monitored the performance and potential of a wide spectrum of Web sites in their own areas of expertise, arriving at the 100 best through rigorous analysis. "By acting as a liaison between buyers and dealers, CarsDirect.com pioneered a new business model that makes it almost as easy to purchase a car online as it is to buy a CD," said Cree McCree, senior editor, Yahoo! Internet Life. "We believe this innovative service will continue to set the standard in the coming year." CarsDirect.com is the first nationwide online service that puts consumers in control by providing a more satisfying, end-to-end car-buying experience, from up-front pricing to industry recognized customer service. The company was recently honored by Gomez, an e-commerce authority for consumers and e-businesses, as the best car-buying site on the Web for the fourth straight quarter. In addition, CarsDirect.com is a Forbes.com "Best of the Web" Honoree hon·or·ee n. The recipient of an honor. Noun 1. honoree - a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments recipient, receiver - a person who receives something . "CarsDirect.com is thrilled to be honored by one of the Internet's most respected consumer publications," said Chuck Hoover, vice president of marketing at CarsDirect.com. "The award is further validation that CarsDirect.com continues to place consumers in command of the car-buying process." The "100 Best Sites for 2001" appears in Yahoo! Internet Life's "Top of the Net" January 2001 issue. The list of award-winning sites can also be found on the Yahoo! Internet Life Web site (www.yil.com), where it will remain archived for future reference. About Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life (www.yil.com), the world's largest consumer lifestyle magazine covering the Internet, is a monthly publication of Ziff Davis Media (Ziff Davis Media Inc., New York, www.ziffdavis.com) A leading integrated media company that serves the computer, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. Its offerings include PC Magazine and the PCMag.com Network, which includes PCMag.com, ExtremeTech. . With its mission to entertain, engage, educate and empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems Internet enthusiasts, Yahoo! Internet Life serves the New American Consumer(TM). Reaching one in nine of all daily Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f in America and read monthly by over 5.3 million people, Yahoo! Internet Life chronicles the culture, content and community of the Internet. In January 2001, the four year-old magazine will surpass a circulation of 1.1 million copies per month, solidifying so·lid·i·fy v. so·lid·i·fied, so·lid·i·fy·ing, so·lid·i·fies v.tr. 1. To make solid, compact, or hard. 2. To make strong or united. v.intr. its place as one of the fastest-growing magazines in the history of publishing. Notable accolades include recognition as one of Advertising Age's Best Magazines of 1998; a Circulation Excellence Award from Circulation Management magazine; inclusion as one of Folio (1) Text management software for the professional reference publishing market from Fast Search & Transfer, Oslo, Norway and Boston, MA (www.fastsearch.com). Known as FAST Folio since its acquisition in 2004 from NextPage, Inc. magazine's Top 10 Launches for the 90s; as three consecutive Top 10 Hottest Magazine citations from Adweek; and an award from Capell's Circulation Report as Top 10 Best Performer of 1999. 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. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . CarsDirect.com allows consumers to research, price, configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. , 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 automobiles 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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