General Motors Co. said it plans to launch this year a pilot program through its captive lender, GM Financial, to make loans to dealers to buy new vehicles from the company.
Read More →DealerTrack Inc. announced that General Motors has certified its customer relationship management (CRM)/Internet lead management (ILM) system for use by GM dealers using the DealerTrack dealer management system (DMS).
Read More →Edmunds.com estimated that the average “True Cost of Incentives” from automotive manufacturers in the United States was $2,118 per new car sold in April 2011, down $250, or 10.6 percent, from March 2011, and down $515, or 19.6 percent, from April 2010.
Read More →General Motors and Chrome Systems Inc., a subsidiary of DealerTrack Holdings Inc., today unveiled a new awards program honoring top performing U.S. regional and national GM dealers and distributors.
Read More →GM Financial’s rollout of a prime leasing program in 16 states may seem to indicate that the company formerly known as AmeriCredit is leaving its roots behind. Company officials, however, maintain that the former subprime finance company is merely sticking with the game plan General Motors set forth when it purchased the company last October: fill the finance gaps.
Read More →Edmunds.com estimated that the average automotive manufacturer incentive in the U.S. was $2,530 per vehicle sold in January 2011, essentially unchanged from December 2010, but up $177, or 7.5 percent from January 2010.
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The new-car market in the United States experienced a gradual recovery in 2010, according JATO Dynamics, a provider of automotive intelligence.
Read More →Despite three automakers reporting sales gains and the world’s largest retail association predicting that December will see the biggest increase in spending since 2006, the Conference Board reported that consumer confidence dipped in the year-end month for the first time in two months.
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Two years after leaving office, former President George W. Bush remains a harsh critic of the executives he believes led the U.S. auto industry down the path to self-destruction.
Read More →General Motors’ acquisition of AmeriCredit Corp. was expected to close on Friday, three days after AmeriCredit’s stockholders approved the sale. The company will be renamed General Motors Financial Company Inc. (GM Financial).
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