General Motors Corp. is prepared to enter into litigation in an effort to stop dealers from selling a GM nameplate and competitive products next to one another on the same dealership showroom floor, according to a top company executive. GM’s...
Bill Lovejoy, GM's group vice president of North American sales, service and marketing, says the company should help dealers find alternative forms of income as margins on new-vehicle sales continue to wane. "Dealers have to find other sources of...
Chrysler Dealership Ordered to Pay Double Damages to Police Officer PHILADELPHIA, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly two years after Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Carolyn E. Temin ruled that Gary Barbera's Chryslerland had committed unfair trade...
Dealer John Staluppi has opened a new state-of-the-art Hyundai dealerhip -- believed to be the world's largest -- in Las Vegas. The facility,which will employ more than 50 people, cost close to $6 million dollars. Planet Hyundai is a fully...
First-of-its-Kind to Integrate Both New and Used Inventories on One Site ATLANTA and DEARBORN, Mich., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- FordDirect, the joint venture between participating Ford dealers and Ford Motor Company today announced that it has...
Dealer gets award from alma mater Auto dealer J.L. Huffines of Dallas is among the 2001 recipients of Texas A&M University's coveted Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor the university bestows on its alumni. Mr. Huffines, class of 1944...
Think you have this Internet thing down pat? Guess again So you think you have this Internet thing handled? Every thing is working smoothly, your Internet department is top notch, you have a snazzy web site with the latest features as you sell...
All the nominees are quality people with great personal and professional life stories to tell. THIS IS A TOUGH ONE, REMARKED TONY NOLAND of NCM Associates as we considered nominees for this issue's Dealer of the Year, our first feature of its kind...
General Motors-dealer relations which were bruised two years ago by the automaker's unsuccessful plan to buy up to 800 dealerships are steadily improving, says GM Vice President John Middlebrook. We ranked pretty well on a recent NADA survey, says...
Great products at reasonable prices always have, and always will, own the market. Period! I did the wrap-up for Keith Crain's technology conference in Washington a few weeks back. The crowd was thick with the usual suspects manufacturers looking...