March 2021

CHICAGO –  A new nationwide brand campaign from Cars.com highlights what it describes as the breadth and depth of its first-party data, paired with smart matchmaking technology. With that breadth and depth, the Cars.com marketplace can connect its more than 20 million monthly unique car shoppers with the vehicles that meet their needs and budgets, according to the company. The new campaign is called, “It’s Matchical,” and Cars.com describes it as an evolution of the themes of its 2018 “We Met on Cars.com” brand campaign, demonstrating the results from intelligent curation.… Read More »New Cars.com campaign highlights matchmaking capabilities

CARY, N.C. –  Consumer advocates and other regulators began National Consumer Protection Week on Monday in part by pointing to the significant jump in cases recorded in the complaint database housed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to the CFPB’s online dashboard, complaints in 2020 came in at 443,143; that’s up from the 206,607 complaints registered in 2019. All told, the CFPB dashboard indicated there have been 1,987,591 complaints sent to the regulator since the database’s inception in December 2011. By far, the category where the most complaints landed with… Read More »Advocates point to spike in CFPB complaint database to open National Consumer Protection Week

COLLEYVILLE, Texas –  The Association of Finance & Insurance Professionals (AFIP) recently gave out the Jakob Murray Lange Memorial Scholarship that recognizes a Northwood University student for exemplary work during an internship the previous summer. Receiving the financial award along with a marble obelisk in recognition of her achievement was Chelsea Mallams, a Northwood University senior majoring in automotive marketing and management. Mallams interned at Art Moran Buick GMC Mitsubishi in Southfield, Mich., last year. She is on Northwood University’s Dean’s List with a 3.8 cumulative GPA. The AFIP scholarship is… Read More »Past NIADA/Cox Automotive scholarship recipient receives similar accolade from AFIP

Monday, Mar. 01, 2021, 07:01 AM ATLANTA  –  RideKleen, a mobile vehicle care provider that’s part of the Cox Automotive Mobility Group, is expanding its partnership with Uber. The two companies had piloted a vehicle sanitation and maintenance program for five months in Atlanta and Phoenix, and will now bring it to 12 new markets in the coming months, Cox Automotive said Monday. While timing is subject to change, the plan is to roll the RideKleen-Uber program to these markets in March: Orlando, Fla. Baltimore Houston Dallas Washington D.C. Los… Read More »RideKleen, Uber to expand partnership to 12 more markets