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Tesla CEO talking with Google about 'autopilot' systems

May 10, 2013 06:01 CET
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google Inc.... Read More »

 

Tesla CEO talking with Google about 'autopilot' systems

9:21 am U.S. ET | May 7, 2013
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google Inc.... Read More »

 

Subaru uses Google to clear out '13 Foresters

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 15, 2013
Subaru of America in the first quarter used Google and other digital marketing to reduce inventory of its 2013 Forester crossover and make way for the redesigned 2014 model.... Read More »

 

Scion to Kansas City: We have a Google problem

12:01 am U.S. ET | March 25, 2013
Scion is changing its online presence in a pilot it launched in December. Scion is buying pay-per-click advertising on Google for all 41 Scion stores in the six-state Kansas City region.... Read More »

 

DAVID BARKHOLZ

Google's national shopping plan has dealers on edge

12:01 am U.S. ET | March 18, 2013
Dealers are greeting with angst -- and anticipation -- Google's intention to roll out nationally an online vehicle shopping service. Either way, the giant search engine carries so much influence in the Internet car-shopping equation that many dealers plan to participate once the service comes to their areas David Barkholz is a reporter for Automotive News.... Read More »

 

Google poised for major retail push

12:01 am U.S. ET | March 4, 2013
Google is poised to expand its online car-shopping service to dealers throughout California and enter more states, sources say. By expanding the pilot, Google is signaling its intention to be a more significant force in online auto shopping.... Read More »

 

DAVID BARKHOLZ

Google contacts angry dealers, restores reviews

12:01 am U.S. ET | Feb. 18, 2013
In a welcome change for many dealerships, Google is restoring customer reviews mysteriously deleted last year from dealership Web pages and opening a communication pipeline to dealers David Barkholz is a reporter for Automotive News.... Read More »

 

Google, regulators at odds over timing of self-driving cars

8:04 am U.S. ET | Feb. 6, 2013
Google sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that quickly. States may have to decide how to license machines rather than people. Insurance companies have to reassess how to assign fault after accidents.... Read More »

 

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS WORLD CONGRESS

When products are similar, sales process becomes crucial

12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 21, 2013
A fast, seamless and transparent car-buying experience increasingly will determine a brand's sales success, panelists from Google, Hyundai and TrueCar told the Automotive News World Congress.... Read More »

 

2013 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS WORLD CONGRESS

Panel: Online experience new battleground for buyers

6:50 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 16, 2013
With brand competition so close these days on vehicle quality, cost and styling, the customer shopping experience online and in the store has become a key battleground for automakers, panelists from Google, Hyundai and TrueCar said at the Automotive News World Congress.... Read More »

 

Sidestep Google? Vexed dealers try

12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 31, 2012
Eley Duke III, vice president of Duke Automotive, could watch worry-free this year when Google deleted thousands of customer reviews from dozens of dealerships nationally. He had almost no exposure to the purge because nearly all of the Virginia retailer's reviews were on DealerRater.com.... Read More »

 

2012 LISTS OF 1O

Marketing moments

12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 31, 2012
Milestones in automotive marketing for the past year.... Read More »

 

DAVID BARKHOLZ

Car-shopping site execs take aim at Google

12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 17, 2012
Two big digital auto-shopping sites, AutoTrader.com and Cars.com, are trying to use Big Data to puncture Google's reputation as the premier online advertising source for dealers. But they'll need lots of luck and some very persuasive arguments to wrestle that 800-pound gorilla to the ground David Barkholz is a reporter for Automotive News.... Read More »

 

DAVID BARKHOLZ

Auto dealers say Google's imperial approach is risky

12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 19, 2012
Auto dealers are losing patience with the often imperial ways of Google and beginning to look elsewhere for online vehicle shoppers David Barkholz is a reporter for Automotive News.... Read More »

 

Colo. dealer: Loss of Google reviews hurts

12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 29, 2012
Google's mysterious methods continue to dog a dealer in Colorado. Fisher Auto Inc. in Boulder has seen a precipitous drop-off in calls from Internet vehicle shoppers since Google unilaterally deleted hundreds of predominantly positive customer reviews from Fisher Auto Google+ Local page in early August.... Read More »

 

Feds seek human controls for driverless cars

11:33 am U.S. ET | Oct. 17, 2012
A computer-driven car may not be commercially viable for at least another decade, but federal regulators are taking it seriously. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a research project to figure out what sort of cockpit controls would be appropriate for a human motorist in a computer-driven vehicle.... Read More »

 

Subaru games Google, lures CR-V shoppers

12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 24, 2012
With some clever advertising on Google, Subaru used interest in a top competitor, the Honda CR-V, to reduce summer inventory of aging Forester crossovers. How? It ran paid search ads on Google that appeared when online shoppers went looking for a CR-V -- ads that were easily mistaken for Honda listings.... Read More »

 

Presto! Google kills your good reviews

12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 27, 2012
Early this month, dealer Scott Pitman watched in dismay as Google deleted 400 of his customer reviews over two days. Google left his Suzuki of Wichita dealership with just nine reviews -- all negative. The purge came without notice or explanation, he said, and Google offered no chance to appeal.... Read More »

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

VW tests live chat on Google paid search ads

12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 20, 2012
Volkswagen of America is experimenting with live chat on its Google paid search ads in an effort to increase the number of leads it generates from the popular search engine.... Read More »

 

Self-driving cars on horizon, but how soon?

Aug. 14, 2012 06:01 CET
The day when self-driven cars dominate the road, a longtime science-fiction fantasy, may not be far off, a new report says.... Read More »

 

Self-driving cars on horizon, but how soon?

12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 10, 2012
The day when self-driven cars dominate the road, a longtime science-fiction fantasy, may not be far off, a new report says.... Read More »

 

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS WEBINAR

How to make sure Google users find your store

12:01 am U.S. ET | July 30, 2012
If your dealership is not showing up prominently in Google search results, you're missing a big opportunity. On Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2 p.m. EDT, Internet trainer Brian Pasch will deliver a follow-up to his popular Automotive News webinar on Google. The title: Google+ Is Changing the Game. Are You Ready to Play?... Read More »

 

How TrueCar's Yahoo! deal failed

12:01 am U.S. ET | July 9, 2012
In the burgeoning world of automotive lead generators, Scott Painter was going to break out from the pack. The serial entrepreneur placed a huge bet late last year when he agreed to pay $50 million a year to Internet portal Yahoo! for his TrueCar.com to become the exclusive automotive partner of Yahoo! Autos. The deal was supposed to channel 10 million unique visitors per month to TrueCar.com from the pages of Yahoo! Autos.... Read More »

 

Search warfare: Google as battleground

12:01 am U.S. ET | July 2, 2012
Google searches have become the key battleground for courting Internet shoppers, and a Texas lawsuit involving search terms sold by Google demonstrates the potential for Hatfield-and-McCoy battles among dealerships nationwide. It also raises thorny ethical questions about Internet marketing for dealerships and the vendors that handle their online marketing.... Read More »

 

Google tests lead-selling plan in S.F.

12:01 am U.S. ET | July 2, 2012
Google Inc., the Internet's dominant search engine, is now selling sales leads to dealerships. Google confirmed that it has launched a pilot program, only in the San Francisco market. But given Google's online heft, it's a potential game changer nationwide -- for dealerships and for such top lead providers as Edmunds.com, Cars.com and kbb.com.... Read More »