Once again- all top 10 selling vehicles can be found on AutoRow.
And if you are looking for a car, 19 of the top 20 can be found on AutoRow.
In fact over 86% of the vehicles Spokane purchases can be found on Sprague Avenue.
So if you coming out this weekend, make it easy on your self... just exit I-90 at Sprague or Argonne and hit AutoRow. You can test drive everything on your list and let the dealers fight for your business.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/03/2008-car-sales-forbeslife-cx_jm_1203cars.html
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Jobs on AutoRow
Are you looking for a new job, or are you ready to make a career change.
Dealers on AutoRow are always looking for people to make their teams better.
Just follow any of the links below and you'll be on your way to a better life.
GusJohnsonford.com
HallmarkHyundai.com
Appleway.com
DishmanDodge.com
Jaremko.com
Dealers on AutoRow are always looking for people to make their teams better.
Just follow any of the links below and you'll be on your way to a better life.
GusJohnsonford.com
HallmarkHyundai.com
Appleway.com
DishmanDodge.com
Jaremko.com
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Buy a Car- Get a Room!
AutoRow’s 3rd annual Sidewalk Sale is going on June 18-22nd.
We know that many people travel a great distance to come to AutoRow to purchase a car, so we’d like to make that easier.
Anyone buying a new or used vehicle from one of our participating dealers will receive a voucher for a free hotel room from the Quality Inn or Holiday Inn Express on Argonne. You can use it immediately or save it for later in the summer.
These room vouchers have a value of $150 dollars and can be used anytime from now to Halloween.
To make a reservation now, just follow the links right to their web pages. You’ll receive your room voucher after you complete your transaction.
Holiday Inn Express
Spokane Valley Quality Inn
Please note there are some restrictions:
This offer is only good to the first 100 vehicles sold over the weekend.
The $99 cars do not receive a room night.
The room voucher expires on October 31st, 2008.
Room reservations are subject to availability.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us.
Thanks for visiting SpokaneAutoRow.com.
We know that many people travel a great distance to come to AutoRow to purchase a car, so we’d like to make that easier.
Anyone buying a new or used vehicle from one of our participating dealers will receive a voucher for a free hotel room from the Quality Inn or Holiday Inn Express on Argonne. You can use it immediately or save it for later in the summer.
These room vouchers have a value of $150 dollars and can be used anytime from now to Halloween.
To make a reservation now, just follow the links right to their web pages. You’ll receive your room voucher after you complete your transaction.
Holiday Inn Express
Spokane Valley Quality Inn
Please note there are some restrictions:
This offer is only good to the first 100 vehicles sold over the weekend.
The $99 cars do not receive a room night.
The room voucher expires on October 31st, 2008.
Room reservations are subject to availability.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us.
Thanks for visiting SpokaneAutoRow.com.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Pre owned specials
You'll notice we have a bunch of vehicles on special this weekend. You can access 50 random specials through the specials page, or just check the pre-owned inventory and you can search from all of them. We have close to 200 cars, trucks and SUV's listed so take your time and see what we have.
Thanks for visiting SpokaneAutoRow.com.
Thanks for visiting SpokaneAutoRow.com.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
NY Times article on Ford
Ford Displays a Wreck to Score Safety Points
From the New York Times. For more information see GusJohnsonFord.com.
By NICK BUNKLEY
Published: March 18, 2008
DETROIT — Even car novices should have no trouble identifying the Ford Taurus at this week’s New York International Auto Show. It’s the one with a crumpled hood and half of the front bumper missing.
Workers with the damaged car. Ford hopes visitors at the New York auto show will notice how well the car withstood a crash.
But this vehicle did not have an expensive mishap on its way to Manhattan from a warehouse in Michigan. Ford intentionally crashed the sedan in a test facility to show consumers how well the 2008 Taurus — and by extension, the rest of its vehicles — can withstand a crash.
Ford, which is desperate to re-establish itself with consumers who defected to Asian and European nameplates, hopes the same urge that makes commuters gawk at freeway smash-ups will kick in among those wandering the floor of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where the show opens on Friday.
“One of the problems that almost all of the Detroit automakers have is breaking through the resistance that people have to even looking at the cars,” said Art Spinella, of the automotive consulting firm CNW Marketing Research in Bandon, Ore. “You have to break through the clutter and you have to get people to somehow come and look at what you’re offering.”
Mr. Spinella said he did not recall ever seeing a car that had been in a crash at an auto show and called the Taurus display “brilliant.”
Automakers have long shied away from showing consumers graphic images of what happens to their products in crashes, but Ford is not the first to venture into this territory recently.
Volkswagen ran a memorable award-winning ad campaign called “Safe Happens” for two 2007 cars, the Jetta and Passat. Commercials showed people nonchalantly riding in one of the cars before suddenly being involved in a violent crash. But the occupants were not injured, and the car was shown to be mostly intact afterward.
The ads were controversial because some viewers found them too jarring, but they increased consumer interest in Volkswagen cars.
When Ford introduced the Taurus last year, bringing back what had been a venerable model name and using it on a sedan that had been called the Five Hundred, the company ran a marketing campaign calling the Taurus the “safest full-size car in America.” The Taurus earned five-star ratings in frontal and side crash tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and was named a “top safety pick” by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
But the ads about the ratings were widely criticized as bland and ineffective by dealers and industry experts, and sales of the new Taurus have fallen short of expectations. So far this year, Taurus sales are down 13 percent.
Robert Parker, Ford’s car group marketing manager, said most car shoppers identified safety as a high priority, but it was difficult to communicate safety features in a compelling way.
“Safety is highly important to large car buyers,” Mr. Parker said. “The challenge for us is when do you go up and shout about it from the mountaintops. I think we’ve been a little bit conservative at times in terms of communicating how good we are in this category.”
Mr. Parker said the Taurus display in New York also signaled a more hands-on approach that Ford planned to use at auto shows. He said Ford was trying to demonstrate scientifically how Ford’s safety features worked and to show “what’s under the skin” of a car as its electronics work to protect occupants in a crash. In contrast, Mr. Parker compared the Volkswagen ads to movies from driver’s education classes, “where they try to scare the daylights out of you.”
Many of Ford’s newer vehicles have earned high marks for safety, but the carmaker also has been dogged by past problems, including huge recalls of sport utility vehicles bearing defective Firestone tires and of trucks with cruise-control switches that could overheat and catch fire.
Ford says it took a 2008 Taurus SEL — equipped with chrome wheels and an optional navigation system but no different from the car any consumer could buy — and crashed it into a barrier at 35 miles an hour in a manner that occurs in many accidents.
A video of the crash, recorded by 12 cameras and 8 microphones, shows the car slamming into the barrier, sending debris flying and a dummy’s head into the air bag, and rising off the ground before landing at about a 45-degree angle from its direction of travel.
No repairs were done before taking the car to New York, but the floor and passenger-side doors of the Taurus were cut away, and the car will be elevated so that people can stand inside to watch how the crash happened on a large monitor suspended outside the still-intact windshield.
Extensive damage is visible from the front. The hood and the panel above the left front tire are buckled, and a hole where most of the bumper was allows a peek at how the engine compartment absorbed the energy of the crash. Ford’s distinctive three-bar grille is only partly intact, but the blue oval logo in its center appears to have been untouched.
“I was like an expectant father waiting for it to be crashed,” said Bob Adams, who retired from Ford’s auto shows division and worked on this project as a consultant. “When I saw that the blue oval survived the crash, I thought Henry Ford is up there looking over this whole thing.”
From the New York Times. For more information see GusJohnsonFord.com.
By NICK BUNKLEY
Published: March 18, 2008
DETROIT — Even car novices should have no trouble identifying the Ford Taurus at this week’s New York International Auto Show. It’s the one with a crumpled hood and half of the front bumper missing.
Workers with the damaged car. Ford hopes visitors at the New York auto show will notice how well the car withstood a crash.
But this vehicle did not have an expensive mishap on its way to Manhattan from a warehouse in Michigan. Ford intentionally crashed the sedan in a test facility to show consumers how well the 2008 Taurus — and by extension, the rest of its vehicles — can withstand a crash.
Ford, which is desperate to re-establish itself with consumers who defected to Asian and European nameplates, hopes the same urge that makes commuters gawk at freeway smash-ups will kick in among those wandering the floor of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where the show opens on Friday.
“One of the problems that almost all of the Detroit automakers have is breaking through the resistance that people have to even looking at the cars,” said Art Spinella, of the automotive consulting firm CNW Marketing Research in Bandon, Ore. “You have to break through the clutter and you have to get people to somehow come and look at what you’re offering.”
Mr. Spinella said he did not recall ever seeing a car that had been in a crash at an auto show and called the Taurus display “brilliant.”
Automakers have long shied away from showing consumers graphic images of what happens to their products in crashes, but Ford is not the first to venture into this territory recently.
Volkswagen ran a memorable award-winning ad campaign called “Safe Happens” for two 2007 cars, the Jetta and Passat. Commercials showed people nonchalantly riding in one of the cars before suddenly being involved in a violent crash. But the occupants were not injured, and the car was shown to be mostly intact afterward.
The ads were controversial because some viewers found them too jarring, but they increased consumer interest in Volkswagen cars.
When Ford introduced the Taurus last year, bringing back what had been a venerable model name and using it on a sedan that had been called the Five Hundred, the company ran a marketing campaign calling the Taurus the “safest full-size car in America.” The Taurus earned five-star ratings in frontal and side crash tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and was named a “top safety pick” by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
But the ads about the ratings were widely criticized as bland and ineffective by dealers and industry experts, and sales of the new Taurus have fallen short of expectations. So far this year, Taurus sales are down 13 percent.
Robert Parker, Ford’s car group marketing manager, said most car shoppers identified safety as a high priority, but it was difficult to communicate safety features in a compelling way.
“Safety is highly important to large car buyers,” Mr. Parker said. “The challenge for us is when do you go up and shout about it from the mountaintops. I think we’ve been a little bit conservative at times in terms of communicating how good we are in this category.”
Mr. Parker said the Taurus display in New York also signaled a more hands-on approach that Ford planned to use at auto shows. He said Ford was trying to demonstrate scientifically how Ford’s safety features worked and to show “what’s under the skin” of a car as its electronics work to protect occupants in a crash. In contrast, Mr. Parker compared the Volkswagen ads to movies from driver’s education classes, “where they try to scare the daylights out of you.”
Many of Ford’s newer vehicles have earned high marks for safety, but the carmaker also has been dogged by past problems, including huge recalls of sport utility vehicles bearing defective Firestone tires and of trucks with cruise-control switches that could overheat and catch fire.
Ford says it took a 2008 Taurus SEL — equipped with chrome wheels and an optional navigation system but no different from the car any consumer could buy — and crashed it into a barrier at 35 miles an hour in a manner that occurs in many accidents.
A video of the crash, recorded by 12 cameras and 8 microphones, shows the car slamming into the barrier, sending debris flying and a dummy’s head into the air bag, and rising off the ground before landing at about a 45-degree angle from its direction of travel.
No repairs were done before taking the car to New York, but the floor and passenger-side doors of the Taurus were cut away, and the car will be elevated so that people can stand inside to watch how the crash happened on a large monitor suspended outside the still-intact windshield.
Extensive damage is visible from the front. The hood and the panel above the left front tire are buckled, and a hole where most of the bumper was allows a peek at how the engine compartment absorbed the energy of the crash. Ford’s distinctive three-bar grille is only partly intact, but the blue oval logo in its center appears to have been untouched.
“I was like an expectant father waiting for it to be crashed,” said Bob Adams, who retired from Ford’s auto shows division and worked on this project as a consultant. “When I saw that the blue oval survived the crash, I thought Henry Ford is up there looking over this whole thing.”
Article on automotive employement from Buyingadvice.com
Believe It or Not: NADA says there are 100,000 jobs to fill at dealerships
From http://blog.buyingadvice.com/2008/03/believe-it-or-n.html
If you believe what the National Automobile Dealers Association says, the time to buy a new car might be fast approaching. Why?
Well, the organization that was founded in 1917 and which represents more than 19,700 domestic and international new car and truck dealers, claims there'll be more than 100,000 jobs to fill at dealerships nationwide very soon.
In a recent NADA Press Release, kicking off "Automotive Career Month," Chairman Annette Sykora says: "We are encouraging students to schedule a visit to their hometown dealership and ask about internships or summer jobs, which can often lead to a full-time career a few years down the road."
But wait! Aren't automotive sales down in this slumping economy? And isn't the long-term outlook for new car sales just as gloomy, especially with Ford Motor Company recently making a highly controversial offer to buy back 81 dealerships? Get more details on Ford's offer at MarketWatch.
Well, apparently NADA sees better times on the near horizon, which could translate to some great deals for car buyers, especially if, as they claim, there'll be 100,000 jobs available at dealerships very soon. Think of it as 100,000 new dealership representatives fighting for your business.
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