AutoTrader.com Buys VINSolutions

[Mitchell Brenner]

A year or two ago I would have been very worried about this news. I
hated AutoTrader and they were my least favorite Internet company
for years. They have really changed the last couple of years and I've
grown to understand them and have changed my perception of them. They also have left VAuto alone and that
relationship hasn't changed since they bought it so I am going under the
assumption that they will leave Vin Solutions alone to do what they do
and just support them with $$$ to help them continue to grow! Vin Solutions has been a great addition to our Dealership and I look forward to even more success!

 

[Mitchell Brenner]

A year or two ago I would have been very worried about this news. I
hated AutoTrader and they were my least favorite Internet company
for years. They have really changed the last couple of years and I've
grown to understand them and have changed my perception of them. They also have left VAuto alone and that
relationship hasn't changed since they bought it so I am going under the
assumption that they will leave Vin Solutions alone to do what they do
and just support them with $$$ to help them continue to grow! Vin Solutions has been a great addition to our Dealership and I look forward to even more success!

 

[Jcole]

Hopefully they can find a way to integrate vAuto's market pricing tools into VIN's inventory management system

 

[Brian Tucker]

Be one with AutoTrader? 

 

[Luke Stoker]

 Only time will tell where the product suite will go but I hope that the value stays the same.  I thinks that this will only enhance VINs backing for growth and will inprove customer service, speed of upgrades and server stability. If they leave the main structure of VIN intact it would be set-up for a "WIN, WIN" situation. Good luck to both sides!

 

[JCollins]

Cincidealer-
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[JCollins]

Jeff- I agree but also disagree. DealerRater can also be duplicated given the right resources. Take some time and drill down into what Presto offers. I think you'll be surprised. 

 

[CD Group]

 It makes a good IPO road show story but time will tell if these AT acquired companies will be innovative and customer orientated after the IPO.

That’s a bunch of overlapping solutions with attached big ego personalities for AT to mash into a single soup-to-nuts login solution. Because of the wide overlapping, my guess is one of these acquired companies (like Vauto) will emerge as the “alpha” acquiree and the others (like Vin Solutions) will be slowly sunsetted; that’s how this game usually plays out and when the internal pie throwing begins. As the old saying goes, “the devil is in the details”.

 

[Alex Snyder (blog)]

 I thought of a second question: 

Autotrader - was VinSolutions your first choice?

 

[Mo Radji]

by putting all of these pieces together, ATC can revoke the need for a DMS.