auto dealers

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Automatic Data Processing, a large provider of HR, payroll and benefits administration services, has bought Cobalt, which offers Web marketing services to auto dealers. The $400 million deal helps boost ADP's own dealer-services business and combat tough times in the sector.

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A group of 62 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives is lobbying to keep car dealerships exempt from a Wall Street reform bill that will be considered later this month. But as the lawmakers are pushing for the exemption, a House ethics committee is investigating the timing of fundraisers...

Some 2,000 General Motors and Chrysler Group auto dealerships may get a second chance to stay in business as the car companies reassess the future of franchises that were slated for closure or already shut down. The review process is part of binding arbitration GM and Chrysler have entered into to...

Consumer advocates had hoped that auto dealers would be included in pending legislation to create a new consumer watchdog agency. But a grassroots effort pushed by dealers and their leading trading group, the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), resulted in members of the House Financial...

General Motors' decision to partner with eBay in a test program in California to sell cars via the Internet may seem like a simple way to buy a car without entering a showroom. But if you're not in the Golden State and still in the market for a new ride there are other ways to get a great deal...

Sen. Olympia Snow, the low-key Maine Republican, is livid that bankrupt General Motors (GM) and Chrysler L.L.C. are slashing their dealer networks, leaving thousands of people out of work. Her anger is typical. In remarks before the U.S. Senate, Snow lamented the decisions of GM to cut 1,100...

The biggest road block to a quick restructuring of GM (GM) in a Chapter 11 filing may be its own dealers. Chrysler dealers are challenging that company's sale of assets. If their case gains momentum, it could disrupt GM's plan to quickly sell off its assets. According to Reuters, "Some auto dealers...