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General Motors Trying Online Car Sales
- Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, October 8, 2013 8:02 AM
General Motors plans to expand a new online shopping tool that allows customers to bypass showrooms when buying new cars. The Detroit automaker will give the web-based application, called Shop-Click-Drive, to its entire dealer network. Acting a bit like third-party sites, letting new-car buyers use their computer screen to lock in the price of a new car, get an estimate of the trade-in value of their old car, apply for financing and even arrange a test drive or delivery of their new vehicle.
