Month: <span>November 2015</span>

The mobile websites phablet smartphone users find most useful
November 12, 2015

The mobile websites phablet smartphone users find most useful

Many smartphone users find TrueCar shopping website simply phabulous. TrueCar, which offers to make every vehicle shopper “an expert in 60 seconds or less,” scored highest of 10 third-party websites among users of large-screen smartphones – phablets – in a…

Toyota, General Motors score big in Motorist Choice Awards
November 10, 2015

Toyota, General Motors score big in Motorist Choice Awards

The people have spoken. Well, more than 66,000 of them, anyway. What they’ve said is that Toyota and General Motors provide the best combination of product satisfaction and lower-than-expected ownership costs in nearly half the categories of the 2015 Motorist…

On the road to a world title for 51 outstanding vehicles
November 9, 2015

On the road to a world title for 51 outstanding vehicles

World class. That’s certainly one way to describe the 51 vehicles nominated for the World Car of the Year awards. And then there will be no more than 15, then five, as the list is trimmed down to winners of…

‘Tundrasine’ stretches definition of pickup – and limousine
November 5, 2015

‘Tundrasine’ stretches definition of pickup – and limousine

We almost never write about individual vehicles on the Santander Consumer USA blog, because, as an auto lender, we work with franchise dealerships of all brands. But this is one we just couldn’t resist: a Toyota Tundra stretched into a…