By Paul Takahashi Published 5:00 am CDT, Thursday, June 6, 2019 Customers are driven through rows of vehicles at Sterling McCall Toyota on the Southwest Freeway. It’s a Group 1 Automotive dealership. Customers are driven through rows of vehicles at Sterling McCall Toyota on the Southwest Freeway. It’s a Group 1 Automotive dealership. Photo: Mark Mulligan, Staff Photo: Mark Mulligan, Staff Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 Customers are driven through rows of vehicles at Sterling McCall Toyota on the Southwest Freeway. It’s a Group 1 Automotive dealership. Customers are driven through rows of vehicles at Sterling McCall Toyota on the Southwest Freeway. It’s a Group 1 Automotive dealership. Photo: Mark Mulligan, Staff Group 1 Auto expands online car buying platform 1 / 3 Back to Gallery Group 1 Automotive, the nation’s third-largest automotive dealer group, has rolled out its online car-buying platform to two-thirds of its 116 dealerships nationwide. The Houston company in November began piloting online sales of new and used vehicles at 28 dealerships and has since expanded the platform to 79 dealerships nationwide. The dealership group plans to bring its AcceleRide platform to all of its U.S. dealership by the end of the summer, the company said this week. “We’re focused on making the complete online car buying experience convenient, interactive and even more accessible for customers,” Daryl Kenningham, Group 1’s president of U.S. operations, said in a statement. RELATED: Group 1 Auto makes inroads in online sales More… [Read full story]
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