Cars.com Wants All the Reviews, Plans to Acquire DealerRater

If sales and service reviews were gold, Cars.com will soon the the richest third-party shopping website in all the land.

Cars.com plans to buy DealerRater, making it the largest soundboard of criticism and praise for dealers, salespeople and servicing in the industry, Automotive News reports.

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  • Jalop1991 The Trax looks great. Too bad it's from GM. Won't have one.I'm driving a rental Prius, a 2016 with 84K on the clock. I had forgotten how well Toyotas hold up. It drives great (for what it is), and still gets 60mpg. The current Prius looks great, like the Trax does, so it's the winner.You can't under-rate the Trax. That GM label kills everything in its path.
  • FreedMike Non-GLI VW Jetta. Even the base version is a good driver, there's a manual version, and the whole line is reasonably priced. The Sport model is a fine little driver's car for not a lot of bucks. And...NO CVTs.Also: Hyundai Sonata N-Line. It's a modern day GTO (think modest family car with a crud ton of performance), and it's reasonably priced. Yes, it's overpowered, but it's overpowered in a hilarious sort of way - like an old GTO. With the loss of the Honda Accord Sport 2.0T, it's also the last survivor in the midsize, mass-market performance market, which I mourn losing.
  • Bouzouki Under-rated? Wrong question? What is the LEAST over-rated new car? That is the question."With all the excitement of the NY Auto show". Really? Tell us about the fun to drive cars with manual transmissions that you saw, that aren't wired for automakers to sell our data, how were they?What's that? There were none. Thank you.Yes, the THREE-cylinder cars are not as over-rated as the automakers would like, like the new Encore. It's not much fun to drive, but it has a great touchscreen--woo-hoo!!!
  • ToolGuy you make it sound so exciting i really wish i could attend in perzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  • ToolGuy Yes let's be fair to Ford Motor Company, after all the Ford dealership has been so fair to everyone.