Vauxhall To Sell Cars Online In Europe
Martin Burns
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Vauxhall, General Motors' UK subsidiary, announced today that it is to be the 1st major UK car company to sell direct online.
It claims that this move will not cannibalise its existing dealership network, as cars bought online will continue to be delivered through the traditional channel.
The announcement may start to answer years of pressure by consumer groups noting that prices in the UK are unfairly in excess of those in the rest of Europe.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
