Just traded in! 2006 King Ranch! Looks great, decent miles and clean. Tires and windshield are good and it has a sunroof. Gotta love them King Ranch seats!! My favorite!

LTZ Suburban with headrest DVD's - Come and get it!

LTZ Suburban just traded for! This certainly won't last long at all. Wonder who will get this one! Has everything you could think of!

Ryan Chevrolet Blog is now mobile!!

I can post like crazy now! Straight from my cellphone! Gonna try to post some pics and see how it works out. This is VERY nice. Imagine, I could send pictures of trades we just took in WAAAYYY before they hit the lot or even the web. I can see this really helping out because there's alway that "Darn, I had that exact car just the other day but it sold so quick!" or the: "Randy, I wish I knew you had that a couple days ago!". I'm going to go take some pictures....see you in a few!

Chevy Camaro Is Front-Runner in SEMA Contest

•SEMA organizers say the Chevrolet Camaro is beating the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger in the race for "hottest car" at the 2010 SEMA Show.
•In the lead for hottest truck is the Ford F-Series; Jeep Grand Cherokee is in front of the 4x4 SUV group.
•The inaugural SEMA hot vehicle awards will be handed out during the show in early November.

DIAMOND BAR, California — Organizers say the Chevrolet Camaro is the "outstanding leader" in the race for "hottest car" honors at the 2010 SEMA Show. The inaugural SEMA hot vehicle awards will be handed out during the show, which runs November 2-5.

"The outstanding leader in the hottest car category is the Chevy Camaro, followed by the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger," said show organizers in a statement this week. Also-rans are the Audi A4, Ford Fiesta, Honda CR-Z, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Soul, Lexus IS, Mazda 2, Scion tC and Subaru Impreza.

In the lead for hottest truck is the Ford F-Series, followed by the Chevrolet Silverado. The two are beating out the Dodge Ram and Toyota Tundra.

SEMA organizers say the best 4x4 SUV category is a "tight" race, with the Jeep Grand Cherokee taking the early lead, "followed closely by the Jeep Wrangler and Ford Explorer."

SEMA show exhibitors will choose the three outstanding vehicles. In the meantime, the public can vote for its favorites to qualify to win a VIP trip for two to the 2011 SEMA Show. The voting ends on November 1. Votes can be cast on the SEMA Facebook Page or at SEMA's Web site.

Autotrader to purchase Kelley Blue Book

Today’s expected announcement of this $500 million-plus deal will combine two giants of Internet car shopping. The deal marries transaction focused Autotrader with research-centric KBB.

In what appears to be a continuation of Autotrader’s strategy of sewing up as much of the Internet-based car shopping process as possible, the Internet listing giant has recently completed the roll up of vAuto and now KBB.

Kelley Blue Book was started in 1926 by then former auto dealer Les Kelley. Kelley started a dealership in 1918 but soon became focused on his vehicle value listing service. The Kelley family has not been part of the company’s ownership since the 1960s and the article in today’s Wall Street Journal indicates that the last Kelley family employee retired in 2000.

Fort Walton Beach Pontiac dealer told he “may have” sold the last Pontiac – but maybe not

Claim appears to originate from a New York Times reporter searching Internet sites for the last available Pontiac – but did he really find it?

The car dubbed “the last Pontiac sold” is a rare Solstice hardtop edition. GM officials could not confirm that this was the last new Pontiac to be retailed. In fact, GM official Tom Henderson claims that there are about 30 new Pontiacs around the country and he expects that most or all will be sold by the November 1st burial date for the Pontiac brand.

The Solstice was sold by what is now known as Lee GMC in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The dealership used to be known as Lee Pontiac GMC and has been selling the Pontiac brand since 1949 – 61 years ago.

In a report found on the Northwest Florida Daily News website, Emerson Lee, the dealership’s sales manager admits that they don’t really know if this is the last Pontiac to be sold or not. But anytime you can get a local newspaper to write a favorable story about your store – who is going to complain?
Pontiac has long been known as the GM brand with a little “attitude”- a little edge that just was not present in a Chevy or Buick. Today it appears that most of that “attitude” has been transferred over to Cadillac. But as of November 1st – Pontiac is no more.

eBay Motors fraudster gets his day in court

eBay Motors is a very popular and successful method for selling cars online so it’s not surprising that some crooks have infiltrated the system. Most people spot the frauds before they suffer any loss, but Rance Carli was different. Mr. Carli stands accused of six counts of defrauding buyers of $245,000. In a Connecticut court he says he is not guilty. His arrest followed an extensive police investigation into complaints from out-of-state and foreign buyers. As reported in the Norwich Register, Mr. Carli allegedly sold vehicles through the online auction website but never delivered them and in some cases the vehicles did not even exist. Police say he used forged or altered documents to push the scheme. In one case in June 2009, a buyer from Wyoming purchased two 2010 Chevrolet Camaros for $90,000. A year went by and the buyer still had not received any of the vehicles, despite repeated promises and excuses. Mr. Carli reportedly told the buyer the cars had not cleared customs in Canada, where they were built. Mr. Carli eventually refunded the buyer $42,000. The buyer, with $48,000 already invested in one car, then agreed to buy a 2008 Dodge Challenger for an additional $30,000, according to the criminal complaint. The cars never arrived, police said, and the buyer is out $78,500. The Camaro Z28 has not been produced for years let alone 2010. In the case of the Challenger, police said they tracked the VIN to a dealer’s lot in Sioux Center, Iowa, where Mr. Carli had apparently shown some interest in the purchase of the car and was given the vehicle’s identification number.
One of the other cases included a buyer from Hong Kong who bought a 2004 Honda Rune for $18,100 in September 2009, but never got the motorcycle. Again police said Mr.Carli had obtained the vehicle identification number of the motorcycle from a dealership in Kentucky.