What Makes Us Different?
(Because indeed, we are different.)
We Have the Broadest and Deepest Content
We have the best consumer automotive content on the Internet. Here is just some of what you will find on the Edmunds Web Sites:
• New and used car prices, including the proprietary Edmunds.com's True Market Values®
• Our unique True Cost to OwnSM data, the only way to compare what new cars will truly cost over the full term of ownership
• The most complete, timely and accurate list of national and regional incentives and rebates available anywhere
• Everything you want to know about your next car, no matter what car that might be (from Kia to Rolls Royce)
• Editorial reviews of every new car that hits the market, including highlights of what's new each year, Edmunds' "Pros and Cons" and "What Edmunds Says," our one line summation
• Our Vehicle Comparison Tool, which allows you to make side-by-side comparisons of up to five vehicles at a time
• Consumer ratings and reviews of new and used vehicles
• Extensive automotive Road Tests including First Drives of brand new vehicles, Comparison Tests and Long-Term Road Tests
• Our Tips and Advice section, which covers buying, selling, financing, maintenance and ownership
• Affordability, leasing and financing decision calculators
• Our annual Editors' "Most Wanted" and Consumers' "Most Wanted" awards
• Future Vehicles, our sneak peak at upcoming models
• Exclusive "spy photos" and "spy videos" of vehicles in development
• The Internet’s largest video library
• Comprehensive coverage of the world's major auto shows
• Automotive News, updated daily
• Our Forums, the most established automotive message boards
• An extensive selection of other "community services" offered by our newest Web site, CarSpace
We are particularly proud of our Editorial Departments, consisting of a staff of talented writers who deliver entertaining, easily understood articles on issues relevant to the everyday driver and automotive enthusiast.
We are not Just an "Internet" Company!
Sure, our corporate name ends in ".com" and we do operate the world's first automotive Web site. But our company was founded, as Edmund Publishing Corp., 19 years before our Web site was launched! In recognition of the fact that most consumers now turn first to the Internet for automotive information, we changed our name to Edmunds.com, Inc. in 1999.
We are first and foremost a consumer automotive information company, and we distribute our information in whatever media best serves the needs of consumers. First, of course, came our books. Just prior to the popularization of the Internet, we also distributed our data on CD-ROMs. Now we distribute our content not only through this Web site (and through many other Web sites that syndicate portions of our content), but also through Internet-enabled cell phones, wireless PDAs, and through content syndication to print media, and our videos are now avaialable on ITunes. We are committed to being wherever consumers are looking for automotive information.
We are also a Data Company!
The Edmunds Information Solutions division of Edmunds.com is a primary, first-tier supplier of automotive data. Edmunds Information Solutions sources, organizes, compiles and delivers all of the vehicle information you see on the Edmunds Web Sites. And that data is so good that we license it (together with our editorial content) to many other companies. Because we source and compile the data ourselves, we can assure you that it is as accurate, timely and complete as you will find anywhere.
Very few other automotive Web sites have committed the time and resources that we have committed to Edmunds Information Solutions, so most other sites must license their data from other sources — sometimes from us!
We Hear You. We Talk Back. And You Talk to Each Other.
Unlike many other automotive Web sites, we value your input and your questions. We receive hundreds of e-mails each week. Every single one of them is read and evaluated by our Customer Service Department, and we answer as many of them as we can.
Our Letters to the Editors column features a selection of comments and suggestions we receive each month, while our Success Stories lets us and our visitors know how we have served you.
And our blogs are an opportunity for our staff and you communicate with each other and the world at large around-the-clock.
We have not just created a set of Web sites, but an automotive community. This is evident in the personality of our automotive editors — which they do not hide in their writing; by our responsiveness to your comments and inquires; by our publication of your e-mails on our sites; by our inclusion of customer vehicle ratings and reviews; by the popularity of our Forums community, where thousands of visitors contribute opinions and comments to discussions every day on virtually every conceivable automotive subject; and by the launch of CarSpace, an automotive lifestyle social networking site where members can create personalized automotive pages and link with friends.
We are Independent.
Edmunds.com, Inc. has been operated under the direction of the Steinlauf family since 1988. We are and always have been independent: none of the companies promoted or whose products are reviewed on our Web site own any interest in the company or have any say in how or what we publish. Our advice and judgments are unbiased, and our editors are committed to "telling it like it is."
While we have business relationships with many other companies, we were founded to empower consumers, and we will always regard consumers as our first and most important constituency.
February 2006
