Providing a website featuring consumer product information about vehicles that allows users to input their preferences and find vehicles based on logic controls defined by user-configurable settings via the Internet and electronic mobile communications networks; providing a website featuring access to online searchable databases including classified advertising listings for automobiles; providing business and consumer information about automobile availability and automobiles for sale via the Internet and mobile electronic communications networks; operating an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of automobiles; dissemination of advertising for others by means of electronic communications networks; vertical ad network services, namely, providing and renting advertising space on the Internet for others within the automotive industry; providing consumer information reports on motor vehicle histories via the Internet; providing vehicle inventory management to the automotive industry