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To: pooh who wrote (42104)	5/27/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: Doug Robinson	Respond to of 120523

ABTL-AUTOBYTEL.COM GENERATES OVER $1 MILLION AN HOUR IN CAR SALES PR NEWSWIRE - May 27, 1999 08:22 Current Level of Customer Purchase Requests on Track to Result in $9 Billion of Car Sales in 1999 IRVINE, Calif., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Autobytel.com (Nasdaq: ABTL), the leader in automotive e-commerce and services, today announced that its purchase requests to its Accredited Dealer Network were now resulting in over $24 million per day, or $1 million an hour, of car sales. "This level of business generation establishes Autobytel.com as the clear leader in automotive e-commerce, and confirms recent surveys that indicate we are the site of choice for serious car buyers," said Mark Lorimer, Autobytel.com president and CEO. According to Lorimer, in a recent survey of e-commerce brand awareness by Opinion Research Corporation, Autobytel.com ranked sixth among e-commerce brands, the only auto-related site in the top 17 positions ranked by Opinion Research. "In addition, Media Metrix reporting for April indicates our level of unique visits continues to be among the highest in the sector," said Lorimer. "More importantly, our users are spending more time on the site than ever before, and the average time our visitors spend on each page is the highest in the industry. This signifies that our visitors are actually doing research and shopping for cars, not just surfing." Lorimer also noted that Autobytel.com placed first for the second year in a row in the J.D. Power & Associates 1999 Dealer Satisfaction with Online Buying Services Study. "The over 2,700 dealers in our network recognize that Autobytel.com provides them with the best sales prospects, which is confirmed by the $1 million per hour in sales that result. From both the dealer and consumer brand awareness perspective, we are the number one ranked auto site; it is a clean sweep."