Summer in New England isn’t far off, which means one thing: Red Sox. With the Bruins out of the playoffs and the Celtics already a couple of games into their postseason, Boston fans will soon be fully focused on the Sox.
If you’re lucky enough to have tickets to a game, you may be wondering about the best places to park for Fenway. Visiting the Cathedral of Boston can be tricky if you want to drive. We share some Red Sox parking tips below, so read on before you head down Yawkey Way.
Download the Golf R Drivers Forever iPad app, and you could be on your way to Germany in September for a week of Golf R-related activities.
Volkswagen has launched the “Golf R Ultimate Fan Experience” Sweepstakes, a contest created to celebrate the recent arrival of the all-new 2012 Golf R—Volkswagen’s most powerful performance vehicle ever sold in the United States—and the loyal enthusiast community that rallies around it.
“The Golf R has an incredibly loyal following of fans, and this is a way for Volkswagen to say ‘thank you’ for their passion and enthusiasm,” said Jonathan Browning, President and CEO, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. “We are delighted to reward one lucky Golf R fan with the ultimate enthusiast travel experience, including an adrenaline-pumping driving experience on a legendary track.”
The Golf R Ultimate Fan Experience Sweepstakes offers fans an opportunity to share what they love about the Golf R and describe why they are “the ultimate fan” through the Golf R Drivers Forever iPad® app. One winner and a guest will receive a prize package that includes:
To enter, iPad® owners can download Volkswagen’s free Golf R Drivers Forever app and click on the Sweepstakes link, and describe, in 256 words or less, why they want to win the Ultimate Fan Experience. The Golf R Drivers Forever app features exclusive Golf R videos, photos, footage and interviews that illustrate the heritage and performance of the iconic performance vehicle. Mail-in entries are also accepted.
The sweepstakes runs from April 12 through May 14, 2012. Entrants must be 25 years of age or older at the time of entry. The potential winner will be selected in a random drawing on or about May 28, 2012, from the pool of eligible entries received. The winner will be notified within 30 days of the drawing.
For more contest details, please visit: www.vw.com/GolfRUltimateFanExperience
And sign up for a test drive to be the first in the area to drive this amazing new Volkswagen.
Colonial is committed to providing you with superior service, whether you’re visiting us to purchase a vehicle or to keep one running smoothly. Over the past year, we’ve paid particularly close attention to the reviews that our customers left across the web, and it’s given us loads of invaluable feedback.
And since our dealerships sell and service a variety of different brands, we began to wonder which review sites were most popular among customers of the different automakers. Read on to find out which review sites car shoppers and owners prefer, and leave us a comment if your own preference corresponds with our customers’ or not.
The Super Bowl’s just a few days away, which means that it’s time to get your snacks in order. If you’re thinking about adding nachos to your gameday spread, then take a minute for some sage advice.
Read on for 10 rules for your Super Bowl nachos, courtesy of Dave Egeland at Colonial Chrysler Jeep Dodge. Follow his rules to avoid some common nacho mistakes, because the right plate of nachos makes a good game even better.
Colonial relies on hundreds of talented individuals to keep our dealerships running smoothly – and every one of them has a story.
For the first installment of our new Get to Know Colonial series, we introduce you to Nick Surdis, the General Manager of Colonial Honda of Dartmouth. Nick is a fitness enthusiast and part of a powerlifting team. He covers his team’s progress, including his own, on a blog at http://www.lakevillepowerlifting.com/.
Read on to get a better idea of what powerlifting is, along with what the Lakeville Powerlifting Crew is all about. And be sure to check back next week for an interview with Nick!
Good news for all MA drivers: new data released this month from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that fatal crashes throughout much of the country – including Massachusetts – are on the decline.
But while MA roads are getting safer on the whole, distracted driving rates continue to rise and suggest potential problems in the future. Read on for all the data related to Massachusetts, plus a quick overview of what it means for you and your fellow Bay State commuters.
Moustaches serve many purposes: intimidating criminals, distracting batters, aggressively hawking oatmeal…and now helping to cure prostate cancer.
Thanks to the Movember movement, the moustache is now a symbol to raise awareness of men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.
A global initiative, Movember asks participating men to grow a moustache starting on November 1st and keep them until the end of the month. During that time, Mo Bros (as participants are known), and the Mo Sistas who support them, raise funds to be donated to worthy programs like the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG. Last year, Movember.com reports that $7.5 million was raised in the US alone. And this year they’re hoping for even more.
Enter Dan Fontaine. Thanks to him it is Movember at Colonial Volkswagen. The E-Commerce Director here at Colonial Automotive Group is doing his part to muster Movember money in 2011. As part of Team #SWAG, Dan’s goal is to raise $500 – and with your help, he can do it.
Plus, as an added bonus, Colonial Volkswagen has generously pledged to match donations to Dan up to $500! So visit Dan’s MoBro page and make a donation today – it’ll be doubled at the end of the month! If nothing else, you’re supporting a man brave enough to grow The Fu.
There’s an old saying that goes, “If you fail to prepare, then you prepare to fail.” And while it might be a little dramatic for winter car care, it’s worth taking the steps to get ready now for the impending madness that is winter in New England.
Read on for some useful tips on winterizing your vehicle to make it through the cold weather. Because there’s nothing worse than digging your car out of the snow for 3 hours only to find out that it won’t even start.
More fun than old tyme baseball with Fitchburg native "Nixey" Callahan!
Back near the end of June, we brought you our lighthearted Dartmouth, MA quiz. And since fall has returned and school is back in session, we figure that it’s time for more trivia highlighting another Massachusetts town with a Colonial Auto connection: Fitchburg.
There’s a lot more to Fitchburg than Colonial West Chevrolet. Think you know The Burg pretty well? Let’s find out.
The internet and the influence it has on consumers and businesses is an ever changing, dynamic animal. By now most Americans have joined up one or more Social Media networks. Both Facebook and Twitter are well established staples for the masses. Linkedin offers professionals the opportunity network and establish valueable business connections and is very much a niche social network.
The new kid on the block is Google Plus or G+ as most people know it. G+ has been in limited trial for roughly the last 90 days and joining was by invite only. This past Tuesday Google opened it up to everyone. For my time with G+ ( which was roughly 60 days of the limited trial period) I found to a nice change to Facebook. It was starting fresh and some of the features that G+ has make it easier to organize who sees what in terms of content sharing, posts, images and more. G+ has Circles which allow you to streamline your ” friends ” and in turn specify which Circle(s) will see posts you put up. What I also enjoy about it is that it has a ” Following ” Circle which adds a Twitter like element to G+. I was able to follow people that on Facebook I would never friend request or ” Like ” their fan page. I quickly was following some heavy hitters in the technology world, Larry Page and Sergey Brin from Google, Tom Anderson from Myspace, Pete Cashmore from Mashable. The content and information flow from these folks and as well as peers that I have in the automotive industry has been top-notch. I have really enjoyed my time on G+. Don’t get me wrong you can find content like this New FB Changes all over the web, but with G+ it’s all nice and neatly packaged in a one stop shop.
The past two weeks there have been significant changes with the look and feel of Facebook. Yesterday, Facebook made sweeping changes to the style and layout of news feeds and from what I am hearing from Mashable that is just the tip of the iceberg. The volley between Google and Facebook is getting exciting for those in and around technology.
Some of the notable changes with Facebook leading up to yesterday were privacy features that affect photo tagging, organizing lists ( this feature is basically FB’s Circles), size and styling of photo galleries, making the search bar atop your FB wall static. Most of the moves were in my opinion making FB more like G+. Understandably so. Google has had some failures in Social Media. The Google Wave project was a failure, Google Buzz was getting some buzz before privacy concerns scared most away. Now with G+ and its implications on the way users consume content and share that content with their peers, Facebook has had to make some adjustments. Both companies are top tier tech with arguably some of the best of the best in engineering and programming and both are very much in the early development of their respective life cycles. Google is a bit older and possibly wiser with a start in search that has turned into advertising and Facebook doing social networking better than Myspace, Friendster and the like that have fallen by the wayside.
Over the coming months I anticipate these will continue to strengthen their social platforms on the social front and go head to head to stay ahead of each other. Facebook has a total leg up with 750 million users but Google has seen some rapid growth during the limited trial. And with the strength of the Android platform, Gmail, Google Docs and more it is only a matter of time before those with a gmail account start to migrate over.
I was late to party on social network front in my personal life but I do recall when my peers started to leave myspace in droves for Facebook. I am not bold enough or educated enough to suggest the same will happen with people leaving Facebook to go to G+. I can say this though: these juggernauts plan to reshape and reinvent the way we as consumers use the internet to find businesses, websites, information and each other on the world wide web.
As E-C0mmerce Director for the Colonial Automotive Group I feel it is important that we as an organization recognize the dynamic landscape of the digital age of advertising. It wasn’t too long ago that this whole internet thing was new and AOL was providing us with dial up to access webpages and search on our Netscape browsers with Alta Vista and Lycos. Fast forward 10 years and virtully all those products were gone and Google was standing in their wake. Good bad or indifferent Google and more recently Facebook have entrenched themselves within the digital age that we have grown to know and love. The Social Media Wars are in their infancy and only time will tell where they are headed. I know as an active participant I am going to enjoy the show and hopefully be able to find the best ways to utilize both Facebook and G+ to enhance our relationship with our loyal customers that we have been proudly serving since 1992.
Daniel Fontaine
E-Commerce Director
Colonial Automotive Group
dfontaine@colonialautomotive.com
buycolonialvw.com
facebook.com/buycolonial
twitter.com/buycolonial
Follow me on Google + Dan Fontaine
