Discount Tire Company/America’s Tire Company (a great place to find Goodyear Tires) announced today the release of an innovative new application on their website, www.tires.com. Known as the “Interactive Wheel System,” this progression in eCommerce provides customers with a cutting-edge method of previewing wheels. The Interactive Wheel System can be accessed directly at http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/interactive.do

We recently had the opportunity to interview Discount Tire Company about the launch of their new system. Look at the answers to our questions from Mike Bolland, eBusiness Manager at Discount Tires:
Q: How long was the Interactive Wheel System in development?

A: The development time was roughly three months. The short turnaround can be attributed to the fact we already had the vehicle illustrations. Those were created for a legacy system we no longer use.

Q: What future enhancements are envisioned to the Interactive Wheel System?

A: Future enhancements may include the ability to raise or lower the vehicle. But we are hoping the next phase of enhancements will be powered by user feedback. We look at feedback on all items on our site and create enhancements based on user recommendations.

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Web Lite noticed that users were often keeping two browser windows open at a time when doing car shopping: one window on Craigslist, and the other on fueleconomy.gov (or some other site that provides fuel economy ratings), so they decided to merge the two into one tool so that users could browse the classifieds and see the fuel economy ratings of the cars for sale right on the same page.

The Fuel Economy Database allows user to search for cars by make, model, power, and gas mileage as well as several other characteristics. For those who like to make their own spreadsheets, it allows users to export their search results as an Excel spreadsheet or as XML.