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It's Time to Drive Detroit Again: The Best Minivans in the Industry Just Got Better - Chrysler Group LLC Offers Special California 'Minivan Pledge'

It's Time to Drive Detroit Again: The Best Minivans in the Industry Just Got Better - Chrysler Group LLC Offers Special California 'Minivan Pledge'

LOS ANGELES, March 8 -- -- Special California 'Minivan Pledge' program allows any California resident who purchases a 2010 model year Chrysler Town & Country or Dodge Grand Caravan minivan to drive the vehicle 'risk-free' for 60 days or receive $500 bonus cash -- Minivan Pledge' gives owners the peace of mind to 'try u ... Continue reading

Who is Sean Kane, the Man Behind the Bogus Gilbert/ABC Toyota Tests?

Who is Sean Kane, the Man Behind the Bogus Gilbert/ABC Toyota Tests?

AUTO CENTRAL - March 8, 2010: Back on February 5th, The Auto Channel's Marc Rauch wrote an editorial that was critical of the handling of the whole Toyota SUA situation. The editorial is titled "" and can be found by clicking on the link. In that editorial, Marc referenced a newly completed extensive study that admitte ... Continue reading

Toyota Test Refutes Claims and Smashes ABC, Gilbert and Ambulance Chasers - COMPLETE VIDEO

Toyota Test Refutes Claims and Smashes ABC, Gilbert and Ambulance Chasers - COMPLETE VIDEO

TORRANCE, CA - March 8, 2010: In a live Internet broadcast, seen in its entirety on TheAutoChannel.com, Toyota Motors conducted an extensive demonstration to refute a previous test conducted by Professor David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University, which was designed to show that Toyota vehicles have a faulty system ... Continue reading

ABC Joins CBS and NBC in Rarified Air of Fabricating Evidence ...CONGRATULATIONS!

ABC Joins CBS and NBC in Rarified Air of Fabricating Evidence ...CONGRATULATIONS!

March 8, 2010: Unless the will be some amazing rebuttal testimony to today's expose' of the faulty nature of the Gilbert experiment to try and prove that Toyota vehicles are bad, ABC and the legal group that co-sponsored the tests have shot themselves in the head. TheAutoChannel will have the complete video at the conc ... Continue reading

TOYOTA: ABC Paid for Gilbert's Bogus Testing

TOYOTA: ABC Paid for Gilbert's Bogus Testing

March 8, 2010: In the opening moments of Toyota's LIVE Internet testing broadcast Toyota revealed that they learned that ABC had commissioned the Gilbert test on their vehicles. ... Continue reading

Ford Offers Security Features to Protect Owners' Personal Information as Cars, Internet Converge

Ford Offers Security Features to Protect Owners' Personal Information as Cars, Internet Converge

DEARBORN, Mich., March 8 -- With the rapid convergence of in-car technology and the Internet, Ford Motor Company said today it is offering a suite of security features to protect the personal information of millions of Ford owners from the threat of computer hackers and viruses. Protecting customers is critical as Ford ... Continue reading

No. 99 Team Moves To Second In Championship

No. 99 Team Moves To Second In Championship

MIAMI, March 7, 2010: GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing and drivers Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty held on for a third-place finish in Saturday’s Grand Prix of Miami to move into contention in both the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype Team and Driver Championship standings after their best career-finish ... Continue reading

Pruett Holds Off Donohue To Score Second Season Victory

Pruett Holds Off Donohue To Score Second Season Victory

HOMESTEAD, March 7, 2010: Scott Pruett held off a late charge by David Donohue to win Saturday's Grand Prix of Miami, Round 2 of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16. Pruett and Memo Rojas scored their second victory in three years at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the No. 01 TELMEX Ch ... Continue reading

Mr. Aruba's Bench Nationals raises $4,000 for JEGS Foundation

Mr. Aruba's Bench Nationals raises $4,000 for JEGS Foundation

DELAWARE, March 8, 2010: The recently contested Mr. Aruba's Bench Nationals and Charity Challenge raised $4,000 for the JEGS Foundation's Racing For Cancer Research on a chilly day in late January. However, the weather did little to cool the generosity of the participants, who gave early and often at the event. The ann ... Continue reading

Target Chip Ganassi Racing Brazil Advance Notes

Target Chip Ganassi Racing Brazil Advance Notes

Indianapolis, March 8, 2010: Managing Director Mike Hull on Brazil: “Our Target group is energized to finally get the 2010 IZOD IndyCar season started with Brazil. When you spend a Midwest winter like we’re having, it keeps every team member under the roof here in Indianapolis working to make our product bett ... Continue reading

Toyota rebuts Professor Gilbert, reports nothing found wrong with remedied vehicles

Toyota rebuts Professor Gilbert, reports nothing found wrong with remedied vehicles

During the first round of Congressional hearings last month, Toyota was blindsided by one Professor David Gilbert who was added to the witness list at the last minute to talk about an experiment in which he induced sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) in a late model Toyota Avalon. His test was reproduced in a shoddy A ... Continue reading

2010 Saab 9-3X U.S. pricing announced

2010 Saab 9-3X U.S. pricing announced

Saab has released pricing details on its 2010 9-3 lineup, a newsworthy action in that it wasn't long ago that "Saab" and "2010 models" appeared to be mutually exclusive terms. Now that Victor Muller and Spyker have graciously relieved GM of the Saab albatross, it's onward and (ideally) upward for 2010 as the new compan ... Continue reading

Nissan to review Pixo sourcing deal with Suzuki

Nissan to review Pixo sourcing deal with Suzuki

Japanese carmaker Nissan will review its contract to source small car Pixo from Suzuki after 2013, ruling out any disruption of the existing deal in the wake of Germany's Volkswagen picking up stake in its compatriot. Suzuki's Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki manufactures the car at its facility at Manesar in Haryana b ... Continue reading

TrackChic/Tsunami Racing Team Up To Launch Women's Career Advancement Program On The Road To Indy

TrackChic/Tsunami Racing Team Up To Launch Women's Career Advancement Program On The Road To Indy

Atlanta, GA - March 8, 2010: In celebration of the 2010 International Women's Day, Track Chic begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting ... Continue reading

Small Premium Can Guarantee Peace Of Mind With Kumho No Worries Road Hazard Tyre Warranty

Small Premium Can Guarantee Peace Of Mind With Kumho No Worries Road Hazard Tyre Warranty

Tyre manufacturer Kumho has come up with an easy and economical way to protect motorist's investment in premium high performance tyres introducing the Kumho "No Worries" Road Hazard warranty for a small per tyre premium. ... Continue reading

Proton Unveils Revolutionary EMAS Hybrid Concept Cars At Geneva

Proton Unveils Revolutionary EMAS Hybrid Concept Cars At Geneva

Malaysian car maker Proton has unveiled a series of global concept cars at the prestigious Geneva Motor Show. ... Continue reading

Influence Group Retained by Jaguar to Create and Manage the Jaguar Academy Of Sport

Influence Group Retained by Jaguar to Create and Manage the Jaguar Academy Of Sport

Influence the marketing, PR and communications and digital group have been retained by Jaguar to create and manage the Jaguar Academy of Sport which was launched to critical acclaim at a ceremony in London last week. ... Continue reading

Environmental Commendation For Volkswagen's TSI Engines

Environmental Commendation For Volkswagen's TSI Engines

Volkswagen's TSI engines have been awarded the environmental commendation certified by TÜV Nord, following in the footsteps of the dual-clutch transmission DSG. ... Continue reading

Take The Car Buyer Survey And Win £250

Take The Car Buyer Survey And Win £250

A new Car Buyer Survey is launched today to identify what information is most useful to consumers when buying a new car. ... Continue reading

Facelifted Skoda Fabia And Roomster Prices Announced

Facelifted Skoda Fabia And Roomster Prices Announced

Following on from their sparkling debut at the Geneva motor show, Skoda Auto has announced prices for its new, improved Fabia and Roomster models. ... Continue reading

Toyota Joins Clean Energy Partnership to Introduce Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles in Europe

Toyota Joins Clean Energy Partnership to Introduce Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles in Europe

Toyota and the Clean Energy Partnership announced today (5 March) that Toyota has become a new international auto partner for the organisation. The move will add further impetus to CEP's programme of advancing sustainable mobility through the development of hydrogen filling stations and a fuel supply network in Germany ... Continue reading

Honda Launches New Body And Paint Programme

Honda Launches New Body And Paint Programme

Honda (UK) has launched the Honda Accident Repair Programme (HARP), which manages the repair of customer cars after an accident. The new programme offers benefits such as a guaranteed replacement car regardless of accident type and significantly raises the industry benchmark for customer service in this area. ... Continue reading

New Force In Car Industry: Taiwan's Automobile Brand Luxgen Announces Its Ambition To The World

New Force In Car Industry: Taiwan's Automobile Brand Luxgen Announces Its Ambition To The World

LUXGEN, the first automobile brand from Taiwan, has successfully finished its international debut in 2009 Dubai Motor Show, and further illustrates Taiwan's R&D strength to the world through its subtle combination of information technology and the auto industry. ... Continue reading

Ford Extends UK Market Lead in February

Ford Extends UK Market Lead in February

Ford is growing its UK registration lead ahead of the important March registration change sales month. ... Continue reading

Ford Drives Sport Relief

Ford Drives Sport Relief

Ford power helped Sport Relief from John O'Groats to Lands End, and even as far afield as Mexico ... Continue reading

Peugeot ECO Cup Delivers Astonishing Real-World Fuel Economy

Peugeot ECO Cup Delivers Astonishing Real-World Fuel Economy

Coinciding with the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, the Peugeot ECO CUP was designed to see if four different standard Peugeot HDi diesel models in the hands of everyday drivers could deliver fuel economy to match or beat the official government fuel economy figures ... Continue reading

Toyota LIVE Testing Demonstration Broadcast at 1:15PM EST - WATCH IT HERE

Toyota LIVE Testing Demonstration Broadcast at 1:15PM EST - WATCH IT HERE

NEW TESTING RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT GILBERT DEMONSTRATION ON ALLEGED UNINTENDED ACCELERATION Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 1:15 p.m. EST Independent and Toyota engineers will duplicate the demonstration referenced by Prof. David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University in his Congressional testimony. This presentation will sho ... Continue reading

Is Sandra Bullock Poised for an Oscar or a Jaguar XF? - VIDEO ENHANCED

Is Sandra Bullock Poised for an Oscar or a Jaguar XF? - VIDEO ENHANCED

Sandra Bullock May Not Be In Line for an Oscar, But A Super-Charged Jaguar XF Would Be Pretty Cool HOLLYWOOD - February, 3, 2010: There's lots of talk about Sandra Bullock's performance in "The Blind Side," and her first nomination for an Academy Award. Bullock plays playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, the blond Memphis mother w ... Continue reading

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