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Exclusive Interview with the Boss of Lamborghini Brand and Design - VIDEO FEATURE

Exclusive Interview with the Boss of Lamborghini Brand and Design - VIDEO FEATURE

Lamborghini And The Auto Market Crash LONDON - May 7, 2010: In this exclusive interview, MeetTheBoss.tv welcomes Manfred Fitzgerald, Director for Brand & Design at Lamborghini. MeetTheBoss.tv's Editor-in-Chief Adam Burns talks with Manfred about how the supercar carmaker is handling the global economic depression. ... Continue reading

12 Chevrolet Models Offer Fuel-saving, Six-speed Automatic Transmissions for 2011 Model Year

12 Chevrolet Models Offer Fuel-saving, Six-speed Automatic Transmissions for 2011 Model Year

DETROIT – With the introduction of the all-new Chevrolet Cruze, 12 Chevrolet models will be offered with fuel-saving, six-speed automatic transmissions. Chevrolet has quickly become a leader in six-speed automatics, which will be available on 75 percent of all Chevrolet cars, trucks, SUVs and crossovers for 2011. ... Continue reading

Volvo Crash-Test Laboratory Celebrates Decade of Safety Tests - THREE VIDEOS

Volvo Crash-Test Laboratory Celebrates Decade of Safety Tests - THREE VIDEOS

The ability to replicate road accidents contributes to world-class crash safety GOTHENBURG - May 6, 2010: Volvo Cars' crash-test laboratory in Torslanda turns 10 this year, and the almost 3,000 full-scale tests that have been carried out during the high-tech facility's first decade have helped give Volvo owners even sa ... Continue reading

2010 Lincoln MKS Ecoboost AWD Review

2010 Lincoln MKS Ecoboost AWD Review

2010 LINCOLN MKS ECOBOOST AWD The Lap of Luxury By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Lincoln’s front-wheel drive flagship sedan, MKS, was launched a couple years ago to generally good reviews. It suffered from “lackluster acceleration,” according to one reviewer, with the standard 3.7-liter, ... Continue reading

Mercedes GP - Spain - Practice - May 7, 2010

Mercedes GP - Spain - Practice - May 7, 2010

Formula One's European season got underway today as the first two practice sessions for the Spanish Grand Prix took place at the Circuit de Catalunya just outside of Barcelona. The focus for today's running for the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS team was to evaluate the changes and upgrades made to the MGP W01 cars for this week ... Continue reading

GMC Adds More Denali Models to the 2011 Sierra Heavy Duty Lineup

GMC Adds More Denali Models to the 2011 Sierra Heavy Duty Lineup

DETROIT May 7, 2010; GMC today announces the new 2011 Sierra Denali HD, the first offering of the exclusive Denali line on a heavy-duty GMC pickup, will now be available in both 2500 (3/4 ton) and 3500 series (1-ton) configurations. The new Sierra Denali HDs lead a comprehensively redesigned lineup of 2011 Sierra heavy ... Continue reading

AA Drivers Take To The Road In Three-Week Rally With 7-ELEVEN As Only Pit Stop

AA Drivers Take To The Road In Three-Week Rally With 7-ELEVEN As Only Pit Stop

DALLAS, May 7, 2010: One destination, two cars, three weeks, four people, five webisodes a week, more than 6,000 miles and countless 7-Eleven® stores. America, start your engines for the first-ever 7-Eleven Road Trip Rally, a three-week, cross-country road trip culminating at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 28. Al ... Continue reading

Consumer Reports Says Lexus GX 460 Now Ok to Buy After Passing Retest

Consumer Reports Says Lexus GX 460 Now Ok to Buy After Passing Retest

Consumer Reports' "Don't Buy" Label Lifted YONKERS, N.Y., May 7 Consumer Reports is lifting the Don't Buy: Safety Risk designation from the 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV after recall work corrected the problem it displayed in one of their emergency handling tests. CR's engineers originally experienced the problem in a test tha ... Continue reading

Future IZOD IndyCar Series Stars Get Ready For Night Before 500

Future IZOD IndyCar Series Stars Get Ready For Night Before 500

Indianapolis, May 7, 2010: Young drivers who hope to race in the Indianapolis 500 in the near future got their first taste of driving on an oval track not far from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Drivers from Cooper Tires Presents the US F2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda and the Star Mazda Championship pres ... Continue reading

VFW, Contributing Partner NSK Continue Salute To Military Families Program At MIS

VFW, Contributing Partner NSK Continue Salute To Military Families Program At MIS

BROOKLYN, May 7, 2010: Millions of Americans have loved ones affected by the wars overseas, including people from Michigan. With that in mind, the VFW Foundation and NSK are giving military families and friends an opportunity to get out and have some fun by sponsoring the “Salute to Military Families” program ... Continue reading

Toyota Continues To Be The Official Vehicle Of Supercross

Toyota Continues To Be The Official Vehicle Of Supercross

Torrence, May 7, 2010: Toyota Motor Sales, Inc., U.S.A., Inc. announced today that it will extend its official vehicle sponsorship for the Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, through 2012. Toyota and the series enjoy a long standing relationship. Specifically, Toyota was the first automotive compa ... Continue reading

Daly Fastest In Two Day Formula Star Mazda Series Test

Daly Fastest In Two Day Formula Star Mazda Series Test

Indianapolis, May 6, 2010: Noblesville High School student, Conor Daly, emerged fastest of all after two days of testing on the oval track at O'Reilly Raceway Park, Indianapolis, May 5th & 6th. Conor's time in the morning session of day two, set an unofficial outright lap record of 20.187. The existing official outrigh ... Continue reading

Peugeot Records Strong April Sales

Peugeot Records Strong April Sales

April has seen another strong performance from Peugeot in the run up to it 200th anniversary in May. As the UK market reported an 11.5% increase in April, Peugeot benefited from strong sales of its HDi diesel models, up 53.4%, to record an overall sales increase of 21.6%. ... Continue reading

First Aston Martin Rapides Bound for Customers

First Aston Martin Rapides Bound for Customers

A new chapter in Aston Martin's modern era has officially begun; with the first four-door Rapide sports cars leaving the Aston Martin Rapide Plant (AMRP) for delivery to eagerly awaiting customers. ... Continue reading

Kia Surge Maintained In April

Kia Surge Maintained In April

Kia has maintained its surge up the UK new car sales charts as motorists continue to swing towards the brand in ever increasing numbers. ... Continue reading

Subaru Legacy Named Japan's Safest Car

Subaru Legacy Named Japan's Safest Car

The 2010 Subaru Legacy has been officially named 'Japan's safest car', after being awarded the Grand Prix 09/10 in Japan's New Car Assessment Programme (JNCAP). ... Continue reading

Renault and Michelin Team Up to Reduce Co2 Emissions

Renault and Michelin Team Up to Reduce Co2 Emissions

Drivers know that tyres need to be correctly inflated - but many do not regularly head to the local garage to check that tyres meet the required level. ... Continue reading

Kelley Blue Book Launches Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle Values, New kbb.com Section

Kelley Blue Book Launches Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle Values, New kbb.com Section

Together with Lexus, New Section Provides Education and Information on Certified Vehicles, Buying Process IRVINE, Calif., May 7 -- Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new- and used-car information, today announces the official launch of the company's Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) Vehicle Value and CPO sec ... Continue reading

Infiniti Puts A Price On its First Diesel

Infiniti Puts A Price On its First Diesel

The Infiniti FX, one of the sportiest driving - and certainly the sportiest looking - large crossovers on the market is now available with a sporting new engine under the bonnet. A diesel. This isn't the only first for Infiniti in Europe because with the new engine comes the availability of new safety technology: Forwa ... Continue reading

Bold is Beautiful for the New Volvo C30

Bold is Beautiful for the New Volvo C30

New Volvo C30 hits the ground running with more dramatic styling, ultra-clean, ultra-efficient DRIVe model and a sporty new T5 R-Design variant ... Continue reading

The New Volkswagen Polo

The New Volkswagen Polo

Polo brings new dimension of quality to the supermini class Three engines; TSI and Common Rail TDI in the Polo for the first time 4.6 litre fuel consumption and 121 g/km CO2 set new benchmark ESP is standard; significantly improved crash properties ... Continue reading

Mitsubishi Confirms ASX Crossover Vehicle for Australia

Mitsubishi Confirms ASX Crossover Vehicle for Australia

Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited has confirmed its new sub-compact all-wheel drive vehicle will be known as the ASX when it arrives in Australia in August. ... Continue reading

AUDI AG: Another Record Month for Deliveries in April

AUDI AG: Another Record Month for Deliveries in April

The sales growth of recent months continued in April for AUDI AG. With a worldwide increase of 18.1 percent to around 96,700 deliveries, the company posted record figures for the third month in succession. ... Continue reading

Evans Ready to Attack Coffs Coast

Evans Ready to Attack Coffs Coast

Honda Civic Type R driver Eli Evans is looking forward to defending his Coffs Coast Rally crown - the scene of his first ARC win in 2008 - at the Coffs Coast Rally from 14 to 16 May ... Continue reading

Narva's Flameless Heat Gun Creates Strain Relief for Terminal Connections

Narva's Flameless Heat Gun Creates Strain Relief for Terminal Connections

A new flameless heat gun, the Narva Micro-Therm, provides the professional touch with heatshrink on terminals and connector applications in workshops, household and hobby applications ... Continue reading

Institute Calls on Government to Mandate Antilock Brakes for All New Motorcycles - VIDEO ENHANCED

Institute Calls on Government to Mandate Antilock Brakes for All New Motorcycles - VIDEO ENHANCED

ARLINGTON, Va., May 6 -- Recent research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety strongly demonstrates the benefits of antilock brakes for motorcycles. Based on findings that antilocks significantly reduce motorcycle crashes, including fatal ones by more than a third, the Institute is seeking a federal requirem ... Continue reading

Scania to Rehire in Its European Production Network

Scania to Rehire in Its European Production Network

STOCKHOLM--Regulatory‚ News: "In response to the continued recovery in global demand, we need to increase our workforce in order to handle a higher production rate during the third quarter Scania (STO:SCVA)(STO:SCVB) expects to rehire about 500 employees at its European production units. "In response to the continued ... Continue reading

Buick LaCrosse April Sales Ignite With Best Retail Sales Month

Buick LaCrosse April Sales Ignite With Best Retail Sales Month

LaCrosse sales continue to soar to help drive Buick DETROIT, May 6 -- The all new 2010 Buick LaCrosse continues to be one of the driving forces behind Buick's seventh consecutive month of year-over-year sales increases by posting its best retail month since launch in April. The LaCrosse posted 4,722 retail sales for th ... Continue reading

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