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Monday, September 6, 2010

Route 427 Design Art Now Available for Purchase in the National Corvette Museum

Route 427 Design Art Now Available for Purchase in the National Corvette Museum

Detroit/Nashville, September 3, 2010: Route427.com presents images of historic and aesthetic value as officially licensed products from GM’s archive. Works by renowned GM designers Larry Shinoda, Larry Binnion, John Schinella, Randy Wittine and others from GM’s Design Studios are available in the highest qual ... Continue reading

Keeping Up: Panasonic Introduces a 3D Camcorder for Consumers

Keeping Up: Panasonic Introduces a 3D Camcorder for Consumers

OSAKA, Japan - September 4, 2010: Panasonic Corporation, an industry leader in Full HD 3D and HD TV technology, unveiled today the world’s first 3D camcorder for consumers*. The HDC-SDT750 camcorder allows anyone to create powerful, true-to-life 3D images by simply attaching a 3D conversion lens that comes with th ... Continue reading

Atul Auto looking to acquire majority stake in Scooters India

Atul Auto looking to acquire majority stake in Scooters India

MUMBAI: Three-wheeler maker, Atul Auto, is interested in acquiring a "not-less-than 51 per cent stake" in Scooters India, a public sector undertaking in which the Government is mulling a divestment. "We are interested in acquiring a majority stake in Scooters India. We will not go ahead with the deal if the Government ... Continue reading

M&M non-committal on retaining SsangYong staff

M&M non-committal on retaining SsangYong staff

NEW DELHI: Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has not made any commitment on retaining jobs or volume growth in its deal with SsangYong Motor to buy a majority stake in the ailing South Korean automaker. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two companies, signed on August 23, only offers to “honour” the c ... Continue reading

Jaguar Celebrates Best August Sales in Two Years

Jaguar Celebrates Best August Sales in Two Years

August sales figures reveal that Jaguar sales in the UK up 45 per cent year to date and 74 per cent versus August 2009 ... Continue reading

New Jaguar XJ Wins Prestigious Professional Driver Car of the Year Title

New Jaguar XJ Wins Prestigious Professional Driver Car of the Year Title

The exciting new Jaguar XJ has won the prestigious 2010 Car of the Year award from Professional Driver magazine, rating it as the top car for Britain's chauffeurs and Private Hire drivers. ... Continue reading

Nissan Launches Nissan Leaf Pre-Orders for UK Customers

Nissan Launches Nissan Leaf Pre-Orders for UK Customers

UK car buyers can now take their place in motoring history by becoming the first in the country to secure an order for the world's first affordable, mass-produced, 100% electric vehicle, as the Nissan LEAF order bank opened on September 1st. ... Continue reading

Land Rover Backs Burghley

Land Rover Backs Burghley

Land Rover has today announced the renewal of its title sponsorship of The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials for a further three year term - up to and including the 2013 event. The British manufacturer of the world's most versatile SUVs has been the title sponsor of the event since 2005. ... Continue reading

Toyota Prius Matches Biesse Green Project

Toyota Prius Matches Biesse Green Project

The new generation of woodworking machinery made by Biesse UK makes deep cuts in energy consumption and CO2 emissions - as do the latest additions to the company's car fleet, six top-of-the-range Toyota Prius T Spirit hatchbacks with Hybrid Synergy Drive. ... Continue reading

Skoda Appoints New Head of Operations

Skoda Appoints New Head of Operations

As Skoda UK celebrates an impressive year of growth, the manufacturer has appointed Duncan Movassaghi as its new Head of Operations. ... Continue reading

Great Scots Performance for Silverline Chevrolet

Great Scots Performance for Silverline Chevrolet

Series leader Jason Plato extended his advantage in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship to 20 points after an amazing afternoon for the Silverline Chevrolet BTCC team at Knockhill. ... Continue reading

On Sale From November, New Renault Laguna to be Unveliled at Paris Motor Show 2010

On Sale From November, New Renault Laguna to be Unveliled at Paris Motor Show 2010

Ahead of its Paris Motor Show unveiling, Renault has released initial details for the New Laguna. ... Continue reading

New MINI Countryman Makes Its UK Debut

New MINI Countryman Makes Its UK Debut

MINI will launch its latest and largest model, the MINI Countryman, to the UK market on September 18 2010. ... Continue reading

Storming 330 PS Volvo S60 T6 With a Little Help From Heico Sportiv

Storming 330 PS Volvo S60 T6 With a Little Help From Heico Sportiv

Performance tuning specialists, Heico Sportiv, have turned their attention to the all-new Volvo S60 and developed a storming 330 PS version of the T6. Just 100 versions of the Black Sapphire metallic special edition will be available at a price of £63,968, equivalent to just over £53,000. ... Continue reading

Mazda Secures Its Best-Eever August

Mazda Secures Its Best-Eever August

Mazda Australia has secured its best-ever August sales result with a total of 6,473 new passenger and commercial vehicles finding homes last month. This eclipses the previous August record set in 2007 by almost 400 units. ... Continue reading

Another Record Month For Suzuki

Another Record Month For Suzuki

Suzuki continues to rewrite the record books in 2010 with another best ever sales month keeping the company in line for another bumper year. ... Continue reading

The Gasoline Companies Should Fund the Big Three Bailout - VIDEO ENHANCED

The Gasoline Companies Should Fund the Big Three Bailout - VIDEO ENHANCED

By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher Making the Case for Not Bailing Out the U. S. Car Companies Is America Allowing the Big Three to Fail or Have the Big Three Failed America? OPEC and the Gasoline Companies Should Fund the Auto Bailout A few weeks ago Congress approved a $25 billion aid package to the A ... Continue reading

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