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2012 Subaru Impreza Review By Steve Purdy

2012 Subaru Impreza Review By Steve Purdy

2012 Subaru Impreza - Nothing Quirky Here! By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau I loved the quirkiness of the earliest Subaru’s brought here in the 70s by fledgling Fuji Heavy Industries under the entrepreneurial guidance of the iconic Malcolm Bricklin, who also brought in the ill-fated Yugo. Along wi ... Continue reading

Nutson's Nuggets: Last Week's (May 28-June 3, 2012) Automotive News - In Case You Were Sleeping

Nutson's Nuggets: Last Week's (May 28-June 3, 2012) Automotive News - In Case You Were Sleeping

* VW's North American boss, Jonathan Browning, addressed the Automotive Press Association in Detroit this week presenting charts and graphs and numbers indicating they are doing well in their thrust to be the world's "leading producer" of automobiles by 2018. That does not necessarily mean selling the most cars, rather ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks' Successful Bio-DME Tests Offer Another Viable Alt Fuel Option +VIDEO

Volvo Trucks' Successful Bio-DME Tests Offer Another Viable Alt Fuel Option +VIDEO

Trucks that impose hardly any load on the environment because their carbon emissions are virtually zero. Could this be a future scenario? Well, in actual fact, Volvo Trucks is already running successful field tests with vehicles powered by bio-DME, a fuel that can be produced from biomass both cost and energy efficient ... Continue reading

U.S. Auto Sales May 2012 By Manufacturer

U.S. Auto Sales May 2012 By Manufacturer

Reuters reported the following U.S. auto sales results for May reported so far on Friday by top-selling automakers. ... Continue reading

U.S Auto Sales May 2012

U.S Auto Sales May 2012

May US auto sales 13.78 mln annualized rate inShare0 Share this Email Print Stocks » Markets » Mutual Fund Center » ETFs News » Private Capital » Cyclical Consumer Goods » Financials » Fri Jun 1, 2012 3:39pm EDT Automakers reported a 25.7 percent U.S. sales increase in May from a year earlier with a seasonally a ... Continue reading

Propel Fuels Receives $10.1 Million Grant Award From California Energy Commission to Expand Consumer Access to Alternative Fuels

Propel Fuels Receives $10.1 Million Grant Award From California Energy Commission to Expand Consumer Access to Alternative Fuels

Fueling Infrastructure to Provide New Choices to California's Nearly One Million Flex Fuel Drivers REDWOOD CITY, CA, Jun 01, 2012; Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of renewable fuels and clean mobility solutions, has been awarded a $10.1 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build more than 100 F ... Continue reading

POWRi - Anderson Wins At Brownstown

POWRi - Anderson Wins At Brownstown

BROWNSTOWN, June 2, 2012: Brett Anderson drove to his second victory of the season in the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series and Andrew Felker won his second straight in the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Micro Series on Friday at quarter-mile Fayette County Speedway. Anderson started from pole and led all 30 laps, bu ... Continue reading

Camping World Trucks - Bodine Wins At Dover

Camping World Trucks - Bodine Wins At Dover

Dover, June 2, 2012: Kevin Harvick entered Friday’s "Lucas Oil 200" NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race as one of the most successful drivers at Dover International Speedway who has never won a race. Through 39 events in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck S ... Continue reading

IndyCar - Dixon Nips Power For Pole At Belle Isle

IndyCar - Dixon Nips Power For Pole At Belle Isle

DETROIT, June 2, 2012: Scott Dixon has back-to-back pole starts at Belle Isle. They've just been separated by four years. Dixon recorded a lap of 1 minute, 10.3162 seconds -- a qualifying record for the 2.07-mile, 14-turn street circuit layout -- in the final 30 seconds of the Firestone Fast Six shootout to earn the po ... Continue reading

Nationwide - Logano Wins Dover

Nationwide - Logano Wins Dover

Dover, Jun. 2, 2012: Even though Joey Logano’s career is still very much a young one, he’s had quite a few cracks at Dover International Speedway. He made his much-anticipated NASCAR debut at the track in 2008, and has run 12 races at the Monster Mile in three different series, but he’d never managed to ... Continue reading

Record May Results for Subaru Canada

Record May Results for Subaru Canada

Subaru Canada, Inc. (SCI) is delighted to report an 8.7 percent increase in May sales as 2,802 units were sold as compared to the same month last year. Year-to-date sales also continued to increase with results up 3.7 percent over the same period last year, laying the groundwork for a new milestone in company history a ... Continue reading

Motorsports Brands - Mazda Announces SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel Engine Program For New GRAND-AM GX Class

Motorsports Brands - Mazda Announces SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel Engine Program For New GRAND-AM GX Class

Mazda Motorsports today announced that it will supply racing versions of its new SKYACTIV-D clean diesel engines to customer teams competing in GRAND-AM's new GX Class for advanced/clean technologies, beginning with the 2013 season. "This opens a new chapter in racing for us," said Jay Amestoy, Vice President of Mazda ... Continue reading

Toyota Sales Increase Nearly 90 Percent In May 2012

Toyota Sales Increase Nearly 90 Percent In May 2012

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today reported sales of 202,973 units, an increase of 72.9 percent compared to May 2011 on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis. Unadjusted for 26 selling days in May 2012 versus 24 selling days in May 2011, TMS sales were up 87.3 percent over the year-ago month on a raw volume basis ... Continue reading

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