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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Mitsubsihi H360 2014 Outlander Special Year-Round Active Outdoor Lifestyle Models

Mitsubsihi H360 2014 Outlander Special Year-Round Active Outdoor Lifestyle Models

Mitsubishi H360 2014 Outlander Special Year-Round Active Outdoor Lifestyle Models ... Continue reading

Exotica, Mundanica and SUVica In This Months Letter From Europe

Exotica, Mundanica and SUVica In This Months Letter From Europe

2014 Aston Martin,2014 Mitsubishi Outlander, 2014 Kia Sorento, 2009 Honda Odyssey, for home comfort you cannot beat Aston Martin ... Continue reading

2014 Range Rover Evoque--New All-Wheel-Drive System

2014 Range Rover Evoque--New All-Wheel-Drive System

The new 2014 Range Rover Evoque has a unique "disconnect" all-wheel-drive system developed by GKN Driveline. The system is designed to improve fuel efficiency while providing outstanding off-road performance with dynamic agility and enhanced traction.Land Rover's Active Driveline system reacts to the driving environmen ... Continue reading

Plymouth Rock Assurance Uncovers Perceptions of Digital Natives; Will Attempt to Set a New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Title for the Most Pledges to a Safety Campaign

Plymouth Rock Assurance Uncovers Perceptions of Digital Natives; Will Attempt to Set a New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Title for the Most Pledges to a Safety Campaign

Young Drivers Offer New Insights Into Dangerous Distracted Driving Behavior In New Jersey RED BANK, N.J., Sept. 3, 2013 -- Car insurance group Plymouth Rock Assurance today released the results of a new distracted driving study providing insights from Digital Natives, the first generation born into a digital world. The ... Continue reading

Porsche 918 Spyder: Spectacular technology pioneer goes into series production

Porsche 918 Spyder: Spectacular technology pioneer goes into series production

The Porsche 918 Spyder is celebrating its debut at this year's International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt. The super sports car with plug-in hybrid drive marks the beginning of a new era for sports car manufacturing. Never before has a super car designed for everyday use offered such an impressive dynamic performance ... Continue reading

New UBI Solutions Promise to Reduce Texting and Other Unsafe Driving Behaviors

New UBI Solutions Promise to Reduce Texting and Other Unsafe Driving Behaviors

Modus and Cellcontrol Partner to Proactively Combat Distracted Driving for Usage Based Insurance Participants -- Modus, a full service insurance telematics provider, and CellcontrolTM, the world's leading technology to stop distracted driving, announced a technology and services partnership bringing distracted driving ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Gets New Passenger Car Head

Mercedes-Benz Gets New Passenger Car Head

Joachim Schmidt retires after more than 30 years' service - AMG chief Ola Kaellenius to take over as head of Mercedes-Benz passenger car sales -- After more than 34 years of service, and having reached his 65th birthday, Dr Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing and part of the management team at ... Continue reading

New Mexico's Ralph Garcia Wins National Honors in Trucking

New Mexico's Ralph Garcia Wins National Honors in Trucking

Ralph Garcia, America's Road Team Captain and professional truck driver for ABF Freight System, Inc., received the Neill Darmstadter Professional Excellence Award at the American Trucking Associations' 2013 National Truck Driving Championships for best exemplifying what it means to be a professional truck driver. Garci ... Continue reading

$500K Lexus Eco Challenge Kicks Off--Now It is Time to Enter

$500K Lexus Eco Challenge Kicks Off--Now It is Time to Enter

Some people think teenagers only care about their cell phones and weekend plans. However, the teenagers who participate in the Lexus Eco Challenge prove that they are dedicated to making the world a better place for future generations. Since the Lexus Eco Challenge began in 2007, 25,000 middle and high school students ... Continue reading

Today's parking industry offers early stage growth opportunities for technology players and automakers; live web conference

Today's parking industry offers early stage growth opportunities for technology players and automakers; live web conference

Frost & Sullivan: Vehicle Parking Management Systems in North America and Europe Nurtures a New Ecosystem - The parking industry has transformed dynamics in its operation with a different genre of participants including automotive OEMs exploring numerous opportunities in parking and expected to witness a major growth p ... Continue reading

Shell Fleet Navigator Card Offers Large Fleet Owners Greater Accessibility, Control and Convenience

Shell Fleet Navigator Card Offers Large Fleet Owners Greater Accessibility, Control and Convenience

Today, Shell, one of the largest fuel card providers in the world, launched the Shell Fleet Navigator Card, a highly flexible fuel card for large fleets. Bringing both 50 years of fuel card experience and its expertise as the largest branded fuel retailer in the world, Shell has created a flexible and effective card op ... Continue reading

2014 Canadian International Auto Show Has Chrysler's CEO as Keynote

2014 Canadian International Auto Show Has Chrysler's CEO as Keynote

Sergio Marchionne to Deliver Opening Address Toronto appearance will be a homecoming for the global CEO of Chrysler Group and Fiat Mark your calendars now, because the opening ceremony of the 2014 Canadian International Auto Show (CIAS) promises to be one of the highlight events of the auto industry year. Chrysler Cana ... Continue reading

MainFirst Frankfurt Auto Investor & Analyst Conference Has Ford

MainFirst Frankfurt Auto Investor & Analyst Conference Has Ford

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, Lyle Watters, CFO and vice president of finance, Ford of Europe, will participate in the MainFirst Frankfurt Auto Investor & Analyst Conference. The presentation will begin at 5:20 a.m. EDT (11:20 a.m. Frankfurt time) and will last for approximately 45 minutes. A listen-only audio webcast and pres ... Continue reading

Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan to feature special 30th Anniversary Editions

Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan to feature special 30th Anniversary Editions

Chrysler Group LLC Celebrates 30 Years Of Minivan Leadership This Fall With more than 13 million Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans sold since 1983, Chrysler Group tops the segment, selling twice as many minivans as any other manufacturer over the past 30 years The creator of the minivan segment, ... Continue reading

DMEInsights revolutionizes customer loyalty with a fresh new perspective for managing customer lifetime value

DMEInsights revolutionizes customer loyalty with a fresh new perspective for managing customer lifetime value

DMEInsights Launches: First-ever Customer Loyalty Analytics System that Enables Dealerships to Accelerate the Value of their Customers - DMEautomotive (DMEa), the science-inspired, results-based automotive marketing leader, today launched DMEinsights, an innovative customer loyalty analytics system designed to revoluti ... Continue reading

String Automotive Launches Powerful Analytics Application For Car Dealers

String Automotive Launches Powerful Analytics Application For Car Dealers

String Automotive, revolutionizing online marketing for auto dealers, introduced today the Dealer Positioning System (DPS) to enable dealers to attract, convert and retain more car buyers by letting their data lead the way. The DPS puts the power of analytics into the hands of dealers by consolidating and interpreting ... Continue reading

84.5 percent of consumers used a loan or a lease to purchase a new vehicle in second quarter

84.5 percent of consumers used a loan or a lease to purchase a new vehicle in second quarter

Experian Automotive report shows consumers are relying on automotive financing more than ever before Experian Automotive today announced that a record 84.5 percent of consumers who acquired a new vehicle in the second quarter obtained either a loan or a lease to fund the purchase. According to the latest State of the A ... Continue reading

Halla Visteon Climate Control to Begin Manufacturing in Russia

Halla Visteon Climate Control to Begin Manufacturing in Russia

Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp. (KS: 018880), a majority-owned subsidiary of Visteon Corporation , today announced the start of manufacturing operations on the premises of an industrial partner in Togliatti, Russia. The plant, HVCC's first in Russia, is part of the company's plans to drive continued growth of its c ... Continue reading

Daimler Concentrates on Its Customers

Daimler Concentrates on Its Customers

More focus on customers and markets as a further element in implementing the growth strategies Direct sales responsibility of the divisions to make processes faster and more flexible Cross-divisional functions will also be consistently focused on the divisions Dieter Zetsche: "After the successful start of our product ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks Reveals Next Generation VM Model for Brazil and Latin America

Volvo Trucks Reveals Next Generation VM Model for Brazil and Latin America

The new VMs have what we call Volvo's new 'family look, meaning Volvo models incorporate similar styling elements to create a similar look across the product family Volvo (STO:VOLVA)(STO:VOLVB): Volvo Trucks has revealed the fourth-generation VM model for Brazil and Latin America. ... Continue reading

The Mazdas Are Coming, The Mazdas Are Coming!

The Mazdas Are Coming, The Mazdas Are Coming!

First six legs of 9,300 mile Hiroshima to Frankfurt challenger tour completed Mazda3s take part in Moscow's Festival of Speed at Luzhniki sports complex British media and Mazda dealers from UK drove first three legs of challenging route New crews set out today on final leg from Russian capital to Germany All-new range ... Continue reading

Volvo Teams Up With Fleet21 In Drive For Fleet Safety

Volvo Teams Up With Fleet21 In Drive For Fleet Safety

Volvo Car UK has teamed up with leading business driver safety consultancy Fleet21 to help reach its 2020 goal that no one will be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo. ... Continue reading

Caterham Seven 165 Prototype Gets Frankfurt Unveil

Caterham Seven 165 Prototype Gets Frankfurt Unveil

Caterham Cars' new entry-level Seven will be unveiled in prototype concept form at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show (Sept 10-22). ... Continue reading

New Citroen Communications Director

New Citroen Communications Director

After 25 years in various roles at Citroën UK, most recently as Communications Director, Marc Raven has decided to take early retirement and will leave the company at the end of the year. ... Continue reading

The new BMW X5 - More!

The new BMW X5 - More!

BMW Group Australia is pleased to announce pricing and specifications for the third generation of the BMW X5, the world's best selling premium Sports Activity Vehicle. ... Continue reading

'Mazda6 ASV-5' Advanced Safety Vehicle Begins Trials in Japan

'Mazda6 ASV-5' Advanced Safety Vehicle Begins Trials in Japan

Mazda Motor Corporation will begin testing its advanced safety vehicle, the Mazda6 ASV-5, on public roads from September 2013. ... Continue reading

Narva Lights The Way With Great Value Ultima 225 H.I.D Driving Lamps

Narva Lights The Way With Great Value Ultima 225 H.I.D Driving Lamps

Narva has made high performance lighting more affordable than ever with the release of its new 35W Ultima 225 High Intensity Discharge (H.I.D) driving lamp kit. ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia takes 1st place in Dealer Survey

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia takes 1st place in Dealer Survey

MBFSAu has taken first place in the Dealer- Identification and Satisfaction Survey (DISS). ... Continue reading

Stunning 'Dino GTS' Takes P1 on Shannons Spring Auction Grid

Stunning 'Dino GTS' Takes P1 on Shannons Spring Auction Grid

A stunning red 1974 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS Spyder that has been in the current fastidious Australian owner's hands for 32 years has taken provisional pole position on the grid for Shannons upcoming Melbourne Spring Classic Auction on September 23. ... Continue reading

All-New Mazda3s Arrive in Moscow

All-New Mazda3s Arrive in Moscow

The 2013 Mazda3 Hiroshima to Frankfurt Challenge Tour has rolled into Moscow after 12,500 kilometres and 25 days on the road. ... Continue reading

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