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Friday, May 23, 2014

Summer Safe Driving Tips From Your NHTSA

Summer Safe Driving Tips From Your NHTSA

WASHINGTON May 23, 2014; Memorial Day weekend typically marks the start of the summer vacation season. And, as warmer weather approaches, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urges drivers to take the proper precautions before and while driving on the roadway. During the summer months, there is usually an ... Continue reading

All-New 2015 F-150 Most Patented Truck in Ford History--New Innovations Bolster Next-Generation Light-Duty Pickup

All-New 2015 F-150 Most Patented Truck in Ford History--New Innovations Bolster Next-Generation Light-Duty Pickup

2015 Ford F-150 has more new Ford technology patents and/or patent applications than any truck in Ford history, offering customers innovative technologies throughout – everything from the tailgate to the front end All-new F-150 boasts more than 100 new Ford patents and/or patent applications, making this vehicle a ... Continue reading

GM, University of Michigan Extend Collaborative Research

GM, University of Michigan Extend Collaborative Research

General Motors and the University of Michigan today announced an agreement to extend their collaborative automotive research efforts through 2017. Launched in 1998, Collaborative Research Laboratories (CRL) at the University of Michigan have led to significant commercial and academic success for students, the universit ... Continue reading

GM Earns Spot as Top Innovator

GM Earns Spot as Top Innovator

Dreaming up ideas that benefit drivers is interesting; commercializing those ideas into real product features is when customers take notice. An indicator of General Motors’ commitment to creating customer-driven innovation can be found in the results of two leading studies - the Patent Board and Clean Energy Paten ... Continue reading

Nissan Delivers 50,000th All-Electric LEAF In U.S. To Texas Family

Nissan Delivers 50,000th All-Electric LEAF In U.S. To Texas Family

Nissan, the global leader in electric vehicle (EV) sales, achieved another milestone this month as Dallas residents Todd and Lisa Bolt made Nissan LEAF the first all-electric model to hit 50,000 sales in the U.S. The Bolt family took delivery of their black LEAF SL earlier this month at AutoNation Nissan of Lewisville. ... Continue reading

Please Don't Buy Fiat 500e EV

Please Don't Buy Fiat 500e EV

Washington DC May 23, 2014; The AIADA newsletter reported that the CEO of the newly combined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is urging people not to buy his company's electric car. As USA Today reports, it's a strange request from a world in which automotive CEOs are usually doing everything they can to hype their product li ... Continue reading

The Australian Government Reconfirmed its Commitment to Safer Vehicles

The Australian Government Reconfirmed its Commitment to Safer Vehicles

The Australian Government has today reconfirmed its commitment to safer vehicles allocating $2.2 million over the next two years, to the independent vehicle safety rating organisation, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The Hon. Jamie Briggs MP, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Devel ... Continue reading

Audi updates its Corporate Responsibility Report

Audi updates its Corporate Responsibility Report

The Audi Group has today published the update of its Corporate Responsibility Report, in which it reports on the current status of its corporate responsibility program and the latest key figures. The focus is on the five core areas of products, the environment, employees, society and operations. The 2013 Progress Repor ... Continue reading

2015 Hyundai Sonata Price Structure

2015 Hyundai Sonata Price Structure

PACKAGING Sonata SE Sonata SE has a MSRP of $21,150, excluding $810 freight, and includes the following standard features: 16-inch Alloy wheels with 205/65R16 All-Season tires Vehicle Stability Management (VSM) Electronic Stability Control (ESC) with Traction Control System (TCS) and Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) Seve ... Continue reading

Paralympian Snowboarder Amy Purdy's Adaptive Action Sports Receives The Ultimate 'Lift' From Toyota

Paralympian Snowboarder Amy Purdy's Adaptive Action Sports Receives The Ultimate 'Lift' From Toyota

Paralympian snowboarder Amy Purdy's Adaptive Action Sports (AAS) will get a jump-start from Toyota, beginning today. Toyota and AAS are expanding their partnership, which will allow AAS to host 10 competitive para-snowboard events for wounded veterans by the end of 2015. "At Toyota, we believe in the spirit of adventur ... Continue reading

Goodyear Transforms NASCAR Tires for Memorial Day Race Weekend, Launches Charity Auction to Benefit Support Our Troops Organization

Goodyear Transforms NASCAR Tires for Memorial Day Race Weekend, Launches Charity Auction to Benefit Support Our Troops Organization

Continuing its long history of supporting the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, exclusive tire supplier of NASCAR’s three major national series, has launched its fifth annual “Goodyear Gives Back” charitable program benefitting the Support Our Troops® organiza ... Continue reading

Honda Touts 'Fastest Seat in Sports' Sweepstakes to Support IndyCar Affiliation; Video and Social Feature Mario Andretti and 'Slow Citations'

Honda Touts 'Fastest Seat in Sports' Sweepstakes to Support IndyCar Affiliation; Video and Social Feature Mario Andretti and 'Slow Citations'

To bring attention to Honda's unique corporate culture rooted in racing and the manufacturer's affiliation with the Verizon IndyCar Series, the brand is promoting its popular "Fastest Seat in Sports" sweepstakes with a video launching today starring world-renowned driver Mario Andretti. The famed driver acts as the aut ... Continue reading

Michigan's Roadside Workers Urge Drivers To "Slow Down and Go Around" In Construction Zones

Michigan's Roadside Workers Urge Drivers To "Slow Down and Go Around" In Construction Zones

As Michigan motorists prepare to hit the road this Memorial Day weekend with the unofficial start to summer, the state's top utilities and others who work alongside those roads are reminding drivers to slow down in utility work zones. A coalition of more than a dozen Michigan utilities, telecommunications providers, wa ... Continue reading

New United Nations Paper Finds Role of Diesel In Economic Development Large . . . And Contribution of Road Vehicles to Particulate Matter To Be Small & Declining in Europe & U.S.

New United Nations Paper Finds Role of Diesel In Economic Development Large . . . And Contribution of Road Vehicles to Particulate Matter To Be Small & Declining in Europe & U.S.

A new paper issued by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) concluded that diesel road vehicles were the cause of only a small percentage of particulate matter – PM 2.5 and PM10 - in Europe and the United States compared to economic sectors like the commercial, institutional and household secto ... Continue reading

Honda Accord Takes Early Lead as America's Most Popular Car in 2014 Based on Retail Registrations

Honda Accord Takes Early Lead as America's Most Popular Car in 2014 Based on Retail Registrations

Accord is leading in the effort to repeat its 2013 performance as the most popular new car with individual American car buyers. Through the first three months of 2014, four of Honda's five top-selling models – Accord, Civic, CR-V and Odyssey – each led their segments in retail registrations for the first quar ... Continue reading

J.D. Power and LMC Automotive Report: May New-Vehicle Retail Sales Continue Growth Trend; Strong Memorial Day Weekend Expected

J.D. Power and LMC Automotive Report: May New-Vehicle Retail Sales Continue Growth Trend; Strong Memorial Day Weekend Expected

With strong new light-vehicle retail sales anticipated over the Memorial Day weekend, the selling rate in May is expected to be at the highest level of the year, according to a monthly sales forecast developed jointly by J.D. Power and LMC Automotive. Retail Light-Vehicle Sales Retail light-vehicle sales in May 2014 ar ... Continue reading

Kia improves sustainability of factory operations

Kia improves sustainability of factory operations

Environmental impact from domestic production facilities falls, despite growing global sales Kia’s domestic plants responsible for 46 per cent of total global production 4.7 per cent year-on-year decrease in average CO2 emissions per vehicle Water consumed by production facilities falls 6 per cent, year-on-year 26 ... Continue reading

Citroen DS 3 & DS 3 Cabrio to be updated with new features & technologies

Citroen DS 3 & DS 3 Cabrio to be updated with new features & technologies

Ever-popular DS 3 & DS 3 Cabrio to be updated with new features & technologies New Xenon full LED light signature introduced, delivering more style, better visibility & less energy consumption New engines to be introduced, including Euro 6 BlueHDi 120 & BlueHDi 100 DS 3 & DS 3 Cabrio now feature ‘Active City Brake ... Continue reading

Eastnor Land Rover Show will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Land Rover Discovery

Eastnor Land Rover Show will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Land Rover Discovery

This year’s Eastnor Land Rover Show will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Land Rover Discovery with a very special model – the very first off the production line in 1989 when it returns to Eastnor Castle’s Deer Park on the early dates of 24th and 25th May. The three door estate Discovery with a four ... Continue reading

The new generation Audi A7 Sportback

The new generation Audi A7 Sportback

Acclaimed five-door coupe is enhanced by a raft of revisions to styling, engines and technology New generation A7 Sportback available in the UK from quarter 4 of 2014 – UK pricing to be confirmed nearer to launch Styling enhancements and upgrade to standard LED headlights across the range, interior decor and infot ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks launch 'Truck of the Future 2050' design competition

Volvo Trucks launch 'Truck of the Future 2050' design competition

To celebrate the historic landmark of the 200,000th Volvo truck to be registered in the UK since the company began trading here in 1967, Volvo Trucks has announced a very special design competition to attract the truck designers and engineers of the future of road transport. This exciting and challengingdesigncompetiti ... Continue reading

Ford Otosan Opens New $511 Million Facility in Turkey to Exclusively Build Ford Tourneo Courier and Transit Courier

Ford Otosan Opens New $511 Million Facility in Turkey to Exclusively Build Ford Tourneo Courier and Transit Courier

Ford Otosan, the Turkish joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Koç Holding, today officially launched production at a new vehicle assembly plant in Yeniköy, Turkey Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford and Ali Y. Koç, Board Member, Koç Holding and Chairman, Ford Otosan, led the official plant opening; Tu ... Continue reading

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