Hey Mac: Supercars Shine at Winter Shows Supercar Tweaked by Aston Martin
Detroit January 27, 2013; The era of supercars is taking a major leap forward in the present show season. The Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York shows-where six figure supercars enjoy the most sales-are being graced by unveilings of two new supercar models. They are the Aston Martin Rapide S and the Bentley Mul ... Continue reading
Volkswagen Opens Huge Solar Park Near Chattanooga Tennessee Plant
By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor The Auto Channel THE HAGUE, January 27, 2013. Volkswagen has started to use a huge park of over 33 acres with solar panels next to its plant in Tennessee, where it builds the Passat model for the North-American market. The Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park can produce electricity ... Continue reading
Grand Am Rolex - Napleton Racing Still Leads GX Class Overnight
DAYTONA Jan. 27, 2013: Napleton Racing remained in control of the debuting GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series GX class overnight at the Rolex 24 At Daytona where team drivers Shane Lewis, David Donohue, Dr. Jim Norman and Nelson Canache have led nearly every race lap in the new No. 16 Napleton Racing Porsche Cayman S. Th ... Continue reading
Grand Am Rolex - MOMO NGT Retirement Report
Daytona, Jan. 27, 2013: The suspension failure on the leading GT class No. 30 MOMO NGT Motorsport Porsche GT3 car proved to be terminal for the 2013 running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona race. Just shy of the twenty-and-one-half hour mark, MOMO NGT Owner/Team Manager Ramez Wahab officially retired the car. The suspension ... Continue reading
Motorsports Brands - Alpinestars Outfits 2013 Lotus F1 Team
Lotus F1 Team will partner with Alpinestars as the worldâs premier performance motorsport apparel and footwear company extends its involvement in Formula 1 by signing a multi-year partnership agreement with the team. Alpinestars will provide performance racing products and high-level technical support for two of F ... Continue reading
Motorsports Brands - Ken Stout Racing Continues To Develop Scion FR-S For St. Pete
Brownsburg, Jan. 25, 2013: With just over three months until the season opener at St. Petersburg, the Ken Stout Racing team (KSR) continues to work hard in preparation for the first race of the season. Ken Stout, Team Principal for KSR, gives us an update from their headquarters in Brownsburg, IN. What an exciting time ... Continue reading
When Washington and Colorado voted to legalize recreational marijuana use in November, both states lawmakers were forced to consider whether to update their DUI laws. But according to Edmunds.com, the premier resource for car shopping and automotive information, the solutions aren't exactly cut and dried. 'Marijuana an ... Continue reading
Chevrolet Runs 2014 Corvette Up the Proverbial Flagpole -- And Gets Lots Of Salutes +VIDEO
The Auto Channel Detroit Bureau DETROIT, MICHIGAN, January 14 -- âThe car, the car and the car,â was the answer from General Motors North America President Mark Reuss, through a broad grin. The question dealt with Chevrolet's efforts to win over the kind of auto aficionados who usually buy exotics like Ferrar ... Continue reading
Group 1 Automotive, Inc. a Fortune 500 automotive retailer, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase 100 percent of the outstanding shares of UAB Motors Participacoes S.A., one of Brazil's largest automotive retailers, for approximately $47.4 million cash, 1.45 million shares of Group ... Continue reading
The 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle, rated by the EPA at 115 MPGe1 in all electric mode, making it the most fuel-efficient sedan in America, went on-sale at select New York and California Honda dealers on January 15 with an MSRP of $39,780 2 and a monthly lease price of $429 3. Combining hybrid effici ... Continue reading
Nutson's Nuggets - Automotive News January 20-26, 2013 Just In Case You Were Dozing
* We've been watching the progress of Mazda's promise to bring a production diesel car to the U.S. and it is still slated for later this year. In the meantime a racing version of that production diesel engine will compete in the upcoming Daytona Rolex 24 hour race. Billed as SKYACTIVE-D, the 2.2-liter clean diesel engi ... Continue reading
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