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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Chevrolet Silverado Named Lowest Cost-to-Own Pickups

Chevrolet Silverado Named Lowest Cost-to-Own Pickups

Chevrolet is the Best Value Truck Brand in America, according to data analysis firm Vincentric, which also named the Silverado 2500HD a Best Value in America while finding the Silverado family has the lowest cost to own of any full-size pickups. Vincentric analyzes a vehicle’s cost-of-ownership through eight diffe ... Continue reading

2014 Ford EcoBoost Challenge gives consumers across America a fun and free opportunity to drive the hottest new Ford products

2014 Ford EcoBoost Challenge gives consumers across America a fun and free opportunity to drive the hottest new Ford products

Ford Motor Company is giving fans, and potential customers, in 12 cities across America a chance to get behind the wheel of its latest products with its second EcoBoost® Challenge consumer drive tour. “The EcoBoost Challenge lets consumers experience for themselves the technology that helps Ford deliver better ... Continue reading

Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company Fund to award more than $800,000 to 13 area nonprofit organizations in 2014

Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company Fund to award more than $800,000 to 13 area nonprofit organizations in 2014

-Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company Fund today announced total donations of more than $800,000 to 13 area nonprofit organizations in 2014. “With these resources, we can Go Further to tackle such issues as education, healthcare and community life – all while making a difference for our neighbors.” ... Continue reading

Renault-Nissan Alliance Celebrates 15th Anniversary as Four Key Business Units Prepare to Converge

Renault-Nissan Alliance Celebrates 15th Anniversary as Four Key Business Units Prepare to Converge

Renault-Nissan, the auto industry's longest-lasting and most productive cross-cultural partnership, celebrates its 15th anniversary today New Alliance leaders prepare for converged operations in Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Human Resources starting 1 April Convergence is expect ... Continue reading

Celebration Concludes Third Year Of Toyota's 100 Cars For Good

Celebration Concludes Third Year Of Toyota's 100 Cars For Good

Nine nonprofits ready to serve their communities will gather today to celebrate the 2013 100 Cars for Good philanthropy program. The charities will use their nine vehicles (seven Siennas and two Tundras) won through the program's public voting to transport people, food and even musical instruments. Those same instrumen ... Continue reading

Toyota, Buick, and Lexus Earn Top Spot in Customer Experience Ratings Amongst Auto Dealers, According to Temkin Group

Toyota, Buick, and Lexus Earn Top Spot in Customer Experience Ratings Amongst Auto Dealers, According to Temkin Group

Toyota, Buick, and Lexus dealers deliver the best customer experience in the auto industry, according to the 2014 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual ranking of companies based on a study of 10,000 U.S. consumers. These three companies all earned a 74% rating—only narrowly surpassing Subaru—and tied for 59th ... Continue reading

Even Minor Driving Infractions Cause Much Higher Car Insurance Bills

Even Minor Driving Infractions Cause Much Higher Car Insurance Bills

While serious violations such as driving under the influence and reckless driving understandably lead to much higher car insurance costs, lesser infractions dent consumers' finances as well, according to a new insuranceQuotes.com report. For example, drivers who commit a minor speeding violation (1-15 MPH over the lega ... Continue reading

2014 Kia Forte Koup Named "Best Value In America" Award Winner By Vincentric

2014 Kia Forte Koup Named "Best Value In America" Award Winner By Vincentric

The 2014 Kia Forte Koup has been honored as a 2014 Vincentric "Best Value in America" award winner in the Compact Coupe segment. Vincentric is a leading source of cost-of-ownership data and analysis within the automotive industry. "The all-new 2014 Forte Koup being named 'Best Value in America' in the Compact Coupe cat ... Continue reading

All-new 2015 Chrysler 200 Delivers Highway Fuel Economy of up to 36 Miles Per Gallon and Price Tag Starting at $21,700

All-new 2015 Chrysler 200 Delivers Highway Fuel Economy of up to 36 Miles Per Gallon and Price Tag Starting at $21,700

All-new 2015 Chrysler 200 highway fuel economy improves five miles per gallon compared with the outgoing model, achieving 36 miles per gallon highway with the standard 2.4-liter Tigershark MultiAir®2 I-4 engine 2015 Chrysler 200 models equipped with the available award-winning 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine delivers ... Continue reading

New-Car Sales Expected To Rise 2 Percent In March, Fall 0.3 Percent In First Quarter 2014

New-Car Sales Expected To Rise 2 Percent In March, Fall 0.3 Percent In First Quarter 2014

New-vehicle sales are expected to rise 2 percent year-over-year to a total of 1.48 million units, and an estimated 15.7 million seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), according to Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the only vehicle valuation and information source trusted and relied upon by both consumers and the automotiv ... Continue reading

All-New Renault Trafic to share the limelight with the striking Twizy Cargo

All-New Renault Trafic to share the limelight with the striking Twizy Cargo

Renault set to dominate this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show with one world debut, one UK debut, and a surprise in the heavy vans category All-New Trafic to share the limelight with the striking Twizy Cargo Renault’s sizeable 10-vehicle indoor display to include All-New Trafic (panel and Crew Vans), Kangoo Van ... Continue reading

British Indoor Champion and 100-metre sprinter, James Dasaolu, has taken delivery of an all-new Mazda3

British Indoor Champion and 100-metre sprinter, James Dasaolu, has taken delivery of an all-new Mazda3

British 100-metres athlete receives all-new Mazda3 2.2-litre Hatchback 150ps Sport Nav Diesel Dasaolu is Britain’s second-fastest 100-metre sprinter of all-time Inspiring athlete’s feats of human endeavour fit Mazda’s defy convention ethos British Indoor Champion and 100-metre sprinter, James Dasaolu, ha ... Continue reading

Peugeot Sport: Dakar comeback in 2015!

Peugeot Sport: Dakar comeback in 2015!

After their extraordinary adventure in 2013, which saw them smash the record for the celebrated Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Peugeot Sport, Red Bull and Total have again joined forces for another exacting yet equally exciting challenge: the Dakar. To take on the 10,000km of the world’s longest and toughest cross-country ... Continue reading

Volvo Car Group conducts UK testing of Flybrid KERS technology for passenger cars

Volvo Car Group conducts UK testing of Flybrid KERS technology for passenger cars

Technology adds 80hp performance boost while cutting fuel consumption by up to 25% Part of Volvo Cars’ Drive-E Powertrain research programme, system again shows how drivers needn’t compromise between power and fuel efficiency Volvo Car Group and engineering company Flybrid Automotive, part of the Torotrak Gro ... Continue reading

Volkswagen's Transporter now boasts class-leading fuel efficiency

Volkswagen's Transporter now boasts class-leading fuel efficiency

Updated Transporter BlueMotion offers class-leading fuel efficiency 48.7 mpg and CO2 emissions of only 153 g/km More than 850 miles on a single tank of fuel On sale now; priced from £19,245 (ex. VAT) Volkswagen’s biggest-selling commercial vehicle model in the UK, the Transporter, now boasts class-leading fuel ... Continue reading

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-440 MR special edition

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-440 MR special edition

Mitsubishi Motors in the UK is pleased to announce details of the forthcoming Lancer Evolution X FQ-440 MR special edition which is making an historic return to help celebrate the company's 40th Anniversary in the UK. The Lancer Evolution X has already achieved legendary status thanks to its past rallying successes and ... Continue reading

Give Your SKODA the All-clear with a Spring Health Check

Give Your SKODA the All-clear with a Spring Health Check

Comprehensive seven-point inspection to ensure motorist safety after gruelling Winter Conducted by fully-trained technicians across entire SKODA network for £25 Customer receives full condition report and complimentary Spring cleaning kit* ... Continue reading

Much-anticipated SEAT SUV will come to market in 2016

Much-anticipated SEAT SUV will come to market in 2016

Forthcoming car already in development at SEAT’s Martorell facility SEAT today confirms that it will produce a new compact SUV model, which will come to market in 2016. The Spanish company has been working on the design and development of the new model at its Martorell facility for almost two years. “This is ... Continue reading

SKODA presents twelve outstanding old-timers from its 118-year history

SKODA presents twelve outstanding old-timers from its 118-year history

From L&K motorcycles and the first L&K automobile to the Å KODA Forman Anniversary: ​​Å KODA celebrates 50 years of the Å KODA 1000 MB Mladá Boleslav, 26 March 2014 – Å KODA AUTO will be presenting twelve milestones of the company’s 119-year history at this year’s Techno Classica in Es ... Continue reading

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