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Heels on Wheels : 2015 Volkswagen Touareg Review +VIDEO

Heels on Wheels : 2015 Volkswagen Touareg Review +VIDEO

Heels on Wheels : 2015 Volkswagen Touareg Review ... Continue reading

NHTSA RECALLS March 30, 2015: Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chevrolet, Buick, Mack

NHTSA RECALLS March 30, 2015: Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chevrolet, Buick, Mack

NHTSA RECALLS March 30, 2015: Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chevrolet, Buick, Mack ... Continue reading

2016 Mazda MX-5 Specs and Miata History

2016 Mazda MX-5 Specs and Miata History

2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata, (Japanese name: Mazda Roadster). As a member of the MX-5 development team and a passionate sports car enthusiast, I am deeply grateful to all the people who created, fostered and supported this car over the years. To see that so many people around the world continue to admire the MX-5 even now, 2 ... Continue reading

Double win for Kia in the 2015 Red Dot Awards

Double win for Kia in the 2015 Red Dot Awards

Kia Soul EV and all-new flagship Kia Sorento honoured 13 ‘Red Dots’ for Kia since 2009 Prestigious design competition celebrates its 60thanniversary this year WALTON-ON-THAMES, UK -- March 30, 2015: The Kia Motors design team has swept the board yet again in the annual Red Dot Awards, picking up two ‘Red ... Continue reading

All-New MX-5, Red Dot Design Award: Best of the Best 2015

All-New MX-5, Red Dot Design Award: Best of the Best 2015

Mazda MX-5, Mazda CX-3 and Mazda2 distinguished this year by design centre Every single new-generation model has now been honoured for its KODO exterior Leverkusen, 30 March 2015. Three new Mazdas, three more awards. The Japanese carmaker will take away accolades for the all-new Mazda MX-5, Mazda CX-3 and Mazda2 from t ... Continue reading

The New Generation i20 Coupe, New Generation i20 Five-Door and the New Sonata Take Red Dot Honours

The New Generation i20 Coupe, New Generation i20 Five-Door and the New Sonata Take Red Dot Honours

High Wycombe, 30 March 2015 – Three new models from Hyundai Motor have been named as winners of prestigious Red Dot Design Awards. The New Generation i20 Coupe, New Generation i20 five-door and the all-new Sonata take the honours in the 2015 programme. The recognition comes from the expert jury of one of the world ... Continue reading

Ferrari FXX-K Receives the Red Dot Seal of Approval

Ferrari FXX-K Receives the Red Dot Seal of Approval

Red Dot Awards for product design also for LaFerrari and California T MARANELLO, ITALY -- March 30, 2015: Three Ferraris have won the prestigious Red Dot Award, the world’s leading product design competition which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The recent FXX-K has been named Red Dot Best of the Best f ... Continue reading

Coveted 'Red Dot Award: Product Design' for the New ŠKODA Fabia

Coveted 'Red Dot Award: Product Design' for the New ŠKODA Fabia

The all-new ŠKODA Fabia has received the coveted ‘Red Dot Award’ for its outstanding product design. The ‘Red Dot Award’ is presented annually by an international panel of experts. With 4,928 submissions from 1,994 participants in 56 countries this year alone, the ‘Red Dot Award: Pr ... Continue reading

Volkswagen Passat, Passat Estate and Golf SV Receive Prestigious Design Prize

Volkswagen Passat, Passat Estate and Golf SV Receive Prestigious Design Prize

The Volkswagen Passat, Passat Estate and Golf SV are among this year’s winners of the highly regarded international Red Dot Design Award in the Product Design category. The models from the eighth generation of the Passat and Passat Estate series are among the most innovative cars in their segment. They also set st ... Continue reading

Mazda Announced Pricing for the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata

Mazda Announced Pricing for the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata

Fourth-generation MX-5 stays true to affordable convertible sports car roots - Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) today announced that the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata will start at $24,9151 in entry-level Sport trim. Mazda has instilled the latest MX-5 with the pure driving experience that has won worldwide fanfare since ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake Added to Compact Car Family: Over four Million Mercedes-Benz Compact Cars Sold

Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake Added to Compact Car Family: Over four Million Mercedes-Benz Compact Cars Sold

The success story of the Mercedes-Benz compact cars began in 1997 with the launch of the A-Class. Since then, over four million customers have opted for an A-Class, B-Class, CLA or GLA. ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Econic: Assistance Systems for Active Safety

Mercedes-Benz Econic: Assistance Systems for Active Safety

With effect from March 2015 the Mercedes-Benz Econic will be equipped as standard with the assistance systems Active Brake Assist and Lane Keeping Assist, while adaptive cruise control will be available as an option. Active Brake Assist will initiate braking if necessary, thus potentially preventing rear-end collisions ... Continue reading

The New smart Generation at the NYIAS: 2015: smart is Upping the Ante

The New smart Generation at the NYIAS: 2015: smart is Upping the Ante

The new smart fortwo will have its official US premiere at the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS, 3. - 12. April 2015). Following the successful market launch in Europe with a sharp rise in registration figures (+ 40.5 as per February), the city coupé will also be available in the USA from the autumn. A key ... Continue reading

Big News in the Big Apple: Lexus Exhibit at 2015 New York International Auto Show Features the All-New Redesigned RX

Big News in the Big Apple: Lexus Exhibit at 2015 New York International Auto Show Features the All-New Redesigned RX

Enthusiasts will have the opportunity to see up close and personal, the next generation 2016 RX as Lexus will introduce the 2016 RX at the 2015 New York International Auto Show. The fourth generation RX mid-size luxury utility vehicle defined a segment when it went on sale 17 years ago and is Lexus’ best-selling v ... Continue reading

Real People, Not Actors, See the Real Chevrolet

Real People, Not Actors, See the Real Chevrolet

New marketing campaign reveals candid reactions to Chevrolet vehicles DETROIT – Will getting up close and personal with a 2015 Chevrolet car or crossover change a non-Chevy owner’s opinion of the brand? A new marketing campaign beginning April 1 called, “Real People, Not Actors,” seeks to answer tha ... Continue reading

Avenir's Advanced Lighting Illuminates Future Buick Design

Avenir's Advanced Lighting Illuminates Future Buick Design

New methods give designers more freedom to craft unique visual identity DETROIT – To the designers of the Buick Avenir concept, light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are more than just an energy-efficient method of illuminating the road ahead – they are an advanced way to accentuate an already striking design as it ... Continue reading

Ford STEAM Lab Challenges Students, Rewards High-Tech Thinking and Creativity During Hackathon

Ford STEAM Lab Challenges Students, Rewards High-Tech Thinking and Creativity During Hackathon

Ford STEAM Lab hosted a hackathon for 100 middle school students to introduce them to software development and skills needed to be high tech entrepreneurs Students from Patrick Henry Middle School in Woodhaven, Mich., took top honors, winning $15,000 for their school and $12,500 in scholarships Ford and UAW extended to ... Continue reading

Lexus and Toyota Roll-Out Low-Cost Automated Braking Safety Packages

Lexus and Toyota Roll-Out Low-Cost Automated Braking Safety Packages

Toyota Safety Sense and Lexus Safety System-Plus Raise The Bar On Automated Driver-Assist Packages Available On Nearly All Models and Trim Levels By End of 2017 NEW YORK--The world’s first compact crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) and the world’s first luxury crossover SUV are helping to bring advanced sa ... Continue reading

Porsche Panamera Edition: Sports sedan with extensive standard features

Porsche Panamera Edition: Sports sedan with extensive standard features

Special Editions for All Markets A new special version of the Porsche Panamera sports sedan stands out through elegant styling combined with a significantly expanded range of standard equipment. Two models with powerful six-cylinder engines will be offered: the Panamera Edition and Panamera 4 Edition both come with an ... Continue reading

Acura Speeding Toward the Big Apple with NSX Supercar and ILX Endurance Racer

Acura Speeding Toward the Big Apple with NSX Supercar and ILX Endurance Racer

New ILX endurance racer and new NSX supercar will showcase Acura performance at the 2015 New York Auto Show - Newly redesigned 2016 RDX and 2016 ILX will also be featured ... Continue reading

2016 Chevrolet Camaro Details

2016 Chevrolet Camaro Details

2016 Chevrolet Camaro Details ... Continue reading

2016 Lincoln Continental Revealed

2016 Lincoln Continental Revealed

LINCOLN CONTINENTAL CONCEPT SHOWS THE FUTURE OF QUIET LUXURY AND UPCOMING FULL-SIZE SEDAN Elegant, effortlessly powerful and serene, the Lincoln Continental Concept signals the brand’s all-new full-size sedan coming next year and the future of quiet luxury Lincoln Continental Concept integrates technologies design ... Continue reading

World-Renowned Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil to Open SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition

World-Renowned Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil to Open SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition

Honda invites Kurzweil as "perfect match" for Congress theme of "Leading Mobility Innovation" DETROIT, March 25, 2015 -- Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google and a world renowned American futurist and inventor, will be the opening speaker next month at the SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition. As the compa ... Continue reading

INDYCAR Launches 2015 'Rivals' Campaign to Highlight Series' Culture of Speed

INDYCAR Launches 2015 'Rivals' Campaign to Highlight Series' Culture of Speed

INDYCAR announced today it has launched the second year of its 'Rivals' advertising campaign, which features drivers including 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series champion Will Power, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves, defending Indianapolis 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, rising young stars Marco Andretti, Jam ... Continue reading

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