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It's Baaaccck Hyundai (MiniVan) - STARIA MPV Wins Best of the Best at Red Dot Award

It's Baaaccck Hyundai (MiniVan) - STARIA MPV Wins Best of the Best at Red Dot Award

Hyundai Motor Company announced today its STARIA multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) has won the ‘Best of the Best’ accolade at the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2022. The Best of the Best is awarded for groundbreaking design and is the highest title in the competition. ... Continue reading

Geely Auto Read The Book and Believed - Supports Sustainable E-Fuels Methanol Vehicle Demonstration Trial in Denmark

Geely Auto Read The Book and Believed - Supports Sustainable E-Fuels Methanol Vehicle Demonstration Trial in Denmark

2022 Mar 28th, Aalborg, Denmark. In support of the Danish initiative to promote the production and development of green e-methanol, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding) announced that it has joined hands with Circle K Denmark, Aalborg University, and Fonden Green Hub Denmark to collaborate on a 15-month test an ... Continue reading

FLASHBACK! - Methanol And Ethanol Powered 1997 Ford Taurus Costs Less To Buy And To Run Than Taurus Gasoline Models

FLASHBACK! - Methanol And Ethanol Powered 1997 Ford Taurus Costs Less To Buy And To Run Than Taurus Gasoline Models

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 1996; The Ford Motor Company is offering an "Unlimited" number of Taurus FFV (flexible fuel vehicle) sedans for the 1997 model year at a discounted sticker price of $345 less than the conventional gasoline-powered Taurus. Ford is offering the Taurus FFVs, capable of running on methanol (or ethanol) ... Continue reading

Get to Know Stefan Sielaff, Geely's Design Chief

Get to Know Stefan Sielaff, Geely's Design Chief

In September 2021, Geely Auto Group appointed Stefan Sielaff as its new design chief, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He brings over 30 years of car design experience from brands like Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Bentley. ... Continue reading

2022 Kia Telluride Wins Another "Best Family Car" Award

2022 Kia Telluride Wins Another "Best Family Car" Award

The Kia Telluride, the brand’s most decorated SUV ever, is one of the Best Family Cars of 2022, according to Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com, marking the third year in a row the vehicle has taken top honors. “The award-winning Telluride has been impressing industry experts and consumers alike since going on sale three ... Continue reading

SkyDrive and Suzuki Flying Cars

SkyDrive and Suzuki Flying Cars

- Start Consideration of Development and Production of Flying Cars, and Market Development in India TOYOTA, Japan and HAMAMATSU, Japan, March 25, 2022 -- SkyDrive Inc. (hereinafter "SkyDrive") and Suzuki Motor Corporation (hereinafter "Suzuki") jointly announced on March 22 a partnership for the commercialization of fl ... Continue reading

Nutson's Weekly Auto News Wrap-up March 20-26, 2022

Nutson's Weekly Auto News Wrap-up March 20-26, 2022

These are this past week's important, relevant, semi-secret, or snappy automotive news, opinions and insider back stories presented as expertly crafted easy-to-understand automotive universe news nuggets ... Continue reading

Consumers Want The Cars They Want - Look To Technology To Solve The Gasoline Price Inflation Says AutoPacific Report

Consumers Want The Cars They Want - Look To Technology To Solve The Gasoline Price Inflation Says AutoPacific Report

LONG Lomg Beach Calif. Noted automotive consulting firm AutoPacific’s latest round of Fuel Price Impact Survey (FPIS) data comes amid alarmingly high fuel prices and continued conflict in Ukraine. ... Continue reading

Road Trip: RoboBurger, the World's First Robot Burger Chef in a Vending Machine Format, Launches Nationally

Road Trip: RoboBurger, the World's First Robot Burger Chef in a Vending Machine Format, Launches Nationally

The robot-chef cooks and serves contactless burgers made from scratch in about 6 minutes JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 25, 2022 -- RoboBurger, the world's first fully autonomous robotic burger chef, launched today with a ribbon cutting at the Newport Centre, a Simon Mall in Jersey City, NJ. This restaurant in miniature cook ... Continue reading

Stellantis Debuts Hurricane Twin-Turbo I-6 Engine that Cuts Emissions, Increases Fuel Economy and is More Powerful (Includes Recommended Fuel)

Stellantis Debuts Hurricane Twin-Turbo I-6 Engine that Cuts Emissions, Increases Fuel Economy and is More Powerful (Includes Recommended Fuel)

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 25, 2022 -- Stellantis unveiled its new 3.0-liter Hurricane twin-turbo inline six-cylinder engine that delivers better fuel economy and fewer emissions than larger engines while at the same time generates more horsepower and torque than many naturally aspirated V-8 and boosted six-cylinder po ... Continue reading

25 years ago Mercedes-Benz presents the first A-Class at the Geneva Motor Show

25 years ago Mercedes-Benz presents the first A-Class at the Geneva Motor Show

Mercedes-Benz presents the first A-Class at the Geneva Motor Show The 168 series finds more than 1.1 million buyers by 2005 First vehicle with ESP® as standard in the compact class Stuttgart. In the beginning there are two show cars: in 1993 and 1994, the Vision A 93 and the A study based on it familiarise the public ... Continue reading

F-150 LIGHTNING TOWS 10,000 POUNDS UP COLORADO’S I-70 ON COLDEST FEBRUARY DAY IN BOULDER IN 123 YEARS, DAVIS DAM IN TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT

F-150 LIGHTNING TOWS 10,000 POUNDS UP COLORADO’S I-70 ON COLDEST FEBRUARY DAY IN BOULDER IN 123 YEARS, DAVIS DAM IN TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT

Ford engineers took the first all-electric F-Series to two of America’s toughest real-world towing routes during development – Davis Dam in the summer and TFLTruck’s Ike Gauntlet™ in the winter. ... Continue reading

The new Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series: limited edition, unlimited performance

The new Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series: limited edition, unlimited performance

Mar 23, 2022 Affalterbach - The most powerful customer sports car ever developed by Mercedes-AMG: the Mercedes-AMG GT Track Series, conceptualized for use during track day events. With the exclusive limited edition, the Mercedes-AMG motorsport department is celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Affalterbach- based co ... Continue reading

2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Review By Larry Nutson

2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Review By Larry Nutson

As things would have it my expected drive of the all-new 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz went awry. On the invite of Hyundai I was to travel to San Francisco and then on to Palo Alto. ... Continue reading

2023 Maserati Grecale Global Premiere

2023 Maserati Grecale Global Premiere

MODENA, Italy, March 22, 2022 -- The new Maserati Grecale SUV is "The Everyday Exceptional". Grecale strikes the right balance between versatility, elegance, performance and innovation, guaranteeing performance, comfort and safety, all at the same time. These features are combined with off-road capabilities and uncompr ... Continue reading

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