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The Fuel Station of the Future: Nissan and Foster + Partners Charge Ahead with Bold New Vision

The Fuel Station of the Future: Nissan and Foster + Partners Charge Ahead with Bold New Vision

Nissan’s unwavering vision of a cleaner, safer and more user-friendly automotive environment takes another marked step forward with the announcement of a unique project to design and develop the Fuel Station of the Future in partnership with renowned international architects Foster + Partners. “The aim of our ... Continue reading

One Fan to Get Chance to Have Personal Garage Fit for a Dodge

One Fan to Get Chance to Have Personal Garage Fit for a Dodge

The Dodge brand has partnered with Contur Cabinet Ltd. and Swisstrax Corporation to give one fan a garage makeover fit for a Dodge. Now through Monday, September 21, Dodge brand vehicle owners and lessees can enter the contest at the Dodge brand Facebook page for the chance to win a custom garage makeover worth an esti ... Continue reading

MecklerMedia's Inside 3D Printing in Santa Clara to Feature 3D Print Vehicle Zone

MecklerMedia's Inside 3D Printing in Santa Clara to Feature 3D Print Vehicle Zone

MecklerMedia Corporation (OTCQX: MECK) announced the launch of the 3D Print Vehicle Zone at Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo, taking place October 20-22, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Inside 3D Printing has received a grant to allow companies in the 3D printing automotive f ... Continue reading

Category Leader Announces Exclusive Platinum Series - Debuts High Performance Escort 9500ci Installed Detector

Category Leader Announces Exclusive Platinum Series - Debuts High Performance Escort 9500ci Installed Detector

Bluetooth Equipped Detectors Provide Unprecedented Protection WEST CHESTER, OH -- Aug. 24, 2015: The radar detector category and patent leader, Escort Inc. (EscortRadar.com), announced the first of its exclusive high performance Platinum Series products, the Escort® 9500ci™ Platinum Series custom installed rada ... Continue reading

BFG g-Force Comp2 T/A Tire Test 5,000 mile Road Test, Like Tony, They're GRRReat!

BFG g-Force Comp2 T/A Tire Test 5,000 mile Road Test, Like Tony, They're GRRReat!

BFG g-Force Comp2 T/A tire test 5,000 mile road test, like Tony, they’re GRRReat! ... Continue reading

Daimler FleetBoard: New DispoPilot.guide Now Available for Ordering

Daimler FleetBoard: New DispoPilot.guide Now Available for Ordering

Daimler FleetBoard, Europe's leading telematics provider for trucks, vans and buses, offers its customers even more efficient order management and improved networking with the new DispoPilot.guide. With the new, mobile tablet, FleetBoard has collaborated with TomTom, a leading expert in navigation and maps, to provide ... Continue reading

Nexteer Automotive Opens Fourth Steering Manufacturing Plant in China

Nexteer Automotive Opens Fourth Steering Manufacturing Plant in China

Strategically located in Liuzhou, a key automotive industry export hub Expanded production from new facility to meet high demand for Nexteer's Brush EPS in the Chinese automotive market SAGINAW, Mich., Aug. 24, 2015 -- Nexteer Automotive, a global leader in intuitive motion control, announced the opening of its fourth ... Continue reading

Mitsui Chemicals POLYMETAC to Be Used in Lightweight Frames of New Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Mitsui Chemicals POLYMETAC to Be Used in Lightweight Frames of New Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Lightweight and reduction of the number of parts lead to simple structure using metal resin integrally molded technology - TOKYO--Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TOKYO:4183)(President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa) announced that the Group’s unique metal resin integral technology, POLYMETACTM has been selected for use in the fram ... Continue reading

MobilityWorks Merger with HASCO Medical Increases Footprint to 57 Showroom Locations

MobilityWorks Merger with HASCO Medical Increases Footprint to 57 Showroom Locations

$23.5 Million Stock Purchase Combines the Country's Largest Accessible Van Retailers and Adaptive Equipment Providers MobilityWorks®, the nation's largest retailer of wheelchair accessible vehicles, made an unprecedented move last Friday with the announced merger of HASCO Medical, Inc., the parent company of Ride Away ... Continue reading

Dana's Spicer Rui Ma Drivetrain Solutions Honored at Xuhui District Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2015

Dana's Spicer Rui Ma Drivetrain Solutions Honored at Xuhui District Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2015

Dana Holding Corporation today announced that the company's Spicer® Rui Ma™ brand of drivetrain solutions recently won the top award in the specific case category at the Xuhui District Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awards 2015. The Spicer Rui Ma brand was recognized for providing the lowest total owners ... Continue reading

Goodyear Names Rapin Vice President, Treasurer

Goodyear Names Rapin Vice President, Treasurer

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced today that Peter R. Rapin will join the company as vice president and treasurer. He will report to Laura K. Thompson, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Rapin most recently served as vice president, treasury and tax for TRW Automotive (now part of ZF Fried ... Continue reading

Auto Lab - Live From New York - Call-in Show | Saturday August 22, 2015

Auto Lab - Live From New York - Call-in Show | Saturday August 22, 2015

Robert Erskine, Senior European Correspondent, Suffolk England "LET'S TORQUE VECTORING" Robert Sinclair, AAA NY "CURRENT TUNNEL BUILDING SITUATION" Russ Rader, Vice President Insurance Institute for Highway Safety "NHTSA TO CRACK DOWN ON UNSAFE MOTORCYCLE HELMETS" Sharon Sudol & John Russell, Senior Correspondents "201 ... Continue reading

New Michelin Loader Tire Beefs Up Productivity in Heavy-Duty Applications

New Michelin Loader Tire Beefs Up Productivity in Heavy-Duty Applications

MICHELIN XTXL E4/L4 incorporates new technology for improved operational efficiency over predecessor GREENVILLE, SC -- Aug. 21, 2015: MICHELIN Earthmover has introduced a loader tire designed with improved casing protection, a reinforced casing ply and Michelin's patented reinforced bead zone. The new MICHELIN XTXL® E ... Continue reading

Leather or Leatherette? Vehicle Owners Often Can't Tell The Difference

Leather or Leatherette? Vehicle Owners Often Can't Tell The Difference

New Level of Quality in Leatherette Seats Offers Similar Look, Feel and Durability as Leather at a Lower Cost WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 20, 2015 -- The quality of synthetic leather materials used on new-vehicle seats has gotten so good that new-vehicle owners often don't know or can't tell if their vehicle's seats ... Continue reading

Rand McNally to Demo Navigation Products, Support Veterans Group at Great American Trucking Show (GATS)

Rand McNally to Demo Navigation Products, Support Veterans Group at Great American Trucking Show (GATS)

Drivers can win award-winning IntelliRoute® TND™ truck-specific GPS device SKOKIE, IL -- Aug. 21, 2015: Rand McNally is inviting all professional drivers to stop by its booth at the Great American Trucking Show (GATS) in Dallas from Aug. 27-Aug. 29, 2015 for product giveaways, informational demonstrations, show ... Continue reading

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