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First to Offer Revel Audio, All-New Lincoln MKX Elevates, Personalizes Listening Experience

First to Offer Revel Audio, All-New Lincoln MKX Elevates, Personalizes Listening Experience

All-new 2016 Lincoln MKX is first to offer audio system from Revel, an exclusive loudspeaker brand cherished by audiophiles Unique speaker placement, only automotive application of custom Revel® Waveguides and point source architecture plus first combination of QuantumLogic Surround® and Clari-Fi™ combine to ... Continue reading

Honda's Anna Engine Plant Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Honda's Anna Engine Plant Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Plant has manufactured more than 20 million engines ANNA, OH -- July 22, 2015: Honda of America Mfg.'s Anna Engine Plant, Honda's largest automobile engine plant in the world, today celebrated 30 years of engine production. The plant has produced more than 20.1 million engines since opening on July 22, 1985. Since star ... Continue reading

Sears And Michelin Celebrate 50-Year Relationship

Sears And Michelin Celebrate 50-Year Relationship

Sears® has sold 135 million MICHELIN® tires, more than any other retailer GREENVILLE, SC -- July 21, 2015: Michelin® and Sears® are celebrating 50 years in business together. In that half-century, Sears has sold more than 135 million MICHELIN tires, more than any other retailer. Sears was also instrumental in bring ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Style Eyewear Collection Autumn/Winter 2015: Combination of Innovative Material

Mercedes-Benz Style Eyewear Collection Autumn/Winter 2015: Combination of Innovative Material

Progressive design and flawless functionality are the hallmarks of the 2015 autumn/winter collection designed by Mercedes-Benz Style and Eyewear specialist Rodenstock. Incorporating newly developed materials, colours and shapes, the five styles of sunglasses and correction lenses take the Mercedes-Benz Style philosophy ... Continue reading

TomTom Selected by the University of Minnesota's Accessibility Observatory

TomTom Selected by the University of Minnesota's Accessibility Observatory

TomTom (TOM2) today announces that its map and traffic information have been chosen by the University of Minnesota’s Accessibility Observatory as part of a new, national accessibility data set. TomTom will provide map and historical speed data to help analyze accessibility to jobs for driving and transit for metro ... Continue reading

FCA US Celebrates One Million Eight-Speed Transmissions Assembled at its Kokomo Transmission Plant

FCA US Celebrates One Million Eight-Speed Transmissions Assembled at its Kokomo Transmission Plant

--More than $860 million invested in plant for production of fuel-efficient transmission --Indiana facility launched eight-speed production in September 2012 --TorqueFlite 845RE offered in the Jeep® Grand Cherokee, Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Durango and Ram 1500 --Fuel saving transmission i ... Continue reading

State Farm releases Driver Feedback Instructor Edition Mobile App

State Farm releases Driver Feedback Instructor Edition Mobile App

Now available free on iOS and Android platforms New app helps instructors teach new drivers Driver Feedback™ Instructor Edition, a free mobile app developed by State Farm®, is now available for both iOS and Android mobile devices. The app is designed to help driver education instructors access, record, organize ... Continue reading

Autoliv Expands Active Safety Capability

Autoliv Expands Active Safety Capability

This acquisition expands our capability in the Active Safety market and provides additional building blocks to our portfolio in automated driving” Autoliv, Inc. , the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the automotive business of ... Continue reading

Continental Announces Tire Safety Recall of Approximately 8,500 Tires in U.S., Canada and Mexico

Continental Announces Tire Safety Recall of Approximately 8,500 Tires in U.S., Canada and Mexico

Voluntary safety recall program involves Continental ContiProContact tires 225/45 R17 - Loss of air pressure may occur; No reports of accidents - Tires will be replaced at no charge FORT MILL, SC -- July 16, 2015: Continental today announced a voluntary recall program involving approximately 8,500 passenger vehicle tir ... Continue reading

Auto Lab - Live Radio Car Show Call-in | Saturday July 18, 2015

Auto Lab - Live Radio Car Show Call-in | Saturday July 18, 2015

harold wohchuk, auto lab, live radio call in show, car talk from new york, Harold Bendell-Major Auto Fred Bordoff-Bronx Community College CUNY Libby DeMarco-Broadway Sunoco Jerry Pastore-D & J Diagnostic Johanna Pastore-D & J Diagnostic Joanne Porcelli,Esq. Michael Porcelli-Central Avenue Information Nicholas Prague-MT ... Continue reading

Subaru XV Gets Interior Upgrade and Re-Tuned Chassis

Subaru XV Gets Interior Upgrade and Re-Tuned Chassis

Subaru UK has announced a raft of modifications and upgrades to the interior and chassis of its XV compact crossover. The interior changes result in further significant improvements to cabin refinement and ambience, and include an all new factory-fit infotainment system first seen on the new Outback earlier this year. ... Continue reading

LA Auto Show's Connected Car Expo Selects Top Ten Automotive Startups For 2015

LA Auto Show's Connected Car Expo Selects Top Ten Automotive Startups For 2015

Fortune partners with CCE to help recognize new auto industry disruptors LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2015 -- The Los Angeles Auto Show's Connected Car Expo (CCE) announced its plans to establish the premier top ten list of the hottest and most influential startups to hit the automotive scene. Slated for reveal in September b ... Continue reading

Volkswagen Group Honors Best Suppliers

Volkswagen Group Honors Best Suppliers

Yesterday in Neuburg near Ingolstadt, the Volkswagen Group presented the Volkswagen Group Award 2015 to its best suppliers. Before an audience of 260 guests from 26 countries, Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, and Dr. Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz, Member ... Continue reading

Statement by American Honda Regarding Third Row Seatbelt Inspection Recall: 2016 Honda Pilot

Statement by American Honda Regarding Third Row Seatbelt Inspection Recall: 2016 Honda Pilot

Only twenty 2016 Pilot vehicles in customer hands require inspection at the time of this announcement Third row seatbelts will be inspected and, if needed, repositioned No related crashes or injuries have been reported Honda will voluntarily recall fewer than 1,700 model-year 2016 Pilot vehicles in the United States to ... Continue reading

Daimler's Iconic Smart Car Is Now MirrorLink-Enabled

Daimler's Iconic Smart Car Is Now MirrorLink-Enabled

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), an organization driving global technologies for smartphone-centric car connectivity solutions, today announced that the Daimler Smart car is now MirrorLink®-enabled. Now standard on the most popular vehicles and smartphones across the globe, MirrorLink is one of the most ingeni ... Continue reading

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