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Buh-Bye Scion! 2003-2016 RIP

Buh-Bye Scion! 2003-2016 RIP

Valuable Insights Will Aid Toyota in Attracting New, Young Customers February 03, 2016 Scion Fact Sheet TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 3, 2016 – Scion, established as a separate brand in 2003 as a laboratory to explore new products and processes to attract youth customers, is now transitioning back to the Toyota brand. Sc ... Continue reading

Jeep® Brand Enters One of the World's Largest Automobile Markets

Jeep® Brand Enters One of the World's Largest Automobile Markets

NEW DELHI, Feb. 3, 2016 -- Jeep® Wrangler Unlimited, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT make their Indian debut at the 2016 Auto Expo in New Delhi Jeep brand sales in India to start in mid-2016 Introduction comes at a time of record worldwide sales for Jeep and continued global expansion The growing inter ... Continue reading

Renault-Nissan Alliance Sells 8.5 Million Vehicles in 2015

Renault-Nissan Alliance Sells 8.5 Million Vehicles in 2015

PARIS, Feb. 4, 2016 -- Fourth largest car group posts steady sales despite macroeconomic downturn in Russia and Brazil Renault and Nissan brands achieve all-time records, thanks to strong sales in USA, China and Europe Alliance remains zero-emission leader; cumulative sales exceed 300,000 EVs The Renault-Nissan Allianc ... Continue reading

Daimler continues along successful path: record figures for unit sales, revenue and earnings in 2015 - highest ever dividend proposed - ongoing positive outlook

Daimler continues along successful path: record figures for unit sales, revenue and earnings in 2015 - highest ever dividend proposed - ongoing positive outlook

STUTTGART, Germany, Feb. 4, 2016 -- Record unit sales with 2.9 million vehicles sold (+12%) Group revenue up by 15% to €149.5 billion (2014: €129.9 billion) Substantial increase in Group EBIT to €13.5 billion (2014: €10.8 billion) EBIT from ongoing business substantially higher than prior year at â ... Continue reading

Maximum Seating Comfort in "Truck of the Year" Volvo XC90

Maximum Seating Comfort in "Truck of the Year" Volvo XC90

BURSCHEID, Germany, February 3, 2016 -- Seat covers and padding for the "rolling living room" After the home and office, the car is the place where we spend much of our time. As the global leader in automotive seating, Johnson Controls is a trailblazer when it comes to comfort and individualisation in the design of car ... Continue reading

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Instantaneous Searches of a Target Image from a Massive Volume of Images

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Instantaneous Searches of a Target Image from a Massive Volume of Images

A server specially configured for a specific function realizes high-speed searches of more than 50 times faster than previous technology TOKYO, Feb, 02 2016; Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed technology that is installed on a server to specialize features with a specific functionality. In ... Continue reading

Lexus International 2015 Year in Review

Lexus International 2015 Year in Review

TOKYO, Feb, 02 2016 - (JCN Newswire) - Lexus International today announced it sold approximately 652,000 vehicles globally in 2015, up 12 percent from 2014. A full year of the all new RC and NX sales, and the introductions of redesigned ES, RX, and LX models, furthered market share increases in many global markets incl ... Continue reading

Christopher Walken Adds "Pizzazz" To Kia Motors' Super Bowl Commercial For The All-New Optima Midsize Sedan

Christopher Walken Adds "Pizzazz" To Kia Motors' Super Bowl Commercial For The All-New Optima Midsize Sedan

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2016 -- Extended cut of "Walken Closet" can be viewed now at YouTube.com/Kia; 60-second broadcast version will debut during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 50 #AddPizzazz social media campaign includes partnerships with Mobile First influencer platform Influential, social media creator network ... Continue reading

VIA Rail prepared to help you outsmart Winter

VIA Rail prepared to help you outsmart Winter

High Demand for Seats with Snow and Freezing Rain Forecast for Eastern Ontario and Southern Quebec MONTRÉAL, Feb. 2, 2016 - With heavy snow and freezing rain forecast to hit Ottawa, Montreal and surrounding areas tonight and tomorrow, VIA Rail reports that demand for seats is continuing to escalate. Knowing that tra ... Continue reading

Chinese Consumers More Positive on Car Buying Environment

Chinese Consumers More Positive on Car Buying Environment

BEIJING, Feb. 3, 2016 -- Consumer confidence towards the car market inched upward again in January. Between December and January, Chinese consumers were more enthusiastic about the car purchasing environment and were more likely to act on this assessment, according to the latest MNI China Auto Purchase Sentiment Report ... Continue reading

The Scali Law Firm Urges DMV To Allow Driverless Cars

The Scali Law Firm Urges DMV To Allow Driverless Cars

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3, 2016 -- As scores of Los Angeles-area residents, many of them blind or disabled, lined up Tuesday to urge the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) to allow completely self-driving cars, The Scali Law Firm's autonomous vehicle expert, John Swenson, urged officials not to stand in the way of progress. " ... Continue reading

GM Declares Dividend on Common Stock

GM Declares Dividend on Common Stock

DETROIT, Feb. 2, 2016 -- General Motors Co. Board of Directors today declared a first quarter 2016 dividend of 38 cents per share on the company's common stock. The first quarter dividend is payable Thursday, March 24, 2016 to all common stockholders of record as of Friday, March 11, 2016. General Motors Co. ... Continue reading

Auto Makers Achieve Record $38 Billion Revenue From Lower Number Of Sales

Auto Makers Achieve Record $38 Billion Revenue From Lower Number Of Sales

High average transaction prices offset month's small sales dip TRUECar.com projects revenue from new vehicle sales reached a record high for the month of January of , up 1.4 percent from a year ago. January marked the auto industry's 25 consecutive month of year over year revenue expansion. Higher average transaction p ... Continue reading

World's Largest Car Rental Company Earns Accolades for Training and Development

World's Largest Car Rental Company Earns Accolades for Training and Development

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3, 2016 -- Nearly 15,000 Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car employees were promoted or took on new opportunities in 2015. This represents a 10 percent annual increase in companywide promotions at Enterprise Holdings Inc., the world's largest car rental company as measured by ... Continue reading

AAMCO Franchise Ranks No. 1 Transmission Repair In Entrepreneur's Franchise 500®

AAMCO Franchise Ranks No. 1 Transmission Repair In Entrepreneur's Franchise 500®

HORSHAM, Pa., Feb. 3, 2016 -- For the second consecutive year, AAMCO Franchise, the world's largest chain of transmission specialists and leader in total car care, has been ranked as the No. 1 franchise in its category in Entrepreneur magazine's 2016 Franchise 500®. The ranking aims to reveal the impact of the newest ... Continue reading

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