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Hyundai Dealers Sell More Than One Million Tires

Hyundai Dealers Sell More Than One Million Tires

Dealers See Double Digit Tire Sales Increase Annually Puts 333,000 Safer Vehicles on the Road FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 16, 2014 -- Hyundai Motor America and its dealers announced today that the Hyundai Authorized Tire Center Program has resulted in more than one million tires sold. Using an average of three tires ... Continue reading

TRW Envisions The Future Of Safety With Its Next-Generation Cameras

TRW Envisions The Future Of Safety With Its Next-Generation Cameras

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. today announced its next-generation camera system – the S-Cam4 family – will have an expanded object detection range and field of view that will meet the increasingly stringent regulatory requirements for advanced driver assist system (DAS) technologies. The S-Cam4 family include ... Continue reading

Nutson's Nuggets: Last Week's Automotive News and Opinion September 8-14, 2014

Nutson's Nuggets: Last Week's Automotive News and Opinion September 8-14, 2014

Automotive News and Opinion September 8-14, 2014 ... Continue reading

Constellium Joins Research Consortium Led by MIT to Improve Design of Automotive Structural Components

Constellium Joins Research Consortium Led by MIT to Improve Design of Automotive Structural Components

Constellium N.V. (NYSE and NYSE Euronext: CSTM) announced today that it has joined the Industrial Fracture Consortium established by Professor Tomasz Wierzbicki from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The consortium will engage in research to develop and improve modeling and mathematical simulations software ... Continue reading

GreenTech Automotive Completes Electric-Vehicle Production Plant in Tunica, Mississippi

GreenTech Automotive Completes Electric-Vehicle Production Plant in Tunica, Mississippi

GreenTech Automotive (GTA), a U.S. automotive manufacturer dedicated to developing and producing environmentally friendly, energy-efficient vehicles, announced today that construction is complete on its new production facility in Tunica, Miss. "GTA has made significant progress toward our engineering, production, hirin ... Continue reading

Nutson's Nuggets: Last Week's Automotive News and Opinion September 1-7, 2014

Nutson's Nuggets: Last Week's Automotive News and Opinion September 1-7, 2014

Last Week's Automotive News and Opinion; Mazda 2016 MX-5 unveiling,Haas F1 Team,Tesla picks factory location, most driver are lawbreakers, Alexis DeJoria, electric vehicles short circuit; Ford truck to give honest towing and carrying capacities; august 2014 u s auto sales hot ... Continue reading

Toyota At World Congress in Detroit

Toyota At World Congress in Detroit

Toyota to Show Latest Intelligent Transport System Safety and Environmental Initiatives at World Congress Toyota's booth will feature its latest technologies, centered on safety and the environment.Toyota will show a vehicle-to-infrastructure cooperative ITS aimed at creating a safe transportation reality. The system u ... Continue reading

It's No Gamble - Tesla To Choose Nevada Battery Plant Site

It's No Gamble - Tesla To Choose Nevada Battery Plant Site

Washington DC September 3, 2014; CNBC.com has reported that Tesla has decided that it will build its battery "gigafactory" in Nevada. "That's a go, but they are still negotiating the specifics of the contract," a source within the Nevada's governor's office told CNBC Wednesday afternoon. The source noted that it could ... Continue reading

Reflection Band to Unveil reflectionband at 2014 Annual GHSA Meeting

Reflection Band to Unveil reflectionband at 2014 Annual GHSA Meeting

Reflection Band, LLC announces their attendance as an exhibitor at the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Annual Meeting 2014 in Grand Rapids, MI from September 7- 10, 2014 to introduce reflectionband™. Reflection Band, LLC will be exhibiting in booth #21 in the exhibit hall located at the DeVos Conventio ... Continue reading

Mopar Previews 2015 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak Test Vehicle

Mopar Previews 2015 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak Test Vehicle

Sportsman racers get sneak peek at 2015 Mopar Challenger Drag Pak test vehicle at National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) U.S. Nationals event First Drag Pak test vehicle previewed by Sportsman racers at Thursday evening Mopar Racers Reception with Mopar Legends and Ramchargers Mopar Performance Parts and SRT Motorsports e ... Continue reading

Regional Vendors Thrive as eRetailing of Automotive Parts and Service Picks Up in Europe

Regional Vendors Thrive as eRetailing of Automotive Parts and Service Picks Up in Europe

The rapid growth in personal, in-vehicle and service shop connectivity is lending momentum to the creation of new customer touch points and driving the online sales of automotive parts and services in Europe. The emergence of independent eRetailers is further propelling the expansion of aftermarket eRetail, which has a ... Continue reading

Continental Announces Approximately $150 Million Investment, Creates Roughly 500 Jobs in Newport News, Virginia

Continental Announces Approximately $150 Million Investment, Creates Roughly 500 Jobs in Newport News, Virginia

Continental, a leading international automotive supplier, announced today approximately a $150 million investment in its Newport News manufacturing facility over a multi-year period. By adding new production lines, Continental is bringing approximately 500 new jobs to the state, nearly doubling the facility's current w ... Continue reading

Second Annual NewCo Detroit Festival Aims to Educate, Inspire Detroiters

Second Annual NewCo Detroit Festival Aims to Educate, Inspire Detroiters

NewCo Detroit will host free informational sessions with over 50 businesses throughout Detroit on Thursday, September 18 for executives, entrepreneurs, investors and the general public. Throughout the day, more than 1,000 attendees will create personalized schedules where they will attend sessions hosted by over 50 loc ... Continue reading

NHTSA RECALL: Recaro ProSport Model 385 Child Restraint

NHTSA RECALL: Recaro ProSport Model 385 Child Restraint

Subject: FMVSS 213/Head Excursion Recaro Child Safety LLC (Recaro) is recalling certain Recaro ProSport model 385 child restraints, manufactured from June 16, 2010, through January 31, 2013. When the affected child seats are installed with the LATCH lower anchors only (without the top tether), the child's head can move ... Continue reading

BorgWarner Supplies Solenoid Technology For Global 6-Speed Front-Wheel Drive Transmission Program

BorgWarner Supplies Solenoid Technology For Global 6-Speed Front-Wheel Drive Transmission Program

BorgWarner supplies its mini direct-acting variable force solenoid (VFS) for General Motors' global front-wheel drive 6-speed automatic transmission program (GF6). Featured in a range of 2015 Chevrolet, Buick and GMC vehicles, BorgWarner's mini direct-acting VFS enables improved fuel economy and shift feel. Application ... Continue reading

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