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Hyundai Smashes All-Time Sales Record - With Five Weeks Still To Go!

Hyundai Smashes All-Time Sales Record - With Five Weeks Still To Go!

Hyundai has defied all industry predictions by beating its best ever annual sales total. In a year that saw the end of the scrappage scheme, Hyundai has maintained its remarkable sales momentum - eclipsing 2009's sales figures with five weeks of the year still remaining. To date, Hyundai sales for 2010 stand at 57,391, ... Continue reading

Raser Closes Transaction with Major Investor Launching a New Electric Vehicle Company Using Raser's Technology

Raser Closes Transaction with Major Investor Launching a New Electric Vehicle Company Using Raser's Technology

PROVO, Utah--Raser Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: RZTI), an energy technology company, announced today that it has finalized a transaction with a group of private investors lead by California investor Carl E. Berg to form a new electric automotive company focused initially on trucks and SUVs for fleet customers. “We h ... Continue reading

Mazda3 to Deliver New Year Treat to Company Car Drivers

Mazda3 to Deliver New Year Treat to Company Car Drivers

Mazda is giving its popular lower medium sector car a New Year boost with power, emission and fuel economy improvements to the 1.6 diesel model that are expected to further boost fleet sales. ... Continue reading

Jay Leno Reviews the Jaguar C-X75 Concept - 4 VIDEOS

Jay Leno Reviews the Jaguar C-X75 Concept - 4 VIDEOS

LOS ANGELES - November 21, 2010: No spotlights. No evocative music. No video walls playing carefully crafted videos. Unlike its world premiere on the stage at the Paris Motor Show, the first time Jaguar’s celebratory (75 years of heritage) and celebrated (the media and public reaction has been stupendous) C-X75 se ... Continue reading

Kia Motors America and eBay Motors - Dealer Online New Car Shopping Experience

Kia Motors America and eBay Motors - Dealer Online New Car Shopping Experience

PR Newswire IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 22, 2010 IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 22, 2010 -- Kia Motors America (KMA) and eBay Motors have created a nationwide new vehicle online shopping experience, the first for a major OEM brand on eBay, with a unique online store front – www.kia.ebay.com – to market new ... Continue reading

Edmunds.com App Earns Four Stars on iTunes

Edmunds.com App Earns Four Stars on iTunes

iTunes App Store. “The most common feedback from users is that the app saves them time and money” The app, which empowers car shoppers by providing Edmunds.com's True Market Value pricing, incentives, reviews, inventory listings, dealer ratings and other useful information, is available for free at http://itu ... Continue reading

USA Today Story; Mazda and Nissan Future of Sedans, See Video Unveilings

USA Today Story; Mazda and Nissan Future of Sedans, See Video Unveilings

Los Angeles November 22, 2010; A story in today's USA TODAY featured two concepts from Japan, the Mazda Shinari, which in Japaneses means the furtherest point of bend of a sword, and the Nissan Ellure, which has been described by Nissan execs as being aimed at an audience of 30 something women buyers. You can see the c ... Continue reading

Hertz and CODA Automotive Make All-Electric Transportation a Reality for Consumers

Hertz and CODA Automotive Make All-Electric Transportation a Reality for Consumers

CODA Automotive, a California-based electric car and battery company, and The Hertz Corporation , the world's largest general use airport car rental brand, entered into a partnership making 100% all-electric CODA™ Sedans available at select Southern California Hertz® locations. (Logo:  http://ph ... Continue reading

Chrysler to build Maserati SUV and Lancia Sedan

Chrysler to build Maserati SUV and Lancia Sedan

By Henny Hemmes European Senior Editor LOS ANGELES, November 20, 2010. According to Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat and Chrysler, the American car manufacturer will build a premium SUV for Fiat’s luxury devision Maserati. The car has to enter markets worldwide in 2013. The new Jeep Grand Cherokee will be the base f ... Continue reading

Renault's new iCare system Tackles maintenance concerns in LCV Sector

Renault's new iCare system Tackles maintenance concerns in LCV Sector

Renault's new 'pay-as-you-earn' iCare maintenance system, designed specifically for the LCV sector, could hold the key to helping van fleet operators to not only minimise downtime, but also address growing concerns that suggest van fleets are the least roadworthy vehicles on the road today. ... Continue reading

Skoda Wins Big at What Car? Reader Awards 2010

Skoda Wins Big at What Car? Reader Awards 2010

Over 30,000 What Car? readers - all with real-world experience of living with their cars - voted Skoda the Best Manufacturer of 2010. ... Continue reading

Volkswagen Group to invest €51.6 billion in the Coming Five Years

Volkswagen Group to invest €51.6 billion in the Coming Five Years

The Volkswagen Group will invest around €51.6 billion in its Automotive Division in the coming five years. ... Continue reading

Press Reports Say EPA to Delay E15 Decision on MY 2001-2006 Cars and Pickups

Press Reports Say EPA to Delay E15 Decision on MY 2001-2006 Cars and Pickups

Washington DC November 19, 2010; According to press reports , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing today that it will delay a decision on the use of E15 in cars and pickup trucks built from 2001 to 2006 by up to a month. The delay is a result of testing failures unrelated to fuel and E15. Earlier thi ... Continue reading

Jimmie Johnson Makes History with Fifth Consecutive NASCAR Title

Jimmie Johnson Makes History with Fifth Consecutive NASCAR Title

HOUSTON, Nov. 21, 2010; Jimmie Johnson and his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team have made history by capturing the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship title for a record fifth year in a row. With the season coming down to the final race, Johnson crossed the finish line of the 2010 Sprint Cup season with the help of Q ... Continue reading

2011 Scion tC Review

2011 Scion tC Review

2011 Scion tC review An affordable sports coupe? Isn't that some sort of 80s nostalgia? No, not if the coupe in question is Scion's tC. When the original model was released in model year 2005, it rose to the top of the Scion sales charts. Yes, there is indeed a market among young, young-at-heart, and young-in-wallet pe ... Continue reading

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