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Aston Martin Cygnet: Hand-Crafted Luxury For City Living +VIDEO

Aston Martin Cygnet: Hand-Crafted Luxury For City Living +VIDEO

Aston Martin presents two new films detailing Cygnet's hand-crafted production at the company's global headquarters in the UK, and the luxury commuter car in its natural environment; the city. ... Continue reading

Award Winning Engine Available in Kia Rio

Award Winning Engine Available in Kia Rio

The 1.6-litre Gasoline Direct Injection (GDi) Gamma engine available in the new Kia Rio has been named one of the 'Ward's 10 Best Engines' by WardsAuto World. ... Continue reading

Hyundai Sonata Leads the Competition With Best Fuel Economy in the EPA Large Car Segment

Hyundai Sonata Leads the Competition With Best Fuel Economy in the EPA Large Car Segment

Hyundai Sonata, the popular sedan offering class-above interior volume compared with its key competitors, also provides the best fuel economy in the EPA Large Car segment with an exceptional 28 mpg combined fuel economy rating. Sonata interior volume is a generous 120.2 cubic feet, placing it in the EPA Large Car segme ... Continue reading

Heels On Wheels: Katrina's 2012 Top 5 Vehicle Picks

Heels On Wheels: Katrina's 2012 Top 5 Vehicle Picks

Find Your Perfect New Car Match HERE HEELS ON WHEELS By Katrina Ramser San Francisco Bureau The Auto Channel INTRO TO THE 2012 VEHICLES. Compact, sporty, fuel-saving engines with a fun-to-drive factor define many of my top 2012 vehicles. From the Hyundai Veloster to the Toyota Prius Plug-in, the trend with carmakers is ... Continue reading

Trivest Partners Announces New Platform With Acquisition of Take 5 Oil Change

Trivest Partners Announces New Platform With Acquisition of Take 5 Oil Change

Trivest Partners ("Trivest") today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Take 5 Oil Change, Inc. ("Take 5" or the "Company"), a differentiated fast lube chain with 26 locations throughout the Southeast. Take 5 CEO and shareholder, Pete Frey, will continue to lead the Company's daily operations. ... Continue reading

Automotive Council Report Calls for New Approach to Tackle Road Congestion

Automotive Council Report Calls for New Approach to Tackle Road Congestion

The "Intelligent Mobility" Report calls for cross industry and government collaboration to enable better mobility through the convergence of intelligent transport systems. Congestion costs the UK around GBP12bn annually.[1] Capacity of existing UK roads could be increased significantly by optimising vehicle movements u ... Continue reading

Zipcar Announces the Exercise of its Option to Purchase a Majority Stake in Barcelona-based Avancar

Zipcar Announces the Exercise of its Option to Purchase a Majority Stake in Barcelona-based Avancar

Zipcar, Inc. , the world's leading car sharing network, today announced the exercise of its option to purchase a majority ownership interest in Barcelona-based Catalunya Carsharing S.A., known as Avancar. ... Continue reading

Businesses, Utilities Support California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Businesses, Utilities Support California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Today, a diverse group of business leaders from across the state, representing tens of thousands of California workers -- including the state's largest electricity and natural gas providers and two of the world's leading carmakers -- released a new advertisement supporting California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The Low ... Continue reading

ECOtality and Outcast Partner to Launch Digital Advertising Network for Blink EV Charging Stations

ECOtality and Outcast Partner to Launch Digital Advertising Network for Blink EV Charging Stations

Outcast, the largest fuel television network at the pump, and ECOtality , a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, announced today a partnership to launch the nation's largest digital network at Blink electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. "Outcast specializes in engaging with consumers at ... Continue reading

Hankook Tire Reaches $1 Billion, a U.S. Sales Record

Hankook Tire Reaches $1 Billion, a U.S. Sales Record

Hankook Tire, the seventh-largest and one of the fastest growing tire companies in the world, announced today that it has reached $1 billion in U.S. FY 2011 sales as of December 13th, 2011 for the first time in its thirty year history in the United States. ... Continue reading

Audi's Media Agency Wins Two Creative Media Awards for the Brand

Audi's Media Agency Wins Two Creative Media Awards for the Brand

Last night, Audi of America's media agency, MediaCom, was recognized by Media Magazine with two Creative Media Awards for their campaigns for Audi. Audi received more nominations than any other brand this year. The Creative Media Awards honor advertisers and their agencies for the year's most creative and innovative me ... Continue reading

Cellcontrol Provides Enforceable Solution Supporting the National Transportation Safety Board's Recommendation Banning Use of Electronic Devices While Driving

Cellcontrol Provides Enforceable Solution Supporting the National Transportation Safety Board's Recommendation Banning Use of Electronic Devices While Driving

Cellcontrol, the leading provider of technology driven distracted driving solutions, announced today that its technology can be used by fleets, families and governments to enforce safe driving habits as recommended yesterday by the National Transportation Safety Board. After irrefutable evidence showed that texting and ... Continue reading

TravelCenters of America and Comdata Networks, Inc. Agree to Roll out Fuel Island Manager Cardless Fuel Transaction System

TravelCenters of America and Comdata Networks, Inc. Agree to Roll out Fuel Island Manager Cardless Fuel Transaction System

TravelCenters of America LLC today announced that it has agreed to purchase and install RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology at all of its locations nationwide. This technology, called Fuel Island Manager, is distributed by Comdata Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Comdata Corporation. Comdata is the exclusiv ... Continue reading

AAA Chicago: 91.9 Million Americans Will Travel During Year-End Holidays, Up 1.4 Percent

AAA Chicago: 91.9 Million Americans Will Travel During Year-End Holidays, Up 1.4 Percent

AAA forecasts 91.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the 2011-12 Year-End holiday travel season, a 1.4 percent increase over the 90.7 million people who traveled one year ago. This year's expected Year-End holiday travel volume is the second highest in the past decade and represents 30 per ... Continue reading

States Caution Drivers to Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over

States Caution Drivers to Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over

All too often, holiday festivities take a deadly turn when an individual chooses to drink alcohol and then get behind the wheel of a car. Last year, 415 people were killed in traffic crashes involving a drunk driver or motorcycle rider in the last half of December alone. And, according to research from the Insurance In ... Continue reading

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