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Royal Flying Doctor Service and Land Rover Australia........seeing the Outback together

Royal Flying Doctor Service and Land Rover Australia........seeing the Outback together

Land Rover Australia is proud to announce our sponsorship of the 2010 RFDS Outback Car Trek, an event which has seen over $16 million donated to the "Doctor" in the Trek's 20 years of operation. ... Continue reading

Leicester Van Users To Benefit From New Volkswagen Van Centre

Leicester Van Users To Benefit From New Volkswagen Van Centre

Van drivers in Leicestershire now have the benefit of a new Volkswagen Van Centre offering sales of new and used Volkswagen vans and people carriers, an aftersales service selling parts for all Volkswagen Group vehicles, plus servicing and MOT facilities. ... Continue reading

Chevrolet Silverado HD Bests the Competition with 21,700 Pound Towing and 6,635 Pound Payload Ratings

Chevrolet Silverado HD Bests the Competition with 21,700 Pound Towing and 6,635 Pound Payload Ratings

DETROIT, May 18 -- Through ongoing development and testing, the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado HD capability ratings have been increased to 21,700 pounds of towing, and 6,635 pounds of payload. Based on these ratings, the Silverado HD will offer heavy-duty truck buyers the most power and most capability available in the segm ... Continue reading

Toyota Announces Prices And Equipment Grades For New Auris Hybrid

Toyota Announces Prices And Equipment Grades For New Auris Hybrid

Toyota again takes the lead in delivering advanced and efficient user-friendly low emissions technology with the launch of its new Auris Hybrid, the first full hybrid vehicle in the European C-segment. ... Continue reading

What a lot!

What a lot!

75 years after it was coach-built to the highest standards of the day, a 1935 Bentley will be auctioned at Brooklands on June 2 with a unique, free 'accessory' - ownership of the British coach-building company that created it. ... Continue reading

Land Rover Announces Introduction Of 2WD And Hybrid Technology

Land Rover Announces Introduction Of 2WD And Hybrid Technology

Land Rover has announced that it will introduce a 2WD option (in addition to the 4WD derivative) for the new compact Range Rover. On sale in 2011, the 2WD vehicle will emit less than 130 g/km of CO2 - making it the lightest, most fuel efficient Range Rover ever. ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Vito Sport And Sprinter: Perfect Partners For A High-Impact Summer

Mercedes-Benz Vito Sport And Sprinter: Perfect Partners For A High-Impact Summer

Mercedes-Benz Vans will be socially-networking, tweeting and blogging with biking and football enthusiasts this summer to highlight the athletic attributes of the Vito Sport and Sprinter vans. ... Continue reading

Ford Fiesta Is Still Best Says Diesel Car

Ford Fiesta Is Still Best Says Diesel Car

The Ford Fiesta has been selected Diesel Car magazine's Best Small Car of the Year 2010. The award comes just as Fiesta has been upgraded to consolidate its number one sales spot in Britain. ... Continue reading

New Skoda Fabia vRS Launches in the UK

New Skoda Fabia vRS Launches in the UK

The fantastic new Fabia vRS will be officially launched in the UK on Thursday 29 July 2010, and prices and specification have been confirmed. ... Continue reading

Toyota Establishes Training Initiative To Launch Production Of New Auris Hybrid

Toyota Establishes Training Initiative To Launch Production Of New Auris Hybrid

Production of the new Toyota Auris Hybrid has been supported by extensive training for all employees at Toyota Manufacturing UK's (TMUK) Burnaston and Deeside factories, both in hybrid vehicle manufacturing and wider environmental issues ... Continue reading

Nissan Announces European Prices of Nissan LEAF, World's First Mass-Market, All-Electric Zero-Emission Vehicle

Nissan Announces European Prices of Nissan LEAF, World's First Mass-Market, All-Electric Zero-Emission Vehicle

Nissan International SA today announced that the all-electric Nissan LEAF will be priced at under 30,000 Euros (25,641 Pounds) after incentives in most of its European launch markets - about the same as a comparably-equipped diesel or hybrid vehicle. ... Continue reading

2011 Ford Fiesta: 'It's A Pretty Big Deal' - VIDEO ENHANCED

2011 Ford Fiesta: 'It's A Pretty Big Deal' - VIDEO ENHANCED

DEARBORN, Mich., May 17 -- -- Ford is launching the all-new 2011 Ford Fiesta with a broad-reaching advertising campaign built around the theme, "It's a pretty big deal" -- The new campaign shares the same nontraditional approach that defined the Fiesta Movement, an initiative that introduced the new small car to consum ... Continue reading

Mazda to Sponsor Japanese Pro Baseball's 2010 All-Star Games

Mazda to Sponsor Japanese Pro Baseball's 2010 All-Star Games

HIROSHIMA - May 18, 2010: Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that for the third year running it will be the main sponsor for two all-star games organized by the Nippon Professional Baseball Association in Japan. The Mazda all-star games 2010 will be played at the Fukuoka Yahoo! JAPAN Dome on July 23 and at the HARD ... Continue reading

Car Thefts Continue Downward Spiral

Car Thefts Continue Downward Spiral

Western Cities Still Popular Among Car Thieves DES PLAINES, Ill., May 17 -- The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported today that 2009 marked the nation's sixth consecutive year of declining vehicle thefts in the United States. For 2009, the 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) with the highest vehicle thef ... Continue reading

Chevy, GMC Announce CNG and LPG Vans for Fleets

Chevy, GMC Announce CNG and LPG Vans for Fleets

DETROIT, May 18 -- -- Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cargo vans with CNG capability ready this Fall -- LPG capability on Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cutaway vans in early 2011 -- Both variants covered by GM 5-year/100,000 mile powertrain warranty Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) pow ... Continue reading

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