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LoJack Corporation Issues Vehicle Theft Trendwatch Based On FBI's Uniform Crime Report

LoJack Corporation Issues Vehicle Theft Trendwatch Based On FBI's Uniform Crime Report

While the FBI's newly released 2011 Uniform Crime Report* indicated that vehicle theft in the U.S. decreased again for the year, a close look at the numbers reveals several troubling trends including the lowest national recovery rate of stolen vehicles since 1981 and significant vehicle theft increases in several state ... Continue reading

2013 Cadillac ATS Named Motor Press Guild Vehicle Of The Year

2013 Cadillac ATS Named Motor Press Guild Vehicle Of The Year

Motor Press Guild (MPG), the largest automotive media association in North America, today announced the all-new 2013 Cadillac ATS as the winner of the second-ever Motor Press Guild Vehicle of the Year (VOTY) Award. MPG President Laura Burstein will present the award at Cadillac's press conference on the second day of t ... Continue reading

Don't Be a Turkey This Thanksgiving - Designate a Sober Driver!

Don't Be a Turkey This Thanksgiving - Designate a Sober Driver!

CDOT partnering with MADD Colorado and CSP in Red Ribbon Campaign for Holiday DUI Crackdown DENVER, Nov. 20, 2012 With a holiday that includes not only giving thanks, but also eating, spending time with family, and shopping, it is important for motorists to remember that the annual Thanksgiving "Heat Is On" crackdown w ... Continue reading

Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Pledges $900,000 to Fund SAE Foundation's STEM Education Programming

Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Pledges $900,000 to Fund SAE Foundation's STEM Education Programming

SAE Foundation announced today a $900,000 pledge from Kia Motors' U.S. assembly plant-- Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, Inc. (KMMG) -- impacting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in Georgia between 2012 and 2014. KMMG's commitment to STEM and the community is strengthened by this partn ... Continue reading

Long-distance Traffic Solution for e-vehicles Wins European Satellite Navigation Competition 2012

Long-distance Traffic Solution for e-vehicles Wins European Satellite Navigation Competition 2012

The ebuggy e-mobility project has won the Hessen region's European Satellite Navigation Competition 2012. The award is sponsored by the European Space Agency, the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and Nokia, among others. By hitching up battery trailers at its planned network of ebuggy rela ... Continue reading

Subaru and Subaru Owners "Share the Love" for Fifth Consecutive Year

Subaru and Subaru Owners "Share the Love" for Fifth Consecutive Year

Subaru of America will kick off its fifth-annual "Share the Love" event on Nov. 21. During the "Share the Love" event, Subaru will donate $250 to the owners' choice of five charities for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased from Nov. ... Continue reading

2013 Dodge Dart Rallye Chicagoland Review By Larry Nutson

2013 Dodge Dart Rallye Chicagoland Review By Larry Nutson

MORE INFO Dodge Buyers Guide (Present Model Year - 1997) Is The 2013 Dodge Dart Your Perfect New Car Match? 2013 Dodge Dart Rallye Imported from Detroit By Larry Nutson Senior Editor, Chicago Bureau The Auto Channel (DSC_1130) The Dart name has been in the Chrysler Group family for some time and has its genesis as a co ... Continue reading

Fuel Prices - Fuel Prices - Regular Gas 11.20.2012

Fuel Prices - Fuel Prices - Regular Gas 11.20.2012

<p>Regular Gas</p> <p> Current Avg. $3.810</p> Yesterday Avg.$3.813</p> Week Ago Avg. $3.789</p> Month Ago Avg.$3.858</p> Year Ago Avg. Current Avg. $3.810p ... Continue reading

One Millionth Fiat 500 Rolls Off The Production Line

One Millionth Fiat 500 Rolls Off The Production Line

The millionth Fiat 500 has just rolled off the Fiat Auto Poland production line. This iconic model, launched in 2007 and marketed in over 100 countries around the world - from Italy to Brazil, South Africa to Japan, and the United States to the Middle East - has also been produced at the Mexican plant in Toluca since 2 ... Continue reading

Aston Martin Works Prepares Bond Car For Skyfall

Aston Martin Works Prepares Bond Car For Skyfall

Aston Martin has a long association with James Bond - Skyfall is the fifth Bond movie in which the DB5 has made an appearance. ... Continue reading

Jaguar Land Rover And Chery Automobile Set Cornerstone For New Chinese Manufacturing Partnership

Jaguar Land Rover And Chery Automobile Set Cornerstone For New Chinese Manufacturing Partnership

Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile Company Ltd, the British and Chinese carmakers, today formally laid the foundation stone for their new manufacturing facility in the People's Republic of China. ... Continue reading

Rolls-Royce Hosts Karl Lagerfeld Photography Exhibition

Rolls-Royce Hosts Karl Lagerfeld Photography Exhibition

Karl Lagerfeld visited Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today to present his photography exhibition, entitled 'A Different View', in the latest of the luxury manufacturer's Icons of Art series ... Continue reading

Volvo Car Group Ramps Up Assembly of the World's First Diesel Plug-in Hybrid

Volvo Car Group Ramps Up Assembly of the World's First Diesel Plug-in Hybrid

Volvo Car Corporation is now ramping up production of the new Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid. After the initial batch of 1,000 model year 2013 cars, production will increase to 4,000-6,000 cars as of model year 2014. ... Continue reading

New Audi West Melbourne Facility Signals Major Focus on Aftersales Service

New Audi West Melbourne Facility Signals Major Focus on Aftersales Service

The 5,519 square metre West Melbourne facility has opened its doors to the public as a major centre for pre-owned vehicles and customer aftersales service. ... Continue reading

Subaru BRZ Awards Roll In

Subaru BRZ Awards Roll In

Subaru's BRZ sports car has captured another award, being named 2013 Sports Car of the Year by Canadian website Auto123.com. ... Continue reading

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