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2010 Child Booster Seats Evaluated - VIDEO ENHANCED

2010 Child Booster Seats Evaluated - VIDEO ENHANCED

New booster ratings: 21 Best Bets and 7 Good Bets; 8 out of 72 seats evaluated aren't recommended ARLINGTON, VA — September 13, 2010: Boosters are better than they used to be at fitting lap and shoulder belts on 4 to 8-year-old kids to restrain them in a crash. So parents don't have to search as hard for a good fi ... Continue reading

Volkswagen of America Appoints Jonathan Browning New Chief Executive Officer - COMPLETE VIDEO

Volkswagen of America Appoints Jonathan Browning New Chief Executive Officer - COMPLETE VIDEO

HERNDON, Va., Sept. 13 -- WHAT: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA) will announce the appointment of its new chief executive officer. WHERE: The National Press Club The First Amendment Room, 13th Floor 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. WHEN: Monday, Sept. ... Continue reading

Nation-E Lauches the First Mobile Charging Station for Electric Cars: Angel Car

Nation-E Lauches the First Mobile Charging Station for Electric Cars: Angel Car

BRUSSELS--Nation-E AG, the Swiss company for energy storage, smart metering and load levelling solutions reveals the first in the world, mobile charging invention: NationMobile Angel Car. Nation-E has developed the first mobile charging system for electric cars, providing technology for charging batteries of stranded e ... Continue reading

Mazda to Hold World Premiere of All-New BT-50 Pickup at 2010 Australian Motor Show

Mazda to Hold World Premiere of All-New BT-50 Pickup at 2010 Australian Motor Show

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mazda Motor Corporation will hold the global unveiling of the all-new Mazda BT-50 compact pickup truck at the 2010 Australian International Motor Show during a press conference on Friday, October 15, 2010. The show will be opened to the public from 5 p.m. on Friday, October 15, and the all-new BT-50 ... Continue reading

Southern California Edison Unveils Online "Plug-in Car Rate Assistant" to Estimate Cost of Fueling Electric Vehicles

Southern California Edison Unveils Online "Plug-in Car Rate Assistant" to Estimate Cost of Fueling Electric Vehicles

ROSEMEAD, Calif.--If you're thinking of buying a plug-in electric vehicle, steer your web browser to www.sce.com/pev to find Southern California Edison’s (SCE) new online “Plug-in Car Rate Assistant.�?? It will put customers in the driver’s seat to estimate the cost ... Continue reading

Audi Teams Up With Athletes and Celebrities for Fourth Audi Best Buddies Challenge: Hearst Castle

Audi Teams Up With Athletes and Celebrities for Fourth Audi Best Buddies Challenge: Hearst Castle

- California's First Lady Maria Shriver to serve as Honorary Chair - 1,500 people to participate in the Challenge to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities - Fleet of all-new Audi A8 vehicles to make their way down the Pacific Coast Highway HERNDON, Va., Sept. 10 -- Audi, in conjunction with Be ... Continue reading

Texas Cultural Tour, Pt. 3 - Houston

Texas Cultural Tour, Pt. 3 - Houston

A Mega-cultural Metropolis on Billionaires Bayou After just a few business trips, describing Houston in a few words is difficult. The typical trip involves driving or being driven from one of the two airports to the hotel, visiting clients and having dinner, then out the next morning. View through the windshield only. ... Continue reading

Nissan Announces U.S. Pricing for 2011 Altima - VIDEO ENHANCED

Nissan Announces U.S. Pricing for 2011 Altima - VIDEO ENHANCED

FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 10 -- Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) today announced U.S. pricing for the 2011 Nissan Altima Sedan, Altima Coupe and Altima Hybrid. All three vehicles are on sale now at Nissan dealers nationwide. ( The popular Nissan Altima Sedan, now in its fourth generation, provides an innovative combinatio ... Continue reading

Motor Press Guild's 2010 Track Day, BFGoodrich Tires Becomes Presenting Sponsor

Motor Press Guild's 2010 Track Day, BFGoodrich Tires Becomes Presenting Sponsor

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 -- The Los Angeles-based Motor Press Guild (MPG) announces that BFGoodrich Tires will be the presenting sponsor for the 2010 MPG Track Day to be held on September 14 and 15 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. The two-day annual event draws more than 100 journalists for this unique au ... Continue reading

Former Chrysler/DaimlerChrysler Executives File Claim for Lost Pensions

Former Chrysler/DaimlerChrysler Executives File Claim for Lost Pensions

DETROIT, Sept. 10 -- A group of over 450 former employees and managers from Chrysler and DaimlerChrysler today filed a class action claim in Wayne County Circuit Court against Daimler and Cerberus to regain their supplemental pensions that were lost during Chrysler's reorganization and bankruptcy last year. The guarant ... Continue reading

South Carolina Vehicle Conversion Centers Roll Out First Round of Propane Autogas Vehicles Under DOE-Funded Southeast Alternative Fuel Initiative

South Carolina Vehicle Conversion Centers Roll Out First Round of Propane Autogas Vehicles Under DOE-Funded Southeast Alternative Fuel Initiative

HARRISONBURG, VA - September 10, 2010: Two South Carolina vehicle conversion centers, Greenville County and Light'N'Up, deployed 15 propane Autogas vehicles last month as part of a large-scale, Recovery Act-funded alternative fuel vehicle project in the Southeast United States. The historic Southeast Propane Autogas De ... Continue reading

Renault Celebrates 100 Hundred Years on The Champs Elysees

Renault Celebrates 100 Hundred Years on The Champs Elysees

BOULOGNE, France - September 10, 2010: Renault was the first automaker to open premises on the Avenue des Champs Élysées in Paris in 1910. This year it is celebrating the centenary of its arrival on one of the world's most famous thoroughfares. From the first showroom, opened at the beginning of the last century, ... Continue reading

Kia Motors posts 24.4% global sales growth in August 2010

Kia Motors posts 24.4% global sales growth in August 2010

Kia Motors posts 24.4% global sales growth in August - 173,703 Kia vehicles sold globally in August for 24.4% year-on-year growth - August sales in general markets, Korea, China and Europe post year-on-year sales growth of 72.1%, 53.4%, 23.1%, and 20.7%, respectively (SEOUL) September 9, 2010 -- Kia Motors Corporation ... Continue reading

Nissan Announces U.S. Pricing for 2011 Pathfinder, Xterra and Frontier

Nissan Announces U.S. Pricing for 2011 Pathfinder, Xterra and Frontier

- New Pathfinder 25th Anniversary Silver Edition, Distinctive Xterra PRO-4X and Frontier S Crew Cab Models Added to Lineups - FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 9 -- Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) today announced U.S. pricing for the 2011 Nissan Pathfinder SUV, Xterra SUV and Frontier mid-size pickup. All three vehicles are on s ... Continue reading

Texas Cultural Tour, Pt. 2 - Fort Worth

Texas Cultural Tour, Pt. 2 - Fort Worth

Not a Cowtown, call it Cowboys and Culturetown Fort Worth may be just a short distance from Dallas, but for years it was considered a cowtown, No more! Now it’s a modern growing business city with big buildings under construction and surprisingly an assortment of museum jewel cases that are the envy, yes the envy ... Continue reading

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