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Ford's New Door Edge Protector Thwarts Dents, Dings And Scratches Even In The UK's Tightest Parking Spots

Ford's New Door Edge Protector Thwarts Dents, Dings And Scratches Even In The UK's Tightest Parking Spots

Ford is introducing a new feature designed to prevent dents and scratches, which have become a costly fact of life in the UK, home to some of the world's narrowest streets and tightest parking spaces. ... Continue reading

Vauxhall Provides Whole Picture For Fleet Costs With Online Calculator

Vauxhall Provides Whole Picture For Fleet Costs With Online Calculator

Fleet decision-makers and company car drivers can now make more informed decisions about their next fleet of vehicles or individual cars using a smart new online tool from Vauxhall that provides whole life costs. ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class Shows Consumers Where The Brand Is Going With Its UK Tour +VIDEO

Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class Shows Consumers Where The Brand Is Going With Its UK Tour +VIDEO

Mercedes-Benz has injected some style into the compact class with the dynamic, sporty styling of the front-wheel drive Concept A-CLASS. ... Continue reading

Audi Enters the Digital Age of Radio

Audi Enters the Digital Age of Radio

Audi Australia has announced the introduction of Digital Radio Tuner DAB+ functionality into the Audi A6, A7 and A8 model lines. ... Continue reading

Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors Expand OEM Business in Japan

Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors Expand OEM Business in Japan

Nissan Motors Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation recently announced that the two companies have agreed to expand the scope of their OEM supply agreements in the Japanese market as follows:Nissan will provide the Fuga luxury sedan to Mitsubishi Motors starting from summer 2012. ... Continue reading

Kia Rondo a Real Star in Wheels Award

Kia Rondo a Real Star in Wheels Award

Kia's pint sized people mover, Rondo has finished at the top of its category in the recent Wheels Magazine Gold Star Awards. ... Continue reading

The Audi A1 e-tron Wins 'Green Car' of the Year Award

The Audi A1 e-tron Wins 'Green Car' of the Year Award

The Audi A1 e-tron has won the Green Car Award for 2011 at the Women's World Car of the Year Awards. The award was presented at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show and recognised the A1 e-tron as the greenest car in the category. The award certificate was presented to Franciscus van Meel, Head of Electromobility Strategy o ... Continue reading

Renault Revs up for Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge

Renault Revs up for Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge

Renault has not only signed up as a sponsor for the 2011 Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge, to be held in Tasmania from 7-11 December, but it is sponsoring the elite professional Garmin team from France, which has a very strong chance to take out overall honours in the event. ... Continue reading

Alcoa and Becema Introduce New Aluminum Solution for Commercial Transportation Market in Russia

Alcoa and Becema Introduce New Aluminum Solution for Commercial Transportation Market in Russia

Alcoa and Becema, a leading Russian producer of tanks and semi-trailers, have launched a new lightweight aluminum cement hauler for the Russian market using Alcoa's new advanced aluminum sheet alloy 1565M. The eco-friendly aluminum trailers were launched during a customer event at Becema's Krasnogorsk, Russia, plant th ... Continue reading

Buying a Used Car? Beware! Don't Be Tricked Into Purchasing a Flood Damaged Car

Buying a Used Car? Beware! Don't Be Tricked Into Purchasing a Flood Damaged Car

THE I.I.I. OFFERS TIPS TO AVOID BUYING A "FLOODED CAR" The summer of 2011 concluded with Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee causing widespread flooding up and down the Eastern seaboard, damaging not only homes and businesses but cars as well. Unfortunately, some flood-damaged vehicles after being sold to salvage op ... Continue reading

Ford Appoints Schoch Chairman and CEO, Ford China; Kent Named Controller, The Americas

Ford Appoints Schoch Chairman and CEO, Ford China; Kent Named Controller, The Americas

Ford names David Schoch, controller, The Americas, to the role of chairman and CEO of Ford Motor China, effective Nov. 1 Ford names K.R. Kent, executive director of Investor Relations, to the role of controller, The Americas, effective Nov. 1 Ford names George Sharp, director of Investor Relations, to the role of execu ... Continue reading

Jim Coleman Honda Partners With Eos Group, Inc.

Jim Coleman Honda Partners With Eos Group, Inc.

Eos Group, Inc. (Denver, CO) a provider of solutions for sales of service contracts in the service drive and F&I department, and Jim Coleman Honda, serving Baltimore and the greater Maryland area for over 12 years, announce the start of something wonderful! Eos has developed a solution to enhance a dealer's retention o ... Continue reading

Clean Energy CEO Littlefair Believes Supporting Natural Gas for Transportation Will Create over 400,000 New Jobs While Enhancing U.S. Energy Security

Clean Energy CEO Littlefair Believes Supporting Natural Gas for Transportation Will Create over 400,000 New Jobs While Enhancing U.S. Energy Security

Speaking today in favor of H.R. 1380 -- the NAT GAS Act introduced on April 6, 2011 by Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.), Clean Energy Fuels Corp. President and CEO Andrew J. Littlefair stated that he believes passage of legislation supporting the accelerated development of the natural gas vehicle industry in the United Sta ... Continue reading

U.S. New Car Fleet Lags Government Mileage Standard by Over Four Years, According to Chug e-MarketView Report

U.S. New Car Fleet Lags Government Mileage Standard by Over Four Years, According to Chug e-MarketView Report

Chug, the car buying engine, today released a new e-MarketView Report: 'Fleet on the Street,' which maps the mileage performance achieved by new cars sold vs. the CAFE mileage standards set by the U.S. government. The report, which provides market-by-market mileage performance data based on the actual cars sold in thos ... Continue reading

Buckle up Kids in the Back Seat, Says PEMCO Insurance

Buckle up Kids in the Back Seat, Says PEMCO Insurance

As kids return to classrooms and after-school carpools resume, Northwest insurer PEMCO has released poll results that show a vast majority of Washington drivers know the safest spot to place child passengers is the back seat, but less than half think their fellow drivers do that when driving with children under age 13. ... Continue reading

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