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Parents Magazine And Edmunds.com Reveal The 10 Best Family Cars For 2013

Parents Magazine And Edmunds.com Reveal The 10 Best Family Cars For 2013

Parents and Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for car shopping, today revealed their list of 2013's 10 Best Family Cars. For the sixth year in a row, car experts from both organizations examined hundreds of vehicles. This year they were impressed with fuel-efficiency technology, as well as next-generation dashbo ... Continue reading

Minivan or SUV? MaxPoint Identifies U.S. Neighborhoods Most Interested in Purchasing Family Vehicles

Minivan or SUV? MaxPoint Identifies U.S. Neighborhoods Most Interested in Purchasing Family Vehicles

With the official kickoff of summer just around the corner, it's time for a big summer auto sales push in the U.S., and MaxPoint, the company that helps retailers and brands drive local in-store sales with its innovative Digital Zip technology, has identified U.S. cities with the neighborhoods that include families mos ... Continue reading

KBB.com Gets Harris Poll Award

KBB.com Gets Harris Poll Award

For the second year in a row, KBB.com was awarded Online Auto Shopping Brand of the Year by the 2013 Harris Poll EquiTrend study, announces Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com. ... Continue reading

J.D. Power and LMC Automotive Report: May New-Vehicle Retail Selling Rate Expected to be 1 Million Units Stronger than a Year Ago

J.D. Power and LMC Automotive Report: May New-Vehicle Retail Selling Rate Expected to be 1 Million Units Stronger than a Year Ago

Robust new-vehicle retail sales in May are the driving factor of returning total sales above the 15-million unit selling level for the month, according to a monthly sales forecast developed by J.D. Power & Associates' Power Information Network (PIN) and LMC Automotive. ... Continue reading

Leaders, Experts from Electric Drive Supply Chain to Gather at EDTA Conference

Leaders, Experts from Electric Drive Supply Chain to Gather at EDTA Conference

It's certainly an exciting time for the electric drive industry with record breaking sales, new models hitting the streets, expanding charging options and technological advances marching forward. These trends will make for a dynamic experience at the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) 2013 Conference and ... Continue reading

Top Automotive Tech Influencers Headline LA Auto Show's Connected Car Expo

Top Automotive Tech Influencers Headline LA Auto Show's Connected Car Expo

No trend in the auto industry is more topical than advanced technology platforms. To underscore that fact, the LA Auto Show confirmed today that two dozen automotive technology experts from companies such as Aha Radio, Auto Alliance, BMW, Delphi, Ford, Gracenote, Hughes Telematics, INRIX, J.D. Power & Associates, Kia, ... Continue reading

New Web Series Takes Classic Cars Out of the Garage and Onto the Open Road -- Where They're Meant To Be

New Web Series Takes Classic Cars Out of the Garage and Onto the Open Road -- Where They're Meant To Be

Ever watch a TV travel show and think, "That would have been even better if it had a classic car in it"? Or tuned into an automotive show and thought, "This is cool, but I wish they'd take the darn car out of the garage." A windows-down cruise, and the soundtrack of four, six, eight or even sixteen cylinders (with an a ... Continue reading

10 Best Family Cars Of 2013 Named By KBB.com

10 Best Family Cars Of 2013 Named By KBB.com

Families in the market for a new car can see which models the experts recommend most in the list of 10 Best Family Cars of 2013 by the editors of Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new and used car information. All families are not created alike, so it stands to reason that all family cars shouldn't ... Continue reading

10 New Cars That Exude Attitude

10 New Cars That Exude Attitude

For the new-car shopper seeking a personality-filled ride, the editors of Kelley Blue Book's www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new and used car information, have compiled a list of 10 Cars that Exude Attitude. For many, a new set of wheels is not merely something purely functional to get them from place to place. A ... Continue reading

Jumpstart Automotive Group: Domestic Auto Brands Make Serious Headway with Online Auto Shoppers in Q1

Jumpstart Automotive Group: Domestic Auto Brands Make Serious Headway with Online Auto Shoppers in Q1

The Big Three scored big with online auto shoppers in the first quarter of 2013, according to a new report published by the digital automotive marketing and advertising experts at Jumpstart Automotive Group. 'So far this year, there have been quite a few success stories among domestic auto brands' Through the lens of ... Continue reading

Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales in Europe Will Reach Nearly 670,000 Units Annually by 2020, Forecasts Navigant Research

Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales in Europe Will Reach Nearly 670,000 Units Annually by 2020, Forecasts Navigant Research

The European transportation market is considerably different from that of other world regions. European fuel prices have been significantly higher than in North America for many years, and therefore small, efficient gasoline- and diesel-engine cars have led European sales figures. In the coming years, national energy p ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: Automotive Seating Systems Report 2013 Featuring JCI, Lear, Toyota Boshoku and Faurecia

Research and Markets: Automotive Seating Systems Report 2013 Featuring JCI, Lear, Toyota Boshoku and Faurecia

DUBLIN--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Automotive Seating Systems Report 2013" report to their offering. The global seating market is clearly led at the tier one level by two US companies and one European company, JCI, Lear and Faurecia. Lear and JCI are also very strong in China owing to their ... Continue reading

Edmunds.com Forecasts Best April Car Sales Since 2007

Edmunds.com Forecasts Best April Car Sales Since 2007

Edmunds.com, forecasts that 1,306,901 new cars and trucks will be sold in the U.S. in April for an estimated Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of 15.2 million light vehicles. This will be a 10.4 percent increase from April 2012, but a 10.0 percent decrease from last month. ... Continue reading

Consumer Reports Finds Redesigned Toyota RAV4 Is Solid Choice - But Behind Mazda CX-5 As Top Small SUV

Consumer Reports Finds Redesigned Toyota RAV4 Is Solid Choice - But Behind Mazda CX-5 As Top Small SUV

Mazda CX-5 inches past RAV4 in ranking Redesigned for 2013, the new Toyota RAV4 performed well in Consumer Reports' tests--and achieved a "Very Good" overall score. But the RAV4's performance wasn't enough for it to reclaim its top spot among small SUVs. The RAV4 now ranks, behind the Consumer Reports' 2013 Top Pick Ho ... Continue reading

Recent Ad Tracking Research Names Hyundai, Mercedes, and Audi Automotive Super Bowl Winners

Recent Ad Tracking Research Names Hyundai, Mercedes, and Audi Automotive Super Bowl Winners

Phoenix Marketing International's Automotive Practice reveals interesting findings on the best and worst automotive ads that aired during the 2013 Super Bowl. Audi, Hyundai, Kia, Lincoln, Mercedes, Toyota, and Volkswagen each aired at least one ad during this year's big game. ... Continue reading

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