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FIAT Displays Custom Painted 500e "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Stormtrooper and Diane Von Furstenberg Custom-wrapped 500X at 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show +VIDEO

FIAT Displays Custom Painted 500e "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Stormtrooper and Diane Von Furstenberg Custom-wrapped 500X at 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show +VIDEO

The FIAT brand will have two special custom-designed vehicles on display at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show. As part of the FCA US LLC support of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," opening December 18, the FIAT brand will display a custom-painted Fiat 500e stormtrooper. Lucasfilm recently announced that it is collaborating ... Continue reading

Highest-Performing Auto Finance Providers Consistently Satisfy Consumers throughout Life of the Lease or Loan

Highest-Performing Auto Finance Providers Consistently Satisfy Consumers throughout Life of the Lease or Loan

Lincoln Automotive Financial Services Ranks Highest in the Luxury Segment; Ford Credit Ranks Highest in the Mass Market Segment WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Nov. 19, 2015 -- Automotive finance providers need to focus their efforts on servicing processes, anticipating the changing needs as well as the diversity of their cu ... Continue reading

Best and Worst Car Insurance Deals

Best and Worst Car Insurance Deals

Surprisingly, SUVs and Trucks Are Cheaper to Insure than Sedans SAN FRANCISCO -- November 19, 2015: The Ford Explorer is the best deal in car insurance and the Ford Focus is the worst, according to a new insuranceQuotes.com report which analyzed 20 of the most popular 2015 models. The study divided the average annual c ... Continue reading

Mazda Announces 2015 'Mazda Drive for Good' Nonprofit Recipients

Mazda Announces 2015 'Mazda Drive for Good' Nonprofit Recipients

Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) is again collaborating with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®, American Red Cross, American Heart Association, and Mazda Foundation (USA), Inc. for its 2015 charitable giving event set to run throughout the 2015 holiday season. Customers who purchase or lease a new Mazda dur ... Continue reading

Chevrolet Successfully Completes Historic Carbon Reduction Initiative; Achieves Largest North America Environmental Carbon Reduction Program to Date

Chevrolet Successfully Completes Historic Carbon Reduction Initiative; Achieves Largest North America Environmental Carbon Reduction Program to Date

Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) announces that it has successfully helped Chevrolet achieve its five-year Carbon Reduction Initiative (CRI) goal to reduce greenhouse gas (measured as carbon dioxide or CO2) emissions on behalf of the environment. To date, Chevrolet has invested approximately $40 million in car ... Continue reading

ZF TRW's New Center Airbag Targets Future Side Impact Requirements

ZF TRW's New Center Airbag Targets Future Side Impact Requirements

ZF TRW, the Active and Passive Safety Technology Division of ZF AG, has developed a new airbag that is designed to help vehicle manufacturers improve side impact protection. The center airbag is integrated into the inner side of the seat back and deploys to help protect the head, shoulder and torso areas of occupants i ... Continue reading

Renault-Nissan and Partners Install 90 New EV Charge Spots Around Paris for COP21

Renault-Nissan and Partners Install 90 New EV Charge Spots Around Paris for COP21

90 new charge spots powered by low-carbon electricity will refuel 200 Renault-Nissan electric vehicles during the COP21 climate change conference EV shuttle service is expected to log at least 400,000 kilometers over the two-week summit-without a single drop of oil Many of the most conveniently located quick chargers w ... Continue reading

Ally Financial Honors 2016 TIME Dealer of the Year Nominees

Ally Financial Honors 2016 TIME Dealer of the Year Nominees

Ally Financial is pleased to announce that 50 U.S. auto dealers have been selected as nominees for the 2016 TIME Dealer of the Year award. Now in its 47th year, this prestigious and highly coveted honor recognizes the nation's most successful auto dealers who also demonstrate a long-standing commitment to community ser ... Continue reading

Mitsubishi Debuts 2016 Outlander Sport And 2017 Mirage At The 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show +VIDEO

Mitsubishi Debuts 2016 Outlander Sport And 2017 Mirage At The 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show +VIDEO

Today Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) made the world debut of the 2016 Outlander Sport and 2017 Mirage at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show. Both vehicles, which are rooted in the brand's principles of unmatched value, attractive pricing, and industry leading new vehicle and powertrain warranties, feature new ... Continue reading

Infiniti QX30: A Premium Active Crossover for All Purposes

Infiniti QX30: A Premium Active Crossover for All Purposes

The Infiniti QX30 premium active crossover is making its simultaneous global debut at the 2015 Los Angeles and Guangzhou international motor shows – signalling the next phase of the company’s global growth strategy. Created for a new generation of premium buyers who appreciate category-defying design inside a ... Continue reading

Quiet Luxury: Intuitive Technology, Effortless Performance and Distinctive Design Drive 2017 Lincoln MKZ

Quiet Luxury: Intuitive Technology, Effortless Performance and Distinctive Design Drive 2017 Lincoln MKZ

Discover your new favorite space. The new Lincoln MKZ combines intuitive technology, effortless performance and distinctive design to deliver an enhanced driving experience Lincoln calls quiet luxury. Lincoln revealed a newly designed MKZ yesterday, focusing on areas most desired by today’s luxury midsize sedan cu ... Continue reading

Subaru Impreza Sedan Concept Makes World Debut At 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show

Subaru Impreza Sedan Concept Makes World Debut At 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show

Subaru of America, Inc. unveiled the Impreza Sedan Concept today at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show. The all-new Impreza will be the first example of Subaru's next-generation vehicles using a new modular platform. The design is sportier and less angular than the previous generation Impreza, but with a powerful stance ex ... Continue reading

Cadillac Rear Camera Mirror named 2015 Popular Science 'Best of What's New Award Winner

Cadillac Rear Camera Mirror named 2015 Popular Science 'Best of What's New Award Winner

Cadillac’s Rear Camera Mirror has been named a 2015 Popular Science “Best of What’s New” award winner. The annual awards cover the magazine’s choices of the year’s top 100 technology innovations and appear in the December issue. “The Best of What’s New awards honor the innovation ... Continue reading

2016 Chevy Camaro is a Car and Driver 10Best

2016 Chevy Camaro is a Car and Driver 10Best

The all-new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is a Car and Driver 10Best. After driving the Camaro SS, Car and Driver editors praised the Camaro for “elevating the entire genre,” writing: “Quick electric-assist steering and excellent front-end grip mean that you fire the Camaro into corners. There is no extraneous s ... Continue reading

Buick Introduces All-New 2017 LaCrosse +VIDEO

Buick Introduces All-New 2017 LaCrosse +VIDEO

The all-new 2017 Buick LaCrosse introduces the new face of Buick, influenced by the dramatic cues of the award-winning Avenir concept unveiled at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit and inspired by a Buick concept from the mid-20th century. The LaCrosse, which goes on sale in early summer 2016, f ... Continue reading

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