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Falken Tires Becomes Official Tire Of Major League Baseball

Falken Tires Becomes Official Tire Of Major League Baseball

Leading Ultra High Performance Tire Brand Reaches First Partnership with Pro Sports League RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2015 -- Falken Tires and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced today a multi-year integrated marketing agreement, designating Falken Tires as the Official Tire of Major League Baseball. The new ... Continue reading

Subaru Partners With Google Expeditions To Help Excite, Educate And Engage Students Around The Globe

Subaru Partners With Google Expeditions To Help Excite, Educate And Engage Students Around The Globe

Auto brand to serve as official vehicle provider and lend its environmental expertise in creating future expeditions Subaru of America, Inc. has announced its partnership with Google in support of the Expeditions Pioneer Program, an initiative that will take Google's educational virtual reality field trip kits on the r ... Continue reading

Dongfeng and Renault Agree to Manufacture Electric Vehicles in China

Dongfeng and Renault Agree to Manufacture Electric Vehicles in China

On the occasion of the visit of ZHU Yanfeng, Chairman of Dongfeng Group, at the Renault R&D center, Dongfeng Renault Automotive Company (DRAC) announces the production of its first electric vehicle in China. As part of the Joint Venture between Dongfeng and Renault, DRAC will produce an electric vehicle that is based o ... Continue reading

Scion Checks the Box With Final xB Special Edition Model

Scion Checks the Box With Final xB Special Edition Model

As Scion’s iconic box, the xB, ends its run, Scion is taking the road less traveled to a place where the mountains meet the streets. Scion has partnered with 686, the snowboard technical apparel company, to create the xB 686 Parklan Edition. Starting today, a total of 686 xB special edition models are available fo ... Continue reading

Lear Corporation Purchases Historic Capitol Park Building for New Detroit Innovation and Design Center

Lear Corporation Purchases Historic Capitol Park Building for New Detroit Innovation and Design Center

119 State Street to serve as a center for the arts, automotive technology and cutting-edge ideas DETROIT -- Sept. 28, 2015: Lear Corporation, a world leader in automotive Seating and Electrical Distribution systems, today announced the company has purchased the historic 119 State Street building in Detroit's Capitol Pa ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Nets a 20th Birthday Awards Hat-Trick

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Nets a 20th Birthday Awards Hat-Trick

MILTON KEYNES, UK -- Sept. 28, 2015: The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter enjoyed a night of stunning success at the prestigious Commercial Fleet Awards 2015, scooping three trophies including the most coveted accolade for manufacturers. Some 550 of the fleet transport industry’s ‘great and good’ gathered at The I ... Continue reading

FIAT Professional named Van Fleet Manufacturer of the Year

FIAT Professional named Van Fleet Manufacturer of the Year

FIAT Professional named “Van Fleet Manufacturer of the Year” for second year running Awarded “Green Fleet Manufacturer of the Year” For the fourth year running FIAT Fiorino scoops “City Van of the Year” FIAT Doblò Cargo wins the hotly-contested “Small Van of the Year” award SL ... Continue reading

Brit-Built Vivaro Adds to its Awards Haul

Brit-Built Vivaro Adds to its Awards Haul

Vauxhall’s Brit-built Vivaro won the award for best medium panel van at this year’s Commercial Fleet Awards, held at The International Centre, Telford on Thursday. Judges described it as “an excellent fleet package”. They commented: “Vauxhall took a risk when it completely re-engineered this va ... Continue reading

Isuzu D-Max Scoops Up Another Fleet Award

Isuzu D-Max Scoops Up Another Fleet Award

For the second year running, the Isuzu D-Max has won the ‘Pick-Up Truck of the Year’ prize at the Commercial Fleet Awards. The triumph was announced at the ceremony held last Thursday at The International Centre in Telford. Stephen Briers, Commercial Fleet editor, commented: “Isuzu specialises in pick-up ... Continue reading

Honda, Acura Racers Claim Eight SCCA National Championships

Honda, Acura Racers Claim Eight SCCA National Championships

Honda and Acura racers won eight Sports Car Club of America national championship titles, including a podium sweep in the competitive Super Touring Light category and a fourth consecutive Formula F title, at the 2015 SCCA National Championship Runoffs, contested this weekend at Daytona International Speedway ... Continue reading

Bosch Helps Drivers Find the Perfect Parking Space

Bosch Helps Drivers Find the Perfect Parking Space

The perfect parking space is situated close to where a driver wants to go, offers enough space for their car − and is unoccupied. To find that parking space, however, can be extremely frustrating − especially in urban areas. In Germany, the average search for a suitable free parking space takes ten minutes. ... Continue reading

The Toyota Effect World Premieres at New York Film Festival Convergence

The Toyota Effect World Premieres at New York Film Festival Convergence

Last night at the New York Film Festival (NYFF) Convergence, a brand-new short film series – entitled The Toyota Effect – debuted from award-winning directors Kief Davidson (A Lego Brickumentary, Open Heart), Steve James (Life Itself, Hoop Dreams) and Ross Kauffman (Born Into Brothels, The E-Team). “We w ... Continue reading

Arthur D. Little: Is the Car Industry about to Change for Good?

Arthur D. Little: Is the Car Industry about to Change for Good?

New survey sheds light on end customers’ view of car sharing, autonomous driving and electric mobility LONDON--In their new “Global Automotive Mobility Study”, experts from strategy and innovation consultancy Arthur D. Little shed light on the three megatrends of autonomous driving, electric mobility and ... Continue reading

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