Car Industry's 2010 Face Off... ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who were technically dead as ... Continue reading >
100+ years since the invention of the self-propelled car, three new engines battle for a place in the automotive future. Which one do you see in your car 10 years from now?
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Kia Motors’s U.S. website, kia.com, has taken the top position among automotive manufacturer websites in the first wave of the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Manufacturer Web Site Evaluation Study. This marks the brand’s fifth award (a record for a ...
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Now that there are only 12 contestants left in the American Idol show Ford decided to further extend its sponsorship for the show and will give each of them the chance to work with Ford designers and create their own personalized 2011 Ford Fiesta. The top two ...
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For those who have always wondered what happens outside the rallying world cameras’ reach, we present a little story of the UK Skoda Motorsport team’s latest adventure.
The racing team recently reached Argentina for this weekend’s Rally Argentina, ...
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One of the biggest tire manufacturers in the world is currently making efforts to increase road safety awareness among drivers in a rather unusual way. Continental Tyres has released a new online driving game with attractive prizes to be won for the best displays ...
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TomTom Releases New Map PackU-TURNThe TomTom Netherlands-based GPS and auto satnav producer has released its latest map update package. The pack includes over 100 new or updated maps, covers three new countries and over 100,000 kilometers of new roads. TomTom users can now purchase maps for Morocco & Western Sahara, Chile and French Antilles for the first time. The map set detailing the latter includes Guadaloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin. The recently-developed maps are based on validated edits and anonymous GPS measurements that have been made by the TomTom drivers from all around the world. TomTom is the only developer in the automotive navigation industry to employ this user community map development system. The fresh map pack can be purchased online from the TomTom map shop. The ... >> Read more |
Green irrigation control technology company Baseline wished for something out of the ordinary for their new controller lineup and, as unusual as it may sound, they turned to none other than custom bike builder Chris Olson. The result was so exciting that some say ...
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Game developer EA Games announced today the release of the Exotic Racing Series pack for the latest installment of the Need for Speed series, Shift. To be released on March 18, the pack will give gamers access to seven new cars: Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, BMW M1 ...
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Recaptured Energy Technologies, an U.S. company, has created an automotive fuel-saving system, which has been specifically designed to be retrofitted to vehicles.
The system captures braking energy and converts it to an additional source of energy to power the ...
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Vauxhall has decided to introduce a price cut policy for the entire variety of models in its line-up.
Opel's UK twin brother offers new models that come with hefty discounts compared to the previous entry level models in the carmaker’s range. Vauxhall ...
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Times have changed and if women were once considered as being fragile and weak, they are now seen as the main target for retailers, especially vehicle manufacturers. Ford is such an example, the carmaker declaring itself extremely aware of the important role that women ...
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Chrysler Group has redefined its Certified Pre-owned Vehicle (CPOV) program, and now offers customers an easier pathway for the acquisition of a used vehicle.
The new features include a new website, which provides all the necessary information, and an extended ...
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Alan Taub, General Motors’s vice president of global research and development has been elected vice chair for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology.
The Institute is an agency of the U.S. ...
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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is recruiting professional truck drivers for the 2011-2012 America Road Team - the men and women will temporarily become spokespersons for the U.S. professional drivers.
The selected drivers will become Road Team ...
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The American hip hop DJ Funkmaster Flex, who has also been present on the U.S. tuning stage, has now signed a partnership with the U.S. aftermarket exhaust systems producer Flowmaster Mufflers. This will result in the development of a complex marketing campaign for ...
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After the chocolate-powered car, it seemed that nothing would ever have the power to astound us again, but apparently some people’s imagination has no limits. Just today a car that runs on coffee has been unveiled, says dailymail.co.uk.
The car named ...
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After seeing the high interest our readers have shown in our "Wally et Hermes WHY Yacht" piece, we thought best to give you a little update on how this out of this world project is doing. And the verdict is: not well.
For one, the price of the ...
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As promised, Volvo continued announcing the next host ports to join the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, after recently revealing all the European stops to be made in the 2010 - 2012 season. The first port from the Middle East is Abu Dhabi, which is also the first Middle ...
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American manufacturer Ford presented the Los Angeles County Fire Department with a $75,000 donation earlier this month that will go to the firefighters’ Widows and Orphans Fund. A few months ago, Ford also introduced the 2011 F-550 Super Duty First-Responder Fire ...
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Last week, General Motors announced that it will keep Hummer on life support until May 1. If the carmaker doesn’t reach an agreement with a partner for Hummer’s takeover by then, the brand will be killed. But it looks like the rugged marque isn’t ...
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As society evolves, more and more prejudices are left behind, and the automotive market makes no exception form this rule: a recent study perfected in the UK shows that 60 percent of moms enjoy the whole car-buying experience.
This contradicts the popular belief ...
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