NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series to Use Honda Generators
30 May 2010, 09:16 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Honda Power Equipment just announced a new sponsorship agreement with the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to provide durable, dependable power to the NHRA's Full Throttle Drag Racing Series...
VW Expects South African Sales to Increase
30 May 2010, 09:09 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / The German carmaker announced it expects 2010 sales in South Africa to grow twice as fast as the market. The company explained its revised forecasts are based on the strength of Volkswagen’s n...
TEMA Household Waste Collection Day: Numbers Are In
30 May 2010, 06:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little over a month after Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA) held its Household Waste Collection Day (April 24) in Kentucky, the line has been drawn, the numbers add...
Toyota Virtual Human Model, Version 4.0
30 May 2010, 06:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Toyota announced late last week is has a new version of what it calls Total HUman Model for Safety (THUMS), a virtual human model which will help the carmaker better understand...
Busch Loves Charlotte, Wins Tech-Net Auto Service 300
30 May 2010, 06:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the fourth time in the past five races, Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch took the win at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in the Tech-Net Auto Service 300 Nationwide race, 0.112 seconds ahead of B...
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gets Plus X Award
30 May 2010, 06:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After on Friday the Swedish from Volvo proudly announced their newest S60 generation received the Plus X Award in the Innovation category, German carmaker Daimler announced a similar feat for its ne...
Alonso Shocked by Poor Ferrari Pace
29 May 2010, 17:07 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Fernando Alonso undoubtedly produced the shock of the day in Istanbul on Saturday, failing to make it inside the Top 10 in the qualifying session of the Turkish Grand Prix. If such a thing happened ...
Mark Webber Scored 3rd Consecutive Pole Position in Turkey
29 May 2010, 12:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Mark Webber continued his dominance in the 2010 Formula One championship on Saturday, when he clinched his 3rd consecutive pole position of the season, in the Turkish Grand Prix. The Australian driv...
Mercedes Positive with Return-on-Sales Target of 10 Percent
29 May 2010, 12:36 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Following a meeting with investors and analysts in Beijing, Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, expressed his positive thoughts abou...
2011 Ford Fiesta Supports Two Music Festivals
29 May 2010, 12:33 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Ford readies to introduce the new Ford Fiesta in the USA by involving it in a series of social events meant to familiarize and bring US customers to the small cars segment. The American car manufact...
Jaguar XKR Special Edition Races to Australia
28 May 2010, 15:01 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Jaguar has decided to offer a special present to the Australian petrolheads for the company’s 75th anniversary, bringing 10 units of the XKR Special Edition to the country, with the vehicles b...
Audi and Xbox Prepare the 2010 AXF-24 Challenge
28 May 2010, 15:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The North American arm of Audi joined forces with Xbox/Turn 10 to host the 2nd Annual AXF-24 Challenge in celebration of the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. The event is a four-hour Xbox ...
Volvo S60 Gets Plus X Award
28 May 2010, 15:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After the latest model coming from Swedish carmaker managed to embarrass itself by failing to stop in due time during a crash-avoidance system test, the same vehicle received the Plus X Award in the...
VW Commercial Vehicles Debuting Discovery Network Marketing Campaign
28 May 2010, 14:54 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’s UK unit has announced the sponsorship of the action and adventure programs on three Discovery Network channels, with the project debuting Monday, May 31 and sc...
Hamlin and Busch, a New NASCAR Feud
28 May 2010, 14:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last weekend's NASCAR All Star race witnessed an interesting duel between teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch, who both got into a minor skirmish in the closing stages. More or less as a resu...
Renault-Nissan Partners with MOBI.E Tech
28 May 2010, 14:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After the somewhat unexpected statement made yesterday by Carlos Ghosn, when he said the Leaf has been sold out for the year, the Renault-Nissan alliance announced today a new partnership aimed at p...
First Yamaha Outboard Turns 50
28 May 2010, 14:23 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / This year, the very first Yamaha outboard celebrates its 50th anniversary. In March 2010, the company produced its nine millionth outboard. Now, 50 years on from that very first outboard, Yamaha off...
Tesla Delivers First Roadsters in Canada
28 May 2010, 14:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although Canada is just around the corner from Tesla Motors' HQ, compared to other markets where its products are present, the first Roadster to be delivered in the country did so only after co...
Skoda Appoints New Board of Directors Chairman
28 May 2010, 13:43 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Winfried Vahland is the name of the newly appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Skoda Auto, effective September 2010. Vahland, who joined Audi in Ingolstadt in 1990 as Head of Company Plan...
Renault and Mahindra Reportedly Bidding for Ssangyong
28 May 2010, 13:30 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Renault and Mahindra are involved in the competition to buy the financially-challenged South Koreean SUV producer Ssangyong Motor, as Reuters reports.Ssangyong has been in state-lead restructuring s...