Vintage Automotive Event - Coke is it at LeMay - America's Car Museum
Jul 28, 2011
TACOMA, July 28, 2011: Things go better with Coke, especially at LeMay â Americaâs Car Museum (ACM), which today signed a five-year sponsorship agreement with Coca-Cola® to be the âPreferred Soft Drinkâ� throughout the nine-acre campus thatâs set to open in May 2012. âCoca-Cola is ... Continue reading
Jul 23, 2011
FULLERTON, July 22, 2011: Six months of 2011 have sailed by, and for Dan King, Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) senior vice president of sales and marketing, the journey has been defined by varying currents, which at times has included navigating through choppy waters. The company has had to deal with ramifications from ... Continue reading
Special Motorsports Event - Announcement For 2012 Mille Miglia Race Date
Jul 14, 2011
Rome, July 13, 2011: The âMost Beautiful Road Race in the Worldâ as Enzo Ferrari called it will take the Italian roads once again along the historic route from Brescia to Rome and back next 17 - 20 May 2012. âWe have an ambitious goal - said Alessandro Casali, President of the Mille Miglia Organising Com ... Continue reading
Special Motorsports Event - Mille Miglia North America Tribute
Jul 5, 2011
Carmel, July 4, 2011: In 2010, MAC Group, Meet Comunicazione, and Sanremorally â organizers of the Historical Revival and sole licensees of the original Mille Miglia brand â signed an agreement with Stratus Media Group Inc (SMDI), making the company the one and only official Sub-licensee of the Mille Miglia b ... Continue reading
Jun 14, 2011
FULLERTON, June 13, 2011: Yokohama Tire Corporation has announced it will implement a price increase of an average of 8% on all of its light and medium commercial truck tires sold in the U.S., effective July1. There will be in-line adjustments, as well, which will be announced at a later date. The rising cost of raw ma ... Continue reading
Consumer Affairs - NHTSA Weekly Recalls - June 6, 2011
Jun 6, 2011
NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 11V307 Manufacturer : ROUSH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, INC. Make / Model Years : FORD / 2011 Subject : ROUSH PROPANE CONVERSION KITS NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 11V306 Manufacturer : TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. Make / Model Years : TOYOTA / 2011 Subject : DRIVE SHAFT BREAKS NHTSA Campaign ID N ... Continue reading
Consumer News - Buyer Beware Flood-damaged Vehicles Could Be Headed To Market
May 31, 2011
LONG BEACH, May 31, 2011: A severe winter and above-average rains in the spring have caused many parts of the United States to experience record flooding in 2011, creating havoc for homeowners and residents. This flooding will also cause problems for unwary consumers shopping for used cars during the next 12 months. Fr ... Continue reading
Motorsports Brands - Yokohama Tire Corporation Names New President
May 25, 2011
FULLERTON, May 24, 2011: Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) announced today that Yasushi Tanaka will be the companyâs new president and CEO, effective June 29. Tanaka succeeds Takao Oishi, who has been at the helm of YTC since April 2008. Tanaka, 52, comes to YTC from parent company The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. (YRC ... Continue reading
May 25, 2011
SONOMA, May 24, 2011: The 2nd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival roars into Infineon Raceway, June 4-5, highlighted by 400 historic racecars gracing the 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course. From a 1915 Ford Racer to a 1991 Riley & Scott Trans-Am Camaro, nearly every marque produced and raced worldwide during the la ... Continue reading
The Edge - If Even Trump Won't Show Up For the 500, What's The Future Of Indy Look Like Now?
May 6, 2011
<b>By Rick Carlton</b> <p> I admit it. I am one of the four or five people in this country who thought that Donald Trump would have been a great honorary pace car representive for the centennial running of the Indianapolis 500. In the end, I was apparently wrong, along with Trump himself. So, what do we do now? <p> Hav ... Continue reading
3 Amigos Tequila Named Official Tequila Of Darlington Raceway
Apr 23, 2011
DARLINGTON, April 22, 2011: 3 Amigos Tequila has been named "The Official Tequila" of Darlington Raceway, raceway officials announced today. 3 Amigos Tequila was founded by Arizona resident Santiago Gonzalez and his family in 2007. The product is made from agave grown at his family's farm in Mexico. The tequila is dist ... Continue reading
Rotor & Wing Special - Japan Misses Early Opportunity to Deploy UAVs at Stricken Fukushima Plant
Apr 22, 2011
<b>By Andrew Drwiega, Military Editor</b> The pictures broadcast around the world of a manned Chinook CH-47 helicopter flying over the stricken, radiation-emitting Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan in the early days of the ongoing disaster filled aviation experts with horror. Aviation industrialists and observers who ar ... Continue reading
Weekly NHTSA Recalls - 4.18.2011
Apr 18, 2011
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