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MotorCities At Home Series - "Billy Durant, Founder of General Motors" by Russ Dore

MotorCities At Home Series - "Billy Durant, Founder of General Motors" by Russ Dore

Since we're all still staying at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, MotorCities is presenting a new series of programs featuring members of our Speakers Bureau discussing interesting automotive history topics. Each program is FREE and presented as a live Zoom conference. ... Continue reading

New “MotorCities At Home” Virtual Zoom Programs Debuts with a Look at Cool Hood Ornaments +VIDEO

New “MotorCities At Home” Virtual Zoom Programs Debuts with a Look at Cool Hood Ornaments +VIDEO

Since we're all still staying at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, MotorCities is presenting a new series of virtual programs featuring members of our Speakers Bureau discussing interesting automotive history topics. Each program is FREE and presented as a live Zoom conference. ... Continue reading

Henry Ford Brief History

Henry Ford Brief History

Recently there was an article in an auto trade journal about how the Ford Motor Company is conducting a worldwide search for the first racing trophy the company ever won. It capitalized on the fact that the Ford Motor Company has been actively engaged in auto racing for 100 years and that on October 10, 1901, Henry For ... Continue reading

HENRY KAISER: POSTWAR AUTO PIONEER-PART 1

HENRY KAISER: POSTWAR AUTO PIONEER-PART 1

HENRY KAISER: POSTWAR PIONEER-PART 1 ... Continue reading

Nutson's Weekly Automotive News Digest Week Ending May 9, 2020

Nutson's Weekly Automotive News Digest Week Ending May 9, 2020

Mazda Continues Free Service To Health Care Heroes; The U.S. employment devastation; Kia and Hyundai Open Now Building; US New Car Sales Continue Slide, European Sales Disappear; Online Sales May Help; Chinese Sale Rise; Scale Model Kits Racing Ahead; Airbag News; Engine Rats Increasing; BMW Ends Europe Delivery Debuts ... Continue reading

IBM Study: Ride Sharing And Public Transportation To Shrink As COVID-19 Alters U.S. Consumer Behavior and Future Plans

IBM Study: Ride Sharing And Public Transportation To Shrink As COVID-19 Alters U.S. Consumer Behavior and Future Plans

Personal Mobility, Retail Shopping, and Event Attendance Are Among the Areas Most Impacted The study polled more than 25,000 U.S. adults in the month of April to understand how COVID-19 has affected their perspectives on a number of issues, including retail spending, transportation, future attendance at events in large ... Continue reading

The Official 50-Year History of the Nissan Z - Coming June 23

The Official 50-Year History of the Nissan Z - Coming June 23

the Nissan-official chronicle of the Z's history, from Datsun's planning for the new model in the late 1960's through the latest 50th anniversary 370Z. The Datsun 240Z revolutionized the sports car industry and trounced established assumptions about Japanese automakers. With the Z, Datsun gave the world a sleek, sexy, ... Continue reading

Official Back Story: Ford VS Ferrari with Original Le Mans Film Documentary +VIDEO

Official Back Story: Ford VS Ferrari with Original Le Mans Film Documentary +VIDEO

A sparsely worded newswire release was issued on May 22, 1963 noting, “Ford Motor Company and Ferrari wish to indicate, with reference to recent reports of their negotiations toward a possible collaboration that such negotiations have been suspended by mutual agreement.” The flurry of negotiations between the compa ... Continue reading

Expert Pontiac Reviews 1994-2009

Expert Pontiac Reviews 1994-2009

You searched for “Pontiac”. Here are your results. Pontiac G8 GT (2009) by John Heilig by John Heilig Pontiac G8 GT (2008) by Steve Purdy by Steve Purdy Pontiac Announces G8 Pricing - New RWD Performance Sedan to Start Under $28k Bridgestone Firestone Supplies Tires For Premiere Pontiac G8 Pontiac Solstice(2007)V S ... Continue reading

Classic Review: Maserati 3200GT (2000)

Classic Review: Maserati 3200GT (2000)

Maserati 3200GT (2000) ... Continue reading

15 years ago, the Veyron 16.4 was the first series production car to break the 400 km/h barrier.

15 years ago, the Veyron 16.4 was the first series production car to break the 400 km/h barrier.

407 km/h. With a series production car. This had never been achieved before. ... Continue reading

Fuel-Cell How It Works Video - Hyundai NEXO Fuel Cell SUV

Fuel-Cell How It Works Video - Hyundai NEXO Fuel Cell SUV

NEXO Has an EPA-estimated Range of 380 miles, Yet Refuels in Only Five Minutes When Compared With Electric Vehicles of Similar Size and Weight NEXO Fuel Cell Stack Creates Electric Power on Driver Demand, Rather than Storing Propulsion Energy in Heavy, Cumbersome Battery Systems to Achieve its Range NEXO Produces Only ... Continue reading

2020 Automotive Heritage Awards Call For Entries

2020 Automotive Heritage Awards Call For Entries

Greetings Supporters of the Automotive Heritage Awards: We’re about six weeks out from the entry deadline for the 2020 Automotive Heritage Awards, so it’s just the right time to broadcast as widely as we can the call for entries. We’ll be reminding our potential entrants and asking relevant organizations and asso ... Continue reading

Ford Mustang Introduced 56 Years Ago (Boy How Time Flies) Still World’s Best-Selling Sports Car

Ford Mustang Introduced 56 Years Ago (Boy How Time Flies) Still World’s Best-Selling Sports Car

This Mustang Day – the nameplate’s 56th birthday – Mustang can now celebrate two global sales crowns, earning world’s best-selling sports car and its fifth straight best-selling sports coupe title. Mustang is also America’s best-selling sports car of the last 50 years. “We’re proud of the global momentum ... Continue reading

1986 DEFENDER 110 TRANSFORMED TO MODERN LUXURIOUS OFF ROADER

1986 DEFENDER 110 TRANSFORMED TO MODERN LUXURIOUS OFF ROADER

OSPREY CUSTOM CARS is well known for their exceptional custom-built classic Defenders, Broncos, and old FJ restomods. Their latest build is the top to bottom makeover of a bone stock 1986 Land Rover Defender. ... Continue reading

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