Posts Tagged ‘universities’
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The Saturn Green Line is no longer. In its stead, the planetary brand's hybrid models will simply be known as hybrids. We think this is a good idea considering that the word 'hybrid' is much more readily associated with saving gas than the Green Line moniker. According to Mike Morrissey, a Saturn sp......
Tags: 2008 f 150, b9 tribeca, battery pack, better mileage, bowels, canon powershot, chief springs, consumer's rights, diesel powered cars, golfv, hollywood stars, hybrids, james glickenhaus ferrari, maserati birdcage concept, MaseratiMerch, mercury ax, mercury dead, Mercury2012, MercuryAx, mileage, next phenomenon, Porsche911Targa4, Porsche911Targa4s, pr representative, real design, safety hazards, Skipee, staples center, students work, tires, topper, two-wheeler, universities, video, Volkswagen free guitar, wilmington delaware
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Times are tough in Detroit these days as each of the Big 3 saw drastic drops in sales for the month of May. It's not surprising, then, to see that Chrysler, Dodge and Ford have increased incentives in an effort to get those cars off its dealer's lots. For instance, prospective buyers for the Hemi-po......
Tags: alternative marketing, bosley, cheetah, chrysler, concept sketches, consumer's rights, faw bertone, first editions, ford, foursprung, golf ball, jaime melo, la la, Louis Albornoz, midi version, OldestDealer, phoenix sports, piercings, Poage Auto Plaza, porsche, spanish press, spectacular event, SpeedBump, spy photo, suckers, tires, tooth fairy, TradeAgreement, universities, upper 80s, vegas
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Kia Optima.The most exciting thing at Kia's press conference today was undoubtedly the KOUP Concept, but sharing the stage and as an automotive wall flower was the redesigned 2009 Kia Optima. The last-gen Optima, not all that old itself, was derided by ......
Tags: accident ferrari, audi enthusiasts, booze, bottoms, Car part, Celebrity Living, Chesson, deep dish alloys, detailed sales, free fuel, ft lb, highway mileage, horsepower, hot brunette, job description, lexus, line sport, lucky joe, Magazine, new snow, optional packages, oxidation process, school graduate, sewer grate, side tires, six figure, surfaces, universities, way back machine, weight ratio
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
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Morgan has a lot of dedicated fans, but it's image is about as cutting-edge as a cantaloupe. The last time the company unveiled a new concept, the big news was that it had four wheels. But seriously folks, the Morgan LifeCar is a concept that ha......
Tags: aero, brits, cantaloupe, cutting edge, eyeful, final assembly, four wheels, geneva, geneva lifecar, GenevaLifecar, government funding, hi res, hydrogen fuel cells, images, last time, long time, morgan aero 8, morgan concept geneva, morgan lifecar, MorganConceptGeneva, MorganLifecar, universities, wraps
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
Do you know where babies cars come from? Anderson Analytics took a survey of 1,000 college students from more than 375 universities and discovered that many of them don't. A third of the respondents thought Lexus was American. More than half of them thought Hyundai was Japanese, and at the same time......
Tags: analytics, anderson, babies, Brand, brand perception, cell phones, college, college students, country of origin, country origin, hyundai, kids today, korean products, land rover, lexus, Motorola, nokia, respondents, saab, Survey, two thirds, universities, volvo, weren
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
those visiting the AutoRAI show in Amsterdam this week see a free car on display. Well, it's "free" in the sense that the vehicle's specifications, technical drawings and the like are available to anyone who wants them. It's called the c,mm,n (common), and is the first fruit of the OScar project. OS......
Tags: Amsterdam, AutoRAI, brainchild, c, enschede, first fruit, free car, goodies, gps, group requests, hydrogen fuel cell, individual market, live traffic, mm, n, netherlands society, Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment, NetherlandsSocietyForNatureAndEnvironment, open source, open source car, OpenSourceCar, Oscar, oscar project, project oscar, propulsion, technical drawings, universities, winding road, working model
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
BP plans to make a major investment in alternative energy sources, funding "radical research" at a new bioscience energy research lab. Outlining a ten-year program costing $500 million, BP chief executive Lord Browne said Wednesday that the company plans to site the lab at a major academic center in......
Tags: academic center, alternative energy sources, alternative fuel, biofuel, bioscience, bioscience bp, blends, bp, bp energy, bp energy biosciences institute, chief executive, efficiency, energy biosciences, energy research, feedstock, food crops, initial focus, lord browne, petroleum, plant species, radical research, universities
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
In this interesting article taken from the London Press Service we learn that those crazy Brits have bankrolled an interesting project that is hoping to develop customizable vehicles. The Foresight Vehicle initiative joins a consortium of manufacturers and universities in the pursuit of producing cu......
Tags: automotive technology, cars, consortium, crazy brits, customizable vehicles, cutting edge, foresight vehicle, initiative, interesting technology, london press, rapid manufacturing, sci fi, uk government, universities
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