According to Honda, as of the end of September 2012, Honda’s worldwide hybrid sales have reached one million units. After 12 years and 11 months, Honda has finally reached this milestone, dating back to when the first generation Insight debuted in Japan back in November 1999. The 2000 Honda Insight was America’s first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle and cumulative sales of Honda hybrid vehicles in America has topped 318,000 units.
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Hoping to catch up to rival Mercedes-Benz for 2012 sales, BMW is offering its current lessees the opportunity to skip up to three payments if they purchase a brand new of pre-owned vehicle.
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Whether your talking about sales, currency, or units of production, 5 million is a significant number. This number is even more important when talking about Mercedes transmission units, which are not a mere collection of casings, forks, and gears. The precision work that is required to build a transmission that need to withstand hundreds of pounds of torque and last decades meant that quality is the most important concern.
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The world’s fastest man and champion Olympic sprinter Usain Boltm and automaker Nissan are working together to develop a special “Bolt” version Nissan GT-R. In Usain Bolt becoming Nissan’s brand ambassador, Bolt will be getting his own special “Bolt” GT-R for personal use.
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Turn your car into the life of the party… Halloween party that is. People drive their cars everyday so why not decorate it for the season. There are many different things you can do to your car to get you in the holiday spirit.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s second concussion in six weeks forces him to sit out of the next two races making his hope for a championship this year look a lot less likely. Earnhardt Jr.’s first occurred on August 29th during a tire test in Kansas, while his second happened during the wild crash at Talladega.
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U.S. magazine Motor Trend has discovered that the Subaru BRZ, one of the sports coupe models that came out of the relationship between Toyota and Subaru, is being featured in the new chapter of the Fast and the Furious franchise.

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Many of us have read comic books as children, and in doing so we identify heroes like Superman, Batman, or Spiderman as the good guys who fight against evil. DC Comics (known officially as DC Entertainment) and Kia Motors are working off of this connection that we’ve made as children to create a charity campaign for the hunger epidemic in Africa. In the Horn of Africa, reports of 8 million people are in urgent need of food and assistance.
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