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More and more automarketers recognize that the role of sports in a brand's advertizing campaign is not to be neglected. Experts point to the fact that sports are the last kind of programming people watch live on TV. There’s not another platform with more fans that are more engaging around a common goal and subject, so that many of the automakers are taking sports as one of the platforms that helps them get the word out. Among the brands that have invested solid money in into sports marketing the main are: Honda and Hyundai that aired Supe...
The British brand hit the perfect car spot with its newest F-Type SVR. The Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) performance division starts by turning up the wick on the F-Type's supercharged 5.0-liter V-8. With techniques adopted from the F-Type Project 7, the SVR now makes 575 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque -- up from the R's 550 ponies and 502 pound-feet. It's not just more powerful; the SVR models are also 55 pounds lighter than their respective F-Type R AWD analogs -- 35 of those pounds were saved by replacing the standard steel exhaust with a...
An Aurora man placed his collection of 108 classic cars at auction. Harv Bish's vehicles will be sold Saturday with no reserve. The 85-year-old said he doesn't want to leave it to his children to care for them.The auction will include a mini-monster truck, a 1957 Chevrolet fire truck, a 1968 Dodge Super Bee and a 1966 Ford Mustang with a retractable hardtop. There's also a 1960 Oldsmobile Super 88 and a 1908 Waltham."I'm not just a Ford man, a Chevy man, or a Dodge man," Bish said. "I just found something that caught my eye and tried to get it bought."Collec...
Saad Chehab -- Maserati's global chief marketing has resigned.Mr. Chehab, 48, resigned Sunday afternoon for personal reasons. He joined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' luxury brand in November 2013 after serving as head of the Chrysler and Lancia brands and director of advertising and brand marketing for Chrysler Group.At Maserati, he was assigned with the job of increasing the brand globally. In 2014, he used the Super Bowl to get attention to Maserati's new entry-level sedan, the Ghibli.Chehab was widely credited as the creative force behind Chrysler's highly successful Super Bowl...
The recall covers 470,000 Sonata sedans from the 2011 and 2012 model years equipped with 2-liter or 2.4-liter gasoline engines. At the time, the Sonata was Hyundai's top-selling vehicle in the U.S.Hyundai says that during manufacturing at Hyundai's Alabama engine factory there could not be all metal debris removed from the crankshaft area. This may cause a limitation of oil flow to the connecting rod bearings, and since they are cooled by oil, they could fail. If that happens, the engines could stall and cause a crash.For driver warning, the connecting rod bearing will make a knocking ...
