Press Releases

Hyundai Motor Company today reaffirmed its global design leadership by receiving multiple 2024 Red Dot Awards. The Hyundai SANTA FE XRT Concept took the Design Concept award in the Cars and Motorcycles category, alongside Hyundai’s DICE and SPACE innovations in the Autonomous category. It’s an incredible honor to be recognized by the Red Dot Award for our innovative design concepts. This accolade really shows the amazing achievements and dedication of our talented design

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Volkswagen AG honored its best suppliers with the Volkswagen Group Award 2024. The award was presented for the 20th time this year at a ceremony held at Hafen 1 in Wolfsburg attended by some 250 guests from 29 countries. With the Volkswagen Group Award, Volkswagen AG honors its suppliers for outstanding partnership-based cooperation, long-standing practiced values and shared success. Board members from the Volkswagen Group and the brands as well as sponsors from Group Procurement presented th

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Model 1 Commercial Vehicles, the nation’s largest bus and transportation services dealer, has formed its first affiliation with an automotive dealership. Model 1 Ford of Warsaw sells new Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, and light and heavy duty trucks in a variety of powertrains that include internal combustion engines (ICE), diesel, electric (EV) and hybrid. The facility, previously occupied by Rice Ford, is located at 436w CR250N in Warsaw, Indiana, in close proximity to both Elkhart, I

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In 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed an important initiative to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kazakhstan. As a promoter and contributor to the Belt and Road Initiative, Dongfeng Motor has continuously strengthened cooperation and exchanges with Central Asia and successfully embarked on a path of "maintaining the beauty of each civilization and the diversity of civilizations around the world". From January to May this year, Dongfeng's export vehicle sales to Cent

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Just six weeks after announcing its new North American business plan, Momentum 2030, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc.  closed out the first half of 2024 with strong sales of 51,130, up 12.3% over the first half of 2023. This is the strongest first-half sales result for MMNA since 2021. Calendar year-to-date sales of Outlander, Mirage/Mirage G4 and Eclipse Cross were up 1.3%, 85.5% and 38.2%, respectively, showing strong momentum for the brand entering the second half of the year.

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Hyundai and its African American marketing agency of record, Culture Brands, proudly announces the launch of its latest multicultural campaign, "Everyone's Outside," featuring the highly anticipated, refreshed 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid. Building on the success of the OKAY Hyundai campaign, this new installment celebrates the joy of communal and neighborhood moments, and the rich tapestry of culture. The "Everyone's Outside" campaign uniquely combines Tuc

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Group 1 Automotive, Inc. a  Fortune 300 automotive retailer with 206 dealerships located in the U.S. and U.K., today announced the expansion of its U.K. operations with the acquisition of four Mercedes-Benz dealerships located north of London in the county of Hertfordshire from L&L Automotive.  These locations are contiguous with several other dealerships currently owned and operated by Group 1 in the U.K. and are expected to sell more than 2,800 new and used vehicle units annua

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IVECO, the commercial vehicle brand of Iveco Group, and Plus announced today with dm-drogerie markt, Europe’s largest home and personal care retail company, and DSV, one of the world’s leading transport and logistics providers, the start of their semi-automated truck pilot in Germany. After several months of stringent testing and validation, the program will use a new production intent design of the IVECO S-Way heavy-duty truck equipped with Plus’s driver-supervised highly a

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GreenPower Motor Company Inc.a leading manufacturer and distributor of purpose-built, all-electric, zero-emission medium and heavy-duty vehicles serving the cargo and delivery market, shuttle and transit space and school bus sector, today reported its results for the year ended March 31, 2024. "Despite significant headwinds in the EV sector, GreenPower has made substantial strides with its plan to transition to a production plan driven by customer orders," said Fraser Atki

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Blue Bird Corporation the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, announced today that Gurminder Bedi has resigned from its board of directors, effective June 26, 2024, following a nine-year tenure. Bedi joined the company’s board in 2015 as an independent director after a 30-year career with Ford Motor Company. At Ford, he served as the vice president of the North American Truck business and was responsible for vehicle development and business strategy. He also held

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Toyota Kirloskar Motor is proud to share the achievement of its dealership, Rajesh Toyota  who won the prestigious GreenCo Gold Rated Company Award conferred by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Green Business Centre (GBC) at an awarding ceremony held recently in Chennai. Following a comprehensive assessment of the dealership’s environmental initiatives, CII recognized Rajesh Toyota with a gold rating. This significant accomplishment underscores Rajesh Toyota's unwaver

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Mazda North American Operations  today announced Neeru Arora, a results-driven leader with over three decades of experience, has been named MNAO's senior vice president, chief information officer, effective July 8, 2024. In this role, Arora will lead MNAO's IT and digital transformation efforts to further fuel the company's growth plans and prepare to capitalize on emerging market trends. She'll be responsible for establishing a robust strategy with advanced ana

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Cenntro Inc. a leading electric commercial vehicle company with advanced, market-validated, and purpose-built vehicles, today announced its newest Logistar series model, the Logistar® 210 is to be sold in European and other global markets. The LS210 is a next generation commercial van with European N1 type approval and follows Cenntro’s December 2023 approval for the EU’s required Certificate of Compliance for Cybersecurity Management System and Certificate of Compli

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General Motors has earned the most model-level awards in the industry in the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Initial Quality Study with six models earning awards across categories. More than half of GM models also perform among the Top 3 within their respective segments. The study, now in its 38th year, is based on responses from nearly 100,000 purchasers and lessees of new 2024 model-year vehicles, surveyed after three months of ownership. The study now also incorporates repair visit data wit

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Innoviz Technologies Ltd. a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high-performance automotive-grade LiDAR sensors and perception software, today announced a collaboration with an automotive OEM to advance its L4 autonomous vehicle capabilities. This agreement adds Innoviz's new short-range LiDARs into the OEM's Level 4 autonomous driving platform. The Company expects the collaboration will result in a series production nomination in the coming months, pending agreement of commercial terms

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