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Flow Automotive selling Fisker, at $100000, and Lotus, at $65000 to $80000 Winston-Salem Journal Credit: LAUREN CARROLL/JOURNAL Several Lotuses, an English racing brand that goes for $65000 to $80000, are lined up in front of a Flow Automotive dealership. Credit: LAUREN CARROLL/JOURNAL At the dealership on Stratford Road where Flow Automotive used ... Fisker Automotive expands Canadian presenceOC Metro Fisker Automotive Expands Reach Into CanadaGTspirit Good Karma for Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto marketsThe Province AutoWeek -INAUTONEWS -Autoblog (blog) all 14 news articles »

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Manufacturing, including automotive fabrication, is leading economic recovery Torque News The analysis of the automotive authority indicates what would seem apparent to even the casual observer – that the industry's overwhelming need to reinvent itself has become a major benefit in the long run. The reality check of filing bankruptcy, ...

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Kuni Automotive Acquires 5 Dealerships in it's Largest Purchase Ever. PR Web (press release) Kuni Automotive has just completed a deal that includes 5 stores from the Pioneer Centres Holding Co. Inc. The deal includes two Land Rover dealerships in the Denver Metro Area. Both dealerships will seek to add additional employees and inventory in ... and more »

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Contact At Once! Automotive Chat Receives "Highest Rated" DrivingSales Dealer ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) We are often recognized for being the most widely used and most popular provider of automotive chat, but it is particularly gratifying to be recognized as the highest rated as well. The dealers on Drivingsales.com are amongst the most progressive, ... Dealer.com Awarded 'Highest Rated' Dealer Satisfaction Award for MobileSites ...MarketWatch (press release) Callbright Receives DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction AwardPR Newswire (press release) J&L Marketing Receives DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Award: Highest Rated ...EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) WebWire (press release) all 53 news articles »

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Aljomaih Automotive wins GM recognition Arab News Aljomaih Automotive Company has been representing General Motors since 1967 and is the exclusive dealer for Cadillac cars in Saudi Arabia. By ARAB NEWS The exclusive dealer for Cadillac cars in Saudi Arabia, Aljomaih Automotive Company (AAC), ...

Forbes Earnings Preview: O'Reilly Automotive Forbes By Narrative Science Optimism surrounds O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), as it gets ready to report its fourth quarter results on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Analysts are expecting the company to book a profit of 85 cents a share, up from 69 cents a year ... and more »

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The entry titled "Round Rock fire destroys office at automotive shop." Austin American-Statesman (blog) By Claire Osborn | Friday, February 3, 2012, 12:09 PM A fire this morning destroyed the office of an automotive business in the 1800 block of Interstate 35 North, Round Rock Battalion Chief Shane Glaiser said. There were no injuries. No one injured in pair of building fires in Round RockCity of Round Rock all 5 news articles »

I'm a big fan of the cutaway drawing and, simultaneously, the old Saab 900 Turbos. I saw one while I was out jogging yesterday and couldn't help but feel like it made perfect sense to me. I'm not planning on owning a FWD vehicle next, but if I did it would likely be one of these. More »

Sometimes relationships are wonderful, enduring, life-sustaining things. Sometimes they aren't. Eventually you get to the point where you just know: it's not working, it's not happening, you're happier spending time away from someone than with them. More »

Dutch gearhead website Autogespot recently posted a set of pics that takes the hot-blonde-in-a-hot-car cliche in an endearing new direction: a Bugatti Veyron spotted in West Hollywood with a golden retriever in the passenger's seat. More »

I suspect New York Times Puzzle Wizard Will Shortz was once again showing his weakness with slang when he edited this week's über difficult Friday crossword. Otherwise, he's definitely screwing with car enthusiasts by employing a bit of clue misdirection. More »

If you watched all the way through Icon's Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2 video we posted, you saw one of the cops take a nasty roll during the credits. Icon has thoughtfully brought us the full story of Officer Dan's off-road excursion. More »

Like lots of car guys, I have a very specific weakness for one particular class of automobile. For many, that weakness is for fast, powerful, luxurious, high-end exotics; for me, as a side effect of a condition known medically as "being a bit of a moron," it's cars at the extreme low end of the spectrum. More »

This is Noel Fielding’s take on the iconic color combination of white, red, yellow, green and black better known as Ayrton Senna driving the wheels off one of his McLarens, drawn upside down in felt-tipped pen on the back of a Royal Mail envelope for The Guardian. Fielding, who discussed his artistic influences, referred to Senna as enigmatic and spiritual and called his racing “almost like an act of poetry." More »

In one of the more tragic cases of fun PR gone very wrong, BMW has apologized after a Mini-sponsored weather pattern named "Cooper" turned into a brutal deep freeze that so far has killed over a hundred people in Eastern Europe. More »

Caving to the wave of backlash over its now-aborted five-seater prototype, Ferrari has hastily redesigned its F1 car overnight, resulting in this ugly little duckling, the F2012. Force India unveiled its own duck-billed racecar as well. Click through for in-depth details on these machines. More »

Asbury Automotive Group Schedules Release of Fourth Quarter and Year-End ... MarketWatch (press release) 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. /quotes/zigman/300257/quotes/nls/abg ABG +3.03% , one of the largest automotive retail and service companies in the US, today announced that it will release its fourth quarter and ... and more »

It's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East. More »

We all remember our first car, and although few of us still have it — even fewer of us probably were thoughtful enough to tell that car how we felt about it. But Kelcie Moseley did just that at Thought Catalog. Here's the letter she sent. Write your own in the comments below. —Ed. More »

A woman in Kuala Lumpur crashed into a store full of superbikes after having already reversed into three other cars. Frightened and confused after the initial crashes, she accelerated straight into the bike storefront, causing an estimated $165,000 in damages. More »

We live in a numbers-obsessed era. We want to see measured proof of a car's awesomeness. If we can see and hear that awesomeness being measured, so much the better. What's the best dyno pull that's ever been captured on video? More »

The world is a vibrant, multi-hued place — but you'd never know that by looking at most automotive showrooms. We need more intensity and variety on the streets. Right now anyone with a little creativity and enough money in their checking account can get whatever color they want. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the colors that need to make a comeback. More »

Dropping any artifice of civility in the back-and-forth sniping between Chevy and Ford, this year's Silverado ad comes out and says what they've only been wiling to say behind closed doors: buy our competitors vehicle and you will die. You will be dead. Six-feet under. And your family. You will all die a horrible terrible death. More »

After Motor Trend's Jonny Lieberman found himself the victim of a savage Facebook LOLing by professional automotive internet troll Jack Baruth, newly-annointed Motor Trend editor-in-chief Edward Loh jumped to his beleaguered number two's defense. It's not pretty. More »

Somewhere, in Vermont's St. Albans penitentiary, there's a prisoner feeling pretty damn good about himself. Not because of a well-formed shiv or a found cigarette, but because of a really sublime prank: he snuck a pig into the state seals that adorn Vermont's police cars. More »

This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important? More »

The 1965 Mako Shark II concept car previewed the styling direction of the C3 Corvette, albeit with greater exaggeration. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '71 Coupe is claimed to be a MACO - whatever that is — but will its price take too big a bite out of its buyer's wallet? More »

Ben Popken will be on tonight's "Attack Of The Show" on G4 at 7:00 PM EST to talk about the Heather Peters Honda Civic Hybrid case. Tune in and watch him. Remember, take a drink every time he winks. More »

These days the most exciting mid-size sedans are vehicles like the Kia Optima Turbo which, at least, has some spark of life. But once there were mid-size sedans with options like a 396 c.i. V8 or four-barrel carbs. You know, the good old days. More »

I am waiting for the day when someone passionate and knowledgeable completely gets on my case about my occasional offhand use of the word "barbecue." I want someone to do this. I want to be interrogated about whether I'm talking specifically about dry rub or Carolina vinegar-based or Kansas City or whatever. More »

Kia is set to debut this tall-boy Track'ster concept at the Chicago Auto Show next week, showing off what the company's California design studio can do and giving us an idea what the next Kia Soul will look like. More »

Are you sick of all the non-automotive related thinking you have to do in relation to Groundhog Day? Sure, it's fun we entrust a marmot or whatever to handle our global weather control, but dammit, nobody even brings up cars when talking about them. Yes, Bill Murray let one crash a Ford F-150 in the movie, but beyond that, it's all shadow observations and holes in the ground. Until now. More »

Little guy: 1. Honda: 0. That's the results from Round One of Honda v. Civic Hybrid Owner. Which isn't to say that Honda didn't make a valiant effort. And we've got the 120-page evidence packet they submitted to prove it. So how exactly did Honda try to take down Heather Peters? More »

Ferrari unveiled its highly anticipated F1 car for the 2012 season in bizarre conditions and many sites, Jalopnik included, are deeply confused and discouraged by the new racer. Click through for more details on this monumental failure. More »

Volkswagen calls the 2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI the "most fuel efficient 21st Century Beetle" because those old veedubs managed impressive fuel economy feats before safety was an issue. Legal precision aside, shoving a diesel in a new-but-not-New Volkswagen Beetle gives American men a shot at an affordable diesel coupe. More »

The nearly three-decades-old Ford RS200's byzantine all-wheel-drive system is like the modern Nissan GT-R's, only in reverse. The Audi Sport Quattro had ABS and self-locking diffs when those things were still wizardry. Awesome, yes, but which one of these cars enjoys the most renown? More »

Adriana Lima is typically near the top of everyone's "most beautiful people in the world" list and usually in a catalog on the bottom of many a young man's sock drawer. Now we have the Internet. And, thanks to the ad wizards at Kia, five hours of her waving a flag in slow motion. More »

Last year, Aston Martin's V12 Zagato concept debuted to a flush, veal-complected crowd at Italy's Villa D'Este. This year, the Zagato-massaged Vantage collabo's going into production, and according to GTspirit.com, this is it. More »

Automotive Internet Media and Infycosm Enrich Online Auto Leads MarketWatch (press release) ... Inc., a division of Infutor Data Solutions Corp. and market leader in providing data and database marketing solutions to organizations that support local small to medium businesses, announced today a partnership with Automotive Internet Media, ... and more »

Yesterday, I gave you ten fascinating facts about Presidents and cars. And by "facts" I mean half were a special type of fact many experts would term a "lie." So, as promised, today I'm revealing which ones were true, and which were imaginary. More »

Burning cars, rusty cars, cars teetering on the edge of destruction gloriously pushed over the edge: these are the participants in New Zealand backyard derby racing. More »

Renders of a Lamborghini SUV have left everyone to wonder just what the Italians are up to with regards to their future plans (other than a dozen or so alphanumerically-enhanced Aventadors). The company has responded to the rumors with few details but some intrigue. More »

Kia's Super Bowl ad throws every testosterone-filled cliché at you in the hopes of that some coolness will rub off on its Optima family sedan. Why? Because this is how things are done now. The only way to surprise us now is with subtlety. More »

We live in an age where car colors are terribly safe. Silver and gray rule the modern automotive palette. It's time to liven things up and add some brightness and contrast to the roads. What color needs to be popular again? More »

High-performance cars can be ridiculously expensive, but if you look in the corners and take a pass on snob appeal you can get intense amounts of speed for surprisingly little cash. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best budget high-performance cars. More »

Yesterday, Heather Peters proved one woman can strike a blow against a major automaker when she succeeded in a landmark California case against Honda for making false claims about fuel economy.The key? Take them to small claims court. With her help, we've created this definitive step-by-step guide to how she, like a modern-day David, took on Goliath — and how you can too. More »

You ever look at a race car driver's neck and wonder why they're usually so thick? Watch this video of a woman trying to keep her head in one place while being battered around the Abu Dhabi Yas Marina track in a two-seat Formula One car. Whiplash! More »

This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important? More »

This year, Volkswagen released a new New Beetle, and over the decades they built like a gazillion old Old Beetles. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Type 1 is a new Old Beetle, but is its price old news? More »

New Experian Tool Offers Dealers 'More' Than Just Vehicle History Program Auto Remarketing By Staff Writer Sarah Rubenoff Experian Automotive launched Wednesday a new program for dealers that the company says aims to provide more information for dealers and insights into “the market, the vehicles and the people who buy them. Experian Automotive to Provide Vehicle History Reports via Edmunds.comMarketWatch (press release) all 6 news articles »