(May 21, 2013) CANNES, France — Movie fans at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival will once again be able to watch the cream of independent film as the Ford-supported “Cannes in a Van” team hits the streets in their Transit Custom movie theatre.

Powered by Ford for a second year, and featuring the new Transit Custom as their support vehicle, the film enthusiasts behind Cannes in a Van will champion independent film at an expanded range of festivals and events in 2013, including the spectacular annual Van d’Or Film Awards in September.

(May 20, 2013) Aston Martin is celebrating its centenary in world-class style with the debut of the CC100 Speedster Concept. Created as a stunning celebration of the British brand’s 100 years of sports car excellence the one-off CC100 looks both to the past and the DBR1 — Aston Martin’s greatest sporting triumph on the track — and to the future with its teasing glimpses of potential future design direction.

(May 20, 2013) DETROIT — The all-new 2014 Sierra full-size pickup truck spent more development time in a wind tunnel than any GMC pickup before it, resulting in design changes that benefit both fuel efficiency and interior quietness.

(May 20, 2013) DEARBORN, Mich. — The 2013 Ford Fusion Energi has earned the highest possible “five-star” Overall Vehicle Score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The five-star rating is the U.S. Government’s highest-possible safety rating and is determined only after severe testing procedures as part of NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which combines vehicle performance in frontal and side-impact crash tests and resistance to rollover.

(May 19, 2013) PALO ALTO, Calif. — General Motors is joining the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University, its latest effort to mine the best and brightest ideas and recruit top students studying toward careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

(May 19, 2013) WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — The BMW 5 Series gets a refreshening for 2014. The enhanced 5-Series sedan and 5 Series Gran Turismo will go on sale in the U.S. in August. Modifications to the design, the addition of a new inline-6 BMW Advanced diesel engine for the sedan, and even more available equipment should raise the appeal of the BMW 5 Series family a notch higher.

(May 18, 2013) TOLEDO, Ohio — The Jeep Wrangler is one of the most iconic vehicles in the world and Friday (May 17) the one-millionth JK model rolled off the assembly line at Chrysler Group’s Toledo, Ohio, Assembly Complex. Chrysler executives, plant employees, UAW representatives and supplier partners gathered at the end of the line to mark the occasion.

(May 18, 2013) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Andy Warhol’s 1979 BMW M1 Art Car will be the center piece of the exhibition “BMW – The Ultimate Driving Machine,” which opens this weekend at the Saratoga Automobile Museum. The exhibition will also feature the BMW 3.0 CSL which won the Daytona 24 Hour race in 1976. 

(May 17, 2013) COSTA MESA, Calif. — Hyundai is uniting with the Energy Department on a new public-private partnership called H2USA, which will focus on advancing hydrogen infrastructure to support more transportation energy options for U.S. consumers, including fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

(May 17, 2013) CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Ever watch a TV travel show and think, "That would have been even better if it had a classic car in it"? Or tuned into an automotive show and thought, "This is cool, but I wish they'd take the darn car out of the garage." A windows-down cruise, and the soundtrack of four, six, eight or even sixteen cylinders (with an accelerator volume pedal) would really take things to the next level.