(January 20, 2012) DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford is giving muscle car enthusiasts a rare opportunity to bid on the racetrack durability car used to develop the 2013 Shelby GT500 production Mustang. The car will be auctioned at the 41st Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction Saturday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
 
The sale will raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). On the auction stage will be Ford’s President of The Americas, Mark Fields, and members of SVT. The event will be televised live on SPEED Channel.

(January 19, 2012) DETROIT —– Chevrolet sold 4.76 million vehicles around the world in 2011, setting a global sales record and driving General Motors global sales to more than 9 million vehicles, a 7.6 percent gain compared with 2010.

GM gained four-tenths of a point of market share to 11.9 percent of the global vehicle industry. Sales were up in all four reporting regions — North America, South America, Europe and International Operations — as GM sold a total of 9,025,942 vehicles compared with 8,385,484 in 2010.

(January 19, 2012) Kia Motors produced a record 252,000 cars at its Zilina, Slovakia factory last year, a 10per cent increase over 2010.  The plant also achieved a 12 per cent year-on-year increase in engine production, with more than 359,000 petrol and diesel engines rolling off the production lines in 2011.

(January 18, 2012) DETROIT — Got backseat boredom? DVD players and Game Boys are so five years ago, but a new concept in rear seat entertainment technology that uses the windows themselves could replace squirminess and snoozing with interactive scribbling, sweeping and pinching.

General Motors Research and Development put that challenge before researchers and students from the FUTURE LAB at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel. The task: Conceptualize new ways to help rear seat passengers, particularly children, have a richer experience on the road.