(March 28, 2011) The largest Rolls-Royce showroom in the world has opened in the Umm Al Nar area of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The new state-of-the-art facility was unveiled by Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

The new 2,950-foot showroom provides space for displaying five Rolls-Royce motor cars, a coffee bar and a customer configuration lounge including color and trim samples. The showroom is also directly linked to a new dedicated Rolls-Royce service facility.

(March 28, 2011) The Volvo C30 Electric has been exposed to rough winter conditions in order to ensure that the battery-powered car runs smoothly in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius.

Volvo Cars' requirements on the C30 Electric are just as stringent as on all other Volvo models and the battery-powered car is exposed to the same test regime.

(March 27, 2011) Audi once again sold more automobiles with all-wheel drive than any other premium manufacturer. The brand with the four rings produced 437,792 vehicles with quattro drive last year.

In the year in which Audi celebrated “30 years of quattro,” around 38 percent of all cars produced worldwide were equipped with the all-wheel drive technology.

(March 27, 2011) DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford’s all-new Police Interceptor sedan and utility can save America’s law enforcement agencies millions of dollars a year on fuel costs, the automaker proclaims.

With three powerful and fuel-efficient V-6 engines, the new Police Interceptor lineup is expected to deliver average fuel economy gains of between 20 and 25 percent over the Crown Victoria police car, which ends production later this year.

(March 26, 2011) The readers of German motoring magazine AutoBild Allrad have selected the Cadillac CTS All-Wheel-Drive Coupe Car of the Year in the import category of the sports car/coupe/convertible segment.

(March 26, 2011) Ford and AT&T today announced an agreement to wirelessly connect the Ford Focus Electric, Ford’s first all-electric passenger car. Announced in January at the 2011 International CES, the new Focus Electric enters production at the Michigan Assembly Plant in late 2011.

(March 26, 2011) TORRANCE, Calif. — Honda will voluntarily recall 2,800 model-year 2011 Odyssey minivans in the U.S. to replace the side window glass in one or both of the front doors.

Honda is taking this step because there is a potential for one or both windows to become detached from the window regulator, causing the window to become inoperative and preventing it from being rolled up or down.

(March 25, 2011) DETROIT — AT&T is putting 101 Chevrolet Express Cargo 2500 vans powered by low-emissions compressed natural gas into its customer service fleet.

The purchase is consistent with AT&T’s alternative fuel strategy to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and to support sustainable transportation. CNG-powered vans can produce 25 percent fewer emissions than similar gasoline- and diesel-powered vans.

(March 25, 2011) NEW YORK — Toyota announced on Thursday that it will resume Japan production on Monday of Prius along with the Lexus CT 200h and HS 250h.
 
The Prius production will be restarted at Toyota's Tsutsumi plant, while the Lexus CT 200h and HS 250h will resume production at Toyota Motor Kyushu.

(March 25, 2011) TORRANCE, Calif.  — American Honda and its Honda Performance Development (HPD) subsidiary today unveiled a unique refueling safety interlock system designed to reduce the potential for pit fires and injuries resulting from drivers leaving their pit boxes with refueling equipment still attached in the IZOD IndyCar Series — a cause of many fires in the past.