(June 6, 2012) DEARBORN, Mich. — On the 68th anniversary of D-Day — the landing of 150,000 Allied troops on Nazi-fortified beaches in Normandy — Ford Motor Company Fund is sponsoring two Honor Flights for about 75 World War II veterans from Michigan and Kentucky to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The trips are organized as part of the Honor Flight Network.
 

(June 6, 2012) Saab owners take heart. You have not been abandoned even though the company is no longer building cars, according to a story in Automotive News Europe.

The company's parts and service arm, Saab Automobile Parts AB, continued its expansion this week by opening a North American subsidiary to serve an estimated 500,000 Saab owners in United States and Canada. That's the largest concentration of Saab owners anywhere, the trade publication reported.

(June 6, 2012) TORRANCE, Calif. — The 2013 Honda Fit EV, with a combined adjusted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mile-per-gallon-equivalency rating of 118 MPGe, has received the highest fuel-efficiency rating ever given by the EPA.

Further, with an unprecedented low consumption rating of just 29 kilowatt hours (kWh) per 100 miles and low EPA rated annual fuel cost of $500, the fun-to-drive 2013 Honda Fit EV can help consumers get more miles for each charging dollar.

(June 5, 2012) SHANGHAI — General Motors and its joint ventures sold a May record 231,183 vehicles in China, GM announced today. Demand was up 21.3 percent from the same month in 2011 and 1.7 percent from April of this year.

Shanghai GM’s domestic sales rose 7.1 percent from May 2011 to 99,113 units. SAIC-GM-Wuling sold 127,749 vehicles in China, an increase of 35.9 percent year on year. FAW-GM sold 3,756 vehicles in the domestic market last month, down 0.7 percent from last May.