Suzuki Auto record sales
- Brand: Suzuki
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Accessories
American Suzuki Motor Corporation announced strong sales through the third quarter of 2007, maintaining a retail pace to achieve its fourth consecutive year of record annual sales. Year-to-date sales now stand at exactly 82,000 vehicles, slightly ahead of the record-setting pace achieved in 2006, which marked the first year in American Suzuki Auto’s 22-year history in which annual volume exceeded 100,000 units. September 2007 sales stood at 7,653 units, buoyed by the popularity of the XL7, which sold 1,386 more units than the outgoing XL-7 in September 2006.
JBL GTi component systems car audio
- Brand: JBL
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Car Entertainment
JBL Mobile Systems, with a proven track record of designing and manufacturing car audio components that make the music in your car sound like a live performance, today unveiled its GTi MkII Component Systems. Available in 5-1/4-inch and 6-inch models, the component systems are the latest addition to the GTi product line. Audio distortion is virtually nonexistent with the GTi Component Systems - they provide crisp and clear sonic reproduction at all sound levels.
AutoWeek readers favorite vehicles
When you ask hard-core automotive enthusiasts to pick their favorite cars, trucks and sport/utility vehicles in nine categories, you get the ultimate guide to the best of the best: the AutoWeek Readers’ Choice Award winners. The winners are profiled in the November 6 issue of the weekly magazine. An online poll asked readers to name their favorites during a six-week period. This is the 16th year AutoWeek editors have turned to readers to share their likes and dislikes.
Parrot P 9611 Porsche Design navigation
- Brand: Parrot
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Navigation
Parrot, one of the leaders in wireless peripherals around the mobile phone, announces that it supplies key Bluetooth features to Navigon’s new Personal Navigation Device. Navigon will start selling its PND today, the P 9611 by Porsche Design Group, a best-in-class portable navigation device for the discriminating consumer. Along with a large high-contrast touch screen, high-quality speakers and a thoughtfully-designed cradle, it includes leading-class telephony features supplied by Parrot. Like all Parrot car kits, the P 9611 Porsche Design offers automatic synchronization of the phone book, direct calls to POIs and a high-level audio quality, using the “Parrot Beamforming” signal processing technique, thanks to its two built-in microphones.
Parrot RK8200 car stereo
- Brand: Parrot
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Car Entertainment
Parrot, one of the leaders in wireless peripherals around the mobile phone, is proud to present the Parrot RK8200, a FM/AM RDS car stereo that features all the connections to play digital and analogue music and which is also a Bluetooth handsfree kit. Boasting sophisticated telephony functions, the Parrot RK8200 stands out with powerful performance, a smart interface and the broadest set of features available on the market.
Car trouble solutions
- Brand: AAA
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Accessories
Tire pressure was the number one vehicle issue identified during the most recent nationwide clinics conducted by AAA and its affiliated repair facilities. Results are based on inspections conducted on 6,082 vehicles by 25 different AAA clubs. As a leading automotive solutions source, NAPA has partnered with AAA to offer answers to some of the most common vehicle challenges. “Drivers should check tire pressure at least once a month to ensure tires are not under or over-inflated,” said Kit Johnson, the 2007 NAPA Technician of the Year from East Helena, Mont.
WorldNav 3100 multimedia navigation
- Brand: Tamron
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Navigation
TeleType Company has just released a successor to its innovative product line that blends cutting-edge vehicle GPS navigation with MP3 and Video player technology. The all-in-one device, called the WorldNav 3100, is a portable touch screen car navigation system that offers door-to-door GPS guidance with text to speech instructions including pronunciation of street names. “There is no other product on the market that offers the exceptional utility, simplicity and affordability of this new piece of mobile electronics,” said Marleen Winer, a spokesperson for TeleType.
Used cars buying tips website
- Brand: BuyingAdvice
- Subject: Cars
- Category: Accessories
Car buying and new car quotes web site, BuyingAdvice.com, announces the release of its recommended lists of used cars. The lists are based primarily on reports from owners and employ a proprietary statistical measure to create a scoring system of 0-10 to identify which vehicles consistently provided the highest levels of owner satisfaction. BuyingAdvice.com examined models from the years 1998 to 2006 and the results were broken down into 10 lists recommending the top 5 cars in each sector of the market.