August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

The Sandton Motor Show, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from 29-30 August 2015, will offer consumers the biggest opportunity they have this year to admire, select and buy a car, 4×4 or bakkie on the floor.

Organised by Future Group, which also manages TruckX, the largest truck show in South Africa, the Sandton Motor Show offers dealers, manufacturers and consumers the best possible place to do business at South Africa’s biggest car show and sale.

“Budgets are tight, competition is stiff, choices are abundant and consumers are pressed for time. As a result, there is a demand for a faster, more efficient means of shopping for a car,” explains Nina Harms, project manager of the show.

“According to results of the 2015 People’s Wheels survey, almost 9 out of 10 respondents (88%) say convenience is a major influencing factor in their purchasing decisions, which is where the Sandton Motor Show comes in.”

Instant deals

“By putting together all the marques under one roof, consumers can compare makes, models and deals – because all the exhibitors must have a show special that is enticing enough to do business then and there. Buyers will also be able to negotiate finance and insurance packages on the floor and have their intended trade-in vehicles evaluated on the spot.”

According to Richard Lendrum, MD of the Future Group, a Times Media company, “With never-to-be-repeated deals, a selection of vehicles stretching across all price points and even an auction of luxury vehicles, city runabouts and classics on the cards, the 2-day Sandton Motor Show offers a one-stop purchasing solution right in the heart of South Africa’s economic hub.”

Entrance is R100 per person. For further information on how to attend or participate, either as a corporate partner or exhibitor, please contact nina@thefuture.co.za.

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August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

The Sandton Motor Show, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from 29-30 August 2015, will offer consumers the biggest opportunity they have this year to admire, select and buy a car, 4×4 or bakkie on the floor.

Organised by Future Group, which also manages TruckX, the largest truck show in South Africa, the Sandton Motor Show offers dealers, manufacturers and consumers the best possible place to do business at South Africa’s biggest car show and sale.

“Budgets are tight, competition is stiff, choices are abundant and consumers are pressed for time. As a result, there is a demand for a faster, more efficient means of shopping for a car,” explains Nina Harms, project manager of the show.

“According to results of the 2015 People’s Wheels survey, almost 9 out of 10 respondents (88%) say convenience is a major influencing factor in their purchasing decisions, which is where the Sandton Motor Show comes in.”

Instant deals

“By putting together all the marques under one roof, consumers can compare makes, models and deals – because all the exhibitors must have a show special that is enticing enough to do business then and there. Buyers will also be able to negotiate finance and insurance packages on the floor and have their intended trade-in vehicles evaluated on the spot.”

According to Richard Lendrum, MD of the Future Group, a Times Media company, “With never-to-be-repeated deals, a selection of vehicles stretching across all price points and even an auction of luxury vehicles, city runabouts and classics on the cards, the 2-day Sandton Motor Show offers a one-stop purchasing solution right in the heart of South Africa’s economic hub.”

Entrance is R100 per person. For further information on how to attend or participate, either as a corporate partner or exhibitor, please contact nina@thefuture.co.za.

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August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

The Sandton Motor Show, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from 29-30 August 2015, will offer consumers the biggest opportunity they have this year to admire, select and buy a car, 4×4 or bakkie on the floor.

Organised by Future Group, which also manages TruckX, the largest truck show in South Africa, the Sandton Motor Show offers dealers, manufacturers and consumers the best possible place to do business at South Africa’s biggest car show and sale.

“Budgets are tight, competition is stiff, choices are abundant and consumers are pressed for time. As a result, there is a demand for a faster, more efficient means of shopping for a car,” explains Nina Harms, project manager of the show.

“According to results of the 2015 People’s Wheels survey, almost 9 out of 10 respondents (88%) say convenience is a major influencing factor in their purchasing decisions, which is where the Sandton Motor Show comes in.”

Instant deals

“By putting together all the marques under one roof, consumers can compare makes, models and deals – because all the exhibitors must have a show special that is enticing enough to do business then and there. Buyers will also be able to negotiate finance and insurance packages on the floor and have their intended trade-in vehicles evaluated on the spot.”

According to Richard Lendrum, MD of the Future Group, a Times Media company, “With never-to-be-repeated deals, a selection of vehicles stretching across all price points and even an auction of luxury vehicles, city runabouts and classics on the cards, the 2-day Sandton Motor Show offers a one-stop purchasing solution right in the heart of South Africa’s economic hub.”

Entrance is R100 per person. For further information on how to attend or participate, either as a corporate partner or exhibitor, please contact nina@thefuture.co.za.

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August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

August brings biggest buying/selling opportunity at Sandton Motor Show

The Sandton Motor Show, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from 29-30 August 2015, will offer consumers the biggest opportunity they have this year to admire, select and buy a car, 4×4 or bakkie on the floor.

Organised by Future Group, which also manages TruckX, the largest truck show in South Africa, the Sandton Motor Show offers dealers, manufacturers and consumers the best possible place to do business at South Africa’s biggest car show and sale.

“Budgets are tight, competition is stiff, choices are abundant and consumers are pressed for time. As a result, there is a demand for a faster, more efficient means of shopping for a car,” explains Nina Harms, project manager of the show.

“According to results of the 2015 People’s Wheels survey, almost 9 out of 10 respondents (88%) say convenience is a major influencing factor in their purchasing decisions, which is where the Sandton Motor Show comes in.”

Instant deals

“By putting together all the marques under one roof, consumers can compare makes, models and deals – because all the exhibitors must have a show special that is enticing enough to do business then and there. Buyers will also be able to negotiate finance and insurance packages on the floor and have their intended trade-in vehicles evaluated on the spot.”

According to Richard Lendrum, MD of the Future Group, a Times Media company, “With never-to-be-repeated deals, a selection of vehicles stretching across all price points and even an auction of luxury vehicles, city runabouts and classics on the cards, the 2-day Sandton Motor Show offers a one-stop purchasing solution right in the heart of South Africa’s economic hub.”

Entrance is R100 per person. For further information on how to attend or participate, either as a corporate partner or exhibitor, please contact nina@thefuture.co.za.

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The 7 Best Design Details from Cars of the 2015 New York Auto Show

It’;s always in the details

Having established that this year’s New York auto show lacked a coherent, overarching theme, we did actually discover one sub-theme running strong throughout: Attention to sweet details in design. Specifically, the collection of debuts had a veritable treasure trove of features and widgets that left us staggered. The devil—or at lease a threadbare connection—is always in the details, they say, and these are some fun things eggs we saw in New York.

1) Lincoln Continental concept: Absolutely ridiculous 30-way seats

The Lincoln Continental concept’;s derivative look may have irked some folks, but everyone could appreciate the car’;s outrageous interior. Our favorite feature? The epic 30-way power seats, which have an equally impressive 50 engineering patents associated with them. That the seats look like robotic centipedes reaching out to give you an awkward hug, well, that’;s pure gravy.

Lincoln Continental concept: Absolutely ridiculous 30-way seats

For seats with 30 possible adjustments, the controls appear fairly straightforward.

Lincoln Continental concept

2) 2016 Range Rover SVAutobiography: Electrically deployable tables

Nothing says “business class” like tiny tables that deploy from next to your ultra-luxury SUV’;s comfy, reclined rear perch. The 2016 Land Rover Range Rover SVAutobiography’;s trays kick things up a notch extra by deploying under their own power at the press of a button. Pass the bubbly, Jeeves.

2016 Range Rover SVAutobiography

3) 2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder: Folding roof mechanism

Why are we celebrating a manually folding roof on an $ 80,000-plus sports car? Because the previous-generation Porsche Boxster Spyder’;s lightweight design ethos and gorgeous rear-deck fairings dictated the use of a convertible top of such diabolical complexity as to make a Swiss watch blush. While your timepiece wept with embarrassment, you probably were getting wet during the 5-to-10-minute process of erecting the old Spyder’s tent-like cloth roof. The new Boxster Spyder’s top, which folds beneath a tonneau cover, is far simpler. Of course, Porsche didn’t remove all of the complexity—raising or lowering the top still requires a number of steps—but we dig how it improved the roof while still keeping it relatively basic and light-w7

2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder

4) Honda Civic coupe concept: Properly done wrap-around taillights

Today’;s Civic looks a bit like like a sad tadpole with headlights. The 2016 Civic Coupe concept, on the other hand, looks like a real car that we’;re actually attracted to. Our favorite feature? The Civic concept’;s highly sculpted, wraparound taillights that look like nothing else on the road. This is the sort of wow factor the production Civic desperately needs to regain the interest of buyers—and us.

Honda Civic coupe concept

Honda Civic coupe concept

5) 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club: Pure, undisguised engine

These days, it’;s rare to open a car hood and find . . . an engine. Sure, the lion’;s share of new cars sold the globe over are powered by internal-combustion engines, but few are visible to the naked eye. Manufacturers, whether to quell noisy direct fuel-injection system noises or simply to prevent their hapless customers from becoming overwhelmed when trying to top off their windshield-wiper fluid reserves, have begun slathering engines with plastic and felt covers. That’s why we were so happy when we happened across the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club’s gloriously naked engine bay. Is that a . . . a valve cover we see? Ignition coils? An exhaust manifold? Fun fact: Even the regular 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata’s engine bay looks like this. Long live the naked engine!

2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club

6) 2016 Nissan Maxima: 4DSC taillight branding

The original Nissan Maxima had tiny “4DSC” lettering molded into its exterior lights, and so, too, does the all-new 2016 version. For the uninitiated, “4DSC” stands for “4-Door Sports Car,” a boast Nissan has long made about the Maxima sedan. It remains to be seen whether the new car will live up to the title, though.

2016 Nissan Maxim

7) 2016 Cadillac CT6: Streaming-video rearview mirror

Cadillac’;s CT6 luxury sedan is understated, handsome, and long overdue. That said, one of our favorite features—besides the CT6′s epic-sounding (no pun intended) 34-speaker Bose audio system—is its fancy digital rearview mirror. At the flip of a switch, the rearview mirror transforms from a reflective surface showing what’s behind you to a screen showing—wait for it—what’s behind you. The cool part is how it shows your aft surroundings: Thanks to a wide-angle video feed, all you see is what’s behind the car, no rear pillars, no headrests, no back-seat passengers.

2016 Cadillac CT6 streaming video mirror

2016 Cadillac CT6

The 7 Best Design Details from Cars of the 2015 New York Auto Show

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AMG Brings a Car to the Boat Show With GT S and Matching Cigarette

Mercedes-AMG this week reprised its slightly strange tradition of showing off customized land-primarily based automobiles at the Miami International Boat Show, parking a garishly black-and-yellow GT S sport coupe in front of a matching Cigarette speedboat. No, you can not tow the boat with the Benz. Quit asking.

In the wake (hah! That’s a boating joke, kid) of final year’s Benz-and-matching-boat duo, and 2013’s nuclear-glow-in-the-dark combo, Mercedes asked Cigarette Racing to generate the most outrageously apt sea-faring pairing to go with the twin-turbo, 503-hp sportster.  And this boat ain’t blowing smoke.

The dinghy-half of the duo is the Cigarette Racing 50 Marauder GT S Notion, billed as the world’s most effective production twin-engine overall performance boat, and hoo-boy does it earn it: Aft of the 5-seat passenger compartment, the engine room homes twin Mercury Racing V-8 engines kicking out 1550 horses every.

And it’s not like these sixteen pistons have to contend with a lot of dead weight: Cigarette says it sliced almost 1000 lbs from the boat’s dry weight, giving the 50-foot torpedo a claimed leading speed of more than 135 mph.

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The bodacious boat’s specs make the Mercedes-AMG GT S’s achievements seem like a drop in the bucket: The coupe only has one engine, for Pete’s sake, although it does hurdle to a terminal velocity of 193 mph. It also comes in at a rather reasonable $ 130,000—reasonable, at least, compared to the $ 1.2 million value tag for the one-off Cigarette.

As for towing the 13,200-pound boat? For that you’re gonna need to have a truck.

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AMG Brings a Car to the Boat Show With GT S and Matching Cigarette

Made in Detroit: Nearby Motors Printed a Car at the Auto Show

Regional Motors is joining the Detroit maker movement: The firm 3D-printed an electric automobile at the North American International Auto Show, the 3-part printing procedure ushering in the company’s midcycle refresh of its Strati. The automobile was first unveiled at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in September.

Regional Motors expects to ultimately produce 30 Stratis and provide them in late 2015 at rates anticipated to fall in between $ 18,000 and $ 30,000, according to a spokesperson.

We previously reported that the Strati uses a Renault Twizy EV powertrain, however that will modify in the coming months as the Twizy bits are being phased out. “We have to solidify the powertrain,” said Neighborhood Motors COO Lee Herge. “We don’t intend to make [powertrains]. We’re creating a couple of platforms and speaking to everyone.” The Strati is produced of 80 percent ABS plastic and 20 % minced carbon fiber and weighs a claimed 1500 pounds.

The quick turnaround on its surface updates is made to demonstrate how swiftly the firm is capable of shifting its plastic production approach. “It’s to show its adaptability,” Herge stated. He stated the refreshed Strati attributes a reworked front end, headlights, taillights and fenders. When we had the opportunity to visit with Local Motors, the Detroit instance wasn’t very finished verify out the renderings under to see how it ultimately differs from the first-gen vehicle pictured up top. The new Strati was only in phase 2 of the 3-element production process at the time, possessing been delayed simply because the routing triggered disruptive noise for the duration of auto-show organization hours. The organization showed the very first-generation Strati at its booth and presented rides on the test track (more on that soon).

“We like to think of it as a Create-a-Bear mashed up with IKEA mashed up with Formula 1,” said Nearby Motors co-founder and CEO John B. Rogers, Jr. at the company’s Monday afternoon press conference. Rogers also announced the company’s plans to expand its crowdsourced operation. This year, it will open 2 new micro factories in Knoxville, Tennessee, and one particular at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C., exactly where the initial 3D-printed vehicles will be spit out, assembled, and sold. The organization also plans to open up the style approach via a contest in which 12 builders will have printed goods for show at the 2015 SEMA show.

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Honda Expands Airbag Recall Nationwide, Takata Tests Show Higher Defect Rates

Hiroshi Shimizu, Takata’s senior vice president of global good quality assurance, testifies ahead of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on December 3.

With Takata denying a federal request to recall more of its driver’s-side airbags, Honda has agreed to do so by expanding its regional recalls and calling all automakers to help a third-party audit that would speed up components testing and properly determine the shrapnel-shooting airbags.

As of last Wednesday, the National Highway Visitors Safety Administration had provided Takata until midnight last evening to expand the recall and had pressured half of the 10 impacted automakers to do the same. While NHTSA maintains that passenger-side airbags do not pose a coast-to-coast problem, Takata senior vice president Hiroshi Shimizu rebuffed NHTSA’s claims that a number of million driver’s-side airbags now demonstrate a national safety danger.

“Based on the information we are collecting from the region, the data nonetheless help that we must remain focused on the region with higher humidity,” Shimizu stated in a hearing today to the Residence Committee on Energy and Commerce.

To date, Takata has tested roughly 4000 inflators recovered from automobiles in “high humidity” regions of the south and Gulf Coast and said that all of the approximately 400 driver’s-side inflators had performed as designed. But of the remaining 3600 passenger-side inflators, Shimizu said that “less than 60″ had ruptured—which, at 1.67 % of the sample, is a quite higher failure price in manufacturing. NHTSA had sent a recall request to Takata final month soon after a driver of a 2007 Ford Mustang outdoors of the regional recall was injured by a 2-inch metal shard. In the U.S., 4 folks have died from the defective Takata inflators—all of them in Honda vehicles—and at least 139 injuries have been reported across all automakers.

“The proof is the dilemma isn’t limited to areas of absolute, higher humidity,” NHTSA deputy administrator David Friedman stated at the hearing. Friedman mentioned he would pursue fines, which can run up to $ 7000 per day, if Takata does not comply with an expanded recall.

So far, only Toyota has seconded Honda’s request for outdoors testing but did not expand any of its recalls. Takata stated it would type an independent panel to scrutinize top quality checks, recommend greatest practices at its facilities, and publish the final results at a later date. As part of NHTSA’s investigation, the company has till December 5 to supply the agency with particulars on its manufacturing processes and to reveal employee names who worked on the production line when the faulty airbags had been manufactured. All 10 automakers have also been ordered to submit test benefits from the regional recalls by December 5, hence Honda’s cry for a group work. Honda is below a separate investigation by NHTSA for omitting 1729 death and injury reports for far more than a decade, a dilemma the business mentioned nowadays was due to poor employee oversight, and for not specifically mentioning airbag-related deaths and injuries in previous recalls.

In August, a 2007 Ford Mustang driver was injured by this 2-inch metal fragment from a faulty Takata airbag.

Despite months of testing—plus years of related investigations by Takata and Honda that stretch back to 2004—neither Takata nor the automakers have a definitive answer as to why the airbags are exploding shrapnel. Shimizu said Takata is testing about 25 inflators per day and is currently on track to ship out 350,000 replacements per month and will ramp up to 450,000 by January. If each automaker issues national airbag recalls, Takata has agreed to contract with suppliers Autoliv and Daicel to feed the demand.

Although numerous of Takata’s current airbag inflators use the synthetic compound Tetrazole, Shimizu mentioned there was nothing unsafe about the ammonium nitrate utilized in the faulty inflators, only that “manufacturing processes and humidity control in the plant” had caused the problem. When Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) revealed comments from Takata engineers in 1999 who raised doubts about ammonium nitrate, which includes that it “predisposes this propellant to break apart” and that it could “blow up,” Shimizu said he did not remember seeing them. Final month, a Takata official stated the replacement airbag inflators had a revised chemical compound but have been still primarily based on ammonium nitrate. Shimizu mentioned the replacements have the exact same propellant as just before.

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“I’m quite confident that merchandise on the current production line should operate as made and are secure,” Shimizu said.

With regard to allegations that business workers destroyed information after discovering faulty airbags in 2004, Shimizu denied there was “any secret test” and stated the company did conduct tests at that time related to a separate difficulty in which airbag cushions have been tearing on BMW models.

Honda Expands Airbag Recall Nationwide, Takata Tests Show Higher Defect Rates

Honda Expands Airbag Recall Nationwide, Takata Tests Show High Defect Rates

Hiroshi Shimizu, Takata’s senior vice president of global quality assurance, testifies prior to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on December 3.

With Takata denying a federal request to recall more of its driver’s-side airbags, Honda has agreed to do so by expanding its regional recalls and calling all automakers to help a third-party audit that would speed up parts testing and properly determine the shrapnel-shooting airbags.

As of last Wednesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had provided Takata till midnight last night to expand the recall and had pressured half of the 10 impacted automakers to do the exact same. Even though NHTSA maintains that passenger-side airbags do not pose a coast-to-coast dilemma, Takata senior vice president Hiroshi Shimizu rebuffed NHTSA’s claims that numerous million driver’s-side airbags now demonstrate a national safety threat.

“Based on the information we are collecting from the area, the data nevertheless support that we need to stay focused on the area with higher humidity,” Shimizu said in a hearing these days to the Residence Committee on Energy and Commerce.

To date, Takata has tested roughly 4000 inflators recovered from automobiles in “high humidity” regions of the south and Gulf Coast and mentioned that all of the about 400 driver’s-side inflators had performed as made. But of the remaining 3600 passenger-side inflators, Shimizu said that “less than 60″ had ruptured—which, at 1.67 percent of the sample, is a really high failure rate in manufacturing. NHTSA had sent a recall request to Takata final month right after a driver of a 2007 Ford Mustang outdoors of the regional recall was injured by a 2-inch metal shard. In the U.S., 4 folks have died from the defective Takata inflators—all of them in Honda vehicles—and at least 139 injuries have been reported across all automakers.

“The proof is the dilemma isn’t restricted to locations of absolute, high humidity,” NHTSA deputy administrator David Friedman mentioned at the hearing. Friedman mentioned he would pursue fines, which can run up to $ 7000 per day, if Takata does not comply with an expanded recall.

So far, only Toyota has seconded Honda’s request for outside testing but did not expand any of its recalls. Takata said it would kind an independent panel to scrutinize top quality checks, advocate very best practices at its facilities, and publish the outcomes at a later date. As element of NHTSA’s investigation, the organization has till December 5 to give the agency with specifics on its manufacturing processes and to reveal employee names who worked on the production line when the faulty airbags had been manufactured. All 10 automakers have also been ordered to submit test results from the regional recalls by December 5, therefore Honda’s cry for a group effort. Honda is under a separate investigation by NHTSA for omitting 1729 death and injury reports for much more than a decade, a dilemma the firm said right now was due to poor employee oversight, and for not specifically mentioning airbag-connected deaths and injuries in previous recalls.

In August, a 2007 Ford Mustang driver was injured by this 2-inch metal fragment from a faulty Takata airbag.

Despite months of testing—plus years of related investigations by Takata and Honda that stretch back to 2004—neither Takata nor the automakers have a definitive answer as to why the airbags are exploding shrapnel. Shimizu mentioned Takata is testing about 25 inflators per day and is at the moment on track to ship out 350,000 replacements per month and will ramp up to 450,000 by January. If every single automaker issues national airbag recalls, Takata has agreed to contract with suppliers Autoliv and Daicel to feed the demand.

Even though many of Takata’s present airbag inflators use the synthetic compound Tetrazole, Shimizu stated there was nothing unsafe about the ammonium nitrate utilized in the faulty inflators, only that “manufacturing processes and humidity handle in the plant” had triggered the difficulty. When Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) revealed comments from Takata engineers in 1999 who raised doubts about ammonium nitrate, which includes that it “predisposes this propellant to break apart” and that it could “blow up,” Shimizu stated he did not remember seeing them. Last month, a Takata official said the replacement airbag inflators had a revised chemical compound but have been still based on ammonium nitrate. Shimizu said the replacements have the identical propellant as prior to.

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“I’m really confident that items on the present production line ought to operate as created and are protected,” Shimizu said.

With regard to allegations that company workers destroyed information following discovering faulty airbags in 2004, Shimizu denied there was “any secret test” and stated the organization did conduct tests at that time associated to a separate difficulty in which airbag cushions have been tearing on BMW models.

Honda Expands Airbag Recall Nationwide, Takata Tests Show High Defect Rates

Totally free Stuff Alert! This Is the Very best Swag We Nabbed at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show

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In between sprinting from press conference to press conference, conducting interviews with auto execs, taking hundreds of photographs, and all the selfies we take in front of new supercars, 1 of our preferred issues to do at auto shows is gathering swag. We’;re talkin’; totally free stuff here, the tiny trinkets, posters and pamphlets, and press materials—info on new debuts, existing models, and concept cars—that automakers give away at their booths to haggard journalists like us. Normally, these things are not obtainable to the public, so at the 2014 Los Angeles auto show, we snatched up a bunch of swag to give you a taste of the auto-journalist life.

Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Ram—in a pen

The pen, as they say, is mightier than the sword. That statement counts for double when the pen is equipped with an 8-GB USB stick stacked with the most current on Fiat-Chrysler’;s products.

Jaguar saves the manuals

Jaguar is literally saving the manuals—both the of the transmission and paper how-to assortment. As portion of its rollout of the stick-shift 2016 F-kind, Jaguar released a valuable guide to driving a common transmission and performing so is the very best thing ever. As a bonus, Jag even threw these sweet Save the Manuals–style buttons in for excellent measure.

Mopar crucial and cylinder press kit

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Mopar important and cylinder press kit

Fiat-Chrysler is identified for providing away inventive swag, and this essential/cylinder combination does not disappoint. In case you have been wondering, the USB stick is constructed into the end of the key.

Lincoln Black Label booklet

It might look basic and outdated, but a nicely simple booklet is by no implies undesirable if it’;s accomplished proper.

Lincoln Black Label booklet

This pamphlet’;s 4 pages briefly but efficiently cover the 4 interior and exterior style themes accessible on the new Black Label MKZ and MKC models. As a bonus, it really is recyclable. Or edible. (We consider so, at least.)

Maserati 100th anniversary celebration

This year marks Maserati’;s 100th anniversary, so as you’;d count on, the firm was celebrating in complete force at the L.A. show. The prize for us? 2 booklets, a single of which turned out to be practically 50 pages extended and covers the brand’;s history and its present lineup.

Maserati 100th anniversary celebration

You would not count on Maserati to use ho-hum photography, would you?

2015 Chrysler 300 press kit

2015 Chrysler 300 press kit

2015 Chrysler 300 press kit

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