Sep
23
High Fashion and Automobiles
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Auto Shippers is pleased to see excellence being awarded, as Caroline Herrera is the new title holder of “Mercedes-Benz Presents” for the upcoming fall Fashion Week. Herrara is being awarded for her 2011 spring and summer season collection. It will be debuted at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at the Lincoln Center in New York City on [...]
Sep
21
Creating Opportunity
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Too often nowadays, all we hear about is the end of things – closing of factories, businesses shutting their doors, people losing jobs. Auto Shippers would like to keep you updated on the positive outcomes of these “ends” in our economy, and how companies are turning an end into a change. Many vehicle manufacturing plants [...]
Sep
17
A Reason for a Fiesta
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Ford once again proves the reliability of its brand with a surprising winner. The 2011 Ford Fiesta is voted as a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The first mini-car to get voted onto the list, the eighth Ford vehicle to be voted a Top Safety Pick by the IIHS. There [...]
Sep
15
Toyota Partners with Yellowstone National Park
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Auto Shippers congratulates Toyota on a large accomplishment for both the company and the nation. Toyota lent its engineers to Yellowstone National Park to lend a little of their know-how to the National Park’s engineers as they collaborated to build the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center. According to motortrend.com, this building is, “the first national [...]
Sep
13
Zippin’ Up in Buffalo
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Auto Shippers is always happy to see efforts to preserve our environment, and the University of Buffalo is doing just that. The college, located in upstate New York, is now working with Zipcar, Inc., which is the largest car-sharing service in the world. Zipcar is a company that provides a slew of cars for a [...]
Sep
11
Congratulations to China Automotive Systems, Inc.
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Auto Shippers is proud to see a quality automotives company making waves in the business world. China Automotive Systems Inc. ranked 23rd on Fortune 2010’s “100 Fastest Growing Companies” list. This list details the top domestic and international companies that are excelling in revenue, market capitalization, major growth over this year’s quarters, as well as [...]
Sep
9
Wi-Fi Wonder
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As times change, so does Ford. Determined to make the most out of recent technological advancements, Ford has announced use of Wi-Fi technology on its assembly lines. According to motortrend.com, Ford is using Wi-Fi to install SYNC software (Ford’s brand) to readily equipped vehicles. By doing this, Ford will get rid of the need to [...]
Sep
7
Jaguar Delivers
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And we at Auto Shippers want one. Just when we thought Jaguars couldn’t get any cooler. In Pebble Beach, California, Jaguar revealed that they actually could. In the British company’s new XJ75 Platinum, Jaguar makers are adding a touch of class to their already posh dashboards. Instead of including the traditional digital clock found in [...]
Sep
5
Garmin Recall
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The way we get from here to there may be a problem. As of August 26th, Garmin, the company that produces the trusty GPS systems, issued a recall of several of their machines. The recall includes over one million of the portable devices, including models Nuvi 200W, 250W, 260W and other models as well. Just [...]
Sep
3
Keep Improving
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Toyota is hoping to plug into the electrical car industry in a big way. As government regulations tighten on car companies and the average fuel efficiency expectations, Toyota announces its hopes for a large improvement in the near future. Toyota plans to improve the miles per gallon of their cars by 25% from 2005’s numbers [...]