New England Winter Vehicle Awards Hardly any manufacture went away unhappy after the New England Motor Press Association announced the winners in its annual Winter Vehicle Competition that considers how each candidate meets the particular needs of the New England driver during the area’s lengthy winters. Toyota’s Venza won the official winter vehicle of New… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Pit Notes – March 2009
When it rains on the Detroit auto scene it pours, literally. The Detroit News reported that leaks in the roof of its Cobo Center exhibit hall threatened to splash salty and corrosive water onto priceless cars on display in the Championship Auto Show held there recently. Bob Larivee, Jr., chief executive officer of Championship Auto… Continue Reading
Across the Finish Line – March 2009
George Blumberg, freelancer, wrote for NY Times, Chicago Tribune, AutoWeek John Sweeney, a long-time member of NEMPA and former Executive Director of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts David Scott, 90, once London, England correspondent for Ward’s Auto and former European editor for Popular Science and Automotive Engineering.
Road Signs – March 2009
Chris Ayres, in a Feb. 12 audio blog on The Social Net suggests that the reason newspapers accustomed to being the dominant news source in their market are failing in this country is because they can’t compete, unlike England where his home town of London has 89 different titles vying for attention. . . …. Continue Reading
Calendar Correction: NYIAS Media Days
The correct dates for the NY International Auto Show are April 8 and 9, 2009. For more information please visit their website at http://www.autoshowny.com/