Hyundai Hope On Wheels for CHKD

Wednesday August 25th was the kickoff presentation to the Hyundai Hope On Wheels event. All of our Hall Hyundai General Managers; Nick Vendt, Michael Komives, and William Rodgers attended this touching event.

Cancer patients at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters covered their palms with paint and then gave a H…yundai Santa Fe a custom paint job of sorts. Hyundai dealers in Hampton Roads presented a $40,000 check to the Norfolk children’s hospital as part of the company’s national Hope On Wheels effort. “You know cancer kids, they are so often put in this box and told that it’s something to be sad about, you have to be depressed and sad about your diagnosis, but the thing is we’re just normal people,” said 18-year-old Preston Heinlein.

$5 is added to the Hope on Wheels program each time a new Hyundai is sold…LETS SELL THOSE HYUNDAI’S. The company hopes to donate as much as $6 million to childhood cancer research. The cure rate for childhood lukemia is up to 80% now. “And it’s all using drugs that have been available for years – just learning how to better use them, how to better manage them, how to combine them all through cooperative research that just takes years to do,” explained pediatric oncologist Dr. Eric Lowe. The money will be used to support Dr. Lowe’s resarch on using technology to improve compliance with chemotheraphy protocols with the hope of improving survival.

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Hall Chevrolet Western Branch Hits Home Run for Area Youth Baseball

Hall Chevrolet Western Branch Donates More Than $3,300 in Cash and Sports Equipment to Churchland Little League

Hall Chevrolet Western Branch, one of 15 Chevrolet dealers from the Norfolk area that partnered with local youth baseball leagues for the 2010 baseball season, raised nearly $49,500 in total donations from the dealership and private parties. In addition to monetary support, Hall Chevrolet Western Branch provided Churchland Little League with equipment donations, an opportunity to raise and keep up to $10,000 through a unique fundraiser, and participation in a baseball clinic led by Ripken Baseball.

“Chevrolet has a long history with baseball and we’re glad we were able to bring that commitment to our youth leagues in Chesapeake where our customers and their families live, work, and play,” said Steve Havens General Manager for Hall Chevrolet Western Branch. “The instructional clinic was the highlight of the season for many of the kids.  They had a blast and, frankly, we did too.”

Hall Chevrolet Western Branch partnered with the Churchland Little League because of their proximity to the dealership.  Equipment donated by Hall Chevrolet Western Branch included equipment bags, ball buckets, coach’s clipboards and t-shirts. In addition, the dealership helped donate either a Chevy Malibu or a Chevy Equinox to be used as a fundraiser by the league.  The winner of the fundraiser got to choose one of the two vehicles.

“We are delighted to be involved with the American tradition of youth baseball,” said Havens. “Sponsoring Churchland Little League gave us the opportunity to illustrate our commitment to the youth and families in Chesapeake and we’re glad to have achieved such positive outcome for the community.”

In 2010, more than 980 Chevrolet dealers participated in Chevy Youth Baseball and helped raise more than $3 million for youth baseball programs across the USA.  Now in its fifth year, more than $11 million has been contributed to youth baseball in the communities where Chevrolet’s customers live, work, and play.

For more information about Chevy Youth Baseball, visit www.YouthSportsWired.com.

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Love This! Mario Kart Comes to Life.

Someone has cleverly painted symbols from Mario Kart in a Portland bike lane.

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Text-To-Win iPad Winner

Congratulations to Sharon Thomas for being our Tent Sale iPad winner at the 7/30-8/1 Tent Sale Text-To-Win event. Sharon is a local Virginia minister that purchased a Ford for her daughter about to attend college. While getting her daughter a safe and reliable car she won herself an iPad for simply texting in!

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Hall Ford Hyundai Elizabeth City

Hall Ford Hyundai Elizabeth City team is more than excited to be apart of the Elizabeth City area & to meet all of the great North Carolina people! Swing by and say hi, we would love to meet you!

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How Much Ninja Can You Pack In a Honda Fit?

A couple funny commercials from Australia for the Honda Fit. ( The Fit is marketed as the Jazz in numerous other global markets.)

How much hipster can you pack into a Honda Jazz/Fit?

How much ninja can you pack into a Honda Jazz/Fit?

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Unbelievable Crash! – 50 years in the making

50 years ago, US insurers organized the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.   The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — from crashes on the nation’s highways

Over these 50 years car crashworthiness has improved. Demonstrating this improvement a crash test was conducted between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. In a real-world collision similar to this test, occupants of the new model would fare much better than in the vintage Chevy.

“It was night and day, the difference in occupant protection,” says Institute president Adrian Lund. “What this test shows is that automakers don’t build cars like they used to. They build them better.”

The crash test was conducted at an event to celebrate the contributions of auto insurers to highway safety progress over 50 years. Beginning with the Institute’s 1959 founding, insurers have maintained the resolve, articulated in the 1950s, to “conduct, sponsor, and encourage programs designed to aid in the conservation and preservation of life and property from the hazards of highway accidents.”

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What A Decade It Has Been!

This year, the Toyota Prius celebrates a decade of sales in North America. The Prius remains the best selling hybrid in both the U.S. and around the world. Since its Japanese market introduction back in 1997, drivers have purchased more than 1.8 million of the gas-electric vehicles, with approximately half of those ending up in the United States. The first-generation Prius was an awkward looking four-door sedan that was slow and often didn’t meet up with customer’s fuel economy expectations. It wasn’t until the second-generation model arrived in 2004 with a new tear-drop shaped hatchback body style that the Prius really took off. By 2007, sales topped half a million, with the third-generation model arriving two years later offering even more improved efficiency and better dynamic performance. This year, Toyota has begun to set up a test-fleet of plug-in Priuses with lithium ion batteries with full series production of those versions planed for 2012.

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