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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.”
1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and 2009 Chevrolet Malibu in 40 mph frontal offset crash test
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Prius - A Decade in North America
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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Mad Money TV Program’s Jim Cramer said that Ford is “the greatest turnaround story in American history.”
Ford CEO Alan Mulally was pleased at the strongest quarter he’s seen in ten years, the removal of $7 billion of debt, and Ford’s strong position worldwide, rating first or second in 19 to 21 markets. Saying the company is “on the way to where we wants to be, and that’s investment grade.” Mulally also states, “the Ford brand is fantastic in China,” and intends to “expand as fast and as prudently as possible.” It seems that his company could provide “profitable growth for all” including Ford’s workers.
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Hyundai Equus
The 385-horsepower Hyundai Equus has arrived. Hyundai is offering their new model in two different breeds: Equus Signature and Equus Ultimate. The Signature version comes with almost everything: leather and Alcantara interior, heated steering wheel, climate controlled seating with a massaging driver’s seat, Smart Cruise Control, parking assistance, air suspension and a 17-speaker, 608-watt Lexicon stereo are at the beginning of a terrifically long list.
Pay a little more for the Equus Ultimate and you add the around-the-corner-view cameras to the parking assist, power trunk, and in back, reclining, cooled rear seats with their own massage function and leg support – and a rear seat refrigerator. Along with many, many other luxuries. They even offer the manual via an app on an Apple iPad!
MotorWorld Hyundai, Hall Hyundai Western Branch, Hall Hyundai Newport News, Hall Hyundai Elizabeth City, Heritage Hyundai Towson
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From all of us at Hall Automotive, we would like to congratulate Cliff Heater and Paul MacWilliams at Hall Nissan Virginia Beach on receiving the elite level of Nissan Technicians.
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Committed to Fighting Childhood Cancer
2010 marks the twelfth year that Hyundai and its dealers have been committed to supporting the fight against childhood cancer. What began in 1998 as a local initiative supported by New England-area Hyundai dealers to raise funds for the Jimmy Fund at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has evolved into Hyundai Hope on Wheels, an independent nonprofit organization which is supported nationwide by all of Hyundai’s 780 dealers and Hyundai Motor America. Since 1998, Hyundai Hope on Wheels has donated more than $14 million to children’s hospitals nationwide to help kids fight cancer. Every time a new Hyundai vehicle is sold in the U.S., $5 is donated to Hope on Wheels.
The Hope on Wheels Tour is the united effort of Hyundai dealers across the country to raise awareness about childhood cancer and celebrate the lives of the courageous children battling the disease. This summer, the Hope on Wheels Tour will travel to 42 children’s hospitals across the country and donate more than $2 million to support further training and research for doctors involved in childhood cancer research, making it the largest single year of donations in the organization’s history. Including, your Norfolk, VA Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. Hyundai Hope on Wheels designates the medical professionals supported by these donations as Hyundai Scholars.
The 2010 Tour will also host Handprint Ceremonies for childhood cancer patients, both past and present, at the 42 children’s hospitals receiving donations. The symbol of the Hope on Wheels Tour is a white Hyundai Santa Fe covered with colorful handprints representing childhood cancer patients from all over the country. The Handprint Ceremony celebrates the courage of childhood cancer patients by capturing their colorful handprints on the white Santa Fe; children attending the ceremony are asked to lend a hand and place their own handprints on the car to commemorate their battle with cancer. Why handprints? Because there’s nothing more personal than a handprint – and the goal of the Hope on Wheels Tour is to share the personal triumphs of each of these children with other childhood cancer patients and their families across the country. Whether it’s completing a round of chemo, celebrating a beautiful new head of hair or receiving a clean bill of health, one childhood cancer patient’s milestone can be another’s symbol of hope.
Hall Hyundai Newport News & Hall Hyundai Western Branch & Hall Hyundai Elizabeth City
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Didn’t win the Tuna Tournament Contest Tickets and Not able to attend the Tuna Tournament this week? No Problem! We still want our readers to have a chance to be a winner.
All you have to do is text the word “TUNA” to 59925 for a chance to win a $175 Custom Fishing Rod!! We will be drawing 3 winners so make sure to text the word “TUNA” Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for 3 chances to win!! Not a big fisher? This would make an amazing gift or tag your friends & family in the picture below to have 3 chances to win as well!! It’s completely FREE to you and won’t cost you through your mobile service to text!
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Hall Automotive joins with Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia to give back to the community. Hall Automotive is holding its 4th Annual Hall Dodge/Tidewater Mopar Club Summer Show.
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Check out retired Formula One driver David Coulthard as he test drives the Mercedes-Benz’ SLS E-Cellprototype. The former racer runs the electric supercar through some acceleration and slalom tests on a runway before hitting the public roads of Norway.