In 1976, Bob Hall, a journalist at Motor Trend magazine who was an expert in Japanese cars and fluent in the language, met Kenichi Yamamoto and Gai Arai, head of Research and Development at Mazda.

* Winner of Motor Trend Magazine's Sport / Utility of the Year Award in 2009

The Toronado was Motor Trend magazine's 1966 " Car of the Year.

* Oldsmobile Toronado ( 1966 – 1992 )-personal luxury coupe, major redesign downsized the car in 1986, Motor Trend Car of the Year in ' 66.

Because of these changes, Motor Trend magazine picked the entire Pontiac line as 1959 Car of the Year.

The Tempest won the Motor Trend " Car of the Year " award in 1961 — for Pontiac, the second time in three years.

The February, 1965 issue of Motor Trend was almost entirely devoted to Pontiac's Car of the Year award and included feature stories on the division's marketing, styling, engineering and performance efforts along with road tests of several models.

It won the Motor Trend Car of the Year award in 1974 and 1994.

: The MDX wins the prestigious Motor Trend " 2001 Sport / Utility of the Year " award

*' Motor Trend ' magazine ( USA ), February 1972 issue

*' Motor Trend ' magazine ( USA ), February 1974 issue

( In 2000, Motor Trend did away with separate awards for domestic and imported vehicles.

In a Motor Trend interview August, 1970 DeLorean said, " Vega will be the highest quality product ever built by Chevrolet.

The new model, introduced at a time of increased interest in small cars, won several awards including Motor Trend Car of the Year.

Motor Trend declared: " The Alliance may well be the best-assembled first-year car we ’ ve ever seen.

In 1963, the entire Rambler line received the Motor Trend Car of the Year award.

* Motor Trend, an automotive magazine

A four-barrel Motor Trend test car, a heavier convertible handicapped by the two-speed automatic transmission and the lack of a limited slip differential, ran 0-60 mph in 7 seconds and through the quarter mile in 16. 1 seconds at 89 miles per hour ( 142. 4 km / h ).

Car Life was satisfied with the metallic brakes on its GTO, but Motor Trend and Road Test found the four-wheel drum brakes with organic linings to be alarmingly inadequate in high-speed driving.

Motor Trend clocked a four-speed Ram Air with 4. 33 rear differential at 14. 45 seconds at and a standard GTO with Turbo-Hydramatic and a 3. 23 rear axle ratio at 15. 93 seconds at.

Motor Trend tested a 1971 GTO with the 455, four-speed transmission, and 3. 90 axle, and obtained a 0-60 mph time of 6. 1 seconds and a quarter mile acceleration of 13. 4 seconds at 102 mph ( 164 km / h ).

The article continued: " Walt Woron of Motor Trend enjoyed the ' quick-flowing power ... that pins you to your seat and keeps you there until you release your foot from the throttle [...] Olds dominated the performance landscape in 1950, including wins in the NASCAR Grand National division, Daytona Speed Weeks, and the 2100-plus-mile Carrera Panamericana.

In January 1965, Foyt qualified and ran in the front of the pack most of the day with Dan Gurney and Parnelli Jones in the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside.

It was also history-making, becoming the first individual model line ( as opposed to an entire company ) to earn Motor Trend " Car of the Year " honors.

On a skidpad, the car achieved. 83 g, only. 03 g less than the Celica GTS, during testing by Motor Trend and Sport Compact Car.

Preston Tucker was putting together an ambitious effort with Harry Miller and the Ford Motor Company for the 1935 Indianapolis 500.

The hurdles of integrating the banks of the V for common, affordable cars were first overcome by the Ford Motor Company with its Ford flathead V-8, introduced in 1932, which was the first V-8 with a single engine block casting, putting an affordable V-8 into an affordable car for the first time.

He then became a jobber to the X Division, and the Tag Team division with Lance Rock, putting over such teams as Team 3D, LAX, Prince Justice Brotherhood and the Motor City Machine Guns.

Javelins were designed for production levels never before attempted by Jowett with Javelin and Bradford body production out-sourced to Briggs Motor Bodies who built a new plant at Doncaster.

Examples include contemporary versions of the AMC Hornet, AMC Javelin and AMC Matador assembled in Australia by Australian Motor Industries ( AMI ) from complete knock down ( CKD ) kits which continued to be badged as Ramblers until 1978.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

* 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.

Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Earnhardt began his professional career at the Winston Cup in 1975, making his debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600.

He also won the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a win he called the biggest of his career.

* 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Bluebird K7 on display at Goodwood Motor Racing circuit in 1960.

Bluebird CN7 on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu.

Campbell's speed on his final Lake Eyre run remained the highest speed achieved by a wheel-driven car until 2001 ; Bluebird CN7 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, her potential only partly realised.

To make Robert Paul's On a Runaway Motor Car through Piccadilly Circus ( 1899 ), the camera was turned very slowly, so that when the film was projected at the usual 16 frames per second, the scenery appeared to be passing at great speed.

Shooting began on December 7, 1931 at Ascot Motor Speedway and wrapped on February 1, 1932.

In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

Royal Navy World War II Motor Torpedo Boat | MTB planing at speed on calm water showing its Chine_ ( boating )# Various_types_of_chine_hulls | Hard chine hull-note how most of the forepart of the boat is out of the water

It appears that at least one company, Dongfeng Motor Corporation ( DFM ), has the full consent and cooperation of the General Motors Corporation.

It appears that at least one company, Dongfeng Motor Corporation ( DFM ), has the full consent and cooperation of AM General.

* Johnson Motor Sports, Racing and Performance Company located at 3247 Hwy 63 S. Lucedale, Mississippi

A Koenigsegg CC prototype was first publicized in 1996, while the full carbon fiber production prototype was finally unveiled at the 2000 Paris Motor Show.

In 2010 Koenigsegg released information at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show on a new model called the Agera, which translates into " take action / act " in Swedish.

The Loudon Classic, held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway ( formerly Bryar Motorsport Park and New Hampshire International Speedway ) is the longest running motorcycle race in the United States, and is held every year on Father's Day.

BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

* 1948: The first Land Rover was officially launched 30 April 1948, at the Amsterdam Motor Show

Will have its debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show