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.

McLaughlin who prior to his 100th birthday stated that he, Durant and Durant's son-in-law Dr Campbell from Port Perry and a lifelong friend of Sam were dickering after the Buick Motor deal for 15 years in 1907 and the exchange of $ 500, 000. 00 Buick stock for $ 500, 000. 00 McLaughlin stock with a name for their company and called it General Motors. This came to be in 1908.

In a ceremony performed by the Duke of Kent the new purpose-built museum building in the parkland surrounding Palace House was opened on 4 July 1972: the name was changed to the National Motor Museum, reflecting a change of status from a private collection to a charitable trust and highlighting Montagu's stated aim to provide Britain with a National Motor Museum " worthy of the great achievements of its motor industry ".

Ford Motor Company has stated that additional Lincoln models will be introduced to help replace any shortfall from the discontinued Mercury brand.

Motor Trend tested a 1971 Torino Brougham 4-door and stated " The cushioning and support was excellent.

On 20 January 2005, Watkins announced his retirement from his various medical positions in the FIA, but stated his intention to continue as President of the FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety.

The Indy 500 has a long tradition of the winning driver and team celebrating in victory lane, while Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage has stated that victory lane should be reserved for the winner of the race.

The Volvo YCC (" Your Concept Car ") was a concept car presented in 2004 at the Geneva Motor Show with the stated goal of meeting the particular needs of women drivers.

Although the first generation S-series Blazer and Jimmy were initially sold as 2-doors upon its original introduction, an episode of Motor Trend TV ( c. 1991 ) stated that the thumbs up was for the introduction of the new bodystyle, and the thumbs down was that the 4-door bodystyle was based on the first generation model, which was in the process of a makeover.

The law which governs the beacon and its colors is stated in rule 108 clause III of Central Motor Vehicles Rules of 1989.

Motor trials were held regularly, starting on the long straight road through Puymoyen, now a suburb.

The name Pisinemo is actually a failed attempt by the Motor Vehicle Division to put the traditional name of Pisin Mo ' o onto road side signs along Highway 86 which runs through the Tohono O ' odham Indian Nation.

A section of William K. Vanderbilt Jr .' s Long Island Motor Parkway ( LIMP ) toll road ( 1908 ).

In 2009, after several decades of road safety improvements and a constant decline in fatalities, an estimated 33, 963 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes and, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, " Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children from 3 to 14 years old .".

However, although construction on the Long Island Motor Parkway began a year later, a section of the Long Island road opened for traffic before the end of 1908, opening before the Bronx River as the first limited access automobile highway to be put into use.

Despite public warnings from two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. claiming that if a driver does not respect the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the place " will bite you-hard " Montoya shrugged off the advice claiming that all four corners were exactly the same and that the track required less attention than the road courses in the CART series and in European racing.

A road car tested by The Motor magazine in 1960 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0 – in 11. 4 seconds.

The wheelbase of this car was, and Motor Trends 1972 road test of the similar Chevrolet Impala logged no more than 15 miles per gallon on the highway.

The band performs at home football games and other university functions ; the band performed at select road football games and various bowl games including the Raisin Bowl in Fresno, California, Silver Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada, Motor City Bowl in Detroit, Michigan, and the GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.

Motor cars were becoming common in the early 20th century and the need for road service patrols commenced in 1927, provided by the NRMA using a motorcycle / sidecar response vehicle.

Motor fuel is taxed with both a road use tax and a CO < sub > 2 </ sub >- tax.

The Volvo262 C, which was presented at the 1977 Geneva Motor Show, was entirely manufactured by Bertone, from the assembly of the basic body to the fitting of the mechanical components and the road trials.

Early cars used AC's elderly two-litre overhead cam straight-six engine ( first seen soon after the end of the First World War ), which, according to a 1954 road test by Motor magazine, gave a top speed of and in 11. 4 seconds and a fuel consumption of.

In its May 1971 issue Motor Trend magazine published a comparison road test that included a Caprice Coupe and a Cadillac Sedan de Ville.

Coleraine also makes part of the circuit for the North West 200, a series of motorcycle road races organised by the Coleraine and District Motor Club.

Eisenhower's support of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 can be directly attributed to his experiences in 1919 as a participant in the U. S. Army's first Transcontinental Motor Convoy across the United States on the historic Lincoln Highway, which was the first road across America.

The road enters Daventry, home to large distribution centres for Ford Motor Company, and Diageo.

A 1965 Grand Prix road test was featured in the February, 1965 issue of Motor Trend magazine, much of which was devoted the entire Pontiac lineup receiving M / T " Car of the Year " honors for 1965.

# ( Aug. 1966 ) Motor Sport, full road test, 1966 Toronado

After Ward had been astounded by the cornering ability of Cooper's little cars on the road course, he offered to arrange a test for them at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, saying, " You've got to try out your car around the Oval.

Cooper's development of the British Motor Corporation Mini — the Mini Cooper — was adored by both rally racers and ordinary road drivers.

Motor summarised its road test ( subtitled " Britain leads the way ") with glowing praise:

The Motor Insurers ' Bureau ( MIB ) compensates the victims of road accidents caused by uninsured and untraced motorists.