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  • Project 370Z

    Yesterday, Nissan unveiled the refreshed 370Z Coupe and Convertible. Today it is inviting fans to participate in what it's calling "Project 370Z." In an effort to highlight the numerous options available to passionate Z owners, Nissan is going to create a project Z car in which fans are in charge. Starting with a fresh 2013 370Z, Nissan is going to build the car in three upgrade phases: power, handling/brakes, interior and exterior. Each phase will begin with fan wall posts, comments, and likes on Nissan's Performance Facebook fan page being reviewed during the voting session. The upgrades...

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    Motor Authority Is On Google+, Add Us To Share With Your Circles

    We know you love to get Motor Authority news in every way possible, and now we have a shiny new way to connect with you, our loyal fans. We're now on Google+, and we are making sure the latest news reaches our circles as quick as possible. While you probably are already a fan on Facebook, and you...

  • Motor Authority On Google Currents
    Motor Authority Is Now On Google Currents

    As an avid reader of Motor Authority, we are sure you are always looking for new ways to check out the latest car news while on the go, and today we are happy to announce yet another way to do just that. Motor Authority is now on Google Currents. While we are sure you are already a fan on Facebook...

  • Monkeyplate: Social networking for gearheads
    Facebook For Cars: Monkeyplate Is Social Media For Gearheads

    Gearheads have been using online social media to discuss their love of cars for years, but few of the existing outlets are aimed specifically at the car enthusiast. The people at Monkeyplate.com are changing this. The website is the first to connect car fans in the real world using customized...

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    To Celebrate 1 Million Facebook Fans, Aston Martin Crowdsources A Car

    Aston Martin has hit 1 million Facebook fans in two years, and to celebrate, the automaker is letting its fans design a special Millionth Fan Car.

  • Justin Bell in 'World's Fastest Car Show' from eBay Motors
    eBay Motors Debuts 'World's Fastest Car Show' With Justin Bell

    eBay has had a tough go of it since former CEO Meg Whitman stepped down, but what change a week can bring: now, Whitman's been tapped to help the sinking ship known as HP, while eBay Motors has just launched an impressive new series for the web and mobile devices called "World's Fastest Car Show"...

  • BMW "The Ultimate Drive" app

    Some carmakers would have you believe that it's no longer enough to simply drive around in their product, that driving is now a connected experience and one to share with a wider audience than just your passengers. To this end, BMW's new mobile app, "The Ultimate Drive" lets you discover the best driving roads in over 50 countries, and also rank, comment on and share those roads via social network sites like Facebook, or by email and GPS devices. BMW calls it a social navigation mobile app and it's the product of BMW Financial Services, which also aims to integrate the ability for customers...

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    Facebook Could Eventually Replace Call Centers For Nissan

    If you've ever had a complaint or simply wanted to speak to the customer service department of a company using their phone service, you're no doubt aware of the frustration sitting through endless menus and electronic voices before finally getting through to the right department. For Nissan...

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    NASCAR Jumps On The Facebook Game Bandwagon

    It's no Farmville--but in NASCAR's new Facebook game, you'll be sure to take a faster spin around Car Town.

  • MINI Connected App
    MINI Connected 'Enhances Driving Fun' With Social Networking

    Cheeky styling and endless personalization options already mark out the MINI as a fun and sociable vehicle, but now a new App from MINI called MINI Connected will give drivers, in MINI's words, "an even more intense experience of limitless driving fun". Normally for this sort of experience you'd be...

  • 2011 Audi A3 Sedan Concept
    Audi's Facebook Fans 'More Engaged' Than Justin Bieber's

    You might think that of all groups most likely to barrage a Facebook post with "Likes" in the shortest possible time, pop star Justin Bieber's army of wildly fanatical teen fans would top the list. Not so: A new study by Visibli has shown that German automaker Audi has the most engaged fans on...

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    2012 Audi A7 Rolls Into Times Square The Only Way It Can: On A Billboard

    Just two days before the 2011 New York Auto Show opens to the press, Audi has launched an eye-popping marketing campaign for its sleek, sophisticated 2012 A7. Today, the five-door coupe will roll straight into Times Square -- not literally, since cars are forbidden in the pedestrian center of town...

  • Chevrolet Cruze 2.0 VCDi turbodiesel (Europe)

    Whip out your backpack and groom your mustache: it's time for America's favorite festival for interactive, film, and music, South by Southwest. And just like last year, Chevrolet will be tagging along with lots of new goods, including Chevy MyLink. The company will also host a shuttle service, a two-night musical showcase, and a lounge for fest-goers. SXSW is a great forum for Chevy -- full of relatively young, relatively affluent, typically well-educated folks who are eager to try out the Next Big Thing. So it's no surprise that Chevy will take the opportunity to show off its most...

  • Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid signed by Facebook fans
    Porsche Celebrates One Million Facebook Fans With Special 911 GT3 R Hybrid

    As we first reported on sister site SocialCarNews, Porsche’s fan community on Facebook added its one-millionth fan at the turn of the year and in doing so set a new record for an automaker’s corporate page on the popular social network. Reason enough for Porsche to thank its fans with...

  • Mercedes-Benz Tweet Race to the Big Game
    Mercedes-Benz Tweet Race Teams Chosen, Race Starts February 2

    The celeb-studded Mercedes-Benz "Tweet Race to the Big Game" is about to get underway, with the four two-person teams and their "coaches" chosen. Using Twitter as some sort of "fuel" they'll race to reach Dallas, Texas for the Super Bowl. Fans of each team stand to win prizes for their...

  • 2011 Ford Mustang V-6 Convertible
    Ford Allows Facebook Fans To Name V-6 Mustang Performance Package

    Ford is continuing to use social media to strengthen its connection with consumers, this time by allowing customers to choose a new name for the Mustang V-6 Performance Package. Mustang's Facebook fans will be asked to submit names that will appeal both to racing and all-around sports-car elements...

  • BMW X3 iAD
    Order Your Next BMW With New User-Generated iAd

    BMW has launched the first-ever user-generated iAd to promote the arrival of the all-new 2011 BMW X3. For anyone not in tune with the latest tech, iAd is Apple's new mobile advertising network and has the potential to reach millions of iPhone and iPod touch users. The focus of the iAd is BMW's...

  • Multitasking man on highway
    Video: Man On Freeway Reading A Book, Kindle E-Book And Using A Cell Phone

    For those of you who ever thought men were incapable of multitasking, meet the man who could possibly be the most efficient person in the world.. or the most dangerous. He was spotted driving down a freeway at speeds of up to 60 mph with not only a book in front of him, but also a Kindle e-book...

  • Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice

    Over the next 12 months, Land Rover will launch an all-out offensive to get its new Range Rover Evoque front and center of the cool kids. Borrowing some marketing techniques from Land Rover's former parent company, Ford, as well as General Motors, the Evoque is being handed over to 30+ "global influencers" in the hopes that their trendsetting ways will help drive demand for the new crossover. And we have a feeling it will. As you may recall, the Evoque was first revealed to the public over the summer, accompanied by fashionplate and eternally hungry person Victoria Beckham, occasionally...

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    Want To Work At Porsche? No Facebook For You!

    Who hasn't, at one point in their speed- and curve-obsessed childhoods, dreamed of working for a top-tier sports car maker like Porsche? Whether sculpting the clay that will be the next 911 or eking the last little bit out of a naturally-aspirated flat six, there's a lot there to love. But it comes...

  • 2012 Mediocrity spy shots
    Spy Shots: The 2012 Mediocrity, or A Waste of Our Time?

    Here at MotorAuthority, we get spy shots of upcoming vehicles from different sources--trusted lenspeople scouring the deserts and tundras of the world, just trying to hustle and make a dollar. Sometimes they come from readers like you (and we like that). And every so often, our own crack team comes...

  • 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS
    Fireball Run: Recapping Days Three And Four

    Our guys are still moving their way eastward across the country as they participate in the Fireball Run, and here's a quick peek at what happened on days three and four of the Run. On Day Three, our guys had no problems with the Fireball Run's assorted missions, only missing one 10-point bonus. But...

  • GM Experimenting With Facebook In Cars

    Want to update your Facebook status to say something about your tremendously fun drive behind the wheel of your new Camaro but don't want to risk crashing while you use your smart phone to update? Well, GM just might have the solution for you. That's right, GM is working on a system that will allow...

  • Justin Timberlake in a video campaign for the Audi A1
    SAT Prep: Mark Wahlberg Is To The MINI Cooper As Justin Timberlake Is To The...?

    Justin Timberlake has led a charmed life. He started his career on The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he sang, danced, and generally acted a foo' alongside poptartlets like Brit-Brit and Xtina. Then came 'N SYNC and enough earnings to buy the state of Idaho, including its stock of potatoes. That was...

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