Jaguar has received the 2006 World Traffic Safety Symposium's Traffic Safety Achievement Award for the new XK's pedestrian impact safety system. To reward major advancements in traffic safety, the World Traffic Safety Symposium recognizes organisations and individuals that are creating a safer environment for motorists and pedestrians

Fundraising Bike Ride From Boston to Cape Cod Benefits Best Buddies International Four hundred cyclists will gather in the early morning at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum prepared to ride 90 miles in support of Best Buddies International, a nonprofit that provides friendships and jobs to people with intellectual disabilities

Lexus is joining its Toyota stablemate Scion in directly courting gay audiences. The luxury brand's edgier, younger sibling has been in the business of marketing to gays essentially since its inception, but this will mark the first time that Lexus has directly sought the homosexual dollar. Brian Bolain, Lexus' national advertising and media manager outlines the process that led Lexus into the market in a Gay365.com interview

Volkswagen's shocking GX3, the California penned roadster-cum-motorcycle that rocked the Los Angeles Auto Show is likely to shake up the North American car market like few vehicles have in recent years -- provided it's a success. Many other world markets have a goodly number of oddball, small volume vehicles like the GX3 -- Britain and Japan come immediately to mind. But in the U.S., unorthodox offerings have largely been confined to the margins of the market, fringe bets by fringe players

Regular readers will remember the spy photos of a mystery Solstice hardtop we posted a month ago. Well, General Motors has made it official, the Solstice is going to compete in National-level Sports Car Club of America road racing. The Solstice racer will make its debut this weekend at the SCCA National event at New Hampshire International Speedway. The upstart Pontiac will race in the Showroom Stock B class, alongside the Mazda Miata, BMW Z4, Acura RSX and Honda Civic

The Pagani Zonda S always was the best supercar money couldn't buy. The new Zonda F is even more so: better than ever, more money than ever (more than half a mil, ex-taxes), and even less legal than ever--at least here in the U.S. But it's worth your attention because it's so exquisite, so outrageous, and so damn good. And its maker vows that, by 2008, he'll use his skills to develop a car that complies with federal regulations

If the crossword puzzle clue is "hybrid car," the answer is probably "Prius." Since Toyota brought that model to the United States six years ago, the company has basked in a green public- relations glow even though Honda Motor was first with a modern gas- electric car (the Insight) and Ford sold the first hybrid sport utility vehicle (the Escape)

Yamaha Marine Group today announced a promotion offering current used boat owners as much as $6,635* in benefits on eligible repowers. "This is an opportunity for the owner of an older boat to enjoy the benefits of a new-technology Yamaha outboard," said Dale Barnes, Yamaha Division Manager, Marketing. "It's also a way for boaters to enjoy the benefits of Yamaha's Command Link(TM), which is designed to work in concert with the Yamaha outboard

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA), a leading developer of advanced electronics technology for automotive applications, today issued a new technology backgrounder describing the FlexRay(TM) networking standard for motor vehicles and the benefits it will deliver to the automotive industry