Automotive Journal

Santa Ana, California, 15 May, 2012 – Commonwealth Audi will be celebrating the opening of their all-new world-class facility located in Santa Ana, California in June.  Invited guests will be treated to entertainment, refreshments, and speaking guests include Senior Executives from Audi of America and Penske Automotive including Roger Penske. “We are very excited to present our all-new dealership to the Audi fans of Orange County,” says Commonwealth Audi General Manager Matt Crandall.  “This has been a great collaboration for both Audi of America and Penske Automotive, and everyone at Commonwealth Audi is proud to be able to provide an even better car buying and Audi service experience to southern California.” The cocktail event will be held the first week of June.  Guests will be invited to participate in an all-access tour of the new dealership and can enjoy reg... (more)

Gentex Shipping New Multi-Function Camera With Driver-Assist Features to Ford

ZEELAND, MI -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX), the Zeeland, Michigan-based manufacturer of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors and camera-based driver-assist systems for the automotive industry, commercial fire protection products and dimmable aircraft windows, has announced that it is supplying auto-dimming mirrors with a new, camera-based driver-assist system for the 2013 Ford Explorer. The new Gentex driver-assist system uses a multi-function camera combined with algorithmic decision-making to perform Automatic High-Beam Control, Lane Keeping and... (more)

Fujitsu Ten Limited Forms Joint Venture Companies with UNO Minda for Car Infotainment Products

Leading Japanese automobile component manufacturer FUJITSU TEN LIMITED and leading Indian auto components manufacturer Uno Minda, NK Minda Group have agreed to establish new manufacturing and sales joint venture companies in India for Car Infotainment(*1) products. The JV agreement was signed today at Bangalore, Karnataka. The automotive industry in India is one of the largest in the world and one of the fastest growing globally. Considering that the number of new car sales in India exceeded 3 million in 2010, Indian car market has launched itself into a real motorization era an... (more)

Black Duck, Olliance Group and BearingPoint Introduce Governance Fast Start for GENIVI Members

PARIS, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the GENIVI® Alliance All Members Meeting, Black Duck Software, Olliance Group and BearingPoint announced the Governance Fast Start™ for GENIVI Members, a package designed to speed and reduce the cost of development when building products based on GENIVI specifications. Governance Fast Start for GENIVI Members helps development organizations rapidly deploy the policies and processes required to efficiently meet legal requirements.  Developed for members of the Alliance, the Governance Fast Start for GENIVI Members is a joint offering ... (more)

Autobytel and AutoPacific Collaborate to Conduct Largest Automotive Buyer Satisfaction Survey

Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL), the company dedicated to helping dealers and car-buyers connect online, and AutoPacific, an automotive marketing research and product-consulting firm, announced today the companies have coordinated efforts to publicly survey the largest number of automotive buyers to date across all major manufacturers. The collaboration, which grew from an initial partnership between the two last year, surveys recent car and truck buyers’ ratings of their new 2012 model year car or truck. The results are analyzed to identify the top performing vehicles that will th... (more)