Focal America/Orca Chooses Installation Excellence
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Posted December 7 2007 02:53 PM by brook.howell
Victory Technologies’ Installation Excellence software tracks more than 16,000 vehicles and thousands of attributes. It’s an ideal reference to have on hand, so we’re happy to hear that Focal America/Orca has decided to...
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Filed under: Featured Car Audio Products, Other Car Audio
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Tony Pedregon and Funny Car race team win NHRA Drag Racing C
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Posted December 6 2007 02:52 PM by brook.howell
MTX Audio seems to be throwing sponsorship money everywhere. I’m not talking about getting you free gear for your project vehicle, but its heavy involvement in a variety of sports. One of their sponsor recipients, Tony...
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Optima Batteries New Site
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Posted December 5 2007 03:55 PM by brook.howell
Wow! Optima’s new website looks great! Rather than just trying to sell product (which reminds me, check out the newsstands for the January issue, loaded with our picks of this year’s best products), it also dishes out...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous
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Kenwood KOS-V1000 Wins Popular Mechanics Editor’s Choice
MECA RTA Freq-Out
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Posted December 4 2007 02:07 PM by brook.howell
At the RTA-Freq Out event held at MECA’s World Finals, an AudioControl SA-3055 Real Time Analyzer traveled from car to car. After all the measurements were taken, Lee Byerly of Team Phat Hertz (IL) took home the RTA...
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Pimp My Ride at LA Auto Show
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Posted November 28 2007 10:45 AM by brook.howell
Though all the auto manufacturers showed off their latest models and concepts on the upper floors, the hall devoted to aftermarket upgrades was bumping during the LA Auto Show last week. On the first Friday night of the...
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Garmin Withdraws TeleAtlas Bid
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Posted November 19 2007 05:21 PM by brook.howell
Garmin apparently felt ill at ease that competitor TomTom wants to buy the digital mapmaker. Apparently, they weren't too ill at ease, withdrawing their $3.3 billion bid last week.
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The Finals are over
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Posted November 8 2007 10:42 AM by brook.howell
We’ve finally recuperated from the tumult that is SEMA and are ready to let you know what went down. Six great cars made it out to the 2007 Finals (one of our finalists, Jeff Kane, had to bow out as his ride got in a crash...
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Eclipse feels giving
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Posted October 24 2007 04:30 PM by brook.howell
Eclipse has teamed up with Santa Monica Subaru and 97.1 FREE-FM's Adam Carolla Show to build a custom vehicle that will be auctioned online, starting October 30, 2007, to benefit the children and families served by...
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Scary Music
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Posted October 24 2007 04:23 PM by brook.howell
With Halloween coming up, those eerie background noise CDs come to mind. Maybe this soundtrack for the upcoming vampire movie 30 Days of Night could stand in. Composer Brian Reitzell, former drummer of Red Kross and Air,...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, Car Audio Music Picks
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MTX and Hybrid Audio at NOPI and IASCA Finals
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Posted October 24 2007 04:15 PM by brook.howell
IASCA Finals recently took place at NOPI Nationals. We're still getting our coverage together (check out the February issue for all the pics), but here are some tidbits of what our friends at MTX and Hybrid Audio...
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Automakers and Aftermarket
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Posted October 5 2007 12:07 PM by brook.howell
Car Audio and Electronics fans in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Slovenia will soon have the opportunity to buy a Renault co-branded by Nokia. The Twingo Nokia will come loaded with the Finnish...
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IASCA Finals 2007
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Posted October 1 2007 11:03 AM by brook.howell
Once again, this year's IASCA Finals was a great success drawing 142 competitors from across North America to the "big show. " IASCA brought in 20 judges from across the U.S, as well as many international judges from the...
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Reader Input
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Posted September 12 2007 10:56 AM by brook.howell
We've tested a lot of great products this year and are currently assembling our Best of List for 2007. Our testers have been dropping their input for a while, but we'd like to know what readers have experienced in real...
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Filed under: Buying Car Audio
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GM head honcho to speak at CES
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Posted September 6 2007 10:13 AM by brook.howell
In the past, big electronic company CEOs (think Microsoft's Bill Gates or Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto) have given the keynote address at January's Consumer Electronics Show. CEA (the Consumer Electronics...
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