With temperatures breaking 90 degrees even along the Maine coast, it was almost too warm to put the tops down, but NEMPA’s 16th annual Ragtop Ramble & Crustacean Crawl, July 17-18, drew some 60 members and guests, traveling in at least 32 cars, two vans and one boat. Happiness reigned. Photos by Bill Griffith, George Kennedy, […]
Archive | July, 2013
NEMPA Meets Silverado, Impala & Cruze Oil-Burner
On June 27, a team from Chevrolet visited the Automotion garage for wood-fired-oven pizza—and to present to NEMPA three very significant new vehicles: the 2014 Silverado pickup, Impala sedan and Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel. Randy Fox and Chad Lyons, Chevrolet Communications, traveled from Detroit to join East Coast comms reps Kim Carpenter and Steve Martin, […]
NEMPA Gets Seat Time in Ford STs
NEMPA became the first group of American journalists to drive Ford’s brand-new Focus ST and Fiesta ST models back-to-back at a preview on June 20 at the Automotion garage in Middleborough. The two FWD hot-hatch STs are the latest products from Ford’s SVT group. (“ST” stands for Sport Technologies.) They are for the driver who […]