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Larz Anderson Auto Museum Collaborates w/ Boston MFA

This week RPM News Weekly kicks off its second season of programming and the launch of its all new website at rpmnewsweekly.com with a visit to the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts where Boston Museum of Fine Arts Curator of Design Meghan Melvin gave a group of curious automotive enthusiasts a peak at the MFA’s transportation design collection. Don’t worry. It’s not as stuffy as you might think. In fact, we were delightfully surprised that the Museum had such an expansive collection of original automobile design artwork from such highly regarded automotive illustrators as Carl Renner, Homer C.…

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RPM Drives: 2017 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible

Weekend fun takes on added meaning in the 2017 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible where peppy turbocharged performance meets the unmitigated joy of having nothing between you and the open air as you cruise down a winding road to the sea.

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2018 Toyota Camry Comes To New England

This week RPM News Weekly travels to Middleboro, Massachusetts to welcome the completely redesigned, eighth generation Toyota Camry to the Boston metro region by way of a product demonstration presented at the headquarters of the New England Motor Press Association. (more…)

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Mecum Auctions J. Geils Collection of Italian Cars

This week RPM News Weekly pays tribute to legendary rock guitarist John J. Geils whose band amassed a string of popular hits in the 1970s and 80s including the #1 chart topper Centerfold. It may seem strange to our automotive audience that RPM News Weekly would take the program in this direction, but there are couple of important connections here. First, J. Geils, who passed away in April, was a good friend of Jim Barisano, CEO of WheelsTV with whom RPM News Weekly is closely affiliated. And secondly, he was a passionate collector of classic Italian motor vehicles. This week,…

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Formula E from NYC to Montreal

Formula E wraps up its 2017 race season this weekend in Montreal, Canada with the Renault e.dams team holding a dominating 65-point lead in the competition. Ten teams, twenty drivers have been battling it out across the globe in the sport’s 12-race third season that commenced last October in Hong Kong.RPM News Weekly was on hand, last week, for all the excitement and energy these all-electric super cars brought to the streets of Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York with the city’s first-ever Formula-e races. Having transformed several blocks of a gritty, industrial neighborhood on Brooklyn’s waterfront that faces the…

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Tesla Powerpack in Australia, Volvo Expands Electrification

  This week, Tesla announced that it’s been selected to provide grid-scale energy storage for the South Australian Government via a Tesla manufactured Powerpack system with 100 megawatts of capacity. It was a busy week for Tesla that also saw the automotive innovator start production of its long awaited Model 3. The South Australian project pairs Tesla with global energy provider Neoen’s Hornsdale Wind Farm near Jamestown, South Australia and calls for charging the Powerpack system using the wind farm’s renewable energy. The electricity can then be delivered as needed to the South Australia electrical infrastructure. (more…)

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