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Main > Car Makers News > Mini > 2010 Mini Crossman Review Consumer Guide’s Impressions of the 2010 Mini CrossmanTake one Mini Clubman, lift the suspension, add all-wheel drive, and season with SUV styling flavor. That’s BMW’s recipe for a cute new crossover wagon.What We Know About the 2010 Mini CrossmanIt’s no secret that BMW is planning to expand its Mini brand into a multi-model line. The mainstay two-door hatchback “hardtop,” redesigned for ’08, is being joined by the extended-body Clubman, which BMW hopes you... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-19 11:51:54 Article Views Rating: 1574 Main > Car Makers News > Audi > What Are They Smoking? Audi's A6 Awarded Most Reliable Car Of All Classes The trade magazine "Automobilwoche" has honored Audi as the year's most improved brand; at the same time, the DEKRA testing company has rated the Audi A6 as the "Most Reliable of All Classes": just two highlights in a long list of honors for the Audi brand in 2008. This year the brand with the four rings not only delivered an impressive domestic performance with 35 awards but proved its excellence in the international arena as well with 56 prizes. The Audi R8, the A5 and the A4 are... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-19 08:13:35 Article Views Rating: 175 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Car and Truck of the Year finalists include three vehicles from Detroit | detnews.com | The Detroit News DETROIT -- The covers were lifted off the six finalists for the 2009 North American Car and Truck of the Year awards at Cobo Center today and the finalists include three vehicles from Detroit's automakers and three from foreign carmakers. The car finalists are: • Ford Flex. The boxy crossover is Ford's entrance in the 7- and 8-passenger SUV replacement segment. • Hyundai Genesis. This sedan is Hyundai's entrance into the luxury car market and also is the first Korean-made vehicle to be an... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-19 08:13:30 Article Views Rating: 93 Main > Car Makers News > Other > DETROIT AUTO SHOW: The Most Comprehensive List Of What Cars Are Coming in 09'. Which One Excites You Most? It's hard to believe that the 2009 Detroit Auto Show is only weeks away, amidst all this end of the world bailout talk.Thank God, the wizards at one of our favorite print mags maybe even our favorite, CAR Magazine have compiled an exhaustive list of what they know is coming in 2009!Alfa Romeo MitoMini-rivalling premium hatch with supercar styling cuesAlfa Romeo 149147 moves upmarket to take on A3 and 1-seriesAlfa Romeo 169We're due to hear more on Alfa's 167 later next yearAlfa Romeo 8C SpiderStunning... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:39 Article Views Rating: 267 Main > Car Makers News > Mazda > Stars of the road: Mazda6, F-150 rise to the top in value, performance | detnews.com | The Detroit News Need trumps want in 2008 for The Detroit News Car and Truck of the Year. There are lots of vehicles I want: the $100,000 Corvette ZR1 super-duper car; the Nissan GT-R, with its fancy carbon-fiber everything; or even the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, a silky smooth big ute that glides along the road in semi-environmental friendliness. But few need those vehicles, much as it pains me even to write those words. This year, many people have lost the value of a ZR1 in their 401k since August. And all 18 people... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:28 Article Views Rating: 215 Main > Auto Shows > Other > Future Electric Cars Electric cars already have a proven track record for success, albeit a limited one. If you've seen the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car" you'll already know that General Motors introduced the EV1 as a lease vehicle only to recall it and crush it because of a dispute with the California Air Resources Board. The past electric... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-16 07:24:02 Article Views Rating: 445 Main > Car Parts > Other > How Much Electricity Does It Take To Replace Gasoline? How Much Electricity Does It Take To Replace Gasoline? View Jeff Wilson's blog as posted on Better Place Web Site http://planet.betterplace.com/profiles/blogs/how-much-electricity-does-itThis was one of the major questions burning in my mind as I was doing research for The Manhattan Project of 2009.If we took every gasoline-powered car, truck, and SUV and replaced their powertrain with an electric powertrain, how much electricity would it take to totally replace gasoline?This is easy to... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-15 17:52:13 Article Views Rating: 203 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Commentary: Toyota isn't the villain of industry fiasco | detnews.com | The Detroit News A drawling Ford dealer who's really named O.C. Welch in a place that's really called Hardeeville, S.C., bought a bunch of radio spots last week so he could rant about Japanese cars. From elsewhere in the South, a cabal of spiteful senators joined forces to keep Chrysler and GM from getting industry-saving loans. Welch went after Toyotas, growling among other things that they're "rice ready. They're not road ready." The senators, most visibly Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama, tried to put a... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-15 07:23:42 Article Views Rating: 190 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM offering more cash back and outstanding deals on Red Tag sale As car sales continue to decline, auto makers continue to offer year-end deals in hopes to move models out of the showrooms. GM’s Red Tag Sale has been going on since November and today the General said that it has upped the amount of cash back it will offer on a couple of 2008 models that are still stuck at dealerships.Of course most, if not all, of the deals focus on SUVs and pickups with rebates ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 cash back. Some deals that we found pretty interesting in our area New... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-12 06:46:20 Article Views Rating: 131 Main > Car Makers News > Nissan > Nissan EV Cube coming to 2008 Eco-Produc The largest eco-friendly products show of Japan, Eco-Products 2008, will be the initial public emergence of Nissan’s latest test vehicle electric Cube; also present in the show will be the X-TRAIL Clean Diesel SUV. The show begins today until Saturday at the Big Sight in Tokyo. The EV-02 experimental vehicle, patterned on the regular Cube, utilizes batteries of lithium ion.The display of Nissan at the show will also provide an idea for “non-contact charging” of those cells. And as far as the clean... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-12 06:46:14 Article Views Rating: 158 |
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