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Main > Car Makers News > Other > As fuel prices rise, hybrids pay off sooner The price penalty for the added complexity of a hybrid drivetrain has always been a bit of a concern for those looking to not just save fuel, but to save money. In some calculations from a decade ago, popular hybrids would have taken as much as eight or ten years to repay in fuel savings the cost of the car over an equivalent non-hybrid model. But today’s fuel prices are closing that gap - in some cases down to just 18 months. In the United States, $4 per gallon gasoline is a nightmare soon to be... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:25 Article Views Rating: 135 Main > Car Makers News > Opel > Spy Shots: 2009 Opel Insignia hatchback Opel recently took the covers off its new Insignia sedan, the replacement for its aging Vectra Saturn Aura, and now we have an early look at one of the first variations of the car, a new hatchback model. A prototype has been spotted testing at GM’s proving grounds in Germany ahead of the car’s official reveal latest this year. As the images reveal, the new hatchback variant is essentially the sedan with an extended roofline leading to a sloping rear-lifting tailgate. Load capacity should be similar... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:00 Article Views Rating: 285 Main > Car Makers News > Volkswagen > Road Test: Volkswagen Passat CC The Passat CC is Volkswagen's dishy new coupé version of the dull as dishwater saloon. But not every model is a motoring coup I drove a Mercedes-Benz CLS last Monday. It always seemed a ludicrously indulgent car on which to spend a manufacturer's development and marketing budgets, as it is broadly an E-Class saloon with a side view shaped like a banana, less room inside and some more exotic mechanical parts. But buyers love it, because it looks like a concept car. They can drive a little bit of... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-28 08:27:52 Article Views Rating: 2306 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Chrysler: Back to the midsize In the highly competitive midsize car market, Chrysler LLC's offerings get lost in a sea of Toyota Camrys and Honda Accords. Those Asian models outsell the automaker's Dodge Avenger and the Chrysler Sebring by as much as four-to-one. But the midsize car market is a segment in which the struggling Auburn Hills automaker thinks it can do better and has dedicated a team of about 100 engineers to reshape its models. A competitive entry in the so-called D segment would be very profitable for Chrysler and... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-28 06:23:36 Article Views Rating: 160 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Chrysler: Back to the midsize In the highly competitive midsize car market, Chrysler LLC's offerings get lost in a sea of Toyota Camrys and Honda Accords. Those Asian models outsell the automaker's Dodge Avenger and the Chrysler Sebring by as much as four-to-one. But the midsize car market is a segment in which the struggling Auburn Hills automaker thinks it can do better and has dedicated a team of about 100 engineers to reshape its models. A competitive entry in the so-called D segment would be very profitable for Chrysler and... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-28 06:23:36 Article Views Rating: 157 Main > Car Makers News > Other > New U.S. CAFE rules mean more expensive cars, fewer sales The U.S. Secretary of Transportation couched the new CAFE plan as saving billions of gallons of fuel, but the industry sees it as one that will costs billions in research, development and manufacturing costs over the next five years. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters noted in the announcement of the new regulations that the Department of Transportation DOT estimates a savings of 55 billion gallons of fuel and cut 521 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Automakers will foot the bill -... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-28 06:22:45 Article Views Rating: 80 Main > Car Makers News > Other > New U.S. CAFE rules mean more expensive cars, fewer sales The U.S. Secretary of Transportation couched the new CAFE plan as saving billions of gallons of fuel, but the industry sees it as one that will costs billions in research, development and manufacturing costs over the next five years. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters noted in the announcement of the new regulations that the Department of Transportation DOT estimates a savings of 55 billion gallons of fuel and cut 521 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Automakers will foot the bill -... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-28 06:22:45 Article Views Rating: 94 Main > Car Makers News > Pontiac > In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Pontiac G8 GT Click above for high-res gallery of the 2008 Pontiac G8 GTAs a tyke I staged an all-out assault on my parents' better judgment for a G.I. Joe hovercraft. Not three months had passed following their surrender when I ransomed my mischievousness for the next toy my happiness hinged upon. Oh, that hovercraft? Forgotten. The auto industry works the same way. We often convince automakers that we'll buy every cool car they'd make if they would just grow a pair and build 'em. They do their part and then... we... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:16:07 Article Views Rating: 244 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Track revs up thrills for novice drag races It was back in 1973, so I can't exactly recall why my older brother was taking his '71 Dodge Charger R/T to the drag strip. It may have been to dial in the new Six Pack carburetor setup he installed on the car's thumping 440 Magnum, or he could have been testing a then high-tech Direct Connection transistorized ignition. Regardless of the reason, he took me. I was 11. While details of my first trip to a drag strip are fuzzy, one memory remains razor sharp: the roar of uncorked exhaust pipes. It was more... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:58 Article Views Rating: 99 Main > Car Makers News > Saturn > Saturn Aura wagon and coupe renderings Now that Opel’s all-new Insignia sedan is out in the open the next new models to look forward to from GM’s Euro division is likely to be a new wagon variant as well as a possible coupe flagship. Opel has sold wagon versions of the previous Vectra the model the Insignia replaces for a number of generations so the chances of the new five-door hatchback are high but as for the coupe the only indications that such a model will be produced was the unveiling of the GTC coupe concept at last year’s... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-23 06:16:51 Article Views Rating: 314 |
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