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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Kelley Blue Book 2008 Brand Image Awards Influential auto resource Kelley Blue Book KBB and its marketing research team have compiled a list of vehicles based its consumer perception data. Researchers look at carmaker’s achievements in creating and maintaining brand attributes that consumers look for when buying a new car, and is one of the best indicators of how certain brands are perceived by the public. The winners were announced during a media event at this week’s New York Auto Show and include top picks for ‘Best Interior Design’... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:53:36 Article Views Rating: 347 Main > Car Makers News > Infiniti > Infiniti reveals FX35 We saw the new FX50 hit the web just a short while ago, but news of the FX50’s smaller-motored sibling was suspiciously absent - leading many to speculate an all-new 3.7L FX37 was coming. Unfortunately for displacement-heads, that’s not the case. Still, the motor shared with the G35 sedan provides plenty of power for daily duties. Easing 303hp from its 3.5L V6, the FX35 comes up only 87hp short of its 5.0L V8 brother. Both come standard with seven-speed automatic that can optionally be... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:53:51 Article Views Rating: 243 Main > Car Makers News > Scion > Scion planning to double lineup After a bright start six years ago Scion’s sales have tanked and unless action is taken things are set to get worse. The Toyota budget brand sold just 130,000 cars last year, down 25% on the previous year, and officials are predicting volumes to remain unchanged this year. Most of the blame has been directed towards Scion’s limited lineup, although a weak car market was also a factor in the equation. Scion has developed a new turnaround plan, which involves adding a host of new models and several... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:23 Article Views Rating: 211 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Camaro, Challenger lead list of hot cars Psst! Want to buy a hot car? No, not one that's stolen. Hot cars are the highly desirable, hard-to-get cars that everybody has heard about -- and wants to be the first on the block to own. So what are the hottest cars now? The Dodge Challenger is a super-hot muscle car now en route to dealer showrooms, where it won't last long. BMW's all-new 1 Series, and Jaguar's sexy XF sedan also are getting lots of buzz -- and plenty of orders, too. Honda's Fit might give buyers fits trying to find one. Mini Coopers... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:31 Article Views Rating: 233 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW 1-series can fly; too bad it's heavy and ugly Let's begin with a verity, an undeniable truth that is evident from 3 feet away or from the cold distance of outer space: The new 1-series BMW is ugly. Seriously ugly. Ugly with X-wings locked in attack formation. I know an ugly car when one blows past me at 100 mph. Ugly cars are unusual, for very good reasons. Auto companies are vast organizations, with billions of dollars invested, and tens of thousands of employees, some of whom can actually pick out their own ties. Also, in an age of computer-aided... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:31 Article Views Rating: 225 Main > Car Makers News > Mitsubishi > Mitsubishi crossover delivers surprising luxury The Mitsubishi Outlander is one smooth ride, which is a little surprising for a vehicle bearing a name like that. Outlander sounds akin to "Rough Rider," or maybe something closer to Dodge's rugged Durango or Jeep's Wrangler. However, there's nothing rough about the Outlander. The engine is so quiet that I didn't know it was running when I first got behind the wheel. The 2008 model has one of those electronic keys that you don't have to insert in the ignition. Just have it on you or in the car, then... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:31 Article Views Rating: 222 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Classic 'Vette, modern guts The 1963 Chevrolet Corvette had dramatic styling, living up to its Sting Ray badge with a design that included gill-styled side sculpting, sharp creases, hidden headlamps and that famous split rear window on the first Corvette coupe. Still, there are those who are nostalgic for the original 'Vette, which for the last few years of its production was characterized by deep, tapered "coves" that flowed from just behind the front wheels back into the door panels. But as often is the case, nostalgia can blur... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:32 Article Views Rating: 345 Main > Car Makers News > Other > America's faltering economy may bolster auto industry So, gas is speeding toward $4 a gallon, the dollar is headed downhill equally as fast, people can't afford to keep their homes, the national economy is tanking -- with Michigan leading the way. What is to like about this situation? Actually, for those of us involved in the auto industry, the short-term pain may bring some long-term gain. For amid all the gloom and doom, there could be a bright side for the U.S. auto industry and for Michigan itself. The steep decline of the dollar against the euro has... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:32 Article Views Rating: 328 Main > Car Makers News > Mercedes-Benz > Mercedes-Benz E550: A plush highway cruiser NEW YORK -- Poverty is greatly overrated. So is what is construed as "just-folks" normalcy. Both conditions are heralded only by people who don't have access to lots of money. In a word, Paris Hilton is right. It is better to be rich, even if you are not much of anything else. Money at least gives you the opportunity to try to become something better. The theory is crass. But it is nonetheless true, as evidenced by anyone confronted with a choice between driving an economy car or a 2008 Mercedes-Benz... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:33 Article Views Rating: 208 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Smaller firms hurt by strike at Axle Scores of small privately owned suppliers are falling victim to the American Axle strike as it nears a fifth week. Many are the very companies that had the foresight in the early 1990s to grab a share of the lucrative truck building business and then became the envy of their competitors by getting a bite of building General Motors Corp.'s hot-selling big trucks and SUVs. But now those same businesses are hurting the most, facing anything from weak first-quarter results to layoffs to the threat of... 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