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- Los Angeles Auto Show Preview: 2011 Saab 9-4X
- Video: Yes, You Can Finally Drive Your Car With An iPad. Well, Almost.
- 2011 Ford F-150
- Ed Whitacre's IPO Offense Explained
- How To Make Your 2011 Chevy Volt Drive Like a Tesla Roadster
- Struggling Startup Carmaker V-Vehicles Names CEO, Renames Itself
| 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5: First Drive Review Posted: 18 Oct 2010 02:06 PM PDT  The Tesla Roadster is known among gearheads and electric car advocates as being the sports car that smashes all preconceptions about electric vehicles. So when Tesla announced its aptly-named revision to the iconic all-electric car we just had to see if the Californian-based automaker could beat the iconic first and second generation models. And...
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| Four SUVs That Will Cost You More In The Long Run Posted: 18 Oct 2010 01:46 PM PDT  Recession or no, Americans still love SUVs. These days, we buy smaller than we used to -- the Cadillac Escalade doesn't sell like it used to, but dealers find it hard to keep the GMC Acadia in stock. And it's no wonder. Today's small SUVs can offer sedan-like fuel economy, serious hauling capacity, a comfortable ride for the family and...
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| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 12:10 PM PDT  When the Enclave crossover was introduced for 2008, it not only replaced the half-hearted Rainier and Rendezvous but gave the brand a smooth, class-leading vehicle; it could be seen as the first of a new generation of Buicks. Oh, how times have changed. Normally, three years isn't a big deal; but since then Buick has seen a bounty of new models...
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| Los Angeles Auto Show Preview: 2011 Saab 9-4X Posted: 18 Oct 2010 09:23 AM PDT  The Los Angeles Auto Show is less than a month away, and as Saab announced back in August, the 2011 9-4X will be on display. Today Saab dumped all the details ahead of the official unveiling. So what is the new 9-4X? About what you'd expect, since it was co-developed with the Cadillac SRX before the split from General Motors. There's a definite...
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| Video: Yes, You Can Finally Drive Your Car With An iPad. Well, Almost. Posted: 18 Oct 2010 08:50 AM PDT  Last week, Google shared its new self-driving cars with the world, and Android acolytes said that it was good. Now Apple fanboys have cause to celebrate -- in their cool, minimalist way, of course -- thanks to some very enterprising folks from AutoNOMOS Labs at Freie University in Berlin. They've developed their own self-driving car, the...
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| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 08:14 AM PDT  The Basics: 2011 is certainly not an uneventful model year for the Ford F-150 pickup lineup—it marks the most extensive overhaul of the big pickup's powertrains in almost 62 years of production. The 2011 Ford F-150 gets four new powertrains this year, including a base V-6 and a pair of newly developed V-8 engines. The fourth option: Ford's...
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| Ed Whitacre's IPO Offense Explained Posted: 18 Oct 2010 08:10 AM PDT  Many people probably missed Ed Whitacre's chatter about General Motors upcoming IPO. It happened smack in the middle of a very busy week, in the aftermath of "Voltgate". Heck, GM didn't even bother clarifying Whitacre's statements until Friday afternoon, when most sensible people were goofing around on Facebook and finding ways to look busy until...
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| How To Make Your 2011 Chevy Volt Drive Like a Tesla Roadster Posted: 18 Oct 2010 06:36 AM PDT  Pretty much anyone who's driven one loves the performance of the Tesla Roadster, the first modern electric car with a lithium-ion battery pack. The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is a much less radical electric car than the Roadster in certain ways, and one of them is its accelerator response. Volt: Just like an automatic GM's engineers have tuned the...
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| Struggling Startup Carmaker V-Vehicles Names CEO, Renames Itself Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:46 AM PDT  Startups are hard. Automaker startups may be harder. But one of the necessary qualities in startups--tenacity--was on display recently from Next Autoworks. New name, new CEO That's the new name of the former V-Vehicles Inc., which attracted funding from famed Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins to build a simple, high-mileage, option-free...
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