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- 2011 Lincoln MKX: Driven
- 2011 Detroit Auto Show Preview: GMC Sierra All Terrain HD Concept
- Video: Hyundai Launches Equus Owner's Manual App For iPad
- Twitter Helps Police Recover Stolen Car
- Reader Question: Can I Tow My Prius Behind My RV or Motorhome?
- 2011 NACTOY Finalists Named: Leaf, Volt, Sonata, Durango, Cherokee, Explorer
- Today at High Gear Media: Lotus V-8, Honda Fit Recall, VW EV
- New iPhone App Lets Other Drivers Tattle On You To Insurance Company
- Just Launched: Snazzy Mobile Site For 2011 Detroit Auto Show
- Want To Buy a Toyota Prius Hybrid? This Is The Month To Do It
- 2007-2008 Honda Fit in Recall
- Family Car Guide Survival Tips for a Winter Breakdown
- 7 Worst Automotive Gifts
- What To Do When Your Engine Freezes Up
- Why Leaf, Not Volt? Here's What One Of The First Leaf Owners Says
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:58 PM PST  Crossover vehicles are so often touted as catch-all solutions for busy families that you can lapse into blind assumptions when shopping. As we learned recently, when we took on a new 2011 Lincoln MKX for a weeklong test, not every crossover fits every family task, and they can be packaged quite differently. Ultimately, the 2011Lincoln MKX is...
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| 2011 Detroit Auto Show Preview: GMC Sierra All Terrain HD Concept Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:56 PM PST  Ford's Raptor is the undisputed king of production off-road truck awesomeness, but it may soon have a challenger, previewed here with the GMC Sierra All Terrain HD Concept. Bigger, diesel-powered, and suitably brutish, the All Terrain HD is at this point, "strictly a concept," however. According to Lisa Hutchinson, GMC product marketing director...
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| Video: Hyundai Launches Equus Owner's Manual App For iPad Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST  As you already know, the 2011 Hyundai Equus is basically the nicest iPad case on the planet. Now it gets its own app, in the form of a virtual owner's manual, and a video showing off its multimedia glamor. Putting printed content on the iPad is a burgeoning business at Apple's App Store, but Hyundai goes one step further, making its owner's manual...
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| Twitter Helps Police Recover Stolen Car Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:35 PM PST  Last week we reported on The Seattle Police Department (SPD) trialing the use of Twitter to help recover stolen vehicles. This week we bring you the first successful result from that trial. Earlier today it was reported that a vehicle that was tweeted out as stolen has been recovered by the SPD. The vehicle was reported on the SPD's Twitter...
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| Reader Question: Can I Tow My Prius Behind My RV or Motorhome? Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:42 AM PST  We love reader questions, and occasionally they prompt posts, like this one: I'm thinking of buying a motorhome. Can I tow my 2008 Toyota Prius behind it? Stumped us, so we turned to the good people at Toyota. They sent us excerpts from the Prius owner's manual, complete with many, many, many legally required warnings about all the things you...
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| 2011 NACTOY Finalists Named: Leaf, Volt, Sonata, Durango, Cherokee, Explorer Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:07 AM PST  The finalists for the prestigious 2011 North American Car And Truck Of The Year (NACTOY) awards have just been named, and if you've been following the awards from various media outlets, you were probably expecting most of these. One you might not have expected, however, is the Dodge Durango. Based on largely similarly underpinnings and sharing...
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| Today at High Gear Media: Lotus V-8, Honda Fit Recall, VW EV Posted: 16 Dec 2010 08:15 AM PST  If you're thinking of getting someone a "fuel miser," a car snow globe or other such nonsense for Christmas...don't bother. [TheCarConnection] While it's developing five all-new vehicles, Lotus also would like to develop a new V-8 engine in-house. [MotorAuthority] Honda's Fit hatchback is being recalled for low-beam headlight problems, in an...
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| New iPhone App Lets Other Drivers Tattle On You To Insurance Company Posted: 16 Dec 2010 08:06 AM PST  When truck companies started slapping the "how's my driving?" bumper stickers onto their trucks, they were onto something: driving safety should increase if drivers can report bad behavior on the road. Now we have the DriveMeCrazy iPhone app, which brings the bumper sticker concept to your smartphone. You speak the bad driver's license plate...
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| Just Launched: Snazzy Mobile Site For 2011 Detroit Auto Show Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:30 AM PST  The 2011 Detroit Auto Show is just around the corner, and this time around, event organizers have made it even easier for attendees to keep up on the action. Gone are the days of schlepping around guides and maps; for owners of smartphones and tablets, Detroit has launched a mobile site that provides much of the same information without requiring...
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| Want To Buy a Toyota Prius Hybrid? This Is The Month To Do It Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:40 AM PST  Auto executives always want you to buy their cars, today. That goes without saying. But it's slightly less common for them to say, in effect, "This is the month to buy, 'cause we're going to be discounting the heck out of 'em." Nonetheless, that was the message from Bob Carter, Toyota's group vice president and general manager, about the company's...
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:28 AM PST  Some early versions of the Honda Fit sold in the U.S. are being recalled for a headlight problem. The Japanese carmaker says its 2007-2008 Fit is involved in the service action. At least 143,038 Fit hatchbacks are included. Honda says the wiring harness is routed improperly in the Fit. Because of it, the low-beam headlight wiring can corrode...
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| Family Car Guide Survival Tips for a Winter Breakdown Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:45 AM PST  Every winter without fail there are news accounts of drivers and their passengers, including whole families, stranded for days without food, water, with no cell phone coverage, no blankets – and no plan. Some manage to hang on until help arrives. Others aren’t so lucky. If there’s one thing you can count on in winter, it’s...
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:30 AM PST  'Tis the season for holiday cheer, and all that. But for car-crazy people, it's also the season for a heap of seemingly useless automotive gifts, most of which will be stowed away until your next white elephant exchange or passed along to the novice driver in the family. Well-intentioned relatives or friends often think they're getting something...
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| What To Do When Your Engine Freezes Up Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:27 AM PST  It sounds like a contradiction but it happens. Your car froze up and it is overheating like it is the middle of August. What can cause a car’s engine to freeze up and overheat at the same time? The short answer is that a lack of anti-freeze has resulted in the contents of the cooling system freezing up inside the car’s engine--in the...
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| Why Leaf, Not Volt? Here's What One Of The First Leaf Owners Says Posted: 15 Dec 2010 05:52 PM PST  The 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car is now officially on sale. Over the past several days—beginning with the first delivery in San Francisco we covered this past weekend—Nissan has begun making actual deliveries of the Leaf. Not just to company fleets, public utilities, or those in transportation think-tanks, but to actual consumers. One...
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