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| Posted: 31 Dec 2009 08:53 AM PST  2010 NISSAN PATHFINDER STYLING | [7 out of 10] Kelley Blue Book: "progressive design that is both stylish and rugged" Cars.com: "the most unusual feature of the side view--the rear door handles mounted vertically and higher than the front door handles--hasn't changed" Edmunds: "dash and center console have been revised for easier use" ...See 360 Tour | Browse Photos
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New Year's Eve is a special night: a night for wary suburbanites to make their annual schlep to the city center, and for otherwise upright teetotalers to knock back the bubbly like barflies. Here at TCC, we fall somewhere in the middle -- right between "grandpa at the ice cream social" and "Gary Busey" -- so to keep ourselves and those .. 
You might be asking yourself why GM and the NHTSA are getting so worked up over a few Corvettes that might lose their roofs at speed due to faulty adhesive, but you obviously aren't the guy behind the Corvette at 80 mph. Over 22,000 of the cars will face the fix, which GM will apply at no cost to the owners. The problem is an obvious one: .. 
Ice Road Truckers do it for a living. Even Jeremy Clarkson and James May did it -- all the way to the freakin' North Pole. So why shouldn't you or I drive on ice? Because as this clip demonstrates, it's dangerous and it'll ruin your pants (not in the way you'd think). Consider it a safety reminder for this wintry December 31. [BoingBoing] 
Just months after Hyundai announced that it's planning a telematics system to rival GM's OnStar comes news that Hyundai's sister, Kia, is working on a Ford Sync-killer. Details about the system -- called UVO -- remain under wraps, but it's expected to debut at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. UVO has been in development for .. 
For 2010, the Acura TL is once again offered with a manual gearbox. But you're probably going to have to special-order it, or at least do some calling and searching to even find one. Why? Because even among luxury sport sedans, the number of people opting for a manual transmission is very low--typically less than five percent for many .. 
It takes a lot of determination to capture new-car mules in the wild. It takes even more to do so in the chilly wintertime. But the cojones that Ryan O'Keefe demonstrates as he videotapes this 2011 Ford Explorer tester...well, we can only imagine that the guy's riding in a BIG bucket seat. Ford fans can take a gander at the clip below. With .. 
