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- Spy Shots: 2012 BMW 1-Series Hatchback
- Smart Sales Solution: Hey, NYPD, Ditch Those Cushmans For ForTwos!
- GM Throws Down The Gauntlet, Challenges Ford To 'Truck Of War'
- Surprise: Auto Shows Really Do Sell Cars, Says NY Auto Show Owner
- 2010 Audi e-tron Concept Car: Design Dissection
- MINI Crossover Photos Leaked Ahead of Geneva Debut
- 2011 Chevrolet Volt May Still Cost $40k, Despite Whitacre's Gab
- General Motors May Skip TV Ads For Youth-Oriented Vehicles
- More Teasing Of The 2011 Audi A1
- UPDATE: Low-Thirties 2011 Chevrolet Volt Price Is AFTER Tax Credit
- Report: Chrysler Looking For New Plant To Build Fiats
| Spy Shots: 2012 BMW 1-Series Hatchback Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:17 PM PST  BMW released an updated version of the 1-Series compact in late 2008 but since then suspicious prototypes of a new car with similar proportions and signature BMW styling have been captured running around the south of Germany. Previously, we had only seen early development test-mules but the latest shots reveal full prototypes for the...
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| Smart Sales Solution: Hey, NYPD, Ditch Those Cushmans For ForTwos! Posted: 19 Jan 2010 12:15 PM PST  It's tough being Smart these days. After selling a stunning 24,622 Smart ForTwo models in 2008, its first year on the market, sales sank 41 percent last year. Now Smart has started leasing, launched a car-share service in Austin, Texas, and even hired well-respected ex-Saturn president Jill Lajdziak to run the show. Still, they're finding it a lot...
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| GM Throws Down The Gauntlet, Challenges Ford To 'Truck Of War' Posted: 19 Jan 2010 12:05 PM PST  GM's vice chairman, Tom Stephens, appears to be taking a page out of Bob Lutz's playbook. Today he issued a challenge to Ford to pit the PowerStroke diesel-powered 2011 F-Series Super Duty truck against the DuraMax diesel 2011 Chevrolet and GMC Heavy Duty trucks. The new line of 2011 GM Heavy Duty trucks is due to make its debut at the 2010...
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| Surprise: Auto Shows Really Do Sell Cars, Says NY Auto Show Owner Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:48 AM PST  Sometimes we get a press release that makes us scratch our heads. Take this morning's little epistle from the 2010 New York Auto Show, the nation's largest, which opens to the public on April 2. According to the findings of a "third-party research group," 72 percent of last year's New York Auto Show attendees are "somewhat to extremely serious"...
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| 2010 Audi e-tron Concept Car: Design Dissection Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:30 AM PST  The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is "a car for idiots," if you're to believe Audi of America president Johan de Nysschen. If that's so, that would make Audi's e-tron concept a preview of an electric car for rich idiots. You could almost read Audi's bad-mouth strategy as a juvenile and jealous response to the fact that they don't have a full-fledged...
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| MINI Crossover Photos Leaked Ahead of Geneva Debut Posted: 19 Jan 2010 08:55 AM PST  Just yesterday we brought you MINI's entertaining, if a bit weird, teaser video for the upcoming MINI crossover--possibly named Countryman--but today, the loose lips of the Internet have revealed the car sans-psychedelic clothing. The photos show us exactly what we expected--a car with the familiar MINI profile, but raised a bit to allow better...
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| 2011 Chevrolet Volt May Still Cost $40k, Despite Whitacre's Gab Posted: 19 Jan 2010 08:44 AM PST  There's been endless rumor and speculation about the upcoming Chevy Volt -- particularly with regard to its sticker price. For some time we've heard consistent talk of the potentially game-changing hybrid electric vehicle ringing in around $40,000, which, with a federal EV tax credit of $7,500, essentially brings the price to $32,500 (though it...
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| General Motors May Skip TV Ads For Youth-Oriented Vehicles Posted: 19 Jan 2010 08:15 AM PST  In case you hadn't noticed, General Motors has been pretty quiet on the advertising front lately. The company hasn't launched any snazzy new-media campaigns like the highly successful one Ford put together for the Fiesta -- but then again, neither has GM opted for any controversial, full-scale rebranding campaigns, like those spearheaded by...
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| More Teasing Of The 2011 Audi A1 Posted: 19 Jan 2010 06:10 AM PST  We've seen glimpses of the 2011 Audi A1 in pre-production form at auto shows, in (possibly staged) spy pics from photo shoots, and in countless unofficial renderings. Now Audi's PR team is teasing the public with more details about the highly anticipated minicar -- this time, via a video featuring engineer Jürgen Löffler, who walks us through some...
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| UPDATE: Low-Thirties 2011 Chevrolet Volt Price Is AFTER Tax Credit Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:41 AM PST  UPDATE: Well, it sounded too good to be true, and perhaps it was. We asked GM spokesman Dave Darovitz for comments on CEO Whitacre's "low-thirties" price for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Darovitz tells GreenCarReports.com that while Chevy "has not officially announced final Volt pricing, a price in the low 30's after a $7,500 tax credit is in the...
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| Report: Chrysler Looking For New Plant To Build Fiats Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:30 AM PST  Chrysler is currently on the lookout for a new site in North America to start building Fiat-based models, with the first cars tipped to be rolling off the factory floor as early as this year. The information comes from Chrysler's senior vice president for manufacturing, Scott Garberding, who revealed that there a number of options on the table...
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