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- Dirty, Dirty Rental Cars Might Make You Sick
- Even Big Oil Execs Think We're Headed To An Electric Future
- Video: Louis Vuitton Sues Hyundai Over A Basketball
- Recycling Your Entire Car: From Hooptie To Handbag
- Volvo Gets Naughty With The 2011 S60 Sedan
- 2011 Ford Mustang V-6 With 305 HP Rated At 31 MPG Highway
- 2010 Mazda Tribute - Tribute Hybrid Bottom Line
- 2010 Mercury Mariner - Mariner Hybrid Bottom Line
- 2010 Suzuki Grand Vitara Bottom Line
- 2010 Volkswagen Jetta - Sportwagen - TDI Bottom Line
| Dirty, Dirty Rental Cars Might Make You Sick Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PST  If you regularly rent cars for business or family vacations, you've likely had at least one or two rentals that grossed you out in some way. Now you have a reason to be concerned, not just squeamish. NBC's Today Show tested vehicles in Miami, which is one of the largest rental-car hotspots in the country, renting cars from six of the top rental...
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| Even Big Oil Execs Think We're Headed To An Electric Future Posted: 04 Mar 2010 12:52 PM PST  Within the auto industry, we can attest that attitudes about electric vehicles are radically different than they were just a decade ago. But finding out that a Big Oil executive has predicted electric vehicles (EVs) will become a huge future chunk of the world vehicle market? That still has our hair standing up a little bit. At the Wall Street...
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| Video: Louis Vuitton Sues Hyundai Over A Basketball Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:34 AM PST  Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, better known as LVMH, is suing Hyundai, claiming that the automaker created confusion among consumers by creating a "false association" between itself and the luxury goods manufacturer. The case hinges on a basketball. The ball in question can be glimpsed at the :04 mark in a TV ad for the 2011 Hyundai Sonata called...
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| Recycling Your Entire Car: From Hooptie To Handbag Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:25 AM PST  And now for something completely different. But first, a definition from Wikipedia, in case "hooptie" wasn't in your vocabulary as yet: Hooptie ... an old, decrepit, unreliable and often nonfunctional car which has limited mechanical abilities and is often in an unmaintained and usually in a rusty or dented shape. In other words, that rusty...
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| Volvo Gets Naughty With The 2011 S60 Sedan Posted: 04 Mar 2010 08:10 AM PST  The internet is pretty good at selling naughty things, and Volvo is hoping to prove it with a "naughty" web campaign for the sexy, stylish, all-new 2011 Volvo S60 sedan. In Volvo's book, "naughty" roughly translates to "stunt driving". That might not be how others on the web would define the word, but given Volvo's established reputation for...
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| 2011 Ford Mustang V-6 With 305 HP Rated At 31 MPG Highway Posted: 04 Mar 2010 05:32 AM PST  Ford's on a roll lately, selling more cars in the U.S. than General Motors last month. And it's vowed to achieve best-in-class fuel economy numbers for every new model it launches. So the news today that its revised 2011 Ford Mustang with the 3.7-liter V-6 engine has been rated at 19 mpg city, 31 mpg highway by the EPA is a remarkable achievement...
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| 2010 Mazda Tribute - Tribute Hybrid Bottom Line Posted: 03 Mar 2010 08:35 PM PST  The 2010 Mazda Tribute and Tribute Hybrid are low-volume crossovers that pose a bit of a puzzle. Ford has built them for Mazda since 2001 on its now-aging-but continually updated-Escape and Escape Hybrid platform (also used for the Mercury Mariner and Mariner Hybrid). Redesigned for 2008 and fitted with vastly better engines and transmissions for...
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| 2010 Mercury Mariner - Mariner Hybrid Bottom Line Posted: 03 Mar 2010 08:22 PM PST  The 2010 Mercury Mariner and Mariner Hybrid are solid, stylish five-passenger compact SUVs that were completely updated for 2009. Although they're nearing the end of a model life that began a decade ago, Ford continues to add features. New for 2010 are five driver aids: blind-spot warnings in the mirrors, the MyKey programmable key, a rearview...
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| 2010 Suzuki Grand Vitara Bottom Line Posted: 03 Mar 2010 08:11 PM PST  The 2010 Suzuki Grand Vitara compact SUV holds five passengers, has civilized on-road handling, and brings more off-road capability than many of its competitors-including such features as a ladder frame and available four-wheel drive with a low range, more like a truck than a crossover. Redesigned for the 2009 model year, its unibody construction...
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| 2010 Volkswagen Jetta - Sportwagen - TDI Bottom Line Posted: 03 Mar 2010 05:18 PM PST  Volkswagen's compact sedans and wagons are called the Jetta and Jetta SportWagen, respectively, and carry over to 2010 with just a few new features and interior revisions, prior to being completely redesigned for 2011. The 2010 Volkswagen Jetta doesn't stand out from the pack, as it once did, for styling alone—it's pleasant, inside and out, but by...
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