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- No Clear Successor To Town Car And Crown Vic In Fleets
- Driven: 2011 Infiniti QX56
- Saab Confirms 9-4X Crossover For Production, Unveiling 'Later This Year'
- Flying Car Gets FAA Approval
- Car Video Break: Bad Brits on A Double-Decker Joyride
- Video: MV-1, The 'First Mobility Vehicle', Launches Nationwide Tour
- 5 Things To Avoid In New Car Showrooms
- 2011 Porsche Cayenne Going To China With Supercharged V-6
- 2011 Infiniti QX56
- 2011 Porsche Panamera, Cayenne: Greener With Auto Start Stop
| No Clear Successor To Town Car And Crown Vic In Fleets Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:13 PM PDT Taxi-cab companies, police forces, and executive-car services will soon be left scrambling for vehicles. That's because, after years of speculation about the matter, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) is expected to discontinue its large, body-on-frame, rear-wheel-drive sedans about a year from now. After a 30-plus-year run with the same basic mechanical...
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| Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:00 PM PDT  Now that World Cup fever has left the building, and most of our Wimbledon contenders are in business class to JFK a little earlier than usual, we feel the need for some global news to keep us from slipping our blinders back on--from setting our sights no further than our rather lightly patrolled borders. But this is TheCarConnection, and not...
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| Saab Confirms 9-4X Crossover For Production, Unveiling 'Later This Year' Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:00 PM PDT  We've heard reports that the Saab 9-4X would be headed to production before--even that it was already in limited production, but this time the word comes straight from Saab. The news is part of Saab's ongoing "Move Your Mind" ad campaign, but details on the crossover remain scant. While the concept car featured a "Bio Power" turbocharged 2.0-liter...
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| Posted: 29 Jun 2010 09:04 AM PDT  It's a two-seater. Front-wheel-drive. Gets about 30 mpg on the highway. But give it a third of a mile of straight asphalt in front of it, and it really flies. Of course, you have to unfold the wings first. The Federal Aviation Administration has just removed a major hurdle from the path of a vehicle that may well be the first commercially...
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| Car Video Break: Bad Brits on A Double-Decker Joyride Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:40 AM PDT  You can tell the world economy's gone sour when local badasses resort to joyriding...in a double-decker bus. The U.K. Register reports today that three royal subjects--two teenage girls and an adult man--made off with a high-top bus in the town of Amesbury last week in the wee hours. While they cruised the A345 highway and other roads, the...
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| Video: MV-1, The 'First Mobility Vehicle', Launches Nationwide Tour Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:19 AM PDT  As July 4 approaches, it's probably a good idea for Americans to take a step back and consider what their country is really about. Freedom? Sure, but it's also about mobility: social, economic, and physical. For people with disabilities, that last one can be difficult to achieve, but the Miami, Florida-based Vehicle Production Group aims to change...
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| 5 Things To Avoid In New Car Showrooms Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:17 AM PDT  A trip to the car dealer's showroom can feel like you are entering an alternate universe where reality is suspended, the truth seems unverifiable and the rules of mathematics don't apply. It's doubtful that anyone has figured out a foolproof way to navigate these troubled waters, but here are five things to avoid in new car showrooms that may make...
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| 2011 Porsche Cayenne Going To China With Supercharged V-6 Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:59 AM PDT  Porsche is planning to sell its redesigned 2011 Cayenne SUV in China with an entirely different, more modern base V-6 engine than the Cayenne gets in the U.S. and elsewhere, a company official revealed last week. Chinese-market Cayenne models will get the same supercharged version of the 3.0-liter, 90-degree Audi TFSI V-6 that's already used in...
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| Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:25 AM PDT The Basics: You could say the Infiniti QX56 has a nationality crisis. At first it was a Japanese citizen, with a Japanese passport, back when it was the QX, and a clone of the Nissan Pathfinder. Then in 2005, Nissan built a factory in Mississippi, and pasted the QX56 nameplate on the plant's new big bruiser of an SUV, adding some down-home...
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| 2011 Porsche Panamera, Cayenne: Greener With Auto Start Stop Posted: 28 Jun 2010 07:26 PM PDT  When you're sitting at a stoplight or stuck in traffic—and you're lucky enough to be behind the wheel of a new 2010 Porsche Panamera or 2011 Porsche Cayenne—you might notice the engine ever so smoothly shut off. Yes, it's supposed to do that; the feature is called Auto Start Stop. But unless you've driven a hybrid, like the Toyota Prius or Ford...
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