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- How To Know When To Leave A New Car Showroom
- Rolls-Royce Details Its Bespoke...Picnic Set
- Survey: Luxury-Car Drivers Feel Entitled To Park Illegally
- The Bailout, One Year Later: Where Are They Now?
- One Ugly Auto Dealer Trick Down, The Rest? Status Quo
- 2011 Kia Sportage: Mega Photo Gallery (And A Free Zune!)
- The List: The Most Dangerous Roads in the World
- 2011 Kia Sportage: Write for HGM, Win A 16GB Microsoft Zune!
- 2011 Kia Sportage: Live Drive
| How To Know When To Leave A New Car Showroom Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT  You know when to leave a car showroom when you've bought a new car--but how do you know when to leave when you're not getting anywhere? There's a tipping point in every new-car negotiation, when the buyer and the seller know the other won't budge. It happened to me once, and the car salesman threw his pen across the room. For most car hunters, the...
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| Rolls-Royce Details Its Bespoke...Picnic Set Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:00 PM PDT  There was, apparently, a "golden age of picnicking," and we are witnessing its return. Or so Rolls-Royce would have us believe. It's hard to imagine doing just about anything in a Rolls-Royce that doesn't seem like it's in its golden age: The golden age of grocery shopping; The golden age of running the kids to school. But one look at this picnic...
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| Survey: Luxury-Car Drivers Feel Entitled To Park Illegally Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:16 AM PDT  Well, here's another reason to shoot a disdainful look at the guy in the shiny new luxury car even more as he jostles for an illegal parking space. Luxury-car owners (such as those of the BMW 7-Series or Mercedes-Benz M-Class) carry a feeling of invulnerability with respect to parking fines—and perhaps entitlement to get out of them. So finds a...
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| The Bailout, One Year Later: Where Are They Now? Posted: 20 Jul 2010 08:31 AM PDT  One year ago, America's auto industry was going through very tough times. Caught in the quagmire of recession, two of Detroit's Big Three had filed for bankruptcy, and they'd brought a few of their pals along for the ride. Americans were mixed about the federal government's bailout of the sector, with a handful of pundits claiming that taxpayers...
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| One Ugly Auto Dealer Trick Down, The Rest? Status Quo Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:02 AM PDT  Although we still haven't yet seen what exactly what the soon-to-be-signed financial reform bill will do for consumers, we already know who won big: auto dealers. Auto-title lending is the only significant auto-related area of the financial industry that's targeted for tighter regulation under the bill. These loans, like payday lending schemes...
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| 2011 Kia Sportage: Mega Photo Gallery (And A Free Zune!) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT  We're live in San Francisco to drive the 2011 Kia Sportage -- and to get you as fully psyched as we are, we have all the official photos of the latest crossover from South Korea. If you missed our coverage of the Sportage from the 2010 New York auto show, here's quick refresher. The Sportage is the mechanical cousin to the 2010 Hyundai Tucson, but...
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| The List: The Most Dangerous Roads in the World Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT  Fans of TheCarConnection.com might remember our Weird, Wacky and Wild Street Names contest a few years back--with winning street names like Psycho Path, Divorce Court and Farfrompoopen Road taking the day. Here's a set of roads famous for a very different reason. They're among the world's most dangerous roads and intersections. We've scanned the...
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| 2011 Kia Sportage: Write for HGM, Win A 16GB Microsoft Zune! Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT  We're all about the 2011 Kia Sportage today at TheCarConnection--and to prove it, we're giving you the chance to win a new Microsoft Zune media player. You know the Zune from Family Guy, maybe--but even Apple cultists can groove with the Zune's wireless connectivity and 16GB storage. You can download TV, movies and books to it. You can even hack...
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| Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT  San Francisco is one of the best places on earth to drive a new vehicle. Great roads circle the city, perfect photo locations crop up at almost every turn. And you don't have to have a sportscar to have a great drive in and out of town. Today, High Gear Media is driving the 2011 Kia Sportage for the first time. We're really truly sorry that we...
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