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- Study: More Car Buyers Paying With Cash Rather Than Borrowing
- 2011 Kia Sportage Techs Up with Uvo, WiFi, Real-Time Traffic
- Nissan To Tap Renault For Sports, Luxury Electric Cars?
- Study: Chicago Should Use Pay-For-Play Fast Lanes To Cut Congestion
- New 2011 Ford Explorer Teasers Released As Facebook Unveiling Nears
- Breaking: Men Are Terrified Of Women Behind The Wheel
- Kia Schools Us in Smart Style with 2011 Optima Interior
- 2011 Hyundai Elantra Interior Revealed, Goes Upmarket
- 2011 Kia Sportage Priced Higher; Turbo Coming Under...$30K?
| Study: More Car Buyers Paying With Cash Rather Than Borrowing Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:06 PM PDT  It appears the recent economic downturn and spate of fuel price rises has not only changed the types of cars we buy, but also the way we pay for them. The latest study by independent vehicle pricing and information authority Kelley Blue Book has revealed that new car buyers are almost twice as likely to pay for their new purchase with cash as they...
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| 2011 Kia Sportage Techs Up with Uvo, WiFi, Real-Time Traffic Posted: 21 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT  Kia's new Sportage gets a heavy dose of technology in its 2011 edition, with a trio of technologies the company thinks will appeal to a whole new set of buyers. The new Sportage is being tasked with moving out of the crossover bargain basement and into a richer market segment filled with 20-something guys who love music--and make enough money to...
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| Nissan To Tap Renault For Sports, Luxury Electric Cars? Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:30 PM PDT  Nissan's LEAF electric vehicle still isn't in the hands of customers--and won't be for a while yet--but already talk of the next round of Nissan and Infiniti EVs is making its way around the Web. But the LEAF won't necessarily be the platform used--instead, Nissan may be looking to Renault for its sports and luxury electrics. There's no firm data...
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| Study: Chicago Should Use Pay-For-Play Fast Lanes To Cut Congestion Posted: 21 Jul 2010 01:00 PM PDT  We all deal with it on a daily basis: traffic. It's the bane of our existence, yet we contribute to the problem by our very presence. So what can be done to solve it without packing us all into buses and forgoing our individually-mobile lifestyles? A federally-funded study by the Metropolitan Planning Council and Illinois Tollway conducted on...
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| New 2011 Ford Explorer Teasers Released As Facebook Unveiling Nears Posted: 21 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT  If you've been wondering how Ford plans to launch the 2011 Explorer for sale in the middle of the summer during the auto show off-season, wonder no more: the launch will come on Facebook. Here's hoping the launch goes better than the Honda Crosstour's infamous unveiling last summer. And now we're less than a week away from its unveiling, scheduled...
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| Breaking: Men Are Terrified Of Women Behind The Wheel Posted: 21 Jul 2010 08:09 AM PDT  Mothers: remember the first time your son took you for a spin after he'd gotten his driver's license? Remember how you strapped yourself into the passenger's seat like Sally Ride heading into orbit, then braced yourself against the dashboard when your son got within 100 yards of a stop sign? Well, this may come as some surprise, but all that...
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| Kia Schools Us in Smart Style with 2011 Optima Interior Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:10 PM PDT  The 2011 Kia Optima doesn't arrive in showrooms until the fall, but earlier this year the South Korean automaker blitzed the 2010 New York auto show with its upcoming four-door with a showy worldwide reveal, a press release with some details on the car's powertrains and features, and best of all, a boozy after-hours party in a nifty Meatpacking...
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| 2011 Hyundai Elantra Interior Revealed, Goes Upmarket Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:55 PM PDT  Hyundai is working on a brand new version of its Elantra sedan that's due to go on sale later this year as a 2011 model, and we've already seen it on a number of occasionstesting in prototype form, although so far it's always been heavily camouflaged. Now, we have our first clear look at the interior of the new Elantra, which has been revealed...
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| 2011 Kia Sportage Priced Higher; Turbo Coming Under...$30K? Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT  The 2011 Kia Sportage is heading to showrooms with a pricetag of $18,995 -- a significant jump up from the last edition, and just the first step on a pricing ladder that could find the Sportage sporting a pricetag of more than $30,000. The base price of the wedgy new crossover also is the same as that of the 2010 Hyundai Tucson, which shares...
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