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- Ford Looks To Build Crash-Avoidance Smarts, Vehicle-To-Vehicle
- 2011 Scion iQ Coming in March, Staying a While
- Going Green With Appliances: Like Taking 100M Cars Off The Road
- Fight For Top Of Luxury Charts Heats Up As BMW Closes On Mercedes, Lexus
- Electric Car Buying Guide
- Misled By A Map? Fix It Yourself With OpenStreetMap
- Need A Mechanic Now? TomTom And Localeze Team Up To Offer More Options
- Study: 'Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday' Still Holds True
- 2011 Hyundai Elantra On Sale By Year's End
- Driven: 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost
- 2011 Porsche Cayenne
- Do-It-Yourself Auto Workshop For Detroit Reworks An Old Idea
- 2011 Land Rover LR2 Preview
| Ford Looks To Build Crash-Avoidance Smarts, Vehicle-To-Vehicle Posted: 04 Aug 2010 05:11 PM PDT  They're often the worst kinds of accidents: Two cars head into an intersection, with one of the drivers perhaps running a light or not noticing a stop sign. And the result, too often, is severe injuries or fatalities as one of the vehicles is smacked in the side by another vehicle. In all, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
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| 2011 Scion iQ Coming in March, Staying a While Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:09 PM PDT  When the Smart-like 2011 Scion iQ shows up in dealers next year, it's likely to give the Daimler-built two-seat city car some heartburn. The vice president of Scion, Toyota's brand-within-a-brand, confirmed this week at the press launch of the 2011 Scion tC that the new iQ will arrive in the U.S. early next year with a Smart ForTwo-like package...
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| Going Green With Appliances: Like Taking 100M Cars Off The Road Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:53 PM PDT  We've seen the trends; car shoppers are increasingly considering fuel consumption in car puchases, and thinking about the energy we spend getting around—some purely for economics, others for greener reasons. But it's sometimes easy to forget that vehicles aren't the only energy hogs we have in our everyday lives. It's been a long time coming, but...
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| Fight For Top Of Luxury Charts Heats Up As BMW Closes On Mercedes, Lexus Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:00 AM PDT  Toyota has had a rough year with its many recalls, but despite the troubles, managed to show a quarterly profit and even increase sales slightly in July. But BMW and Mercedes-Benz are pushing to claim the Japanese marque's title for most voluminous luxury manufacturer in the U.S. Mercedes-Benz's growth of seven percent year-on-year for July is...
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2010 09:40 AM PDT  We've been watching it roll closer for years, and now it's all but here: A new era of electric cars. Just three or four months from now, the first highway-capable electric vehicles sold in volume by global automakers will appear in showrooms in California and other regions. By the end of 2011, they'll be followed by several more. This is our guide...
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| Misled By A Map? Fix It Yourself With OpenStreetMap Posted: 04 Aug 2010 08:49 AM PDT  Updated (see below) There are three constants here on Planet Earth: death, taxes, and missing street signs. We can't do much about the first two -- yet -- but now there's a tool to help with item number three, and it comes from Microsoft: OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a new service available through Bing Maps -- the same Bing Maps that many...
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| Need A Mechanic Now? TomTom And Localeze Team Up To Offer More Options Posted: 04 Aug 2010 08:41 AM PDT  One of the biggest guns in satnav has just inked a deal with one of the largest repositories of local listings to make your life behind the wheel a little bit easier. TomTom and Localeze announced the arrangement yesterday, and the combined service is expected to launch in 2011. By now, everyone knows TomTom, manufacturer of aftermarket navigation...
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| Study: 'Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday' Still Holds True Posted: 04 Aug 2010 08:00 AM PDT  A study released today has found that there's a strong link between participation in motorsports and sales on dealer lots. Back in the mid-20th century, the association between winning races on Sunday and selling cars on Monday was an accepted fact. But over the past few decades, that link has been called into question--some suggesting it doesn't...
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| 2011 Hyundai Elantra On Sale By Year's End Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:00 AM PDT  Hyundai is working on a brand new version of its Elantra sedan that we can confirm today will go on sale at the end of the year as a 2011 model. We've already seen it on a number of occasions testing in prototype form, although so far it's always been heavily camouflaged, but the South Korean version of the car, the Avante, was recently launched...
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| Driven: 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:20 PM PDT  A car review is a car review is a car review. Like me, you're probably tired of reading the endless inside-baseball chatter concerning brake-disc size, 50-70 mph passing times, even plug-in driving ranges. If you drive the right car, it's...well...academic, isn't it? Thank goodness the Rolls-Royce Ghost needn't worry about any of it. Neither will...
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| Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:01 PM PDT  The Basics: Seen by high-end luxury shoppers as either a practical way into ownership of a prestigious sports-car brand or by longtime Porschephiles as a bit sacrilegious and a necessary evil for keeping the brand aloft financially, the Porsche Cayenne has turned into Porsche's best-selling model and is definitely here to stay. But for 2011...
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| Do-It-Yourself Auto Workshop For Detroit Reworks An Old Idea Posted: 03 Aug 2010 05:49 PM PDT  The depressed economy has spurred all sorts of innovative, DIY solutions—like renewed interest in community garages and tool libraries—for keeping vehicles repaired as frugally as possible and still on the road, as well as some innovative ways of helping laid-off, skilled workers hold out until better times. The new chain of facilities—a...
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| Posted: 03 Aug 2010 05:15 PM PDT  Land Rover, the brand synonymous with luxurious off-road capability, has just released its 2011 LR2, featuring the first-ever front-drive model, an updated look and improved engines for the new model year. The smallest of the Land Rover range until the 2012 Evoque lands next fall, the LR2 is otherwise largely unchanged from the 2010 model. Not...
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