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- Fireball Run Videos: Remainders From The Track Days
- Ford Hopes Limo Companies Will Replace Town Car With Lincoln MKT
- Fireball Run: Camaro SS Video Tour And Apology
- 2012 Ford C-Max: Live Photos and Video, Plus a Magic Seat
- Fireball Run Video: K.I.T.T. You Have To Roll With The Punches
- Today in Car News: MKT Limos, VW World Records, and a Fetish
- Today at High Gear Media: SUV Values, Volvo S60 and Deer Season
- Electronic Parking Brakes: What's The Point?
- The TCC List: Five Value-Rich Mid-Size SUVs
- 274-HP 2011 Hyundai Sonata 2.0T Priced From $24,145
- Do They Know Something We Don't: Automakers, Auto Insurance Ad Spending Soars
- Video: Subaru Brings Mediocrity To TNT Tonight
- 2011 Chevy Volt Customer Advisory Board: More Than A Publicity Stunt
- Car-Crazy CA No More: Air Resources Board Wants to Cut Miles Traveled
- Consumer Reports And Aftermarket Crash Parts Suppliers At Odds
| Fireball Run Videos: Remainders From The Track Days Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:51 PM PDT  The 2010 Fireball Run is, sadly, over, but the memories and friendships live on. So, too, do the videos. These are the rest of the autocross videos we took but didn't have time to post from the road. First up you'll see me behind the wheel of the High Gear Media 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, attacking (a bit too hard) the autocross course at Dodge...
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| Ford Hopes Limo Companies Will Replace Town Car With Lincoln MKT Posted: 04 Oct 2010 02:05 PM PDT  Ford Motor Co. [NYSE:F] is looking to its Lincoln MKT crossover luxury wagon to replace its long-serving Lincoln Town Car for the limousine and livery market, the automaker has announced. The new Lincoln MKT livery edition will include a bolstered chassis that will support wheelbase increases—read stretch limos—of up to ten feet...
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| Fireball Run: Camaro SS Video Tour And Apology Posted: 04 Oct 2010 01:37 PM PDT  I had a ton of thoughts about how things were going to be at the Fireball Run. In fact I had so many ideas of how we were going to bring you coverage. I sit here now (after surviving the last 9 days) and laugh at all those thoughts. Originally it was going to be simple to bring all the live coverage to you quickly and consistently. Again I laugh...
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| 2012 Ford C-Max: Live Photos and Video, Plus a Magic Seat Posted: 04 Oct 2010 01:00 PM PDT  The 2012 Ford C-Max may still be more than a year from showrooms in America, but the new seven-seat MPV took to the hills of Provence last weekend at the hands of High Gear Media. We're back from driving the C-Max and its European cousin, the C-Max--it's a long story, but the European MPV we get actually is known as the Grand C-Max over there. And...
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| Fireball Run Video: K.I.T.T. You Have To Roll With The Punches Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:12 PM PDT  I met some super cool people during the Fireball Run. This is the short story on one of them. Quite a few teams ran into issues (both mechanical or with Johnny Law) during the rally. Luckily for us we had no such issues. One team was not so lucky, having a rather large mishap before the rally even began. Darrin Cooper is the owner of Dynamic Auto...
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| Today in Car News: MKT Limos, VW World Records, and a Fetish Posted: 04 Oct 2010 11:21 AM PDT In the blur of Fireball Run and Paris Auto Show coverage, we failed to remind you the Ford F-150 is the top-selling vehicle in the U.S. again. As it's been since, oh, 1977. [KickingTires] Its lovelorn sister, the Mercury Mountaineer, never sold much, and the only date it has is with the executioner. [Detroit Free Press] Lincoln is ridding itself...
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| Today at High Gear Media: SUV Values, Volvo S60 and Deer Season Posted: 04 Oct 2010 11:21 AM PDT  Our road warriors have returned triumphant, with survivors' merit badges from the 2010 Paris Auto Show and the 2010 Fireball Run. Los Angeles is next--get psyched, bring permission forms. [MotorAuthority] A parting shot from the Eiffel Tower, first: a take on the five most wanted cars from Paris. [SportsCarMonitor] Our college-car guy is having...
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| Electronic Parking Brakes: What's The Point? Posted: 04 Oct 2010 11:18 AM PDT  Take a new luxury car out on the test drive and you'll probably notice one important difference as you're parking: The expected pedal or handbrake lever has been replaced by a single button or switch. So what's the point? Actually it makes sense on many counts. These new electronic parking brake (EPB) systems, once you're used to them, are very...
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| The TCC List: Five Value-Rich Mid-Size SUVs Posted: 04 Oct 2010 10:47 AM PDT  The leaves are starting to turn, and soon, the weather will turn with them. In some places, it will turn downright nasty. Remember those three foot snow drifts last winter? Remember the car you couldn't get out of them? If you live on the East Coast, or in parts of the mountain west, you do. And if you're looking at a new car, the memory might be...
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| 274-HP 2011 Hyundai Sonata 2.0T Priced From $24,145 Posted: 04 Oct 2010 09:52 AM PDT  Hyundai almost certainly isn't the first name you think of when you think performance or luxury, but the brand is working hard to change that, most notably with the introduction of the Equus sedan for the U.S. Even its lower-range models are pushing the brand-perception envelope--the new Sonata is one of the nicest cars in its class, and the 2.0T...
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| Do They Know Something We Don't: Automakers, Auto Insurance Ad Spending Soars Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:37 AM PDT  During tough economic times, companies often cut back on marketing -- in fact, advertising budgets are frequently the first to shrink when danger looms and the last to expand once the coast clear. As a result, some analysts see ad spending as the equivalent of the canary in the mine shaft: a sign of whether things are good, bad, or ugly. Nielsen's...
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| Video: Subaru Brings Mediocrity To TNT Tonight Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:00 AM PDT  Last week, an eagle-eyed reader over at Motor Authority sent in some spy shots of a curious sedan sporting a "M" on the grill and a nameplate that read "Mediocrity". Painted the color of a 1998 IBM desktop computer and looking a lot like an old Kia Optima, Marty Padgett's first guess was that the car was part of a viral marketing campaign -- and...
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| 2011 Chevy Volt Customer Advisory Board: More Than A Publicity Stunt Posted: 04 Oct 2010 06:47 AM PDT  When long-time EV advocate and former GM EV1 salesperson Chelsea Sexton talked to us a few weeks ago and told us she had some exciting news, we knew something fun was about to happen. Did she have news about the up-coming sequel to Chris Payne’s docudrama Who Killed The Electric Car? Was she planning to change her name to Iowna Neavy? Or had...
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| Car-Crazy CA No More: Air Resources Board Wants to Cut Miles Traveled Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:47 AM PDT  Think California is the land of fast-flowing freeways and drop-top driving under the endless sun? Think again. The California Air Resources Board is now writing rules to implement a law passed two years ago that will require regional reductions in vehicle miles traveled. In other words, the state that epitomized car culture and suburban sprawl in...
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| Consumer Reports And Aftermarket Crash Parts Suppliers At Odds Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:43 AM PDT  The use of aftermarket collision repair parts is on Consumer Reports' mind this month, in the October 2010 edition of the magazine. The publication takes on the quality of non-OEM bumper beams and radiator supports, as well as other internal structural parts related to the bumper which are components of the crash protection system. The parts in...
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