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- 2013 Ford Taurus EcoBoost: Full-Size Goes Four-Cylinder
- Fed Might Offer Incentives For States' Crackdown on Distracted Driving
- Do Angry Birds (And Their Droppings) Really Prefer Red Cars?
- Hyundai Elantra Coupe And GT Driven, 2013 Avalon Hybrid: Today's Car News
- Mercedes-Benz, Honda Are 2012 Brands Of The Year
- Volvo XC60
- 2013 Volvo XC60
| 2013 Ford Taurus EcoBoost: Full-Size Goes Four-Cylinder Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:07 PM PDT  Big changes are coming in the full-size sedan category. And with EPA fuel economy numbers now in for the 2013 Ford Taurus with the base 2.0-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder engine, certified at 32 mpg highway, 26 mpg combined, the race is on. Without a hybrid system, Ford is delivering some pretty impressive mileage with a combination of direct...
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| Fed Might Offer Incentives For States' Crackdown on Distracted Driving Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:29 AM PDT  When Congress votes this week on the $109 billion transportation bill that has already passed the Senate, some lawmakers expect to fight to keep $78 million in “legislative candy” out of it. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the showdown stems over the controversial Senate bill that would use “scarce” gas tax funds in...
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| Do Angry Birds (And Their Droppings) Really Prefer Red Cars? Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT  The color of your car is important for a host of reasons: it reflects your personality, it affects your car's resale value, and according to researchers in the U.K., it determines how likely you are to be scraping bird poop off the hood every morning. Study organizers set up shop in five cities throughout Britain -- Brighton, Bristol, Glasgow...
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| Hyundai Elantra Coupe And GT Driven, 2013 Avalon Hybrid: Today's Car News Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT  Today at High Gear Media, Lexus priced the 2013 GX 460 sport-utility vehicle and Toyota announced a hybrid version of its new 2013 Avalon. A 2012 Nissan Leaf is going to re-attempt a world record, and how many 2012 Model S electric cars can Tesla sell? All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. The NHTSA is...
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| Mercedes-Benz, Honda Are 2012 Brands Of The Year Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT  How do you measure a company's value? Sure, you can look at sales figures, earnings, and other bean-countery things, but there's something just as important that's much harder to measure -- namely, the company's brand. When we talk about a "brand", we mean more than a logo, a color scheme, a design sensibility. A brand is what we could loosely...
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| Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:40 PM PDT  Anyone lamenting Volvo’s decision to delay the redesign of its great--albeit-aging--XC90 has a worthy alternative in the form of the XC60 crossover. While it’s somewhat smaller, being classified as a mid-size crossover, the XC60 benefits from the same Scandinavian design influences as its bigger brother, and packs many of the same...
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| Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:04 PM PDT Even when most Americans were shunning wagons for minivans, then SUVs, then crossovers, wagons were a big part of Volvo's business. But over the past few model years the Swedish brand has completely abandoned that foundation in favor of somewhat taller, more ruggedly styled 'XC' crossover models. And in recasting wagons as something a...
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