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- September Auto Sales Surge Past Estimates, Buoyed By Lenders
- Suzuki Grand Vitara
- 2013 Suzuki Equator
- 2013 Suzuki Grand Vitara
- 2013 BMW M3
- Honda Accord Recall Adds 572,000 Vehicles To Tally For Faulty Hoses, Fire Risk
- 2012 Nissan Frontier, Pathfinder, Xterra: Recall Alert
- U.S. Roads Are In Terrible Shape: How Would You Fix Them?
- License Plate Readers, Land Rover Defender, Jaguar F-Type: Today's Car News
- 2013 North American Car And Truck Of The Year Award Short List Announced
- Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
- 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
| September Auto Sales Surge Past Estimates, Buoyed By Lenders Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:33 PM PDT  For yet another month, auto sales proved to be one of the U.S. economy's bright spots, complementing the news this past week that house prices are on an upward trend. September auto sales were about 13 percent higher than year-ago levels, at a seasonally adjusted level of 14.8 or 14.9 million units, according to analysts, and well ahead of the...
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2012 11:33 AM PDT  The Suzuki Grand Vitara is a compact sport-utility vehicle that originally replaced the Sidekick in Suzuki's lineup. With rugged, truck-like construction and rear-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, the Grand Vitara has more inherent hauling or off-roading ability than other compact SUVs like the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, or Ford Escape. The Grand...
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:46 AM PDT  Without a way to develop its own pickup truck--a vehicle right in the wheelhouse of its loyal motorcycle and ATV owners--Suzuki did what any smart company would do. It turned to the company making the best mid-size truck on the market today. The result: the Suzuki Equator, a rebadged version of the Nissan Frontier, restyled and offered...
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:23 AM PDT  With only minor front-end changes, the Suzuki Grand Vitara returns for the 2013 model year as one of the few crossovers to tout its off-road driving skills ahead of its safety scores or standard features. The Grand Vitara isn't really showing its age--it's still an attractively designed SUV--but it's an older vehicle based on the...
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:12 AM PDT  The 2013 BMW M3 doesn't join in the complete redesign of the regular 2013 3-Series on the new F30 platform, but enthusiasts will be glad for that fact. Likely the last of the naturally-aspirated M3s, the 2013 M3 is, in its way, the end of a tradition.Some might argue the tradition ended with the advent of the V-8-powered M3, brought in...
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| Honda Accord Recall Adds 572,000 Vehicles To Tally For Faulty Hoses, Fire Risk Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:10 AM PDT  Honda is expanding a May 2012 recall of the Accord V-6 to include an additional 572,000 vehicles. The additional vehicles include some from the 2003 to 2007 model years, equipped with V-6 engines and sold in the United States. The automaker says on its website that over time, the power steering hose may deteriorate and cause a fluid leak as the...
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| 2012 Nissan Frontier, Pathfinder, Xterra: Recall Alert Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:07 AM PDT  Nissan is conducting a voluntary safety recall of certain 2012 model year Frontier, Pathfinder and Xterra two-wheel-drive vehicles for an issue with front-wheel hubs. A notice on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) site puts the number of vehicles potentially affected at 2,417. Affected vehicles were built at Nissan’s...
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| U.S. Roads Are In Terrible Shape: How Would You Fix Them? Posted: 02 Oct 2012 08:27 AM PDT  Here's what we know about the state of America's highways and byways: 1. Many roads in the U.S. are in desperate need of repairs or upgrades. In 2009 the American Society of Civil Engineers gave our roadway system a D-minus. According to Pew Research, over a third of U.S. roads are in "substandard" condition, and a quarter of our bridges are...
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| License Plate Readers, Land Rover Defender, Jaguar F-Type: Today's Car News Posted: 02 Oct 2012 07:50 AM PDT  Today at The Car Connection, Jaguar priced the new F-Type and Bentley talked about its SUV concept. BMW discussed three-cylinder engines and Land Rover confirmed the return of the Defender to the U.S. market. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. Infiniti said the Emerg-E plug-in hybrid supercar won't be built...
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| 2013 North American Car And Truck Of The Year Award Short List Announced Posted: 02 Oct 2012 07:30 AM PDT  The North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) awards are well underway--behind the scenes. Winnowing the good from the better, to ultimately arrive at the best car and truck/utility of the 2013 model year, the jurors sort through their experiences in the cream of the current model year's crop. Our own executive editor Marty Padgett is one...
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| Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:49 PM PDT  The Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is a compact crossover that's aimed at those who dwell in the city, rather than the suburbs. Shorter than the Outlander, which is more of a utility vehicle in purpose, but about as tall and wide as that model, the Outlander Sport looks and drives quite differently than its larger cousin, and borrows some of its...
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| 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:01 PM PDT Now that crossover vehicles like the Subaru Forester, Honda CR-V, and Toyota RAV4 have grown into frugal family-sized vehicles—some even offering a third-row seat—there's an even smaller class of crossovers arriving. And among the first few is Mitsubishi's Outlander Sport, a vehicle that takes after the larger Outlander in...
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