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- Americans Are Keeping Up On Car Payments Despite Easy Credit
- Toyota Fined, Infiniti Q, 2014 Cadillac ELR: Today's Car News
- Toyota Pays $17.35 Million Fine Over Timeliness Of Lexus Floor Mat Recall
- Lexus IS
- Mazda Mazda6
- Hyundai Sonata
- Porsche Cayenne
- 2013 Porsche Cayenne
| Americans Are Keeping Up On Car Payments Despite Easy Credit Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST  One of the major contributing factors to the Great Recession was the U.S. credit crunch. For years, banks had been loaning money to many people who probably shouldn't have been taking on additional debt. When the economy began tanking, a significant number of those consumers defaulted on their loans. As a result, banks became more cautious with...      |
| Toyota Fined, Infiniti Q, 2014 Cadillac ELR: Today's Car News Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST  Today at The Car Connection, GM discontinued its hybrid trucks and Infiniti may be planning a new flagship model. Cadillac released the first image of the 2014 ELR range-extended electric car, and Dodge announced the new 2013 Charger Sport. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. BMW announced the 2014 Z4 with...   |
| Toyota Pays $17.35 Million Fine Over Timeliness Of Lexus Floor Mat Recall Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:00 AM PST  Back in June, Toyota added the 2010 Lexus RX to a long list of vehicles that were recalled due to problems with accelerator pedals sticking beneath floor mats. That was unusual because Toyota launched the recall more than two years earlier, in the winter of 2010. To the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 2010 RX seemed a little...   |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:29 PM PST  As compact six-cylinder sport sedans, the Lexus IS sedans offer sportier, more flamboyant styling to go with their performance emphasis. In the Lexus sedan model line, the IS models have kept more in line with the GS in emphasizing sportiness—taking on the BMW 3-Series, Audi A4, and Infiniti G35—while the ES and LS have put more of a...   |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:48 PM PST  The Mazda Mazda6 is a mid-size family sedan with a decidedly sportier personality than many of its rivals. Descended from the former Mazda 626, the Mazda 6 has, grown in size but lost weight over its model run. That makes it a relative rarity among modern sedans, and it also helps keep it more dynamic and relatively fuel efficient. The Mazda 6...   |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:17 PM PST  The Hyundai Sonata has been sold in the U.S. for more than 20 years, but only in its most recent couple of iterations has it become one of the top contenders among popular mid-size sedans. As a four-door sedan built by South Korea's largest automaker, the Sonata has been sold in five different generations in the U.S. (out of six total), and with...   |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2012 05:59 PM PST  The Porsche Cayenne is the vehicle that enthusiasts swore would kill the fabled German sportscar brand. Instead, it's been a vital piece of the company's success story of the past decade--and one of the chief reasons it's still here, and still building the 911, the Boxster, and the Cayman. A luxury SUV with a strong focus on performance, the...   |
| Posted: 17 Dec 2012 05:47 PM PST Though it's been in Porsche's range for nearly a decade, the Cayenne remains a controversial subject for brand loyalists who see the sports car as the true heart of the marque. Nevertheless, the Cayenne's success for Porsche can't be denied, and with the addition of a new diesel model for the 2013 model year, it looks as though its...   |
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