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- Who Lies More Often About Driving Mistakes: Husbands Or Wives?
- Volkswagen Beetle
- Volkswagen CC
- Volkswagen Eos
- Dodge Durango
- Chrysler Town & Country
- What's Holding Up Autonomous Cars? You People, That's What
- Subaru XV Crosstrek
- Subaru Forester
- It's More Expensive Than Ever To Run Your Car: AAA
- BMW 5-Series
- Chevy Cruze Diesel Fuel Economy, Toyota Prius Sales: Today's Car News
- 2014 Jaguar F-Type
- Toyota Sienna
- Honda Fit
| Who Lies More Often About Driving Mistakes: Husbands Or Wives? Posted: 18 Apr 2013 11:12 AM PDT  Stop us if you've heard this one before. A woman runs out of the house one morning, late for work. As she whips open the driver's side door, she notice a scar/dent/ding on the front fender. She stops what she's doing, dashes back into the house, and asks her husband what happened to the car. He replies, "I don't know. I just noticed it myself...      |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 10:50 AM PDT  The Volkswagen Beetle is a three-door hatchback or two-door convertible with a long, rich history. Sold in the U.S. as the Beetle through 1979, then reborn as the New Beetle in 1999, the third-generation Beetle is all-new, though it drops the "New" tag. Like the second-generation New Beetle before it, the current Beetle is a front-engine...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:48 AM PDT  The Volkswagen CC is a mid-size four-door sedan with a coupe-like profile. The first car to bring the stylish four-door coupe body style to the more affordable mainstream market, the CC does sacrifice some practicality for its handsome look. Competing with a broad range of cars from the Nissan Altima to the Audi A4 and Volvo S60, the Volkswagen CC...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:43 AM PDT  The Volkswagen Eos is a hard-top convertible (or "convertible coupe" as VW styles it) with luxury intentions. The two-door Eos is a unique vehicle in the VW range, despite sharing much of its construction with the Jetta and previous Passat models. The Eos' unique style and packaging give it few natural competitors; the MINI Cooper S Convertible...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:40 AM PDT  Dodge's Durango is a mid- to large-sized sport-utility vehicle, offering seating for up to seven passengers. No longer the truck-based vehicle it once was, the Durango is now loosely related to the Mercedes-Benz GL Class, improving its passenger comfort and ride quality. Safety, technology, and overall refinement have also improved in the current...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:20 AM PDT  The Chrysler Town & Country minivan is the companion piece to the Dodge Grand Caravan. The duo are the remaining minivans built and sold by Chrysler--in the past, Plymouth and even Volkswagen versions have been spun off from the same basic running gear. The Town & Country has been among the Chrysler brand's versions of the minivan since...   |
| What's Holding Up Autonomous Cars? You People, That's What Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:20 AM PDT  If you're itching to get your hands on a self-driving car, there's something you can do to speed up the process: talk to your neighbors. That's one of the tips gleaned from a panel on "Driver Distraction Regulation and Autonomous Driving", which convened this week at the Society of Automotive Engineers' annual World Congress in Detroit. According...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:07 AM PDT  The Subaru XV Crosstrek is a newly introduced crossover vehicle that's the distant successor to the old Impreza Outback models. Now with its own name, and its own compact space in the Subaru lineup, the XV Crosstrek also gets another distinction for the 2014 model year, as the first Subaru hybrid offered in the U.S. See our full review of the 2013...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:07 AM PDT  The Subaru Forester is the Japanese automaker's smaller all-wheel-drive crossover. A tall wagon with good ground clearance and a pragmatic take on styling and utility, the Forester is new for the 2014 model year. The new fourth-generation Forester joins the bigger Outback and the seven-seat Tribeca in rounding out Subaru's crossover-wagon lineup...   |
| It's More Expensive Than Ever To Run Your Car: AAA Posted: 18 Apr 2013 07:50 AM PDT  Car maintenance, insurance, and repair costs have gone up again, with AAA putting the average tab for upkeep at more than $9,000. A new study from AAA shows that car operating costs for the average family sedan increased nearly two percent over year-ago levels, to slightly more than 60 cents per mile, or more than $9,000 per year (based on 15,000...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 07:50 AM PDT  The BMW 5-Series is one of the core models of the German automaker's lineup. It counts sedans and wagons and a hatchback among its various models, as well as hybrid and gas-powered versions, including the ultra-swift M5. First offered in the 1970s, it's now the mid-size vehicle in the BMW family, and competes directly with the Mercedes-Benz...   |
| Chevy Cruze Diesel Fuel Economy, Toyota Prius Sales: Today's Car News Posted: 18 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Today at The Car Connection, the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel was rated by the EPA and Tesla might try to create a federal rule regarding non-dealer stores. Buick celebrated 110 years and Toyota has sold five million hybrids. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. We spied the 2014 Hyundai Genesis undergoing...   |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2013 05:26 AM PDT  Jaguar's newest sportscar is the 2014 F-Type, due on sale in the U.S. in the summer of 2013.Slotted below the XK roadster and coupe but overlapping them in price, the new F-Type convertible may have a spiritual ancestor in the classic Jag E-Type, but as chief designer Ian Callum says, "this car is for now."And for now, it's a sportscar...   |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2013 05:30 PM PDT  The Toyota Sienna minivan is a popular choice for families, and an example of Toyota's willingness to keep trying until it hits the sweet spot in a vehicle segment. It's one of the top three minivan choices, along with the Honda Odyssey and the vehicles that pioneered the category 30 years ago: the Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town &...   |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2013 05:00 PM PDT  The subcompact Honda Fit, nearing the end of its second generation in the U.S. market, is now the oldest car in its sector. It competes with the Chevrolet Sonic, Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Versa Note, and Toyota Yaris--all offered as hatchbacks, like the Fit, and redesigned in 2011 or even more recently. There's also the low-volume and...   |
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