Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Over the past five or six years one of the areas of car safety that has improved is whiplash protection and neck injury. Leading safety advocates...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
When Lexus decided to build a two door version of its compact IS sports sedan rather than build both a conventional convertible and a coupe, it tapped...
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GM’s deal to sell Saab to tiny supercar maker Koenigsegg fell through yesterday, and the chances don’t look good that they’ll find a...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
As we’ve discussed previously here and here, leasing is making a comeback. In brief, that’s because both the independent banks and the...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
‘Always a bridesmaid…’ may be the best summation I can think of for Nissan’s terrific Frontier. For literally decades,...
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Last week we got some signs of stabilization in automotive sales; this week there’s more good news. Transactions prices on new cars went up a...
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If the real efficiency of a vehicle is determined by the amount of fuel it uses, divided by the total number of occupants it can haul, the funky...
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There are certain buying trends I’ve seen in my time as an auto broker (dating back to 1991). One of the most prominent is that sales typically...
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Perhaps it’s an indication of the maturity of the crossover segment that no one inquired as to what the Venza was. But I was...
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It’s not often I actually ask for a second go ‘round in a vehicle I've driven upon its introduction, but Volvo’s sexy (!) crossover...
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