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Don't write off the Dodge Grand Caravan just yet
Posted 4:51 pm U.S. ET, May 8
Mark Twain once famously said: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
According to Chrysler Group, so too have the reports of the death of the Dodge Grand Caravan minivan.
A Bloomberg story last week, which appeared Saturday on autonews.com, quoted a source from Polk who said that 2012 would b ...
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Flying Lady 1, flying object 0
Posted 12:01 am U.S. ET, May 7Rolls-Royce – the automaker known for its Flying Lady on the hood – forever proved to me and two others that the new Phantom is much more than just a luxury lounge on wheels. When asked to dart around an unidentified flying object on a highway in southern France last Saturday, the Phantom performed perfectly, saving me and the two other people in the car from potentially se ...
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Will Mitsubishi's new small car be just a Mirage in U.S.?
Posted 8:12 am U.S. ET, April 28LOS ANGELES -- Mitsubishi product planners are on the fence about whether to bring its new Mirage small car stateside.
Mitsubishi will launch the Mirage, a new minicar reprising a nameplate unseen in the states since 2002, in the North American market in the first quarter of 2013, according to the automaker's annual earnings presentation released o ...
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Trail of clues leading to Chevrolet SS nameplate
Posted 3:27 pm U.S. ET, April 25DETROIT -- Connecting the dots that lead to Chevrolet's as-yet-unnamed new model seems to lead back to one storied name: SS.
The latest clue that a rear-wheel-drive performance sedan named simply SS could soon join nameplates such as Malibu and Suburban in Chevy's lineup came from an unlikely source: GM itself.
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In China, Mercedes styling aims to go deep and intellectual with technology
Posted 9:51 pm U.S. ET, April 23BEIJING -- Olivier Boulay has been Mercedes' design guru in Asia for 15 years. First it was in Japan and now he is among the first wave of western designers carving out a modern look for Chinese vehicles.
The Frenchman set up the company's styling studio in Yokohama in the mid-1990s. In 2008, global design boss Gorden Wagener sent him to Beijing to ...
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The big and little dilemmas facing Mercedes
Posted 7:15 am U.S. ET, April 23BEIJING -- Mercedes-Benz sells extended-length versions of its S-class and E-class sedans in China to give back seat passengers space to stretch out and maybe do some work while riding in one of Beijing's miserable traffic jams.
The Chinese seem to love that extra legroom. So could extended Mercedes sedans be tried in the Unites States, too?
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Nissan's little taxi contract has star power
Posted 2:49 pm U.S. ET, April 18Automakers jump at the chance to have a new vehicle appear in a major Hollywood movie. It's free marketing. It's name awareness. It's brand enhancement.
But what if you could guarantee your car a cameo in, say, 100 movies?
That's more or less what Nissan has pulled off in its taxi deal with New York City. Cameo ...
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There are limits to Ford's 'Power of Choice'
Posted 4:12 pm U.S. ET, April 13A reader wrote us a hopeful note this week, saying he had recently spotted what appeared to be a station wagon version of the 2013 Ford Fusion being driven in suburban Detroit. He wondered whether Ford would sell a wagon version of the Fusion in America.
The answer is a firm “No.”
What the reader pr ...
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Audi's signature e-sound: Can you hear Hollywood?
Posted 11:48 am U.S. ET, April 10Here's something to ponder: If you were an electric Audi R8, what would you sound like?
Give up?
Well, not to worry: Audi engineers are working to answer this very question.
Starting with the R8 e-tron prototype -- an electric version of Audi's head-turning supercar -- they ...
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Piecing together the next Liberty -- one clue at a time
Posted 2:07 pm U.S. ET, April 4DETROIT -- The late, great Johnny Cash once sang about how he had built a car “one piece at a time.” That song has been playing in my head for several months as I try to assemble a mental picture of the vehicle that will replace the Jeep Liberty.
It has been an intriguing deductive exercise, like playing an automotive version of the boa ...
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Nissan sees gold in a yellow taxi
Posted 3:50 pm U.S. ET, April 4NEW YORK -- Nissan will do well to sell 4,000 of them a year. But the automaker is giving its new van-shaped taxi cab all the auto show fanfare of one of its biggest products.
Models last night handed out prepaid credit cards to New Yorkers worth a free cab ride in the city as a way of advertising Nissan's entry into the taxi business.
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