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Friday usually brings out TCC's optimistic streak, but two news items from Detroit and China have put a cloud over this otherwise sunny day. First, Geely says that its negotiations to buy Volvo from Ford have hit a roadblock, and second, GM has apparently failed to make any progress selling HUMMER to last-minute bidders. Before we get too dour, we...
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Louis Vuitton isn't the only company up in arms about the recent Super Bowl ads. Drive-In Music Company is in a tizzy, too, hurling lawsuits at Kia Motor Company, CBS, the NFL, and anyone else within arm's reach. At issue: the backing track used in Kia's Super Bowl commercial for the 2010 Kia Sorento, which Drive-In sees as a rip-off of a tune by...
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A host of celebrities and philanthropists were on hand last night at an auction held to sell the first U.S.-market Ferrari 458 Italia and benefit the Catholic Medical Mission Board and the William J. Clinton Foundation's Haiti relief efforts. The haul? $530,000 smackeroos, a healthy sum for a good cause--both human and mechanical. In addition to...
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Run all the numbers for overall ownership costs—including depreciation, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and the like—and you'll almost always find that holding on to that used car, or getting a 'new' used one, is going to be cheaper. But sometimes even cheapskates want a new car. If you simply want the most affordable new car possible, and to...
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Few automotive engineers believe in so-called "sudden acceleration". But until recently, there's been no way to determine what a driver what doing when he (or she) swears that he was pressing the brake pedal with all his strength even as the car accelerated. Now, that's changed. Federal investigators say the latest highly publicized incident--in...
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Relative to the number of plug-in market choices available now or in the near future, the portion of consumers saying that they would give purchase consideration to EVs is surprisingly high. But responses are also showing that expectations about driving range and purchase price vary wildly. These are among the findings of a new randomized...
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Two years ago we brought you a preview of GM's latest innovation in heads-up display technology: a full-windshield, laser-based system that displays the path of the road ahead, even when it's not visible due to fog, snow, heavy rain or other conditions. Today, GM unveiled the technology, and it says it's not far from production. Improving...
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When the McLaren F1 first hit the streets it almost immediately catapulted to the top of the performance car scene, taking home the title of world's fastest production car in 1998 and holding it up until 2005. Building a car better than the original F1 was always going to be a difficult challenge, and perhaps that is why for McLaren's next...
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If you're looking for a technological bonanza with an inexplicable 10-into-3 exhaust system, there's only one answer: the 2012 Lexus LFA. But you'd better come packing, because the $375,000 Lexus supercar will run you $12,398.44 per month for a 24-month lease. But you have to pay the total of $297,562.56 up front as one lump sum. Of course, that...
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General Motors launched "Project Driveway" nearly two years ago, putting 119 Americans in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., behind the wheel of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Since that time, GM has refined its fuel cell technology, and the automaker has recently begun testing a new system that's about the size of a regular, four-cylinder...
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Mid-engine, twin-turbocharged, V-8, carbon fiber, lightweight, F1-inspired--this salad of supercar buzzwords combines to make the McLaren MP4-12C, which is expected to be unveiled in its final production guise tomorrow morning via webcast. The preview video below teases us with the testing that's been done on the car, and there's talk that F1...
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No, buying American won't get you an undependable disaster-on-wheels; in fact, it's likely to get you a more reliable, trouble-free car. In the latest proof of this, from marketing-information authority J.D. Power and Associates, seven of the ten models with the lowest number of problems, on average, come from Ford and GM. That list of most...