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Used Car Sales Intensify As Economic Outlook Deteriorates
Well here’s one from “No kidding” file: As new car sales tank, used car sales are on the upswing. Even in January, when some automakers experience more than a 50 percent drop off in new car sales, used car sales were up a remarkable 10 percent.
Read More »Porsche Cayenne Hybrid S Details Emerge
The German automaker says the Cayenne Hybrid S will offer V8 power with four-cylinder efficiency, and according to the numbers, they’re probably right. The Cayenne Hybrid S will use 3.0L V6, provided by corporate sibling Audi.
Read More »Smart fortwo Edition Limited Three To Bow In Geneva
The smart fortwo (yeah, it’s all one word), the little tyke of a car that’s much beloved by the green set is getting its third special edition, and it will take its bow at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. Called the smart fortwo Edition Limited Three is finished in Melon Metallic Green and powered by […]
Read More »Euro-spec Ford Ranger To Show At Geneva
What’s this, the all-new Ford Ranger makes its debut at the Geneva show? It gets even odder than that, while we have to make do with a moderately updated Ranger for now, the rest of the world will be getting an all-new version of the small pickup for 2009. So what is debuting in Geneva […]
Read More »ABT Tuning Audi S5 AS5-R with 510HP
ABT, a Euro tuning house, has been up to all sorts of fun/crazy stuff these days, a heavily modded VW Scirocco Coupe and a worked over Audi Q5 and R8 to mention three. They continue on in that vein with their new massaged Audi S5, which they dub the AS5-R and whose most outstanding feature […]
Read More »Nissan’s Cube Gets Pricing Info
The Cube, Nissan’s answer to Toyota’s Scion xB, has finally gotten some pricing information. The imaginatively named Cube will start at just under 15 grand, which is plenty cheap, and seems like a direct financial bull’s-eye for the target market. The Cube, which is expected to reach US showrooms by early May, and come in […]
Read More »Saab Halts All Production, End Is Nigh?
Saab, acquired by GM a while back, and pretty much steadily underperforming since has been hanging by a thread for at least 9 months, and now things have gotten even worse. The Swedish automaker was forced to halt all production on Wednesday (the 25th), reportedly due to owing the Swedish Customs Agency a “considerable” sum […]
Read More »Fiat 500 Convertible Exposed
A-ha! So the rumors are true. Fiat’s answer to the BMW’s Mini, the Fiat 500 IS getting the drop top treatment, sort of. Although it doesn’t look like it is going to be a full convertible, more like a huge sun roof that drops all the way from the windshield header to the back deck, […]
Read More »Lamborghini To Make Murcielago LP650-4 Roadster?
What this? Lamborghini is considering a Murcielago LP650-4 Roadster? Oh please-please-please-please-please-please. Any good car is even better as a convertible, and Lamborghini’s Murcielago LP650-4 is a pretty good car to begin with.
Read More »Lutz Kisses Saturn Goodbye, Brand On Death Watch
Uh-oh, this is bad, and looks like terminal news for what once was General Motor’s supposed harbinger of the way it world work in the future. GM product kingpin Bob Lutz intimates that Saturn is on its way to meet up with Ford’s Edsel and Kaiser’s Henry J in the great auto graveyard in the […]
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