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For a number of years, the combination of a January time slot, official “International Auto Show” status, and good economic times made Detroit one of the “must see” auto shows. Automakers both domestic and foreign came to Detroit’s aging Cobo Center to hawk their latest wares. That was especially true when the Los Angeles Auto [...]
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Say the name “Suzuki” and the first thought for most people will be motorcycles. Quick, agile and sporting, the bikes have been everything the company’s cars have not. The Kizashi is a concerted effort to bring the cars closer to Suzuki’s motorcycles, and extend their appeal to riders who often look elsewhere when they need [...]
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The Nissan Maxima began its life back in the 1980s as an overstuffed pseudo-luxury cruiser with a modicum of sporting pretensions. It became “The 4-Door Sports Car” in the early 1990s as Nissan searched for a way to differentiate itself from other Asian automakers, and infuse this sporting DNA into everything from the 300ZX to [...]
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In 2011, the Ford Super Duty pickup will have a new diesel engine. It doesn’t have overhead cams actuating the valves, it has pushrods. It doesn’t have two separate turbochargers, it has one…sort of. The exhaust manifold isn’t on the side of the engine block, it’s in the valley where most engines have their intake [...]
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What do you do when the Tahoe still sells well because it has the towing capacity and size people need, but the market is turning toward more car-like SUVs? If you are Chevy, you build the Traverse.
Chevy’s Traverse is part of GM’s unit-body Lambda family of SUVs (Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia, Saturn Outlook). It has [...]
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Word is that Chrysler is casting about for a suitable replacement for its mid-size Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger sedans. Because Chrysler’s new owner (forgetting the UAW and federal government for a moment) Fiat failed in its bid to acquire Opel and its new mid-size platform, that option is off the table. This leaves Chrysler [...]
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Bottom Line: Cadillac Escalade Hybrid has an amazing two-mode hybrid system that makes this super-sized SUV viable in a world with high fuel prices—and you’ll see the same GM-Allison system used in BMWs and Mercedes because they partnered to gain the technology. It’s that good.
CADILLAC ESCALADE HYBRID is the first large luxury hybrid SUV. It [...]
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