by Mark Ewing on February 3, 2011 · 0 comments
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“It leaked oil. I got down on my hands and knees to smell it. It was like perfume.” – Soichiro Honda “Meanwhile, startling as it is that all visible evidence of invention should have been refined out of this instrument and that there should be delivered to us an object as natural as a pebble [...]
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True to its Tokyo breeding, Nissan cube is ideally sized and packaged for congested streets in urban America. Mechanical details and even the styling of “box cars” like the cube, Kia Soul, and Scion xB are secondary to how well they fit into crowded urban and beachside neighborhoods, and how simple they are, how minimalist [...]
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Well, I thought highly of the Taurus. Fiesta? Not so much, though there’s nothing so horribly wrong that the car can’t be fixed before market launch next spring/summer. Thanks to an invitation from Ford PR, I had a chance to drive a Fiesta last week at the Orange County Auto Show. Ford hired an event [...]
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