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2009 Volkswagen Touareg TDIVolkswagen is continuing its diesel story in the United States with the 2009 Volkswagen Touareg TDI.
Volkswagen is continuing its diesel story in the United States with the 2009 Volkswagen Touareg TDI. VW sold its first diesel vehicle in the U.S. way back in 1997 and introduced the turbo-diesel engine to the States [...]
December 31 2008 by
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2009 Chevrolet Aveo5 5-door HatchbackIf nothing else, the Aveo stands as a testament to how much the sub-compact segment has advanced.
This Aveo is an interesting vehicle. Unfortunately, the XFE Cobalt starts at $16,330 (plus destination) and returns better fuel economy on the highway (25 city/37 highway and a combined 30 mpg) and gives you a [...]
December 31 2008 by
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Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Supercars, Lexus, Toyota
Our take: Toyota has a chip on its shoulder and it has something to do with prestige. Like so many other companies, it is taking an unprecedented beating in the current market (well, unprecedented for Toyota, at least). Whereas other companies are scaling back to the nitty-gritty, Toyota refuses [...]
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Filed under: Car Buying, Concept Cars, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Supercars, Dodge
Click above for a gallery of the ASC Diamondback Viper Concept
A McLaren-tuned Dodge Viper? That’s some synergy, and it’s also what everyone was asking when American Specialty Cars (ASC) unveiled their reworked asp at the Detroit Auto Show back in 2006. But there was a logic [...]
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Acura, Honda
Just two weeks after we learned that Honda had suspended plans to introduce a new V10 NSX sports car in 2010 comes word that we may see the car anyway. Sort of. The production program is still dead, but it is being reported that the previously scheduled [...]