Even though Mercedes-Benz make quite a few fantastic diesel engines, all of which get better economy than any hybrid, it is obvious that market pressure has forced this one out. I’m talking of course about Mercedes’ newest S-Class model, the S400 BlueHybrid.
The S400 hybrid combines all the features of a conventional hybrid. A small(ish) V6 […]
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Acura has recently posted the official prices of it’s new for 2009 TL sports sedan. The TL will start at a base price of $35,715, including a $760 destination charge. That amounts to a $1,230 increase over the outgoing 2008 Acura TL, which started at $34,485, including shipping.
The all-wheel-drive 2009 Acura TL will hit showrooms […]
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Posted in Technology, Trucks, Dodge on Sep 13th, 2008
There was much cause for celebration at the production launch of the all new Dodge Ram pickup truck. The truck is what the company is calling a “game changer”, and it introduces a lot of innovation to the truck world, most notably the new multilink coil spring rear suspension system, an industry first.
To handle ramped […]
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General Motors could use some good news right now. The company is facing the most dire time in it’s history and is on the verge of extinction. While some say it’s not that bad, others say that it is that bad.
One of GM’s recent high notes though is it’s recent results in a series of […]
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Posted in Technology, Trucks, Chrysler, Dodge on Aug 26th, 2008
If there is one fundamental and basic American thing that hasn’t changed, it’s how pickup trucks get built. Since the dawn of time, pickup trucks have had the same configuration. While cars have moved on into a future of unibody construction and independent suspension systems, the truck has been soldiering on with it’s old school […]
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Posted in Technology, Automotive on Aug 22nd, 2008
Audi of America is using the iPhone to help launch its 2009 A4. On Thursday, it announced the release of what it calls “the first ever iPhone application from an auto manufacturer.” The application is free on Apple’s iPhone Application Store. It provides consumers with the Audi A4 Challenge, a driving game that uses the iPhone’s […]
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Posted in Technology, Sports cars, Automotive on Aug 22nd, 2008
Hot weather testing is a automotive spy photographers dream. Not only do you have ample space to hide and pull up to a perspective prototype, but the lighting perfectly reveals all little details on a new car, you get the clear picture as they say.
Audi is the latest to fall victim to these circumstances and […]
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Posted in Technology, Sports cars, Automotive on Aug 22nd, 2008
Sportec is known for serious performance. You know that a company is serious about speed when their smallest Porsche offering makes only 450hp. Porsche can only unleash so much power to the public before the company lawyers start having fits. “Dis iz too much power, ya!” says one German lawyer, “They vill kill themselves, ya!”
But […]
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Posted in Auto loans, Technology, SUV on Aug 1st, 2008
Acura’s newly redesigned MDX SUV will be getting a slight update for 2009. Now it’s power lift rear tailgate is standard, instead of being part of the technology package. This along with a few other tweaks brings the base price of the MDX from $40,955 to $41,550. Both prices include the $760 destination charge.
A top-of-the-line […]
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Posted in Technology, Sports cars, Automotive on Jul 31st, 2008
Not even a year after the new WRX was released Subaru is upping the ante. In a move that’s bound to piss off a bunch of recent WRX buyers, Subaru is updating it’s current WRX in a big way. You see the 2009 WRX will get a 41 hp boost over the 2008 model. 41 […]
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