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Paris Preview: Toyota Verso-S gets an iQ-inspired makeover

Toyota Verso-S - Click above for high-res image gallery Small MPVs might not be the hottest commodities here in the United States, but these little functional wonders sell like hotcakes in other markets, especially Europe. To keep up with the growing segment, Toyota has given its Verso hatch a rather...

GM Asks Chevy Dealerships To Stock Hondas, Toyotas

General Motors officials have put out a request to the automaker's 3,000 Chevrolet dealerships, asking them to have Toyota and Honda vehicles on hand—not just for display, but for back-to-back test-drive comparisons with the Chevrolet Cruze. According to AutoWeek, citing Chevrolet small-car marketing director Margaret Brooks, the company is...

Paris Preview: Toyota Verso-S gets an iQ-inspired makeover - Autoblog

Toyota Verso-S - Click above for high-res image gallery Small MPVs might not be the hottest commodities here in the United States, but these little functional wonders sell like hotcakes in other markets, especially Europe. To keep up with the growing segment, Toyota has given its Verso hatch a rather...

GM Wants to Trademark 'Range Anxiety'

Range anxiety" refers to the nagging concern you'll be stuck miles from home with a dead battery, and it could be an impediment to the widespread adoption of cars like the Nissan Leaf. The Chevrolet Volt, which rolls into showrooms at the end of the year, avoids this by using a gasoline engine as an...

New Bentley Continental GT to debut online fom September 7th to 14th

Posted on 08.31.2010 21:00 by Simona Filed under: Bentley | coupe | Bentley Continental GT | luxury cars | Cars | Car News Bentley has already released a few teaser images of the future Continental GT, but today the company has come out to inform the world that they will be debuting the future iconic British coupe (...)

2011 BMW 128i vs 2011 Nissan 370Z

We set out to buy a $32,000 Japanese or German designed sports car and getting the most value for our dollar was the number one priority. After extensive research, we narrowed our choices to the Nissan 370Z because of its power/performance and overall good looks and the BMW 128i because of its performance/handling/braking,...

Former Spartan Plaxico Burress denied work release in N.Y.

The Super Bowl star has come up short in his bid for work release during his two-year prison sentence in a gun case, a denial that could keep him behind bars until at least next spring.

BYU going independent in football

BYU says it is leaving the Mountain West Conference and will go independent in football while joining the West Coast Conference in all other sports in the 2011-2012 school year.

The zero-emissions Nissan Leaf test drive - GreenMonk: the blog

Recently, one of my best friends Ray Flynn, proprietor of Flynns Garage (a Nissan Dealership in Carlow, Ireland), contacted me to let me know he is one of only 15 Nissan dealerships in Ireland who have been approved to sell the new all-electric Nissan Leaf. As such he had a limited number of slots available...

Real World Value Of A Barrel Oil Is About $10 So Why Are We STILL Paying Over $70?

GM Wants To Expand Opel Brand

Posted on 08.31.2010 20:30 by Bryan Usrey Filed under: Opel | industry news | rumors | China | South America | Cars | Car News The Opel brand has been fairly big in Europe, despite its financial troubles. That being said, the nameplate isn’t that well known outside of continental Europe. That might soon change.General (...)

Was a Ferrari 599 Roadster present at Pebble?

We may have obsessively covered the cars of Pebble Beach Week out in Monterey, California, but it appears that we - and everyone else in the media - may have missed one. If a letter sent to a Ferrari owner is to be believed (and we're not convinced it should be), the automaker held a special gathering...

Analysts Predict Japanese Prius Sales Will Plummet As Subsidies End

GENERAL MOTORS CELEBRATES ARRIVAL OF CHEVROLET VOLT IN CHINA

General Motors celebrated the arrival of the first drivable Chevrolet Volt in China today.

ALONSO’S DIARY – TO MONZA TO MAKE UP FOR LOST GROUND

It was not the Belgian Grand Prix we were expecting, that’s for sure.