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post from The Truth About Cars on 02 July 2009 12:06:15 PM. © The Truth About Cars

Just a quick reminder that TTAC is on Twitter. I’ve neglected the service for a while, but not anymore. I’m tweeting every new post with a blast of prose poetry and a shortened url, so you can wonder WTF I’m on about and click through. Of course, we’re still available as an RSS feed. Meanwhile, [...]

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Toyota Holds On Hard To Its Hybrid Head-Start

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As evolutionary as the changes to Toyota’s third-generation Prius may seem on the surface, beneath the familiar sheetmetal lurks enough new technology to justify over 1,000 new patents. The Wall Street Journal reports that through three generations of the Prius, Toyota has generated over 2,000 patents on hybrid technology, half stemming from the latest generation [...]

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Powered by Abwrackprämie: Germanys June Sales Up
40 Percent

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New car registrations in Germany, Europe’s biggest auto market, went stratospheric by 40 percent in June. At record numbers, Germany’s Autofahrer junked their old cars, collected ?2500 and bought a new one, says Reuters. This followed a May that also saw a 40 percent rise over the same month last year.New car sales in the [...]

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Ask the Best and Brightest: What 2nd Car for $5K

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Sent to us by ivyinvestor:My wife and I currently have a 2006 Acura TSX, auto. We need another car, but our budget is $5000, tops, as we don’t want a payment. We’ve never considered a used car for any purchase, and although I know the various means we could use to go about checking it [...]

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Daily Podcast: Converjence

post from The Truth About Cars on 02 July 2009 12:06:14 PM. © The Truth About Cars

Buick is headed upmarket because it wants to. Cadillac is headed downmarket because it has to. Who wins? Not GM. An Epsilon II, FWD/AWD Cadillac isn’t going to have the phrase “standard of the world” tripping off anyone’s tongue. And since GM exists at the pleasure of the politicians, it doesn’t seem likely that Cadillac [...]

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BMW 7 Series To Get xDrive All Wheel Drive

post from Automoblog.net on 02 July 2009 11:57:30 AM. © Automoblog.net

BMW is finally doing something they should have done a long time ago: Add all wheel drive (what BMW calls xDrive) to their top of the line 7 series. Their 3 and 5 series has it, why not the 7? What, rich people don’t need more traction? They don’t drive in snow or something … [...]

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Toyota Seeking Hybrid Monopoly

post from The Truth About Cars on 02 July 2009 11:06:15 AM. © The Truth About Cars

As evolutionary as the changes to Toyota’s third-generation Prius may seem on the surface, beneath the familiar sheetmetal lurks enough new technology to justify over 1,000 new patents. The Wall Street Journal reports that through three generations of the Prius, Toyota has generated over 2,000 patents on hybrid technology, half stemming from the latest generation [...]

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Cadillac Plug-In Hybrid

Derm 81 sent us this report:I took this shot from the GM Tech Center the other day. I couldn’t get more than one photo because the engineer got pissed that I was snapping pictures. It is a Cadillac with right hand steering. What was odd was that it had several “ports” which looked like extra [...]

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Ask The Best and Brightest: What 2nd Car for $5k

Sent to us by ivyinvestor:My wife and I currently have a 2006 Acura TSX, auto. We need another car, but our budget is $5000, tops, as we don’t want a payment. We’ve never considered a used car for any purchase, and although I know the various means we could use to go about checking it [...]

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Review: 2009 Nissan Frontier 4×2 Crew Cab SE

Once upon a time, way back in 1959, a company called Datsun imported a funny-looking pickup truck with a small bed and tiny engine, giving birth to the compact pickup market in the U.S. After a slow start, the market grew, as did the competition. The 70?s brought onslaughts from Isuzu, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and even VW. After the dust settled, the small truck market in the U.S. belongs basically to the Toyota Tacoma, Ford Ranger, Chevy/GMC Colorado/Canyon (for now, anyway) and Nissan Forester---the direct descendant of the Datsun that started it all. Fifty years later, what hath Nissan wrought?

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