Chrysler 300C Has the Bling, Subaru Scores with '05 Legacy, Terror Tactics Could Hit Oil Supplies and Prices, Spy Shots of '06 Maserati Spyder and Ferrari F420, and Cruising Memory Lane at Meadowbrook, Fiat Flips from Bad to Worse -- on TheCarConnection.com
DETROIT, June 1 -- The good news? OPEC oil ministers were ready to boost production and drive down skyrocketing petroleum prices. The bad? The weekend Al-Qaeda attack in Saudi Arabia could scotch that plan and interrupt supplies. TheCarConnection.com has the latest news and analysis.
Things have also gone from bad to worse in Turin, where the death of family scion Umberto Agnelli has created a new crisis for Fiat. Get the inside story in this week's issue.
As one Chrysler designer puts it, the new 300C sedan has "bling-ability." Don't bother to brush up on your hip-hop. Take it from TCC, with rappers like 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg pleading for 300s of their own, a car line once known as "the banker's hot rod" is very definitely hot. TheCarConnection tells you why this week. Also check out the history of the classic 300 line-up.
Then take a test drive in the all-new 2005 Subaru Legacy. Can it bring back the magic that made the original sedan so successful? And see what TCC's reviewers have to say about the Ford Expedition XLT 4x4.
Catch this week's spy shots of the next-generation 2006 Maserati Spyder and Ferrari F420.
Pity the poor pushrod, the Rodney Dangerfield of engine components. Should it really take a back seat to more modern engine designs? TheCarConnection will help you decide.
In other business news this week: May car sales are looking good, there was an unexpected resignation at Rolls-Royce, the UAW is helping GM make major changes, and GM and Ford's new joint venture is likely to go down in the history books.
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