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Most And Least Expensive Places In USA To Own a Car

Most And Least Expensive Places In USA To Own a Car

LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2016 -- There's a $7,216 cost difference between owning a car in Michigan and New Hampshire, finds a new study from personal finance website GOBankingRates.com. The study considered the costs of six key factors affecting the expenses of owning a vehicle in all 50 U.S. states and the District of C ... Continue reading

2016 World Car of the Year - Top Three Finalists In Five Categories Revealed in Geneva

2016 World Car of the Year - Top Three Finalists In Five Categories Revealed in Geneva

By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor The Auto Channel GENEVA, Switzerland. March 2, 2016. During a press conference at the Geneva Auto Show on Tuesday, the top three finalists have been announced in five categories. The winners of the 2016 World Car of the Year, World Luxury Car, World Performance Car, World Green Ca ... Continue reading

Consumer Reports 2016 Annual Brand Report Card - It Ain't The Money Honey

Consumer Reports 2016 Annual Brand Report Card - It Ain't The Money Honey

Audi, Subaru, Lexus, Subaru & Mazda Keep Pace with Luxury Brands, Porsche, BMW lead the pack April 2016 Cover [Hi-YONKERS, NY— Consumers don’t always have to spend top dollar to get a great car. The Consumer Reports 2016 Brand Report Card reveals mainstream brands like Subaruand Mazda can often deliver as muc ... Continue reading

10 Best New-Car Deals For January 2016 By KBB.com

10 Best New-Car Deals For January 2016 By KBB.com

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 14, 2016 -- For shoppers with the attitude 'new year, new car,' the experts from Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the only vehicle valuation and information source trusted and relied upon by both consumers and the automotive industry, have assembled their list of the 10 best lease, financing and cash ... Continue reading

Mercedes E-Class Bows Ahead Of Opening Day Detroit Auto Show +VIDEO

Mercedes E-Class Bows Ahead Of Opening Day Detroit Auto Show +VIDEO

By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor DETROIT - January 11, 2016: On the evening before the 2016 Detroit Auto Show opens its doors, Daimler’s boss Dr. Dieter Zetsche unveiled the new E-Class during a media reception. Last summer Mercedes-Benz started to feed selected media representatives with news about the upco ... Continue reading

20 Car Models Not Selling Well in North America Going Buh-Bye in 2016

20 Car Models Not Selling Well in North America Going Buh-Bye in 2016

Detroit December 23, 2015; Mark Phelan, writing for the Detroit Free Press pointed out a score of models on the list. Some are vanishing bu others may be replaced by entirely new vehicles carrying alternative badges. Some are going out of production because they would require too much work to meet the latest U.S. safet ... Continue reading

Interactive Sales Experience: smart Starts its Worldwide First Online Store with a Virtual Showroom

Interactive Sales Experience: smart Starts its Worldwide First Online Store with a Virtual Showroom

Whether in terms of mobility services or individualization possibilities – smart has always been a pioneer in the automotive industry and far more than an amazingly agile car for the city. The brand for urban mobility is now going a step further: For the first time, the smallest vehicle in the product portfolio of ... Continue reading

New smart fortwo Cabrio Now Available to Order in Europe: All the Joys of Spring at the Push of a Button

New smart fortwo Cabrio Now Available to Order in Europe: All the Joys of Spring at the Push of a Button

Spring will soon be in the air with the most iconic model of the new smart generation: the new smart fortwo cabrio is available for ordering now and will reach dealers in February. Prices start at 15,655 euros for the model with the 52 kW engine with twinamic dual clutch transmission. In addition to the three lines pas ... Continue reading

smart Christmas Campaign "The Sound of Christmas": smart Fans Create Their Own Christmas Song

smart Christmas Campaign "The Sound of Christmas": smart Fans Create Their Own Christmas Song

STUTTGART -- November 30, 2015: Things are getting musical at smart in the run-up to Christmas. With its campaign "The Sound of Christmas", the brand is inviting all its fans to create their own Christmas song online and share it with friends and family. To this end smart has reinterpreted the Christmas carol "Jolly Ol ... Continue reading

E-mobility Thought to the End: World's Largest 2nd-use Battery Storage Unit Set to Connect to the Grid

E-mobility Thought to the End: World's Largest 2nd-use Battery Storage Unit Set to Connect to the Grid

Cooperation between Daimler, The Mobility House, GETEC and REMONDIS completes the battery value creation cycle Re-use of electric vehicle batteries improves environmental performance and the lifecycle costs of e-mobility 13-megawatt battery storage unit to connect to the grid in early 2016 Levelling out fluctuations in ... Continue reading

World Premiere for the Mercedes-Benz Vision Tokyo - Japanese Premieres for the GLE and smart

World Premiere for the Mercedes-Benz Vision Tokyo - Japanese Premieres for the GLE and smart

New models, new drives and new ideas for urban mobility in megacities: Mercedes-Benz and smart are staging a rich celebration of innovation at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show. One of the highlights of the show is the world premiere of the Vision Tokyo design show car. The "urban transformer" embodies another trailblazing spa ... Continue reading

The New smart fortwo cabrio: Summer in the City

The New smart fortwo cabrio: Summer in the City

The countdown has started for the new fortwo cabrio, a particularly iconic variant of the new model series. The open-top two-seater will have its world premiere in September at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. The new smart cabrio will be available for ordering from mid-November and the first models will reac ... Continue reading

Ideal for Dogs: smart forfour with Readyspace Seats: smart for Dogs

Ideal for Dogs: smart forfour with Readyspace Seats: smart for Dogs

Man's best friend: 9.5 million Germans own one or even two dogs. But travelling by car together – like now in the holiday season – can be fraught with difficulties. If the four-legged friend has short legs or is old, jumping into the car becomes an arduous climb. smart has the solution with the readyspace seats in th ... Continue reading

Shopping For A Used Alt Fuel Vehicle?

Shopping For A Used Alt Fuel Vehicle?

Diesel Vehicles Hybrid and Plug-In Electric Vehicles Flexible Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Natural Gas Vehicles Propane Vehicles Pre-owned alternative fuel and advanced vehicles (AFVs) provide a viable alternative to purchasing a new AFV or performing an aftermarket conversion on a conventional vehicle. Co ... Continue reading

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