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Edmunds.com Names Used Car Best Bets, Offers Consumers Advice for Buying a Used Car

Edmunds.com Names Used Car Best Bets, Offers Consumers Advice for Buying a Used Car

SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 12 -- Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information, today announces its recommendations for the best used cars and trucks, and offers advice for used-car shopping. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031009/LATH011ALOGO ) "Used cars and trucks, even those that ... Continue reading

GfK Automotive Identifies Top Ten Cars for Men and Women: Men Are from 'Porsche Land' ... Women Are from 'Pontiac-Ville'

GfK Automotive Identifies Top Ten Cars for Men and Women: Men Are from 'Porsche Land' ... Women Are from 'Pontiac-Ville'

NEW YORK, July 11 -- According to new data from GfK Automotive, men and women really are different when it comes to their next new car purchase. Fast and expensive vehicles drive men to take out their checkbooks while women are on the lookout for affordable, family-friendly wheels. For men, the Porsche 911 is the bigge ... Continue reading

New Discount Plans May Signal a New Dawn in Consumer Car Buying

New Discount Plans May Signal a New Dawn in Consumer Car Buying

Snide’s Remarks :What is with all the hub-bub and the experts surprise at Detroit’s latest method to instill trust and provide consumers with enticing sales prices? For years we have been shouting (to whoever would listen) that the American buyer really wants and needs just one thing…to believe that t ... Continue reading

2005 Comparative New Car Rollover Rankings - Vehicles More Stable

2005 Comparative New Car Rollover Rankings - Vehicles More Stable

The number of SUVs with a four-star rollover rating had increased substantially since U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began rating them in 2001. That year, just one SUV earned four-stars, whereas in 2005, 24 earned a four-star rating as part of the newly ... Continue reading

SUVs Less Prone to Rollover

SUVs Less Prone to Rollover

Number of SUVs Earning Four-Star Rating Leaps From 1 to 24 WASHINGTON, June 22 -- SUVs and light trucks are less prone to rollover according to new rankings and reports released today by the National Highway Transportation Agency (NHTSA). Less than five years after the implementation of NHTSA's rollover rating program, ... Continue reading

NHTSA 2005 SUV Crash, Rollover Ratings

NHTSA 2005 SUV Crash, Rollover Ratings

Model year 2005 Acura MDX, Ford Freestyle, and Jeep Grand Cherokee earned the top rating of 5-stars for all available seating positions in frontal and side crash tests announced the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in their SUV Crash Test Summary. All resu ... Continue reading

Latest NHTSA Recalls Includes Buick, Pontiac, Saturn, Chevrolet and GMC SUV's

Latest NHTSA Recalls Includes Buick, Pontiac, Saturn, Chevrolet and GMC SUV's

Report Date : June 21, 2005 at 08:01 AM New Information Added Since : June 11, 2005 Make / Models : Model/Build Years: VSM / 4464RC 9999 Manufacturer : VEHICLE SAFETY MANUFACTURING, LLC NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 05E041000 Recall Date : JUN 15, 2005 Component: EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TAIL LIGHTS Potential Number Of Units Aff ... Continue reading

General Motors Awards $750,000 to World's Foremost Scientists for Cancer Research Breakthroughs

General Motors Awards $750,000 to World's Foremost Scientists for Cancer Research Breakthroughs

Researchers from the University of Maryland, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University Receive Honors DETROIT, June 15, 2005; -- Three world-renowned scientists have been recognized by the General Motors Cancer Research Awards (GMCRA) program for their seminal contributions to cancer research. T ... Continue reading

GM to Cut MSRP on Certain Models

GM to Cut MSRP on Certain Models

DETROIT, June 13, 2005; Reuters reported that General Motors Corp will cut base U.S. sticker prices for some Chevrolet, Pontiac and Saturn brand models in a drive to boost sales, a leading industry trade magazine reported on Monday. Citing three dealers who it said had been briefed on the automaker's strategy for 2006 ... Continue reading

IntelliChoice Announces New Car Best Deals for June 2005

IntelliChoice Announces New Car Best Deals for June 2005

CAMPBELL, Calif.--June 9, 2005--PRIMEDIA's IntelliChoice, the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its "Best Deals of the Month" selections for June, identifying the vehicles with the best ownership cost value in 29 respective classes. IntelliChoice's "Best Deals of the Month ... Continue reading

Latest NHTSA Recalls Include Saturn and Mitsubishi

Latest NHTSA Recalls Include Saturn and Mitsubishi

Report Date : June 3, 2005 at 09:58 PM New Information Added Since : May 24, 2005 Make / Models : Model/Build Years: INTERNATIONAL / 3200 2006 INTERNATIONAL / 4000 2006 INTERNATIONAL / 7000 2006 INTERNATIONAL / 8000 2006 Manufacturer : INTERNATIONAL TRUCK & ENGINE CORPORATION NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 05V241000 Recall ... Continue reading

GM Recalling Nearly 300,000 Saturn Sedans, Wagons Because of Problems With Brake, Tail Lights

GM Recalling Nearly 300,000 Saturn Sedans, Wagons Because of Problems With Brake, Tail Lights

WASHINGTON June 3, 2005; Ken Thomas writing for the AP reported that General Motors Corp. said Friday it would recall nearly 300,000 Saturn L Series sedans and wagons because of problems with brake and tail lights. The problem could make it difficult for the driver of another vehicle to realize the Saturn's brakes were ... Continue reading

Top Ten Fastest "Turning" Vehicles are International Nameplates

Top Ten Fastest "Turning" Vehicles are International Nameplates

Washington DC June 1, 2005; AIADA's newsletter reported that the ten vehicles that spent the least amount of time on dealer lots in April were all International nameplates, according to the Power Information Network (PIN). The measurement, known in the industry as days to turn, is a measure not only of model popularity ... Continue reading

Heads of Toyota, General Motors Strengthen Partnership in Fuel Cell Technology

Heads of Toyota, General Motors Strengthen Partnership in Fuel Cell Technology

TOKYO May 15, 2005; The AP reported that the heads of Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Corp. have agreed to strengthen their partnership in development of technologies for environmentally friendly vehicles, major Japanese newspapers reported Sunday. Toyota President Fujio Cho and visiting GM Chief Executive Richar ... Continue reading

Edmunds.com Announces Consumers' Most Wanted Vehicle Awards for 2005

Edmunds.com Announces Consumers' Most Wanted Vehicle Awards for 2005

Ford Mustang Named Consumers' Choice for Most Significant Vehicle of the Year; Domestic Cars Win, Place and Show SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 10 -- Edmunds.com, the Internet's premiere resource for consumer automotive information, today announced the winners of the fourth annual Consumers' Most Wanted vehicle awards. (Log ... Continue reading

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