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2008 Saturn Vue Green Line Hybrid Best SUV MPG - 25 MPG City/32 MPG Highway

2008 Saturn Vue Green Line Hybrid Best SUV MPG - 25 MPG City/32 MPG Highway

DETROIT Oct. 12, 2007; Saturn announced that the all-new 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid will have a fuel economy rating of 25 miles per gallon in city and 32 miles per gallon on the highway -- the best highway mileage of any sport utility vehicle. Saturn also announced that the Vue Green Line will have a manufacture ... Continue reading

2008 Mazda CX-7 Review - Along The Colonial Trail - VIDEO ENHANCED

2008 Mazda CX-7 Review - Along The Colonial Trail - VIDEO ENHANCED

2008 MAZDA CX-7 TO COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, JAMESTOWN AND YORKTOWN By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau [0139] [0137] This week’s road test involves a good long road trip with a 2008 Mazda CX-7 crossover sport-utility (CUV) on a Colonial American history tour of the Williamsburg, Virginia area including ... Continue reading

Living smart: smart bolsters market launch in the US with a unique concept in L.A.

Living smart: smart bolsters market launch in the US with a unique concept in L.A.

Venice Beach/Los Angeles, CA. An exclusive studio building on Abbot Kinney Boulevard will be transformed into the “smart house” for four months starting October 11, 2007, serving as the springboard for the US market launch of the smart car. smart has begun preparations in the heart of the hip Venice Beach dis ... Continue reading

Jaguar X-TYPE New Fresh Look for 2008

Jaguar X-TYPE New Fresh Look for 2008

The Jaguar X-TYPE gets a fresh new look for 2008, along with a host of new features inside and outside the vehicle and a new automatic transmission in the acclaimed 2.2 diesel. With significant revisions including nearly 500 new components, the new generation X-TYPE retains all the original car’s strengths, and ad ... Continue reading

Popular Mechanics "Breakthrough Award" to Ford SYNC

Popular Mechanics "Breakthrough Award" to Ford SYNC

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 – Ford SYNC was honored with a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award at a ceremony Wednesday at the Hearst Tower in New York City. The Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards, now in their third year, were created to recognize products that set new benchmarks in design, creativity, and engineering a ... Continue reading

Nissan Announces Pricing on 2008 350Z Coupe and Roadster

Nissan Announces Pricing on 2008 350Z Coupe and Roadster

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11 -- Nissan North America, Inc. today announced pricing on the 2008 Nissan 350Z lineup, which is on sale now at Nissan dealers nationwide. The 2008 350Z is available in Coupe and Roadster body styles and in an array of models - five for the Coupe (including the NISMO 350Z) and three for the Road ... Continue reading

Ford Escape 2008 Review

Ford Escape 2008 Review

One Week With 2008 Ford Escape XLT By Thom Cannell Senior Editor Detroit Bureau The Auto Channel Authors Note: No attempt at completeness, simply comments on one week’s driving experience—balanced against decades of experience and hundreds of comparisons. Ford’s 2008 Escape, while not drawn from a comple ... Continue reading

2008 Volvo XC70 - Reviews By Martha Hindes

2008 Volvo XC70 - Reviews By Martha Hindes

The Auto Channel Volvo XC70 By Martha Hindes The car I was driving sat for a moment near the crest of a steep hill, the nose pointed skyward. On the other side was a hundred foot drop down a barely existent trail, mostly tire tracks with a lot of brush growing in between. It was obvious not many vehicles could clamber ... Continue reading

2008 Ford Focus Sync Review

2008 Ford Focus Sync Review

What would you pay to have the coolest car on your block? A car with the best hands-free Bluetooth speakerphone and the best text-to-speech system for reading all those hundreds of messages from your thumb-pounding friends. How about owning a car where you could have an intimate conversation with your iPod—or othe ... Continue reading

2008 Volvo XC70 Review

2008 Volvo XC70 Review

Launched in the Montana Rockies By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com The good folks at Volvo chose to introduce the fresh, new, third-generation Volvo XC70 to the media in the big sky country of Whitefish, Montana. As we flew over Glacier National Park and into the Kalispell airport the yellowing aspens confirmed that fal ... Continue reading

2008 Cadillac CTS Review and Road Impressions

2008 Cadillac CTS Review and Road Impressions

Road impressions- Cadillac CTS Andrew Frankl European Bureau Chief Susan Docherty was getting out of her car outside LA’s world famous Ivy restaurant where ladies who do lunch stopped munching on their Caesar salads and turned their heads - face and neck lifts permitting – to have a look, not at the perfectly ... Continue reading

U.S.News & World Report Launches www.RankingsAndReviews.com Website, Ranks the Best Cars & Trucks

U.S.News & World Report Launches www.RankingsAndReviews.com Website, Ranks the Best Cars & Trucks

Imports Outrank Domestics, with Honda Cars Topping the List WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- U.S.News & World Report, the publisher of the America's Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, today announced the launch of www.RankingsAndReviews.com, a new internet site that empowers consumers to make the most informed buying deci ... Continue reading

Lexus creates the Neiman Marcus IS F Special Build Sedan for Neiman Marcus' 2007 Christmas Book

Lexus creates the Neiman Marcus IS F Special Build Sedan for Neiman Marcus' 2007 Christmas Book

Torrance CA - October 2, 2007 - The holidays are right around the corner and what better way to ring them in than with the ultimate holiday gift? The Neiman Marcus 2008 Lexus IS F Special Build Sedan debuts as this year's fantasy car in the renowned Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, the upscale retailer's wish book featuri ... Continue reading

More Than 40 World and North American Vehicle Debuts Planned for the Los Angeles Auto Show

More Than 40 World and North American Vehicle Debuts Planned for the Los Angeles Auto Show

Twenty-eight press conferences to be held Nov. 14 and 15 unveiling the latest vehicles from the world's auto manufacturers LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 -- The 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show will feature at least 14 World debuts and nearly 30 North American debuts during press days, Nov. 14 and 15. The show kicks-off with 28 press c ... Continue reading

Toyota Adds Lower-Priced Tundras

Toyota Adds Lower-Priced Tundras

Washington DC October 3, 2007; The AIADA newsletter reported that Toyota Motor Corp. will add 13 more versions of its full-size Tundra pickup, including lower-priced models with fewer features, as Japan's largest automaker targets a bigger share of U.S. truck sales. Click here to see the Tundra in action. Changes for t ... Continue reading

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