| Ford Finds Itself in Court Over Fuel-Economy Claims—Just Like Hyundai, Kia, Honda, and GM |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
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Watching Ford follow Hyundai, Kia, Honda, and GM in getting hit with a class-action lawsuit over its cars’ advertised fuel economy, one wonders if the plaintiffs’ lawyers behind these actions have tried to figure out a way to sue the manufacturers of the metaphorical floodgates that are now open. This isn’t to suggest that Ford’s C-Max [...]
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| Retro Wheels on Modern Rides: Torq-Thrust, BBS Super RS, Fuchs, Minilite |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
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First came retro cars; now wheel companies are mining the past for legendary designs, too. Though these new rims may look just like their ancestors, they’ve grown in size over the years, just as cars have. We chose four retro wheels and put them on what we deemed to be their modern automotive counterparts. The [...]
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| Maserati Product Plans Through 2015, Proposed Price Points Appear Online |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
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Maserati is in the midst of revamping its lineup and adding new models in order to become a full-line luxury automaker by 2015, and now the company’s plan for all of this has appeared online, first showing up at Carscoop. We already knew Maserati plans to augment its GranTurismo grand tourer and all-new 2014 Quattroporte [...]
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| 2013 Cadillac XTS AWD Tested: Stylish, and Roomy, but Infotainment-Challenged |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
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Forget both the snoozer STS and the phlegmatic DTS, as the XTS sits atop the Cadillac lineup as the brand’s new flagship. (Well, at least until the Mercedes S-class-targeting, über-luxury rear-drive sedan based on the upcoming Omega platform arrives a few years down the road.) Sporting the latest interpretation of Cadillac’s Art and Science design [...]
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| F1 2012: More Champions, More Modes, More Fun for Everyone [Video Game Review] |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
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Formula 1 has trouble leaving well enough alone. It constantly adjusts the rules, keeping engineers, drivers, and team principals on their toes—but the payoff is that it keeps fans glued to the television. The introduction of rules, circumventing of those rules, and engineering around the subsequent regulations is what keeps F1 so fresh year after [...]
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| 2013 Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid EPA-Certified, Earns 100 MPGe Combined Rating |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
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Ford has announced fuel-economy figures for the 2013 Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, which goes on sale in January, and the sedan’s EPA ratings vault it to the top of the plug-in-hybrid sedan fuel-efficiency heap. Granted, that heap is pretty short—it currently includes just the Toyota Prius plug-in, the Chevrolet Volt, the Fisker Karma, and Ford’s own [...]
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| Nissan Adds Warranty Coverage for Run-Down Leaf Batteries |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
Anyone with old electronics knows all too well that batteries lose capacity as they age: Start the day on a full charge and that old BlackBerry is running on empty by midafternoon. It's more ...
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| Top 10 Most-Read Stories of the Year |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
Out of thousands of Kicking Tires posts in 2012, a little novelty news item about the return of Chevrolet's Captiva Sport enjoyed something of a captive audience. The post, about the short-lived ...
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| The 20mph limit makes streets safer so why not enforce it |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
At first it really does seem rather slow. And despite the reassurance of signs every few hundred yards as you chug along at a stately 20mph, you can't help feeling that the other drivers are ...
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| The Year in Cars What I Drove in 2012 |
Dec 31st, 2012 |
I drove 60 cars in 2012. Driving in 2012 was an exercise in options. (Scroll down to see the list that includes 54 of the new cars that I test drove.) Cars have exited the homogenous era -- ...
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