| Affordable Credit Fuels May Sales Pace, Edmunds.com Reports |
May 29th, 2014 |
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Edmunds.com predicted today that May sales will reach 1.55 million units. The SAAR is expected to reach 16.2 million.
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| CFPB Engaged in Fair-Lending ActionsAgainst Six Auto Lenders |
May 29th, 2014 |
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Citing an unnamed source, Auto Finance News reported earlier this month that the CFPB is engaged in fair-lending actions against six finance sources. Bureau officials decline to comment.
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| Audi Q3 Camping Tent Concept Hits Wörthersee |
May 29th, 2014 |
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Audi introduces a concept Q3 with a camping tent.
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| Ford Overwhelmed by Demand for 2015 Mustang in Europe |
May 29th, 2014 |
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The 2015 Ford Mustang is already making waves in Europe.
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| Adaptive Thinking: We Drive Ford’s Ingenious New Adaptive Steering System |
May 29th, 2014 |
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After a decade or so pondering how steering could be improved to enhance both maneuverability and cruising composure, Ford engineers have invented an ingenious Adaptive Steering system they hope to produce for sale in less than a year. Ford’s new guidance system changes the steering ratio according to car speed and wheel position. This is […]
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| Orange You Glad There’s Only One? Funky, One-Off Lamborghini 5-95 Zagato Debuts |
May 29th, 2014 |
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When Italian design houses like Zagato, Ghia, or Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera take to reworking the lines of legendary established sports cars, they usually come out even more beautiful. Alas, such was not the case with this latest creation, the shovel-nosed Lamborghini 5-95 Zagato, a Gallardo-based one-off that debuted at this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. […]
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| Tesla Gets Junk Credit Rating, Loses Zero Sleep |
May 29th, 2014 |
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For a piece of junk, Tesla looks pretty good. The electric-car company earned a B- grade from Standard & Poor’s this week, which in Wall Street-speak is a “junk” rating that signals significant problems with a company’s books. Analysts from the world’s biggest credit rater said Tesla’s future had “considerable uncertainty” and its business was […]
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| Rapid Expansion? Ford Hopes to License Its Seat-Belt Airbag Tech |
May 29th, 2014 |
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Ford Motor Company is offering to license its patented inflatable safety-belt technology to other automakers—and even other industries—“to encourage expanded adoption” of the technology. Ford first introduced the inflatable safety belts for the outboard second-row seats of the Explorer for 2011, and currently offers the feature on the Explorer, Flex, and Fusion, the Lincoln MKT […]
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| VW Releases Awesome Renderings of GT6 GTI Roadster Concept, Pile of New Info |
May 29th, 2014 |
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This weekend’s Volkstravaganza in Wörthersee, Austria, will play host to the first public appearance of VW’s radical red GTI Roadster Vision Gran Turismo. For the brand’s loyal followers that can’t be there, VW has released these sweet, highly detailed renderings and a pile of info that goes beyond what we learned when conceptual sketches were […]
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| 2014 Porsche Panamera Turbo review notes: Quick and cushy, but far from pretty |
May 29th, 2014 |
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR RORY CARROLL: I no longer hate the Porsche Panamera. I used to hate it almost as much as I hated the
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