| CTA orders 8 more rail cars with aisle-facing seats |
Feb 14th, 2013 |
If 706 rail cars with center-facing seats are 706 too many for some CTA riders who hate being squeezed from both sides and having their view of the city replaced by the paunch of standing passengers, ...
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| Automotive redesigns of 2013-14 |
Feb 14th, 2013 |
Not unlike Hollywood, every new automotive model year features face lifts, redesigns and reboots. Some automakers walk the fine line between respecting past successes and moving their vehicles ...
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| Spied! All-New 2015 Mazda3 |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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Our spy photographers snagged the next-generation 2015 Mazda 3 hatchback during testing, with a much cleaner, more refined design under the black-and-white camouflage. The Kodo design language has thankfully removed many of the current model’s design excesses. For example, the next-generation Mazda3 prototype gets rid of the current model’s defining “smiling” grin, and replaces it [...]
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| Chevrolet’s Sonic and Spark to Get Siri Eyes Free Integration |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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If you want to fully use Apple’s Siri from behind the wheel, your choices are quickly expanding. Hot on the heels of Honda’s Siri integration, Chevrolet announced today that Chevrolet MyLink will be available with Siri on the 2013 Chevrolet Sonic and Spark. Through the standard infotainment system, customers with an iPhone running iOS 6 [...]
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| Spied! 2015 Chevy Cruze |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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The new 2015 Chevrolet Cruze has been spotted. When compared with the current model, the 2015 Cruze looks much more sleek, thanks to the new and more rounded front end and slightly longer rear. The door handles now sit higher up on the doors. Rumor has it the new 2015 Cruze will be the first [...]
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| Auto Bailout Drops to $20.3 Billion |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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On Monday, the Treasury Department announced the overall cost of the 2008 financial rescue effort was reduced from $59.68 billion to $55.48 billion. This means that around 93 percent of the funds from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) have been recovered. Sales of shares of remaining General Motors stocks helped in the [...]
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| Mitsubishi Doubling Marketing Budget; Plans To Push 2014 Outlander |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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On Monday, executives from Mitsubishi Motors North America told dealers that it will return to prime-time network TV by doubling its marketing budget. The marketing increase will go along with the arrival of the redesigned 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander, featuring an upgraded interior and upscale look. “We’re going to be on prime-time TV and we’ll plan [...]
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| 2013 BMW 750i Road Test |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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Altering the mission of the executive sedan
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| 2014 Audi S3 Sportback: Audi-Speak for Hot Five-Door [2013 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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Audi’s A3 lineup continues to expand—at least overseas—and the latest sibling to arrive is this S3 Sportback, which is how Audi says hot five-door. The spicier S3 with two additional doors joins the S3 three-door, as well as the regular-grade A3 and A3 Sportback, in Audi’s European lineup. More A3 variations are on their way, [...]
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| 2013 Jaguar XF / XJ 3.0 AWD First Drives: A Couple of Arctic Cats |
Feb 13th, 2013 |
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If you live in Southern California or south Florida, Jaguar’s two best markets, an all-wheel-drive Jag is as useless as a chocolate teapot. But if you live in the Northeast, another hot zone for luxury nameplates, almost all of which make good money on AWD, it’s a different matter. Jaguar needs this all-weather option, and [...]
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