| Study: Smartphones Preferred Over In-Car Navigation Systems |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Are factory-installed navigation systems becoming harder for the average person to use? According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Navigation Usage and Satisfaction Study, there has been a thirteen point decrease in satisfaction from 2011. When looking at the different categories surveyed, ease of use has consistently declined twenty-five points year after year. [...]
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| 2014 Jeep Liberty Replacement Spied on Streets of Detroit with Upscale Interior |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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While details are still a little sparse on the upcoming 2014 Jeep Liberty replacement, we know that it’s going to be a crossover based on the Dodge Dart, which should aid its fuel economy numbers. After today, we have a few more details to add, as our spy photographers have caught sight of its uncovered [...]
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| Spied! Audi A3 Sedan Spotted Testing Overseas |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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A cadre of small luxury sedans have emerged as the next big thing in the auto industry. Now, it looks like we’re in for yet another. Spotted testing in Europe is this Audi A3 sedan, a vehicle that we’ve known is coming for some time. Joining the five-door hatchback that we get in the U.S., [...]
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| CurbTXT: The Answer to Passive-Agressive Parking Notes |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Have you ever been frustrated while trying to park? Did someone take up two spots or make it impossible for you to get out? Have you left a rather passive-aggressive note on their wind shield? Thanks to CurbTXT, you can now text people via their license plate number. CurbTXT describes itself as “Neighbors helping neighbors [...]
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| 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee’s Pricing Leaks Online, Including New Diesel |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Pricing for Jeep’s updated-for-2014 Grand Cherokee SUV has found its way online, appearing first on a Jeep forum. Pricing for the mildly refreshed Grand Cherokee is, for the most part, unexciting and predictable, but the leaked info gives away one exciting tidbit: how much the SUV’s newly optional diesel V-6 engine will cost. The short [...]
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| All-New 2014 Toyota Tundra to Debut in Chicago [2013 Chicago Auto Show] |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Toyota will unveil the all-new 2014 Tundra full-size pickup February 7th at the 2013 Chicago auto show, and we expect big changes. This is a bit of déjà vu all over again as Chicago played host to the debut of the first truly full-size Tundra pickup—the 2007 model—in 2006. That 2007 truck made big waves with [...]
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| John Phillips: On the Recently Departed Chris Economaki |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Chris Economaki had a reedy, squeaky voice—“a rabbit with laryngitis,” is how stock-car writer Tex Swiston once described it—that should have obviated any TV career. Fact is, Chris might more profitably have been a barker at Coney Island—he was, at heart, a racetrack promoter. Mind you, it could have been precisely that awful trebly honk, [...]
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| Aaron Robinson: Never Turn Your Back on October |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Work on the annual Winners and Losers round-up in the January 10Best issue begins for me on January 1 of the year before with the daily chronicle of vanity, greed, and stupidity otherwise known as the morning newspaper. It ends in late October, when copy changes can no longer be inserted without sparking a union [...]
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| Mystery Mopar Limited Edition Teased Prior to Chicago Debut [2013 Chicago Auto Show] |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Working from the inside out, Chrysler has released a single interior image of its upcoming Mopar ’13 limited-edition vehicle. Set to debut next month at the Chicago auto show, the Mopar ’13 follows in the footsteps of the limited-edition Mopar ’10 Dodge Challenger, Mopar ’11 Dodge Charger, and Mopar ’12 Chrysler 300. The sole image provided reveals just one [...]
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| The Spark is Gone: What’s Going On with Electric Cars |
Jan 25th, 2013 |
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Last October, Audi announced that it was canning its R8 e-tron electric supercar, in development for three years, before a single vehicle came to market. While the R8 e-tron certainly wasn’t going to sell in huge volumes, its cancellation is just the latest setback in the electric car’s slow—some might say false—start. From all the [...]
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