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Hyundai leads in corporate loyalty, study shows

Hyundai leads in corporate loyalty, study shows

DETROIT — Long ignored by most American auto buyers, and slighted by others due to quality problems, Hyundai is now tops when it comes to corporate loyalty, according to a new study. But Ford Motor Co. is also making gains in the marketplace, according to the report by Experian Automotive, a data service that tracks vehicle [...]

October 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Maine Gas Stations Ignoring Penalties, Shorting Customers Fuel To Make More Money

Maine Gas Stations Ignoring Penalties, Shorting Customers Fuel To Make More Money

Think you’re paying too much at the pump? Perhaps you are – but not as much as those gassing up in Maine. No, the Pine Tree State doesn’t have the highest gas prices in the land (that would still be Hawaii), but it does have a problem with out-of-spec gas pumps. According to state inspection [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Winners of Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Ultimate Favourite Things ‘Meet Their Beetles

Winners of Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Ultimate Favourite Things ‘Meet Their Beetles

Leonardo Gilbert collecting on Thursday one of the 276 Volkswagen Beetles promised to audience members at Oprah Winfrey’s “Ultimate Favorite Things” show taping last November. On Thursday morning, 21 people assembled in Orland Park, Ill., a southwest suburb of Chicago, to receive the keys to their 2012 Volkswagen Beetles. The cars were among 276 promised [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Wider,Wedgier BMW 3 Series Gets a 4-Cylinder Engine for 2012

Wider,Wedgier BMW 3 Series Gets a 4-Cylinder Engine for 2012

2012 BMW 328i Sport Line. The sixth iteration of the BMW 3 Series sedan, arriving at United States dealers in February, has grown bigger in terms of wheelbase and overall length, smaller in terms of the engine bay and more efficient all around. It remains, however, thoroughly recognizable as the brand’s volume-leading saloon. Wedgier and wider, [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Remedies for Clunks and Leaks

Remedies for Clunks and Leaks

SCIONS and Toyotas needing new pistons and rings and Ford Focuses with steering issues are among the vehicles covered in the latest technical service bulletins. Enlarge This Image REPLACEMENT The 2012 Ford Focus may need a new steering gear. Enlarge This Image NEW DIFFERENTIAL The Mazda CX-9 crossover may leak oil from the rear differential [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Nissan Moves On Plans To Revive Datsun Nameplate As Budget Sub-Brand

Nissan Moves On Plans To Revive Datsun Nameplate As Budget Sub-Brand

Plans are reportedly progressing to bring back Datsun. Wait, what? Wasn’t Datsun just the name of Nissan before it became Nissan? Why yes, yes it was. But the Japanese automaker is – as we initially reported back in July – planning on dipping back into its own history to launch a budget brand for developing [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Vygor Teases Italy’s Latest Sportscar

Vygor Teases Italy’s Latest Sportscar

Back in the 1990s, Acura sold a car here called the Vigor. It was later succeeded by the TL, which has led to the model we know and love today. But this isn’t a mid-size Japanese luxury sedan. This is a sportscar. From Italy. What you see here is the first glimpse we’ve received from [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Audi giving tweeting fans R8 for a day… will you be next?

Audi giving tweeting fans R8 for a day… will you be next?

Spending time with any iteration of the Audi R8 is a glorious occasion. Your life becomes brighter, and everyone you pass on the street feels a bit better about their day for just having seen one. Audi wants you to experience this for yourself, and you’re going to need to flex your Twitter muscles to [...]

October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Bugatti substantially Reworking Galibier Before Seeking Final Approval

Bugatti substantially Reworking Galibier Before Seeking Final Approval

Plans are reportedly moving ahead at Bugatti headquarters in Mulsheim, France, to succeed the Veyron with a version of the Galibier concept super-sedan unveiled back in 2009. But before the company’s CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer makes the final pitch by the end of the year to the board of the Volkswagen Group for final approval, some [...]

October 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More
OnStar Bends To Pressure, Will Not Track Data From Canceled Subscribers

OnStar Bends To Pressure, Will Not Track Data From Canceled Subscribers

Reversing its earlier decision, OnStar has issued a press release confirming it will indeed alter its Terms and Conditions policy and “will not keep a data connection to customers’ vehicles after the OnStar service is canceled.” Says OnStar President Linda Marshall: We realize that our proposed amendments did not satisfy our subscribers. This is why [...]

October 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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