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How Can This Be? Kia Amanti Out Scores The New BMW 5-Series In Crash Test

Agent009 submitted on 10/15/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:31:07 AM

Three of six large car models earn the top rating of good, but one is marginal in side impact crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Results show a range of performance in how well large cars are designed to protect peop...

56 user comments | Category: Report Cards

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U.K. Cracks Down on Smoking While Driving, Should We Do The same?

Agent009 submitted on 9/28/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:11:31 AM

Whilst many smokers would consider their car as the last refuge from the ban that has prevented them from lighting up in public they can now be prosecuted for driving without due care and attention. Under the new Highway Code, which comes into fo...

17 user comments | Category: Misc News

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GM: Saturn Vue plug-in hybird coming in ‘2009-ish’

omarrana submitted on 9/13/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:02:50 PM

Well it seems like the Chevrolet Volt won’t be GM’s first plug-in hybrid out on the market after all. According to Jill Lajdziak, brand general manager, the first GM plug-in hybrid will be a Saturn Vue SUV that can go 10 miles on electricity alone. ...

5 user comments | Category: New Cars

9 Votes

BMW 1-Series To Hit U.S. Shores Under $30,000!

Agent009 submitted on 9/12/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:48:27 AM

The 1-series, as sold in the US, will come only in coupe form, but will have the option of two different six-cylinder engines. The base 128i model will have 230hp, while the 135i will share a motor with the 335i boasting a conservatively-specified 30...

120 user comments | Category: New Cars

58 Votes

DANG! Cadillac's new CTS may actually be a C-Class killer! Exclusive Photos!

Agent001 submitted on 8/21/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:50:58 AM

Cadillac’s recent and historic resurgence has brought it back to the top tier of luxury auto brands. The next epoch in Cadillac’s renaissance begins with the all-new 2008 CTS – the next generation of the popular luxury sport sedan that is intended to...

110 user comments | Category: New Cars

65 Votes

What Are The Dinosaurs of Detroit Thinking?

Agent009 submitted on 7/27/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:35:27 AM

So you want to be an opinion columnist for a national newspaper? All right. Here's your mission, should you choose to accept it: Write a 900-word piece, defending the CEOs of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who continue to argue against legislativ...

19 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

17 Votes

Does the 2008 Infiniti G37 beat the BMW 335? 001 gives you HIS verdict.

Agent001 submitted on 7/27/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:50:46 AM

Leading the enhancements to the 2008 Infiniti G37 Coupe is the first-ever application of the new 3.7-liter V6 engine with VVEL (for Variable Valve Event and Lift). Rated at 330 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque, the new “VQ37VHR” contains approxima...

47 user comments | Category: Report Cards

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Can you guess the average age of G37 and 3-series coupe buyers? Bet you can't.

Agent001 submitted on 7/25/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:42:02 PM

All the buzz, all the ads and marketing paint an image of a handsome/pretty 30 year old, successful executive/entreprenuer who eats sushi, watches reality shows on MTV/VH1 and drinks Red Bull, as the customer of the Infiniti G37 or the BMW 3-Series c...

98 user comments | Category: Report Cards

51 Votes

Spy photos: Bmw X6 without camouflage

baharnu submitted on 7/20/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 7:30:39 AM

These are the clearest spy photos with the Bmw X6. Looks like the new X6 is trying to introduce a new design in the SUV genre.The new X6 will longer and lower that the actual X5. X6 is expected to be launched in 2008....

26 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

29 Votes

VW wants a piece of the Lexus RX350 pie with the new Touareg 2. Do you think it has the goods?

Agent001 submitted on 7/19/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:07:40 PM

With the launch of its restyled Touareg 2, Volkswagen pushes one of the world’s most successful premium SUVs to a new plateau. No small feat for a vehicle that has set records – from the highest volcanic peaks in Chile to the dunes of the legendary...

79 user comments | Category: New Cars

53 Votes

Mercedes sees SUV sales growing up to 5% - 80,000 GLKs on the way

omarrana submitted on 7/13/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:59:57 AM

Despite debate on CO2 emissions and high-gas prices, Mercedes-Benz sees a steady grown in the SUV segment. “I see growth rates here of 4 to 5 percent a year,” Mercedes Chief Operating Officer Rainer Schmueckle told German magazine Auto Motor und S...

7 user comments | Category: New Cars

8 Votes

Ford is getting hammered in mid-size sedan segment

dannyboy2 submitted on 7/13/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:51:42 AM

Ford is struggling with poor sales of its mid-sized sedans, a segment it once dominated after introducing the groundbreaking Taurus in 1985. The once popular sedan found the homes of more than seven million buyers during the ‘80s and early ‘90s and i...

13 user comments | Category: Misc News

12 Votes

Next-generation Vauxhall cars will ‘talk to each other’

omarrana submitted on 7/12/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:50:33 AM

When the next generation Vauxhall Calibra hits the market, it will carry a technology that is bound to make Vauxhall some of the safest vehicles in the world. In an effort to reduce the number of accidents, Vauxhall is introducing a technology called...

6 user comments | Category: Misc News

9 Votes

OUCH!: Hybrids Taken To The Wood Shed By The 2008 EPA Fuel Economy Scores

Agent009 submitted on 7/12/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:07:34 AM

The 2008 model year doesn't begin for a couple of months, but you can see the new, lower Environmental Protection Agency fuel-economy figures now. The U.S. Department of Energy's Web site, www.fueleconomy.gov , has switched from the old mileage r...

32 user comments | Category: Misc News

22 Votes

Ford never intended to build the Interceptor

omarrana submitted on 7/12/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:16:29 AM

On of our favorite concept over the past year has been the Ford Interceptor that was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January. But like us right now, Ford CEO, Alan Mulally was disappointed to learn that the company never intended on building the...

8 user comments | Category: New Cars

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