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The 2010 Ford Taurus’ job is simple: To find more buyers than its immediate predecessors. Ford’s full-size family sedan that debuted in 2005 as the Five Hundred and changed its name to Taurus for 2008 was a very competent and practical vehicle, even a bit upscale. But the styling was a little boring, and derivative of older Passats making the design look dated. The 2010 Taurus changes all of that by putting revised mechanicals in a more unique and sexier body. [click to continue...]

Return of a Classic
The classic roadster is back – more powerful and more stylish than ever before. It is the BMW Z4, the only car in its segment combining classic roadster proportions with a seating position moved close to the rear axle, rear-wheel drive, with a retractable hardtop. [click to continue...]

A couple days ago, Chrysler and FIAT announced plans to form a strategic alliance where FIAT would take a 35% stake in struggling Chrysler initially, and if things work out eventually a 55% controlling stake. While the announcement’s timing may have been a bit sudden, it should come as no surprise since Chrysler and FIAT had been in talks earlier this year about what they could do together. The deal is critical for Chrysler’s survival, having been almost forced into a shotgun wedding with GM during the Washington bailout, and most recently told by one senator to merge or die. [click to continue...]

When people say that GM is the world’s largest car maker, what they’re referring to is that they sell more cars in every market across the globe than any other car maker. That statement of fact has been accurate for the last 77 years and is what made GM one of the largest most valuable corporations for several decades, despite their current teetering on bankruptcy. Now in addition to their current financial troubles, GM has lost its sales crown for 2008 to Toyota after a virtual tie for 2007. [click to continue...]

GM showed off a Cadillac concept, Converj, at the Detroit Auto Show recently that previews what a possible luxury vehicle based off their much anticipated extended-range electric car architecture would look like, an architecture to which they have committed very heavily to bringing out as the Chevy Volt in late 2010. But given GM’s recent visit to Washington where they explained that they would literally cease to exist real soon if they didn’t get federal loans ASAP, its not hard to believe reports from Automotive News that they don’t have the money to engineer and build the Cadillac Converj show car. The problem is that the Converj is no ordinary pie in the sky concept that is just nice to look at. [click to continue...]

Many younger buyers today believe that Buick is the preferred brand of little old ladies everywhere, and as such would never consider any vehicle from the Trishield branded maker. Thats not so much a knock against Buick as an admission of fact, Buick’s own data reveals average buyer ages for their various vehicles to be as high as 70 years old. So why not just switch from making cars for old people to making cars for younger people? While its no easy task to switch your customer base overnight, Buick is doing just that with new models like the LaCrosse that debuted in Detroit last week. [click to continue...]

The MINI E is an all electric Cooper that is being used to test out potential new product for BMW’s premium small car brand. The car is being made available in a pretty small batch of only 500 units, and is limited to lease customers only in parts of California, New Jersey, and New York. For a monthly lease payment of $850, lucky lessees get to experience firsthand what MINI’s electric car plans are. As you might imagine, all 500 have been snapped up already. [click to continue...]

Nissan is joining the boxy but funky school of design with a third generation model of its previously Japanese market only Cube. While Scion beat them to the US market with the xB, Nissan has had a boxy wagon on sale in various international markets since 1998. Its relatively inexpensive, fuel-efficient, practical, and quirkier than ever. Its supposed to arrive at US dealers this spring, and naturally private party sales begin within a year or two. Gallery and more…

Dupont, a leading paint supplier to automakers around the world, understandably keeps track of what the most popular car colors are across all brands and in every region around the world. They have just released their 2008 Automotive Popularity Color Report and white is the most popular color for cars in North America with an estimated 20% share of all cars sold for the year. This is the second year in a row that white wins top honors. [click to continue...]