There’s a wise old saying that warns not to propose marriage to a woman until you’ve met her mother. What if potential MIL is out of the country for an extended period, and you’re in a hurry? You could do what I did in 1977: look in the garage to see what she drives. There

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Your faithful editor just dodged a bullet. And no, not from our owners, who might have wondered why I just took off for the better part of a weekday. Truth is, for the past several hours I’ve been trying to buy a car I don’t particularly need… but now it seems that circumstances have forced

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Ask The Best And Brightest: What Car Is Worth Buying On Impulse?

TTAC’s readers have rightly gained the reputation for being some of the best vehicle/automobilia identifiers on the planet. We keep you on your toes with several Curbside Classic Clues each week, but now we have an opportunity to flex those skills for something other than just bragging rights. Ontario police are asking for help identifying

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Stump The Best And Brightest: To Catch A Hit-And Runner Edition

One of the world’s foremost authorities on Automotive Journalism recently got their hands on a trio of Corvettes just for fun. But what unfolded was on the verge of hilarity, if not for their self-proclaimed journalistic superiority over us “punk kids with lots of servers and a desire to get free test drives.” And that’s

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Between the Lines: Corvettemegeddon!

To break our oil addiction and avoid future disasters like the Gulf spill, we must raise the efficiency of our cars and trucks . Reason #3: Without stronger standards, American automakers could fall behind in the global race for the clean car market, putting even more manufacturing jobs … In the 1970s, the U.S. auto industry fell asleep at the wheel when it came to building fuel efficient cars and ceded huge market share to the Japanese companies like Toyota and Honda. …

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60 MPG Is Good Deal for Consumers, Environment and Jobs | Hybrid Cars

To break our oil addiction and avoid future disasters like the Gulf spill, we must raise the efficiency of our cars and trucks . Reason #3: Without stronger standards, American automakers could fall behind in the global race for the clean car market, putting even more manufacturing jobs … In the 1970s, the U.S. auto industry fell asleep at the wheel when it came to building fuel efficient cars and ceded huge market share to the Japanese companies like Toyota and Honda. …

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60 MPG Is Good Deal for Consumers, Environment and Jobs | Hybrid Cars

The study A Fuel Efficiency Horizon for US Automobiles doesn’t suggest that plug-ins are about greenwashing, that’s my suggestion based upon the history of the US auto industry . It’s just that in my opinion, selling 50000 plug-in …

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Are automakers using plug-ins to greenwash the truth? – Hybrid …

The study A Fuel Efficiency Horizon for US Automobiles doesn’t suggest that plug-ins are about greenwashing, that’s my suggestion based upon the history of the US auto industry . It’s just that in my opinion, selling 50000 plug-in …

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Are automakers using plug-ins to greenwash the truth? – Hybrid …

Washington auto sales are reviving slowly, new figures from the auto industry show, but even those accelerated sales will leave most local dealers below their historic sales highs. … The bleak results were a reminder that, for all the good news about the turnaround of the Detroit automakers , the market for cars and trucks in the United States remains frail. Initial data showed sales came in at about 997000, down 5 percent from July, according to AutoData Corp. …

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Quarterly auto sales drop off from 2009 – Business – The Olympian …

Washington auto sales are reviving slowly, new figures from the auto industry show, but even those accelerated sales will leave most local dealers below their historic sales highs. … The bleak results were a reminder that, for all the good news about the turnaround of the Detroit automakers , the market for cars and trucks in the United States remains frail. Initial data showed sales came in at about 997000, down 5 percent from July, according to AutoData Corp. …

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