Car Repair Prices Finally Exposed Through Web Apps

Published Dec 29, 2010 By Reilly Brennan

No matter how smart you are or how hard you try, you have the feeling you're get taken for a ride, don't you? For decades, car shoppers had that sinking feeling in their stomachs when they approached the dealership. Even the coolest hostage negotiator felt squeezed by the grip of the car salesman, who either wrangled more money out of the buyer or handed him off to the finance manager for further ...

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Driven: 2010 Acura TSX Tech V6

Published Aug 13, 2010 By Reilly Brennan

You're in an enviable position that is, paradoxically, filled with agony. You are a sports sedan buyer with thirty-five large to spend. You want something that drives fantastically, looks good and has some degree of curb presence. The problem is, you have about thirty-five choices in front of you. That's the rub. The most popular choice isn't a bad one: BMW dominates the middle luxury space with i ...

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Driven: 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe

Published Jun 26, 2010 By Reilly Brennan

The fact that the 2011 CTS Coupe is here at all is something of a miracle altogether. The car was originally scheduled to land in showrooms over a year ago, but GM's bankruptcy put the project on hold. After it appeared the sun would rise again on Detroit, the two-door program was revived and now both the CTS Coupe and performance-minded CTS-V Coupe go on sale in August of this year. That makes si ...

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Leaked Memo: Don't Call It Chevy. It's Chevrolet.

Published Jun 10, 2010 By Reilly Brennan

General Motors said this morning it will ditch the shortened nickname "Chevy," instead opting for the full three-syllable "Chevrolet" when talking about the best-selling brand. "Because Chevrolet is one of the fastest growing automotive brands globally, we will use Chevrolet in internal and external communications," the company said via its corporate Twitter account this morning. "We love when peo ...

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Driven: 2010 Audi S4 Sedan

Published May 01, 2010 By Reilly Brennan

It has always been my belief that products that turn full control over to the operator have the ability to transcend the norm, perhaps even stirring a sense of bliss inside us. This occurs when a product is so easy to use and so eerily connected to what we want to do that we feel like we become masterful. Think of the simple way an Apple iPod just "works," or how a guitar player or pro basketball ...

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230 MPG For Chevy Volt? Not Likely

Published Apr 22, 2010 By Reilly Brennan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon draft a new regulation for the way it calculates fuel efficiency for electric cars, potentially deflating the stratospheric fuel economy numbers trumpeted by automakers in recent months. In August 2009, GM announced that its new 2011 Chevy Volt hybrid would achieve a stratospheric 230 "miles per gallon," using a calculation that took into account ...

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