Hyundai Elantra

February 14, 2010

The Elantra SE is a well-rounded package with roomy cabin, a comfortable ride, nice fit and finish, and a quiet interior. It provides excellent braking and very secure emergency handling, aided by the SE’s standard electronic stability control. Fuel economy is respectable at 27 mpg overall. Acceleration is adequate if not breathtaking. Reliability has been [...]

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Gas Saving Sedan

February 10, 2010

The Refined Elantra SE Beats the very thrifty Corolla
With record-setting gas prices and an ailing economy, more people are turning to small cars to ease the strain on their budgets. The good news is that you don’t have to make as many sacrifices as before.
Even with prices under $20,000, the best of today’s small cars [...]

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The Walk-around Inspection

February 6, 2010

You’ll find the oil filler cap somewhere on the valve cover. If the engine is a longitudinally-installed V6 or V8 the cap could be on either valve cover, if the engine is a transverse installation, the oil filler cap will always be on the front valve cover. Some oil filler caps on older vehicles have [...]

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Son Local Winnipeg British Auto Dealer Eugene Oregon

February 3, 2010

Auto dealer John Sheppard had an inkling that something was up when former Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey called him two times to remind him of their lunch date last month at the Waterfront Restaurant.
When Sheppard showed up, he was ushered into a private dining room, where a who’s who of Eugene power brokers, including Carolyn [...]

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1983 Audi 100

January 30, 2010

The Audi 100, introduced in the States as the 5000, will go down in history as the car that made unintended acceleration famous. Yet this wrongly maligned automobile did at least as much for design as it did for the bank balances of the nation’s attorneys.
Back when the 100 was unveiled, the world had adjusted [...]

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1975 Volkswagen Golf

January 26, 2010

How do you follow a warm, cuddly leg end like the Beetle? Volkswagen wisely decided on something completely different. Herbie the Love Bug was replaced by a businesslike, front-engined, front-drive, water-cooled sedan that looked like a stylized shoe box.
Indeed the Golf, known as the Rabbit on our shores, was a bona-fide member of the “folded [...]

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More Clout for Calibra

January 22, 2010

Sleek, attractive, and well finished, the Opel Calibra coupe came out of the box a pretty strong offering for the GM Europe team. Its 150-horsepower 2-liter 16-valve twin-cam four gave the top-line model an 8.2-second 0-60-mph capability and a top end of 138 mph. But the playing field changes quickly in the sport coupe game, [...]

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Why All Cars Look Alike

January 18, 2010

Do all car stylists meet once a month in a big bar somewhere to compare designs? Do all initial styling sketches get processed through some kind of blandness mainframe, where they are digitally neutered to achieve a numbing stylistic consistency? Or is maybe just one guy doing the styling on all new cars worldwide, and [...]

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Vette Reaches Million Milestone

January 15, 2010

It’s taken 39 years, but one bright morning in early July, Chevrolet execs rolled out the red carpet as the one millionth Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Zora Arkus-Duntov is considered by many the father – and most certainly the savior – of the Corvette, even though, Chevrolet says, he didn’t [...]

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Dodge 5.2 Liter V-8 with Multiport Electronic Fuel Injection

January 12, 2010

In 1992, Dodge unleashed its new 5.2 liter V-8 with multiport electronic fuel injection and upped its performance ante from 165 to 230 horsepower in one fell swoop. For ‘93, there’s even more fast iron in store. The 5.2-liter Magnum V-8 is joined by a big brother motor with 5.9 liters of displacement. That’s 360 [...]

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