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Hyundai

Hyundai’s first two cars, the Pony and Stellar were quintessential lemons, and the company’s subsequent models have not been much better. The Pony came to Canada in late 1984, and sales took off like wildfire, mainly because of the Pony’s reasonably attractive packaging and very attractive price. The failure-prone Stellar joined the lineup in 1985. [...]

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10 Steps to Buying a New Car: Using incentives and rebates

Today’s new car market is crowded and competitive. Many new cars are offered for sale with attractive incentives to make you choose a particular model. In some cases, the cars with the best incentives are those that aren’t selling very well on their own. An incentive is anything that gives you an added reason to [...]

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1986 Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable

Back in 1982, Ford brought out its first soft-form car, the Thunderbird, and unlocked the door to aerodynamic shapes in the 1980s- “membrane cars,” as Art Center College of Design prof Strother MacMinn calls them, because they look as if their smooth skin had been pulled taut over the underpinnings, like a membrane. If the [...]

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Why All Cars Look Alike

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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How to Pick the Car

For comfort and convenience. Only you can determine whether their added cost is worth their convenience. Sound Systems – Controlled audio systems have progressed a far piece from the old squawk box in the dash. Now offered are AM-FM stereo radios, hi-fi tape decks in mono or stereo, and fore and aft speakers that can [...]

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