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• Bob Lutz thanks Tesla for proving EVs possible

  —Leftlane News

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  During his keynote speech at the Los Angeles auto show on Wednesday, GM Vice Chairman of Global Product Development, Bob Lutz, thanked California startup Tesla Motors for proving electric cars are viable. He also spoke about his enthusiasm for the unfolding EV movement. Lutz told the Motor Press [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by Nick Aziz

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• What Happens When You Cross A Land Cruiser And A Citroen DS? [Custom Cars]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 44
  Awesome is what happens. This wildly modified Citroen DS body sits atop the chassis and powertrain of a Land Cruiser, making it the ideal vehicle for quirky French brancher la boue. ... [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:30pm EST
  by Wes Siler

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• Southeast Motor recalls Lingyue cars on engine flaw

  —Automotive News - China automotive sales and production, suppliers and OEM in Chinese market, China's homegrown players and their expansions overseas.

  Shanghai, December 2 (Gasgoo.com) Chinese automaker Southeast (Fujian) Motor Co., Ltd. yesterday started to recall its Lingyue sedans because of engine flaws, Xinhua News reported, citing China's quality watchdog. [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  

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• How The Porsche Boxster Spyder Shed 176 Lbs And How It Can Lose More [New Cars]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 36
  The new Porsche Boxster Spyder makes 10 HP more than the regular Boxster S but, more importantly, at 2,811 Lbs it's 176 Lbs lighter. Here's how Porsche shed that weight and how it could have lost... [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Wes Siler

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• China sees lots of room to boost car sales further

  —Automotive News - China automotive sales and production, suppliers and OEM in Chinese market, China's homegrown players and their expansions overseas.

  China has plenty of room to promote cars sales further in 2010, a senior Ministry of Commerce official said on Tuesday. [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

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• Japanese November Car Sales: Up 44 Percent? Or 36 Percent? Or 18 Percent?

  —The Truth About Cars

  Number of comments: 4
  If you are a daily reader of the Nikkei, as we are in the Schmitto-san household, you can sometimes lose your confidence in Japanese precision and accuracy. Yesterday, we quoted the Nikkei as saying that “sales of new cars and trucks rose 36 percent year on year to 293,410 units in [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:59am EST
  by Bertel Schmitt

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• SOUTH KOREA: Renault to build electric cars

  —Daily automotive news and comment

  Renault will build electric vehicles in Korea once the government has finalised its plans for EVs, the chief executive of the French automaker's Samsung unit told reporters at the unveiling of the new SM5 mid-sized saloon. [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:57am EST
  

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• 2010 Car And Driver "10 Best" List Includes Second American Car [Best10]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 62
  Car and Driver's annual list of the "10Best" cars sold in America includes the BMW 3-series and the Honda Accord (as usual). Except this year the Ford Fusion Hybrid joins the Cadillac CTS/CTS-V in... [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Ray Wert

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• Italian Police Crash Lamborghini Patrol Car

  —Wheels

  Number of comments: 7
  Lamborghini put a few Gallardos into the hands of the Italian state police, and, sure enough, one of the cars just got wrecked. [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:30am EST
  by By STEPHEN WILLIAMS

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• Preview: 2011 Ford Fiesta

  —TCC Confidential

  What is it? Ford's first subcompact in a decade, designed in Europe, built in Mexico The basics: 1.6-liter four with five-speed manual or six-speed direct-shift automatic On sale: Summer 2010, with a website to let consumers sign up online now Price: $16,000 (est.) With small cars expanding their share of a flat [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:00am EST
  

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• Feds punt on E15 waiver decision, want to test ethanol's effect on more cars

  —AutoblogGreen

  

  Filed under: Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA

  There is some ethanol in almost all of the gasoline sold in the U.S. Usually, this amount is no more than 10 percent of the total and, if it's more than that, it jumps all the [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  by Sebastian Blanco

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• Possible The Greatest Single Picture Of All Time [LOLCars]

  —Jalopnik

  We entered a period of extended mental paralysis after first seeing this picture. First, chocolate-covered bacon on a stick. Second, Monster truck smashing circle-track racer. Finally, American flag.... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  by Ben Wojdyla

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• Weigh In on Our 2010 Editors' Most Wanted Awards

  —Straightline

  

  Today Inside Line published the 2010 edition of our annual Editors' Most Wanted Awards. Unlike many of the other automotive awards bestowed on the latest models, ours are based solely on the cars we want to drive.

  The voting process [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:41pm EST
  by Erin Riches

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• Chinese Booze Company To Make Car Engines [I Feel Gassy]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 39
  Wuliangye Yibin makes a popular Chinese alcoholic beverage. Brilliance makes popular, but dangerous, Chinese cars. Combine them to get cars with spotty safety records powered by liquor-company-built... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:30pm EST
  by Matt Hardigree

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• Hydrogen cars + math. Worth the trouble?

  —AutoblogGreen

  

  Filed under: Hydrogen, Green Daily

  
  
  
  I'm starting to think that the "hydrogen advocate" Greg Blencoe (always an AutoblogGreen fave) might be working against the hydrogen industry. In a new post on his Hydrogen Car Revolution blog, he responds to five' [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  by Sebastian Blanco

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• Americans like White, the world likes Silver in new Color Popularity Report

  —Autoblog

  

  Filed under: Car Buying

  
  
  DuPont has released its annual Color Popularity Report, and for the first time has converged data from across the globe to create a worldwide report on how we, as a species, prefer our cars to be colored. OK, maybe that's a [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:57pm EST
  by John Neff

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• Ford Sales Flat In November; Cars Up, Trucks Down

  —The Truth About Cars

  Number of comments: 21
  Ford buyers’ shift to cars from trucks continued unabated in November. While the F-Series booked a 20% drop, reflecting a weak construction and discretionary truck market, passenger cars sales increased a tidy 14%. Net: Zero. The big winner at Ford is the Fusion, up 54%, and setting a new full [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:30pm EST
  by Paul Niedermeyer

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• Feds punt on E15 waiver decision, want to test ethanol's effect on more cars

  —Autoblog

  

  Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal

  
  
  There is some ethanol in almost all of the gasoline sold in the U.S. Usually, this amount is no more than 10 percent of the total and, if it's more than that, it jumps all the way to [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  by Sebastian Blanco

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• Warren Buffet: all cars will be electric within 20 years

  —Leftlane News

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  To those of us who are familiar with the rapid advancements happening in the EV space, the idea that all vehicles will eventually be battery-powered is looking more and more like a given. But when a billionaire investor like Warren Buffet makes bold predictions about EV adoption, well, it makes [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:05pm EST
  by Nick Aziz

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• Customized JDM Honda Odyssey Does BMW Better Than 5 Series GT [Custom Cars]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 112
  We haven't exactly been coy about our opinion of the BMW 5 Series GT, it's questionably-necessary and lumpy. Such needn't be the case though as evidenced by this JDM Honda Odyssey modified with an... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  by Ben Wojdyla

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• Curbside Classic: Five Revolutionary Cars – No. 3 – 1958 Ford Thunderbird

  —The Truth About Cars

  Number of comments: 25
  NB: The car pictured here is a 1959 Thunderbird, but my article is about its near identical 1958 predecessor, because of its historical significance. I hope the dissonance won’t upset the purists here. I could never tell them apart as a kid anyway. Behold the mythical winged dream machine. The 1958 [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  by Paul Niedermeyer

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• L’Audace, L’Audace: France Up 48.4 Percent

  —The Truth About Cars

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  You think Japan’s 43.8 percent rise in car sales in November is an aberration that can only be explained with insidious inspection practices? Whatever. Change of venue: Direct your attention to France. France sold 48.4 percent more cars this November than in November 2008, reports Automobilwoche [sub]. Granted, the final [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:23am EST
  by Bertel Schmitt

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• EPA Won’t Rule On E15 Based On Two Cars Worth Of Data

  —The Truth About Cars

  Number of comments: 4
  Well, the good news is that the EPA has thus far refused to allow gasoline blends of more than ten percent ethanol. The bad news is that the Agency has yet to take a firm stand against the idea of eventually allowing E15 into the nation’s gas pumps. In fact, [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:02am EST
  by Edward Niedermeyer

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• VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face [New Cars]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 87
  The VW naming department is probably awesome. We're betting it goes like this: "Let's do drugs and read local-language editions of Encyclopedia Brittanica." And that's how the Inuit word for "wolf"...' [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by Ben Wojdyla

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• How To Hide The Porsche Panamera’s Ugly [Custom Cars]

  —Jalopnik

  Number of comments: 55
  A Dubai tuner has worked out how to enjoy the Porsche Panamera's performance without getting made fun of for its hideous looks. This shades-of-brown camo should blend nicely into a desert background... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:30am EST
  by Wes Siler

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• The Amatoya: Meet the next generation of fire fighting vehicles

  —Autoblog

  

  Filed under: Concept Cars, Specialty, Design/Style

  Amatoya Reconnaissance and Suppression Vehicle - Click above for image gallery
  Designer Liam Ferguson's vision of how to fight fires almost makes us wish we were firemen - as long as we could have the keys to one [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:29am EST
  by Jonathon Ramsey

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• Lexus's efforts on low-emission cars pay off in China

  —Automotive News - China automotive sales and production, suppliers and OEM in Chinese market, China's homegrown players and their expansions overseas.

  Lexus, a luxury brand under the wing of the Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor Corp., recently benefited a lot from its efforts in the low-displacement sector of China, with a third-quarter sales rise of 40 percent and an October sales surge of 88 percent. [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:03am EST
  

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• 2011 Audi A8: Go-Go Gadget Sedan [New Cars]

  —Jalopnik

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  The 2011 Audi A8, unveiled last night in Miami, is loaded with gadgets — everything from handwriting recognition, terrain-predicting transmission controls and automatic turn signals. It's like... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by Ben Wojdyla

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• Automakers may signal recovery with U.S. sales gain

  —Automotive News - China automotive sales and production, suppliers and OEM in Chinese market, China's homegrown players and their expansions overseas.

  U.S. auto sales may run at a faster pace in November from a year earlier for just the second month in 2009 in a sign that the industry is starting to rebound. The seasonally adjusted annual rate will be 10.5 million cars and light trucks, the average estimate of 7 [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:31am EST
  

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• Concept Cars Get The Comic Book Treatment

  —TCC Confidential

  Concept cars don't always get the respect they deserve. Though some -- like the Cadillac Converj -- demonstrate production-ready designs, others seem like kooky high-fashion getups from the runways: so conceptual, so out there, they're more fit for sci-fi flicks than car conventions. And thus, it seems entirely [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

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