We know it’s been a rough year for US automakers, and perhaps for GM most of all. Since their business has been built around Hummers, Tahoes, and full-size trucks for the last decade, their current market value is now lower than Mattel — maker of Matchbox cars. There is some good news however, …

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The recent trend of folks choosing efficiency by size in the new-car market isn’t without benefit to a few citizens. What am I (a humble intern) talking about? My sweet, slightly used 2006 Hyundai Accent with an motorized transmission and air conditioning, of course. whether you haven’t figu…

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Consumer Reports recently reviewed a number of small SUVS, and the overall winner was none other than the all-new Subaru Forester, which we recently reviewed here. The Forester impressed CR so much it unseated the Toyota RAV4 as the magazine’s top-rated compact SUV by earning a slightly highe…

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With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term “fuel efficiency” with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 mpg.

Volkswagen’s had its super-thrifty One-Liter Car concept vehicle - so name…

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It’s easy abundant to know what kind of fuel economy a new car gets - it’s printed right there on the window sticker. Finding out how much pollution it emits is a little harder whether you don’t know what terms like LEV, SULEV and PZEV mean.

The California Air Resources Board is making it eas…

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Automakers have been touting crossover vehicles as the reply to thirstier truck-based SUVs. However, in the tough-sales month of June crossovers still saw sales fall, just not as badly as SUVs. Ford’s Edge, which has seen very strong sales since it debuted final year, dropped nearly 20% in year-…

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that grandmother from Minnesota has owned multiple types of large vehicles with her husband, including a full-size conversion van, a Suburban and a minivan. The couple pop quiz drove the 2008 Toyota Highlander and found plenty to recommend. The Highlander gives them the room they need for their…

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Today, Toyota confirmed it would manufacture side airbags standard for the 2009 model year. According to IIHS crash tests, the 2008 Yaris got top marks when equipped with the then-optional side airbags. Without them, it received the lowest side crash-test scores. 

Toyota spokesman Bil…

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High gas prices are here at the same duration nearly every automaker is rolling out a highly visible crossover. While they get better fuel economy than truck-based SUVs, they???re no econobox. The editors at Cars.com took on two all-new models ??? the 2009 Dodge Journey and 2009 Honda Pilot ???…

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British paper The Sun reported that a top engineer for Mercedes-Benz said the company could ditch petroleum-fuel vehicles entirely by the year 2015.

The headline is a bit misleading considering the engineer, Herbert Kohler, actually said that he saw alternative fuel and electric…

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