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eBay Find of the Day: 1996 DeTomaso Guarà is a rare treat

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:00 +0000

Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Auctions 1996 DeTomaso Guarà - Click above for high-res image gallery The DeTomaso Guarà was the last project of company founder and namesake, Alejandro de Tomaso. First shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 1993, the Guarà could be had as a closed-roof coupe or open-top barchetta. A more practical canvas-roof Spider was eventually added as well, but only five were ever made

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Report: Toyota Tundra frame rust recall to go nationwide

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:00 +0000

Filed under: Truck , Recalls , Safety , Toyota Last November, the Toyota Tundra recall to address premature rusting frames was expanded to include trucks from the 2000-2003 model years. That recall, though, only applied to 20 states and Washington, D.C.

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Cash for Clunkers more than twice as effective as first thought?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Car Buying , Government/Legal In what might turn out to be one of the biggest games of “he said, she said,” in the history of the world, Maritz Research, an automotive market research company, is claiming that the government’s Cash for Clunkers program actually boosted auto sales by much more than previously thought. Maritz is crediting the program with 765,000 new vehicle sales, higher than the 677,000 claimed by the government, and much, much higher than the 125,000 sales that Edmunds.com famously quoted . In fact, it’s more than double the Department of Transportation’s own estimate of 346,000 sales

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Oh No You Di’nt! Chevy Posts Bigger-Than-Ford Torque Figure

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:24 +0000

General Motors announced today that the diesel engine in its 2011 Heavy-Duty pickup trucks will produce 30 pound-feet more torque than the diesel engine in the 2011 Ford Super Duty. Well, technically, GM announced that its 6.6-liter Duramax diesel V8 produces 397 horsepower and 765 lb-ft of torque.

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Infiniti celebrates 20 years with limited edition Gs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Sedan , Infiniti 20th Anniversary Edition 2010 Infiniti G37 - Click above for high-res image gallery Has it really been 20 years? As a matter of fact, yes.

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GM quickly one-ups Ford with 2011 Duramax diesel ratings, shows off GMC Sierra Denali HD

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:29:00 +0000

Filed under: Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , GM , GMC , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above to enlarge Not even a month ago, at the end of our post on the 2011 Ford Super Duty engine specs, we wrote: “General Motors, there’s a big ass ball in your court.” Someone at GM has apparently grabbed their big ass racket and said, “Oh, I got this…”, then smacked the ball right back into play. The Ford ’s measurements 390 horsepower, 735 pound-feet of grunt.

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Video: Memory Jog - Revisiting the Mercury Tracer

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Classics , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Mercury Classic Mercury Tracer - Click above to watch the video after the break “It’s peppy,” the salesman said as an enticement to buy… It’s not that the Mazda 323/ Ford Laser-based first-generation Tracer was a bad car, but the Escort apparently called stronger for our own hard-earned dollar, so we drove home in a brand new 1989 wagon. Ford apparently figured this out with the second-generation Tracer, which was joined with the Escort as part of a comprehensive redesign in the early 1990s.

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Video: Memory Jog - Revisiting the Mercury Tracer

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AutoblogGreen for 03.10.10

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:54:00 +0000

eBay find of the Day: all-electric 1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa conversion So close to awesome. Report: Feds probing Prius’ unintended acceleration incident, no new recall issued One car in California is causing a lot of problems. Report: Nissan has 56,000 pre-orders for all-electric Leaf Or something.

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