Tweet by Frank S. Washington DETROIT – Street cred, as in credibility, that’s what the Hyundai Veloster pocket rocket was all about. As the Korean automaker moves the brand upstream it is becoming obvious that there are no plans to skirt competitors. Having been on the market only a year, you may not know what…
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Tweet by Brian Armstead It’s not everyday that you take a vehicle with a base price of about $84,000 and slog it through mud, crawl across rocks, or ford streams up to three feet deep (thanks to higher placement of air intakes and critical electrical components). And once you get done, you hose the mud…
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Tweet by Casey Williams – MyCarData.com It has been nearly two decades since Chevrolet offered a rear-drive performance sedan. In fact, it was in 1996 when the full-size Impala SS was lighting pavement fires with all of 260hp. That was a lot in the late-90s. A new performance four-port will soon roam…
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Tweet By Jim Meachen and Ted Biederman — MyCarData.com – Infuse the cool retro look of the Dodge Challenger with a massive 6.4-liter Hemi V-8 and you have the benchmark for a modern-day muscle car. The 2013 Challenger SRT8 is a thrill to drive, an attention-getting conversation piece, and a surprisingly comfortable commuter car. It’s…
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Tweet By Kelly Foss — MyCarData.com – Mercedes has been systematically upgrading their product line for the past several years. The E Class is classier, the S has more luxuries and even the C Class, their entry model in the U.S. market, has grown in size and substance. I recently tested the new C250 Coupe.…
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Tweet by Frank S. Washington MARQUETTE, Mich.,– We came to this town that sits at the shore of Keweenaw Bay in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a winter program to test the all-wheel-drive system that is offered on the Chrysler 300 and the Dodge Charger. But first I’ve got to rave about the Dodge…
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Tweet by Frank S. Washington MONT TREMBLANT, Quebec, Canada – The weather was awful here. There was snow on the ground and it was raining with the temperature just above freezing. That meant ice, slush and slippery roads. But this ski resort 130 kilometers (81 miles) northwest of Montreal was an awesome place to experience…
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Tweet by Frank S. Washington ANN ARBOR, MI – Guilt free power. That’s the way one engineer described the 2013 Ford Focus ST. Another way to put it is that the four-door hatchback is a rocket on wheels. On sale since August, most of the fun involved with Ford’s Focus ST is under the hood.…
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Tweet by Frank S. Washington DETROIT – My best day in every Porsche that I’ve ever test driven is the first day when they deliver it. My worst day is always the last day when they pick it up. Every day in between is just heavenly. Such was the case with the 2012 Porsche…
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Tweet by Mary Chapman When I hear “Taurus” I think of Ford of old, not necessarily wistfully, mostly nostalgically. Way back when, the manufacturer created waves with its contoured, newfangled product. Turns out, Taurus is still around. And doing fine, thank you. The 2013 SEL AWD iteration is a smooth operator, considerably more luxe than…
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Tweet by Frank S. Washington DETROIT – Zoom Zoom; it’s one of my favorite automatic tag lines and it applies to Mazda. I test drove a Mazda3 I 5-Door Grand Touring and was impressed. First, the name meant this was a small five-door hatchback. It had a 2.0 liter four cylinder engine under the hood…
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Tweet by Dan Scanlan – MyCarData Volkswagen says it designed the new Beetle to look more manly and less like a Barbie car. So what happens on my first drive to a barbecue joint for some brisket? “What a cute car,” exclaims a woman near my parking spot. “It looks like it’s smiling at me.”…
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Tweet by Frank S. Washington DETROIT – Fun and drive are two nouns not usually found in the same sentence as Buick. But that was not my first impression of Buick’s 2013 Verano compact sedan equipped with a turbocharged four cylinder engine and a manual transmission. Now don’t get it twisted. Buick was a premium…
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Tweet by Mary Chapman It’s a strange thing, this midsize-sedan class. Seems the challenge is always, how to separate yourself from rivals, but without being too edgy, or adding so many gizmos that you price yourself out. In short, how to separate yourself while staying within yourself. Existentialism aside, the 2013 Ford Fusion Sport AWD…
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