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0Opinion: Postmortem: Maybach meets its maker 1345580940
Why Daimler's Ultra-Luxe Brand Couldn't Compete With Bentley And Rolls Daimler took hubris to a new level believing that it could simply invent a new brand. What was intended to make a big splash in the premium luxury car market has ended with a dull thud. Almost exactly a decade after it ...
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Opinion: What's the right way to read an automotive quality report? 1341000060
Why No One Quality Report Tells The Whole Story Quality remains one of the most significant factors for folks buying a new car. There's no question that fuel economy has become a critical consideration for most folks looking to buy a new car. But quality remains one of the single most ...
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Opinion: Automakers sound off on unwanted noise 1339617600
How New Cars Are Getting Better Through Sound Engineering "The loudest sound you ever hear is the first rattle in a new car." Fire up the new Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 and you're greeted with the sort of raucous exhaust note that would make a Harley-Davison owner quiver with delight. Slip ...
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Opinion: The case of Heather Peters and the Honda Civic Hybrid sets an alarming trend 1336690740
What are you going to do, sue? Good luck. This week's Superior Court verdict suggests there's little to no recourse for consumers. As Autoblog readers likely have already learned, a Superior Court judge in California has tossed out a judgment issued by a small claims court earlier this ...
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Opinion: Beijing Motor Show is further proof of China's automotive importance 1335302940
Why The World's Top Automakers Are Flocking To Beijing Beijing's government has had to resort to a registration lottery to hold down its growth. Skip a couple years in China, as I had, and you're not likely to recognize it when you return, especially the capital city of Beijing. Peering ...
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Opinion: "It's partner or die" in today's automotive world 1331840700
Why Automakers Are Increasingly Entering Alliances It's only a question of how deeply the knife will slice as Mazda's desperate cost-cutting measures take aim at its U.S. workforce this week. The maker has signaled it will post a $1.2 billion loss when the Japanese fiscal year wraps up on March ...
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Opinion: Will there be a Tokyo Motor Show in 2013? 1322690520
Tokyo Struggles To Remain Relevant On The World Stage
The 2009 Tokyo Motor Show was largely ignored by industry and media alike.There is one model that looks more like a phone booth than a car, another that dispenses its driver like candy from a vending machine. There are party concepts, ... -
Opinion: Is America's automotive love affair over? [w/poll] 1320173940
At first glance, Kerry Jenkins might seem to be a perfectly normal California girl, with her wispy blond hair and tanned complexion. But in a part of the country where getting an automobile has long been a rite of passage, the 19-year-old Los Angelino is quite content to live without a set of ...
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Opinion: UAW seems headed for a catastrophic confrontation 1318632000
The Future Of The Union Hangs In The Balance
Autoworkers are damned and determined to win back concessions.The noises you might here if you drop in at Solidarity House – the headquarters of the UAW – this week are the sounds of union leaders scrambling to prevent what could be a ... -
Opinion: What good is an electric vehicle if there's no electricity? 1317245280
A Glut Of EVs Could Make America's Shoddy Power Grid Even Worse
The increasingly rickety American power grid seems to short out for all sorts of reasons.It took just one worker in Yuma, Arizona to plunge millions of people into the dark in the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, a few weeks back. A ...

