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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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Critical Launch of 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is Delayed

By Chris Haak 10.30.2009 Over its long history, GM has never really given small cars enough attention, building only as many of them as necessary to help with corporate...
Chris Haak
30 Oct, 09
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Fisker to Produce Cars at GM’s Mothballed Wilmington, Delaware Plant

By Chris Haak 10.28.2009 GM's former plant outside Wilmington, Delaware has in its recent history produced some real automotive duds.  The Chevy Chevette, Chevy Corsica, Chevy...
Chris Haak
28 Oct, 09
News

Volkswagen Launches 2010 GTI Using Only an iPhone Game

By Chris Haak 10.26.2009 In what is likely a first for an auto manufacturer, Volkswagen has decided to to eschew the traditional print/online/broadcast advertising campaign to...
Chris Haak
26 Oct, 09
Features

Neo-Classic Car: 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe

By Chris Haak 10.22.2009 There weren't a lot of bright spots in the performance car universe in the mid-1980s.  At the tail end of the malaise era, before Honda Accords had...
Chris Haak
22 Oct, 09
Reviews

2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 Track Review

I'm not sure what Hyundai was thinking when they named this car "Genesis."  Like the Genesis sedan, it's based on an all-new rear wheel drive platform, and in fact both cars...
Chris Haak
21 Oct, 09
Reviews

2010 Kia Forte EX Review

By Chris Haak 10.15.2009 Korean automaker Kia spent many of the past several years selling questionably-styled knockoffs of "real" cars.  If you want evidence of that, I direct...
Chris Haak
15 Oct, 09
Reviews

2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHYBRID: First Drive

By Chris Haak 10.09.2009 The big European luxury-car makers like BMW and Mercedes-Benz - and even smaller ones like Porsche - have seen the regulatory writing on the wall and...
Chris Haak
09 Oct, 09
News

Could Toyota’s FT-86 Concept Mark the Return of Sporty Toyotas?

By Chris Haak 10.06.2009 Celica.  MR2.  Supra.  AE86.  All names from Toyota's sporty-car past, and all relegated to the dustbin of history.  As Toyota's sales and profits...
Chris Haak
06 Oct, 09
News

Chevrolet Caprice is Re-Born in the US – As a Police Car Only

By Chris Haak 10.05.2009 With the demise of GM's Pontiac brand - and with it, the excellent Pontiac G8 - many pistonheads have been clamoring for GM to sell the same car (based...
Chris Haak
05 Oct, 09
Reviews

2010 Lexus RX450h Review

By Chris Haak 10.02.2009 The Lexus RX line of crossovers has been an unqualified success for Lexus over the past decade.  And why not?  While its driving dynamics aren't going...
Chris Haak
02 Oct, 09

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