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Say hello to MotherProof.com’s new long-term test vehicle, the 2012 Mazda5. This compact minivan will help shuffle along Kristin Varela’s family of five through their busy day-to-day lives. Five people sounds like a tall order for such a small vehicle, but Varela says it’s the perfect compromise for a family used to smaller vehicles. Continue [...]
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Men are more likely to ignore GPS directions than women are, according to a recent survey. While only 63% of women disobey navigation-directed commands on a regular basis, 83% of men disregard them, according to Swinton, a British insurance company.
For either gender, the number is high — combined, some 79% of motorists are disobeying commands. [...]
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While just a design concept, the Mi-ray roadster gives subtle hints of Chevrolet’s future design language and possible future powertrains.
The Mi-ray, which means “future” in Korean, offers a sneak peek at Chevrolet’s design vision, according to General Motors. Many reinterpretations of common Chevy design cues appear up front. The dual-port grill remains, but now there [...]
Intent on raising its coolness profile as it prepares to launch the Chevrolet brand in Korea, the BowTie Brigade unveiled its stunning Chevrolet Mi-ray Concept at the Seoul Motor Show.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kbb-car-news/~4/VZwfezeaJYw" height="1" width="1"/
Although its formal reveal takes place next month in China at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show in China, a handful of official details about the 2012 Chevrolet Malibu have just been released.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kbb-car-news/~4/q-xgGi3TT70" height="1" width="1"/
<Volkswagen is recalling 256 2011 Touareg Hybrids over incorrect tire pressure labeling, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The labels on the affected vehicles display the incorrect tire pressure information — it’s 2 pounds per square inch too low for the front tires and 1 psi too low for the rear tires. The incorrect [...]
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Over the past four years, the number of women buying cars has steadily increased as a percentage of total sales, according to R. L. Polk, a consumer marketing firm. Women now make up 38.5% of all new-vehicle registrations, up from 36% in 2006.
So what are women buying? They appear to prefer Toyota and Honda vehicles. [...]
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The goal of every automaker is to better integrate your smartphone with your car.
The goal of the U.S. Department of Transportation is to stop you from using all those features while driving.
A technological fix to combat distracted driving is the goal of several applications and cellphone service providers, but figuring out a way to keep [...]
<The Kia Optima Hybrid will hit dealerships five months later than planned, according to Ward’s Automotive. The car now will be available late this spring. The delay is partially due to initial production delay of the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, Kia said.
The Sonata Hybrid went on sale in limited numbers this past December (one month before [...]
div xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”p<img class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b3c669e2014e871ed107970d" title="Malibushowcar1" src="http://blogs.cars.com/.a/6a00d83451b3c669e2014e871ed107970d-800wi" border="0" alt="Malibushowcar1" //a br /This is a screenshot (above) from a promotional video of the Chevy Malibu sedan. The real thing — in showcar form — will be revealed simultaneously in Shanghai and on Facebook April 19./p
pThe U.S. press will see it a few days later during [...]
