2000 Volkswagen Passat wagon, 73,300 miles. 1.8-liter turbo four cylinder 150 hp, 155 lb-ft at 1,750 rpm. 5-speed automatic transmission with tiptronic manual shifting. This silver station wagon still shines and has no rust. We are the original owners and the car has been kept in a garage since new. The engine and transmission [...]
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In the realm of pony-cars, there are mainly two kinds of people, Mustang fans and Camaro fans. The Mustang was the original pony and provided the name to the segment. It was three years after the Mustang’s 1964 debut before Chevrolet responded with the original Camaro. While the Mustang has been in continuous production for 45 years, falling sales of the last generation Camaro caused GM to discontinue it in 2003. Meanwhile Ford gave the Mustang a new lease on life in 2005 with a full ground up redesign that saw sales surge. Needless to say GM took notice and 2006 brought a new Camaro concept that was a thoroughly modern design that still paid tribute to the 1967 original. The response was overwhelmingly positive and three years later the production fifth generation Camaro hit the streets. http://greenfuelsforecast.com/ArticleDetails.php?articleID=708 My friend Darryl who recently left his job as the SVP of marketing at Tesla Motors has been doing a lot of blogging in recent weeks, and I find myself strongly agreeing with much of what he says. I’ve expressed many of the same ideas in my posts on AutoblogGreen and Autoblog, drawing a [...] Here’s what I’ve been driving this week. It’s an Audi R8 and boy is it fun most of the time! Unfortunately this particular example is fitted with semi automatic transmission that seems to try it’s hardest to make the driver look like someone who can’t drive a stick. The car itself is drop dead [...] Max and I are in Virginia this weekend for the inaugural race of the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup. You can read all about that at Diesel Forecast and AutoblogGreen. If you’ve been watching TV in recent weeks you might have seen Volkswagen’s new brand campaign featuring a series of interviews between some pseudo celebrities [...] Last week I finally got my chance to get behind the wheel of the amazing Tesla Roadster. The Roadster is an all electric sports car with some amazing performance. I was lucky enough to be the only online auto writer to get invited to drive the car in it’s near production spec. Check out [...] The first two weeks of 2008 have been pretty hectic. I had a ton of stories to write about all the cars debuting at the Detroit Auto Show which is opening to the public this weekend. In the middle of all that I flew out to Las Vegas for a couple of days to [...] If you happen to drive by our place in the next few days and you see what appears to be a black and white police cruiser in the driveway, don’t be concerned. It’s just a press car I’m driving for a review this week. Chrylser loaned me one of their police car demonstrators for [...] For years I’ve been wondering how so many people can afford to such expensive cars, with 40, 50, $60,000 SUVs running around. Now I know. They can’t. It’s hard to believe but there is something even more idiotic than the real estate bubble. I wrote an Autoblog post that went up today about people [...] |
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