There are some amazingly good vehicles on this list and almost all of them really impressed me when I drove them in the past. In fact several of them are among my favorite vehicles in their segments including the +Ford Motor Company Flex, +Mazda USA 5 and the Miata. I've never driven the current Volvo V70 and I thought the Suzuki Kizashi was a mixed bag of nice styling, good chassis and a decidedly underwhelming powertrain.

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The Best Cars That Nobody Buys: We love them, but nobody buys them. What do you think about our picks?

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The 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was just a so-so car when it was new over 20 years ago. However its front-wheel drive platform and GM 3.1-liter V6 were really nothing to get excited about.

Why anyone would bother expending the effort to try and "replicate" the look of a $270,000+ Bentley on such a lame platform is a mystery I will never understand.

The other thing I don't understand is people that put detail shots of stuff that just doesn't well executed on eBay listings. Some of the execution on this replica is really poor. I guess the bigger mystery at this point is why anyone would bid over $6,000 for this thing.

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The Continental R coupe built from 1991 to 2003 in just a little over 1200 units is one of the last old school Bentleys before the Volkswagen Group took over shop and began churning out a contemporary…

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Over the past couple of decades we've moved from the birth era of computing where the only inputs were the ones that fed in through keyboards, tapes or cards to a world of sensors. 

As sensors have become increasingly accurate, small and cheap, everything from our phones to our cars has been transformed. I spent my entire engineering career figuring out how to take sensor data in cars and use it figure out what the vehicle and the driver were doing. Once we figured out what we thought the driver wanted and how the vehicle was responding we could send out control signals to make sure the car stayed on course. 

A decade ago phones started to get cameras and gps sensors that could tell the 911 operators where we were in an emergency (or the authorities surreptitiously tracking you).

Those systems were just the beginning though http://fordfusionstory.com/latest/index.php/2012/04/09/the-2013-ford-fusion-will-be-americas-smartest-midsize-sedan/

Now cars have driver assist system that increasingly provide autonomous control before the driver can such as emergency braking, lane departure prevention and automatic parking. In the not too distant future, our cars may know more about us than we know about ourselves. http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=36728

As software engineers figure out how to combine all the signals around us, our phones will tell us what we want to know before we even figure out the question and our cars will simply deliver us to where we need to be. 

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The world of mobile just shifted to a new contextual age

Read my blog for how significant yesterday's announcement by Qualcomm is. This is huge and will affect everything mobile for years to come.

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Pastafarianism FTW!

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Some excellent advice from +John Pozadzides on what product PR people should do and practices they should avoid when dealing with media. At best making these mistakes will leave you with none of the coverage you covet. At worst, a grumpy journalist could leave you with a news disaster you didn't need. Case in point http://www.insideline.com/chevrolet/volt/2011/gm-lied-chevy-volt-is-not-a-true-ev.html

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What I think about the general state of PR when it comes to social media engagement:
http://geekbeat.tv/the-10-biggest-pr-mistakes-companies-routinely-make-with-social-emerging-media/

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If you’re part of the PR Machine and you have to deal with the emerging media take heed! Don’t make these mistakes!

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