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Watch Edmunds video coverage of the 2012 LA Auto Show, including this one on the 2014 Ford Fiesta: http://edmu.in/UgmMPP ^RC

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Good Bye, Texas, but First Some Final Business
don't come back whining when you're annexed to Chihuahua

Good take by LAT's David Horsey on setting conditions before Texas waves bye, bye. His final punch line is priceless. I'd add another condition: Repayment of the $200 Billion U.S. taxpayers "gifted" Texas in the S&L bailout. 

Horsey: If we agree to let Texas secede peacefully, " there have to be some guidelines to this deal. Texans cannot just get up from the table and leave a bill for somebody else to pay. Texas must pay its share of the national debt. It was a former governor of Texas who racked up the major part of that bill by giving his rich friends a huge tax cut and then buying two wars and a prescription drug plan on credit.

"Also, the new Republic of Texas must provide safe passage to all the Texas liberals who may want out. We do not want to see Austin become another West Berlin isolated in a vast, hostile territory…. 

"And one more stipulation: When the Latino population finally reaches a majority in Texas and decides to head a little further back into history by reuniting Texas with Mexico, all you secessionists cannot come crying to us, pleading to be taken back into the United States. 

"By then, we will be done messing with Texas. If you are upset, take your grievances to Mexico City."

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Awesome. Filmed in the Mustang factory in '65. 

Any interested in classic cars from Chrysler should head to the museum in December before it closes. For now at least, it's not being dismantled, but will instead become something more like the GM Heritage Center which has never been open to the public. The company will hold private events there and occasionally open it to the public a few times a year. 

After years of teasing, +Mazda USA has finally confirmed that it is bringing a diesel engine to the new Mazda6 midsize sedan.  The new SkyActiv-D engine is an interesting design, using a lower 14:1 compression ratio. The result is lower combustion temperature and reduced NOx emissions so they don't need an expensive aftertreatment system.

If the sedan is as successful as +Volkswagen USA's diesels, we'll probably see the engine show up in the CX-5 and possibly even the compact Mazda3.

At the LA Auto Show Audi has also confirmed that it has 4 new diesels coming in 2013 which will join the 4 diesels coming to BMW and the Chevy Cruze diesel.