Chronicling the Ever-Changing Automotive Industry
February was a great month for new-car sales, with the total volume up 21.28% over January, and almost 27% over February of 2010. Those are the overall numbers, but the general trend for February was that American car companies had a good time, while most of their overseas competitors struggled. Click past the jump for my analysis and graphs.
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Part of making and keeping an automotive brand viable is introducing new cars to its lineup. The built-in mechanism for this is that each generation of a car model gets bigger than its predecessor. This leads to an opening beneath what was once your entry-level car, for a new entry-level car. For the new Buick, that car was the Regal, but now the Chevrolet Cruze has debuted, giving Buick a workable platform to jump off of. Read on for details and pictures of the new Buick Verano.
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The Toronto Film Festival is in full swing, and Audi put some planning and effort into making sure they had a unique way of advertising: they attached magnets to hundreds of model Audis and stuck them all over Toronto, from street lights to billboards, and even in front of a Cadillac CTS-V. While magnetizing model cars and sticking them all over a city may not seem clever … watch the video after the jump – the ending ties it all together perfectly.
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It’s hump day, and if you’re in the D.C. metro area, the meteorologists are calling for snow this weekend and the temperature is in the 40-degree (Fahrenheit) range. No better time than this to watch a video of a convertible, and a fast one at that. The Audi R8 is the supercar from VW’s luxury arm, a car that shares some of its components with Lamborghini, also controlled by VW. This isn’t the run-of-the-mill V8-powered R8 either, it’s the 2011 Audi R8 V10 Spyder. Follow the jump to see the video.
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