Compact Car
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While the styling of Buick’s new compact sedan has been known for some time now (a version of the car was unveiled last year in China as the Excelle GT), we finally get a look at the North American model, which will be making its official debut next week at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. Set to go on sale in the fourth quarter of the year as the 2012 Buick Verano, the new compact sedan is Buick’s smallest model in decades and its first in the emerging compact luxury segment. Despite its entry-level positioning in the Buick lineup, however, the Verano will come very well equipped. No...
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How To Enjoy Your Compact Car: A 455-Horse, 6.75-Liter V-12Compact cars are pretty much a known quantity, and hence easy to visualize. Many are headed for 40-mpg highway ratings, and Hyundai recently threw down the gauntlet in saying it would start to report sales of 40-mpg vehicles--and challenged other makers to do the same. Imagine a compact car,and...
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40 MPG Dodge Compact Coming In Early 2012
Ford has the Fiesta, Chevrolet the new Cruze Eco and soon the next-generation Aveo but what car does Dodge have for customers looking for something affordable that also gets more than 40 mpg in fuel economy? Some would say that Chrysler will be offering the new Fiat 500 but this model is likely to...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran
