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Joe Lorio
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Posted November 2 2009 12:59 PM by Joe Lorio
It used to be that convertibles demanded so many compromises, they were
cars you drove in summer only. But having just spent a late autumn week
in an Audi A5 Cabriolet, I am reminded how incorrect that idea has
become.
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Filed under: Car Ramblings & Reviews, Joe Lorio, Convertibles
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Posted September 16 2009 11:26 AM by Joe Lorio
It was born of the Plymouth Valiant, and during the 1970s, the Plymouth Duster was both ordinary and ubiquitous. Neither is true of the new version.
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Filed under: Auto Shows, Joe Lorio
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Posted September 16 2009 10:15 AM by Joe Lorio
Proving that a Mazda MX-5 Miata really can look bad-ass, the literally named Superlight version was built to celebrate the roadster’s twentieth birthday.
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Posted September 16 2009 08:11 AM by Joe Lorio
The Volkswagen New Beetle, the Mini Cooper, the Ford Mustang—all cars designed with a nod to the past. But when we saw the F-CELL Roadster, we thought: Okay, now Mercedes-Benz has nodded further into the past than...
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Posted September 16 2009 07:50 AM by Joe Lorio
The Audi e-Tron concept, a shrunken R8 powered by a lithium-ion battery, certainly had all the looks of a pure showpiece—particularly since Audi’s own press materials characterize the electric cars as something that...
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Posted September 15 2009 07:23 AM by Joe Lorio
By the time the Frankfurt auto show opened to the press, the Porsche-VW takeover soap opera had already played out to its conclusion: Porsche’s attempt to swallow much-larger VW failed, and instead VW absorbed...
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Filed under: Car News, Joe Lorio
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Posted September 4 2009 11:37 AM by Joe Lorio
For the last two decades, full-size pickups have been getting bigger and bigger. And through all that time, Toyota has been playing catch-up. First with the T-100, then with the original Tundra. Finally, the all-new,...
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The 2010 Ford Mustang convertible can’t help but be a standout in its field
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Posted August 17 2009 01:04 PM by Joe Lorio
From the moment in 1964 when the Ford Mustang established the ponycar, convertibles have been an integral element of the genre. Except for a few dark years in the 1970s and early ’80s, there has always been a Mustang...
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The death of the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky means no more GM roadsters
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Posted August 12 2009 03:33 PM by Joe Lorio
With GM shutting down Pontiac and selling off Saturn, it’s no surprise that the company would end production of the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters. Since the roadsters were the only products produced at GM’s...
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2010 Honda Insight is another mileage champ that’s not much fun to drive.
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Posted August 7 2009 10:57 AM by Joe Lorio
I recently spent a few weeks with our magazine’s long-term Volkswagen Jetta TDI, which has earned a lot of respect around the office but which I was less than thrilled with. Although I often saw an indicated fuel economy...
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Filed under: Car Ramblings & Reviews, Joe Lorio, Honda, Hybrids
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Original auto trademarks
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Posted June 26 2009 05:46 PM by Joe Lorio
Every brand name and logo used in the United States must be registered with the patent and trademark office in Washington, D.C. Naturally, that includes all the automobile makes, both the current ones and (many, many more)...
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Filed under: Antique & Classic Cars, Joe Lorio
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Posted June 25 2009 12:42 PM by Joe Lorio
Most people know that today’s passenger-car diesel engines are much cleaner than those of even a few years ago, but the surprising results from recent testing shows that the heavy-duty diesel engines in big trucks have...
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Posted June 14 2009 07:07 PM by Joe Lorio
At the Bonhams collector-car auction in Greenwich, Connecticut in early June, there were many highly regarded classic cars for which the well-heeled bidders might raise their paddles: a 1931 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron...
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