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	<title>Simple Elegance: Volkswagen CC VR6 4Motion</title>
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Gears: Given the range of automobiles in Volkswagen&#39;s current line&#45;up&#44; you&#39;d be forgiven for thinking of them as something of a German Chevrolet&#46; From the entry level spunkiness of the Rabbit&#47;Golf to the everyday practicality of the Jetta to the SUV stance of the Toureg&#44; VW covers the spread for performance&#44; style and price&#46; Not long ago&#44; Volkswagen jumped into the ultra&#45;premium market with the ill&#45;advised Phaeton&#46; Meant to compete with the highest&#45;level German sedans from BMW and Mercedes&#44; it ended up both looking too much like its lower&#45;priced siblings and undercutting sales for sister company Audi&#46; Volkswagen CC With the Phaeton out of the line&#45;up&#44; Volkswagen is taking a new&#44; more measured approach to its top tier&#44; with the more reasonably priced and stylishly designed CC&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Room to Zoom: 2008 Mazda CX&#45;7 Grand Touring</title>
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Gears: 2008 Mazda CX&#45;7 Grand Touring Mazda has been all about the &#39;&#39;zoom zoom&#39;&#39; in recent years and&#44; for the most part&#44; has backed it up with some nicely styled &#45; and more importantly&#44; nicely tuned &#45; cars that turn heads as well as corners&#46; Introduced in 2007&#44; Mazda&#39;s CX&#45;7 was one of the more appealing of the still&#45;growing &#39;&#39;crossover&#39;&#39; class&#58; vehicles that aim to combine the best aspects of sedans and SUVs into a more reasonably sized package&#46; Given the recent turn against SUVs and gas guzzlers in general &#45; though with gas prices falling once again&#44; where the next turn may be is unclear &#45; crossovers gained some additional appeal because they offered many of the interior space benefits of the larger&#44; truck&#45;based SUVs without the insatiable thirst at the pump&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Tiguan On: Volkswagen Tiguan</title>
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Gears: The word that pops to mind most often these days about the Volkswagen line of Rabbits and Passats and Beetles and Touregs is &#39;&#39;nifty&#46;&#39;&#39; They all share a look similar to their German brothers Audi and BMW&#44; but distinctive enough to mark them as clearly Volkswagen machines&#46; The interiors seem perfectly fit to each particular model&#39;s purposes&#44; from the racy blacks of the R32 to the more playful approach of the Beetle&#46; Volkswagen Tiguan Volkswagen&#39;s new entry into small&#45;to&#45;midsize SUV market&#44; the Tiguan&#44; carries on that same niftiness in a scaled&#45;down version of the popular Toureg&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Alternate Realities: Hybrid cars are the first wave of the future &#45;&#45; and the second wave is on its way</title>
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Gears: Necessity&#44; as they say&#44; is the mother of invention&#46; And in these days of uncertain gas prices and economic unease&#44; necessity may need to get pretty inventive indeed&#46; Auto showrooms have seen a drop&#45;off in visitors&#44; while sales of the once cachet&#45;laden giant SUVs have nosedived and thrifty cars that drink gas by the sip instead of the guzzle have found themselves the belles of the ball&#46; Honda Civic Hybrid So the buzz these days is definitely around hybrids&#44; plug&#45;in electric cars and fuel&#45;cell vehicles&#46; The latter two are still around the corner in terms of availability&#44; while hybrids have firmly established themselves as the economical and ecological transportation of choice&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>The Goldilocks Solution: Suzuki SX4 Crossover</title>
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Gears: Around the time enormous SUVs began to inspire more than a twinge of guilt in many of their owners and gas prices caused a steady ache in gas&#45;hog drivers&#39; wallets&#44; auto manufacturers devised a new marketing niche to alleviate those pains&#58; the crossover&#46; A crossover means to take the best of the large SUV &#45;&#45; all&#45;wheel drive and copious cargo space &#45;&#45; and merge it with the best of the passenger car &#45;&#45; a lower road profile and far better gas mileage&#46; It is the Goldilocks solution to the SUV problem&#44; neither too big nor too small&#44; too profligate nor too parsimonious&#46; Suzuki SX4 Crossover Which brings us to the case of the Suzuki SX4 Crossover&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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