Archive for August, 2009

Toyota Holds the Line on Pricing

August 31st, 2009

A rough year for Toyota makes for a great year for Toyota shoppers. With few signs that the car market is in recovery, an oversupply of newly built cars largely disappeared, and many manufacturers to withdraw heavy incentives, some manufacturers will certainly make use of the model years 2011 to raise prices. But battered Toyota [...]

Hyundai Elantra Interior Revealed, Goes Upmarket

August 25th, 2009

Hyundai is working on a brand new version of the Elantra sedan that AOS due to go on sale later this year as a 2011 model, and we Äôve already seen a number of occasions testing a prototype, but so far, aos always heavily disguised. Now we have our first clear view of the interior [...]

Kia Sportage Priced Higher; Turbo Coming Under…$30K?

August 20th, 2009

The 2011 Kia Sportage is on its way to showrooms with a price tag of $ 18,995 – a considerable jump up from the previous edition, and just the first step on a ladder pricing that the Sportage sport a price tag of more than $ 30,000 could find. The basic price of the new [...]

Rally-Car Rivalry: 2011 Subaru WRX vs 2010 Mitsubishi Ralliart

August 15th, 2009

With an editorial staff, split across the country and even in Australia, we’re often hard-pressed to do the sorts of comparison tests that are very helpful in sorting out rival models. But sometimes the stars align just right, as they recently did when I returned on a flight speed of driving the new 2011 Subaru [...]

Break Out Those Checkbooks: GM Puts Incentives On 2009-2010 Corvette ZR1

August 10th, 2009

The Corvette ZR1 is definitely one of the best, if not the best, performance-per-dollar buying around. And now it’s even cheaper: GM is offering zero percent APR or $ 3,000 – $ 5.000 in cash back on 2009 and 2010 ZR1s. Why, you ask? Simple: they are a bit of a building inventory of cars, [...]

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