Archive for September, 2016
Test Drive: 2017 Ford Escape SE
- 2017 Ford Escape SE
2017 Ford Escape SE FWD 
Class: Compact Crossover
Miles Driven: 393
Fuel Used: 16.8 gallons
Driving mix: 65% city, 35% highway
Buick Avenir Concept
General Motors’s Buick division issued a press release today announcing the creation of a new top-line luxury sub-brand: Avenir. Per Buick spokesperson Arianna Kughn, Avenir will function for Buick much like the Denali sub-brand does for the GMC truck and SUV lineup.
1974 Dodge Monaco Brougham
In 1974, the experimental German rock band Kraftwerk released the album “Autobahn,” a still-celebrated collection of electronica featuring a 23-minute cut of the title song.
Test Drive: 2017 Fiat 124 Spider
2017 Fiat 124 Spider
2017 Fiat 124 Spider Classica
Class: Sporty/Performance Car
Miles Driven: 200
Fuel Used:7.7 gallons
Taxi Madness! 8 Classic Checker Ads
1967 Checker
There’s something wonderfully countercultural about Checker, and a certain irreverence shows up in the company’s advertising. For the most part, Checker, which was established way back in 1922, sold its wares to fleet users, most famously those operating taxi services.
Revealed: 2018 Chevrolet Equinox
- The redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Equinox is smaller and lighter than the 2017 model, and offers a whole new engine lineup.
The 2017s have barely hit the streets, and already Chevrolet has introduced the redesigned 2018 Equinox, due to go on sale first quarter of next year.
Factory photograph of the Diamond T Wagon Prototype (1946)
Text and drawing by Frank Peiler
The American auto industry returned to building cars soon after the end of World War II, and the car-starved public was clamoring to trade in its worn-out old rides for almost anything new that had at least four wheels and was self-propelled.
2017 Mercedes-Benz GLS450
2017 Mercedes-Benz GLS450 4Matic
Class: Premium Large SUV
Miles driven: 319
Fuel used: 22.0 gallons
Driving mix: 75% city, 25% highway
2009 Nissan Versa
In Wall Street lingo, a dead-cat bounce is a jump in a given stock’s price seen just before it becomes worthless. Traders have gotten rich predicting exactly when foolish optimists will sink money into a hopeless cause.
The Sporty Compacts of 1970
1970 Plymouth Barracuda
1970 Plymouth Barracuda
In a recent blog post titled The Luxury Standards of 1970, we discussed the now-arcane language once used to parse the new-vehicle market. You can see all the segments into which Consumer Guide slotted the 1970 class of vehicles here.
