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It's still Motor City
Despite its struggle for automotive superiority in the U.S., Detroit still plays host to the largest automotive media event in the country -- the North American International Auto Show. The media frenzy begins next Sunday, Jan. 13, and the show is open to...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Mitsubishi, BMW, Vehicles, Chrysler
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Nissan's Cube is coolness in a box
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe science of aerodynamics tells us that air is a fluid with its own viscosity and inertia. When an object such as an automobile moves through it, the object is enveloped in a thin layer known as a laminar flow. Where the laminar airflow shears away from...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Japan, Bar Refaeli, Apple iPod, Vehicles
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Kicking the tires on presidential limousines
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe largest collection of retired presidential limousines is ensconced here at the Henry Ford Museum in a frozen-moment procession that begins with Ronald Reagan's 1972 Lincoln Continental and ends with Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 horse-drawn brougham...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Car Tires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The sport's gone from this wagon
IF you do any research on the new Dodge Caliber, you'll run into a curious example of duck speak, a kind of echo-chamber thinking to the effect that the Neon — the Schmoo-styled compact sedan that the Caliber replaces after more than a decade in...Tags: Ryan Seacrest, Automotive Equipment, Car Guides and Reviews, Apple iPod, Vehicles
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Los Angeles Times to Launch 'West' Magazine Feb. 5
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2006 The Los Angeles Times on Feb. 5 will launch West, a new Sunday magazine offering readers an eclectic, insightful and entertaining view of the many faces of California. West magazine, which will replace the weekly Los...Tags: Television, Newspaper and Magazine, Minority Groups, Awards and Prizes, Crosswords
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Achtung, Bel-Air
EUROPE is on a war footing. A walk around the sprawling Messe Frankfurt complex, home of the city's International Auto Show, reveals how deadly serious European regulators are about curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, at least relative to the laissez faire...Tags: SUVs and Crossovers, Audi, Toyota, Companies and Corporations, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Requiem for a heavyweight?
Times Automotive CriticA couple of years ago, I parked a Hummer H2, in all its blunt-trauma enormity, in front of a coffee shop in Santa Monica. When I returned I discovered a note written on a paper napkin under the windshield. "This thing is so stupid! Why don't you grow up?"...Tags: Automotive Equipment, India, Arianna Huffington, Vehicles, Culture
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Honda FCX Clarity: Beauty for beauty's sake
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterI've driven lots of cars. I've wallowed like a Russian oligarch pig in the gorgeous mud of a $1.6-million Bugatti Veyron. I've spit tailpipe fire across the midnight Mojave at the wheel of a Lamborghini. I've brushed gape-mouthed peasants aside with the...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Car Engine Repair, Physiology, Science, Vehicles
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For the Civic-minded
IN the two years since I began working for the Los Angeles Times, hybrid automotive technology has matured dramatically. I can't say as much for the automotive consumer. In a strange analog to the culture wars over abortion and gay marriage, a debate...Tags: SUVs and Crossovers, Car Guides and Reviews, Federal Income Tax, Toyota, Same-Sex Marriage
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Standard SLK 55 upholds standards just fine, thank you
Times Staff WriterSOMEWHERE in Germany, rich guys are geschwinging around in their 400-hp, mega-dollar Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG Black Series, the excessively excessive version of the company's yar little roadster. And yet, for reasons that remain mysterious (well, I...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Vehicles, Clubs and Associations, Bars and Clubs
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There's somethin' fishy going on
Automotive critic Dan Neil can be reached at dan.neil@latimes.com.THE crossroads of government regulation and car design has seen some nasty pileups. Please avert your eyes from the 1981 Fiat X 1/9, in the early days of 5-mph bumper regulations, which forced Bertone to bracket the edgy little car with moronic rubber...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Ford Motor Co., Luxury Vehicles, Car Guides and Reviews, BMW
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Married with children?
ALTHOUGH Mazda avoids the term like the Florida GOP avoids Katherine Harris, the Mazda5 is indisputably a minivan — a three-row, six-passenger vehicle with sliding doors along the fuselage. Given this morphology, what else could you call it? The...Tags: Japan, Automotive Equipment, Dodge, Car Guides and Reviews, Road Transportation
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