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	<title>Electric Company: Tesla is courting car lovers with more favorable financing terms&#44; while Ford&#39;s hybrids are catching up to Toyota</title>
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Gears: Craving a slice of Tesla&#39;s automotive future&#44; but don&#39;t have the bank account for the &#36;62&#44;400 sticker price&#63; Fear not&#46; The company&#39;s CEO Elon Musk has announced that&#44; in addition to now offering unconditional warranties on all Model S power packs &#45;&#45; even if the user is at fault &#45;&#45; and using Model S and Roadsters as loaners should one&#39;s car need to visit a garage&#44; Tesla is also upping its finance terms to make the Model S even more accessible&#46; Apparently&#44; sales have been strong enough that financing partners have agreed to allow the current 63&#45;month finance term to extend to 72 months&#46; Tesla claims that&#44; after taking deposit and fuel&#45;savings into account&#44; the average user will pay just &#36;580 per month to own the Model S&#46; Business users can expect a monthly rate of &#36;315&#44; once the depreciation benefit is taken into account and with 70 percent of miles driven being for business use&#46; Tesla ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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 TouringMazdahas been all about the &#39;&#39;zoom zoom&#39;&#39; in recent years and&#44; for themost part&#44; has backed it up with some nicely styled &#45; and moreimportantly&#44; nicely tuned &#45; cars that turn heads as well as corners&#46; Introducedin 2007&#44; Mazda&#39;s CX&#45;7 was one of the more appealing of thestill&#45;growing &#39;&#39;crossover&#39;&#39; class&#58; vehicles that aim to combine thebest aspects of sedans and SUVs into a more reasonably sized package&#46; Giventhe recent turn against SUVs and gas guzzlers in general &#45; thoughwith gas prices falling once again&#44; where the next turn may be isunclear &#45; crossovers gained some additional appeal because theyoffered 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:Theword that pops to mind most often these days about the Volkswagenline of Rabbits and Passats and Beetles and Touregs is &#39;&#39;nifty&#46;&#39;&#39; Theyall share a look similar to their German brothers Audi and BMW&#44; butdistinctive enough to mark them as clearly Volkswagen machines&#46; Theinteriors seem perfectly fit to each particular model&#39;s purposes&#44;from the racy blacks of the R32 to the more playful approach of theBeetle&#46; Volkswagen TiguanVolkswagen&#39;snew entry into small&#45;to&#45;midsize SUV market&#44; the Tiguan&#44; carries onthat 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; Andin these days of uncertain gas prices and economic unease&#44; necessitymay need to get pretty inventive indeed&#46; Auto showrooms have seen adrop&#45;off in visitors&#44; while sales of the once cachet&#45;laden giant SUVshave nosedived and thrifty cars that drink gas by the sip instead ofthe guzzle have found themselves the belles of the ball&#46; Honda Civic HybridSothe buzz these days is definitely around hybrids&#44; plug&#45;in electriccars and fuel&#45;cell vehicles&#46; The latter two are still around thecorner in terms of availability&#44; while hybrids have firmlyestablished themselves as the economical and ecologicaltransportation of choice&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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