It's especially gratifying that a front-drive car can be so easily U-turned on a two-lane street.
The U.S.-market car endures the hurdy-gurdy droning of a continuously variable transmission (CVT).
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With combined sales among its four model variations registering 236, 659 units last year, the venerable Toyota Prius was not only the most-popular hybrid car in the U.S. it was the 13th best-selling vehicle overall.
The 3-Series is the top-selling luxury car in the U.S. BMW sold almost 99, 000 3-Series sedans, coupes, and wagons last year, up more than 6 percent from 2011.
Car-shopping website Edmunds.com forecasts that U.S. car and light truck sales in November totaled 1.1 million vehicles.
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In 1995, sales in Japan by the Big-Three U.S. car makers increased to 97, 380, compared to 66, 666 the year before.
In the U.S., anti-car work is mostly the province of bike activists, but as the true cost of driving increases, that could change.
The sheriff's office said deputies responded to the two-car crash on U.S. Highway 49 South near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines on Tuesday about 8 a.m.
Drivers will be paying top dollar, without any of the government subsidies that are offered to electric-car buyers in the U.S., Europe or China.
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The current marketing effort was built around the launch of the latest-generation Camry, a humdrum people-mover that has been the best-selling car in the U.S. all but of the one of the past 15 years.
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There is only one so-called A-segment car--the Smart ForTwo--for sale in the U.S. now (and it's hardly a barn burner, with sales of fewer than 6, 000last year).
The Bavaria-based car maker's U.S. sales are still roughly half those of its German rivals.
Many low-cost car producers have set up shop in India, and McKinsey believes it could become a global hub for small-car production the way the U.S. is for pickups.
To be replaced by an all-new model next spring as an early 2014 entry, the current-generation Impala has the distinction of being the last six-passenger car sold in the U.S. Pickup trucks and a few SUVs still come with front benches, but sedans and coupes have long abandoned them in favor of front buckets, which afford a center console between the seats to house the shift lever, switches and storage.
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Or how about Ruby Lu of DCM, who funded three Chinese companies that went public in the U.S.: Amazon-plus Dangdang, car web site BitAuto and outsourcing firm VanceInfo.
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Enterprise Rent-a-Car conducted a similar experiment in the U.S. in 2005, when they launched their Exotic Car Collection in West Los Angeles.
The first thing you do, if you're Wang Xun, is buy a car and get a U.S.-dollar credit card for online purchases.
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U-turn on the grounds that an improved road would encourage car commuting where public transport alternatives exist.
All this was knowable when A123 went public, and when the U.S. Department of Energy marched down the electric-car path.
The Japanese makers dominated the mid-sized car segment years, but lately, U.S. carmakers have been showering more love on their passenger cars, and it shows in their latest models like the Ford Fusion and Chevrolet Malibu, which are better-looking, better-equipped and more refined than their predecessors.
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Seven out of ten of the in-dash car navigation systems in Western Europe and the U.S. use Navteq.
Yet Wal-Mart accounts for almost 6% of retail and food sales in the U.S.--7.5% if you include car sales, according to the report.
The Hornet would be the first Chinese-made car sold by a big automaker in the U.S. "It allows us some speed to market and to position Chrysler where we might have a product void, " Nardelli said on Aug. 6, his first day on the job.
The cheapest new car available in the U.S. is the Korean-made Chevrolet Aveo.
But so are more mature markets such as the U.S. and Germany, where to continue growing, superluxury-car makers say they must branch out.
In truth, the arrival of foreign goods to U.S. ports is the ultimate compliment from clothes-makers, car manufacturers, and commodity extractors around the world.
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Until now, the lonesome three-cylinder on the U.S. market has been in the tiny Smart car.
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Zipcar has vast experience in operating car-sharing programs in more than 250 college campuses across the U.S., which will be helpful for Wheelz in scaling its business.
Later in Brooklyn, a squad car hit its siren and lights as he tried to pull a U-turn on Flatbush Avenue to get back to the Brooklyn Bridge.
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In the meantime, Marchionne is opening the U.S. to Alfa again via the 4C, a two-seat sports car that makes sense as a wedge for re-establishing the brand in the United States.
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