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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: MINI or BMW Zero-Series?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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After the 1 series, BMW pretty much committed themselves to the smallest car, because it was the smallest number, they were going to make under the BMW marque. Or did they? You see, there is actually another number lower than 1 and BMW plan to release a series of cars based on that number. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TTAC Experiencing a Few Technical Difficulties</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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As you may have noticed, we&#8217;ve been enduring one or two technical challenges since our redesign launched. Rest assured our tech team is working hard to fix them all, and we appreciate your patience as they work to bring back TTAC&#8217;s smooth ride and responsive handling. In the meantime, you can help them by reporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: How Many GM Executives Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Sitting Shiva?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 7]]></category>
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As in Shiva, The Destroyer. It strikes me&#8212;has for some time&#8212;that nothing short of Chapter 7 could possibly &#8220;save&#8221; GM. (The title of GM Death Watch 1: &#8220;GM Must Die.&#8221;) The underlying idea is simple enough: capitalism is creative destruction. When something sucks, blow it up, start again. If the RenCen Mothership had been allowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Are You Having Trouble Getting Warranty Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diesel]]></category>
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Times are tough. Margins are tight. Carmakers are looking for savings anywhere they can. As mechanical work performed by a dealer under a manufacturer&#8217;s warranty comes straight off the automaker&#8217;s bottom line, it&#8217;s not all that surprisingly that we&#8217;re getting reports that certain manufacturers (cough Chrysler cough) are dragging their heels on paying for warranty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: Benchmark Interior?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-benchmark-interior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[best]]></category>
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Ryv asks:
Whenever I read a TTAC car review or read comments I see nothing but complaints of hard plastics and ill fits. It made me wonder, is there some ideal vehicle interior out there being held as the standard to all others? I sat in a Lamborghini Gallardo at last years NAIAS and thought the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Did Chrysler Seal its Fate by Killing EVs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pelosimobile]]></category>
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There&#8217;s a backlash a brewing over Chrysler&#8217;s decision to axe its EV and hybrid program. The move makes sense from an business point-of-view; the company doesn&#8217;t have enough money to chase sky pie. Politically, it&#8217;s all kind of nuts. Lest we forget&#8212;and even the normally automotively absent-minded USA Today doesn&#8217;t&#8212;ChryCo trotted-out alt power vehicles to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Whatever Happened to Compact Pickups</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-whatever-happened-to-compact-pickups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alan mulally]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ford ka]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ranger]]></category>
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Ford&#8217;s announcement today that the new global Ranger won&#8217;t be coming to the US sure seems like a head-scratcher. Though Automotive News [sub] quotes Ford&#8217;s Alan Mulally as saying the Ford Ka won&#8217;t be sold stateside because &#8220;our view is that Fiesta is about the smallest vehicle that we think will be a real success [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: Has &#8220;Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday&#8221; Died?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-has-win-on-sunday-sell-on-monday-died/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-has-win-on-sunday-sell-on-monday-died/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Horner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enthusiasm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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Last week Toyota followed the lead of Renault, Honda and BMW and bid adieu to Formula 1 racing. The Financial Times pins Toyota&#8217;s decision not only on financial belt tightening, and on the notion that racing just doesn&#8217;t move the metal in times of increasing environmental concern. When Leonardo DiCapro becomes the inspiration for an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Wave Disc Engine?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-wave-disc-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-wave-disc-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask the Best and Brightest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Next big future? How many times have we heard that before? [Thanks to MMH for the link]
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Have the Feds Done Too Much or Too Little for Detroit?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-have-the-feds-done-too-much-of-too-little-for-detroit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-have-the-feds-done-too-much-of-too-little-for-detroit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask the Best and Brightest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Diners at the Motown bailout banquet are back at their tables, their plates groaning under the weight of federal &#8220;investment.&#8221; They&#8217;re just now beginning to tuck in, spending your hard-earned money on various plans to achieve what Oliver called &#8220;that full-up feeling.&#8221; The reluctant chefs (70 percent of American opposed GM and Chrysler&#8217;s second bailout) [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Why Is the Ford Taurus Selling So Well?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-why-is-the-ford-taurus-selling-so-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-why-is-the-ford-taurus-selling-so-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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“Consumers increasingly are noticing that the Ford difference is our great products, our strong business and our leadership in quality, fuel efficiency, safety, smart technologies and value.” So sayeth Ken Czubay, Ford’s vice president of U.S. marketing sales and service. Am I reading too much into it, or is &#8220;strong business&#8221; a euphemism for non-teat-suckler? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>112</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Is There Life After a &#8216;94 Camry?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-is-there-life-after-a-94-camry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-is-there-life-after-a-94-camry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask the Best and Brightest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Back in 1994, supremebrougham helped one of his old high school teachers shop for a car. [NB: "she's really not old, she's a vibrant and elegant 50-something that hasn't changed a bit since the early 90's."] She ended-up buying a new Camry LE (not shown). And now she&#8217;s looking for another whip. She lives in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Housekeeping: The Busy Week Ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/housekeeping-the-busy-week-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/housekeeping-the-busy-week-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auburn hills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bob lutz]]></category>
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As we wait for October sales to come rolling in, I&#8217;d like to take advantage of the calm before the storm to update our faithful readers on the wild week to come. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be flying to Detroit to cover Chrysler&#8217;s five-year product and business plan. Luckily though, the trip will not be limited to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: When Was the Last Time You Did Something Stupid In a Car?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-when-was-the-last-time-you-did-something-stupid-in-a-car/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-when-was-the-last-time-you-did-something-stupid-in-a-car/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: What If We Didn&#8217;t Have Federal Safety Standards?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-what-if-we-didnt-have-federal-safety-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-what-if-we-didnt-have-federal-safety-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Can Mazda Catch Up on Hybrid Tech?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-can-mazda-catch-up-on-hybrid-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s not an academic question: if your answer is yes, Mazda has a $1.1B share offering it wants you to participate in. Now that Ford has reduced its stake in Mazda, the Japanese automaker is finding itself short on all kinds of hybrid and EV development. In fact, Mazda&#8217;s planned offering will dilute Ford&#8217;s share [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: How Can Honda Have Its Cake And Eat It Too?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-how-can-honda-have-its-cake-and-eat-it-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-how-can-honda-have-its-cake-and-eat-it-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enthusiasm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
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Pity Takanobu Ito. Like many (ok, some) of us, the CEO of Honda is torn between his love for speed and the desire to be perceived as environmentally responsible. On the one hand, he lambasted Toyota for building its $375k LF-A supercar, saying that to his mind the fuel-cell FCX clarity (once described by Jonny [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: How Would You Roast Bob Lutz?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-how-would-you-roast-bob-lutz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-how-would-you-roast-bob-lutz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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Roast chicken, roast lamb, roast pork, roast beef, roast&#8230;.Lutz? That&#8217;s right. The car world&#8217;s most favorite big mouth is going to get it shut, at least for an evening. Bob Lutz is being roasted in the name of the arthritis foundation of the United States. Maximum Bob is going to check his ego in at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: Hypermiling A Variable-Displacement V8?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-hypermiling-a-variable-displacement-v8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-hypermiling-a-variable-displacement-v8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Economy]]></category>
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Everett writes in:
I know that each motor, transmission, and car combination has optimums areas of performance for mileage. All the Jetta drivers that swear by idling in 5th gear are a testament to that. With some of the newer V-8 motors, however, finding the sweet spot is a little more problematic. Take for example a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: Is Onstar Worth The Spying?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-is-onstar-worth-the-spying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-is-onstar-worth-the-spying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gizmology]]></category>
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GM&#8217;s Onstar EV Lab recently invited Autobloggreen in for a preview of some of the Volt&#8217;s unique Onstar options. The upshot is that the GM-exclusive system will reach new levels of invasiveness, monitoring battery charge and temperature levels, as well as providing charging information. But beyond these Volt-related systems, ABG also reveals that Onstar monitored [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Your Top Five Sonic Favorites Please</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-your-top-five-sonic-favorites-please/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-your-top-five-sonic-favorites-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Part two here.
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: What weighs nearly 400 pounds and destroys cars from a helicopter?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-what-weighs-nearly-400-pounds-and-destroys-cars-from-a-helicopter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-what-weighs-nearly-400-pounds-and-destroys-cars-from-a-helicopter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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Nope. Not a bear. Although I bet this 400 lbs. bear would have liked the opportunity to take out a few cars from a chopper before Tim Lorey&#8217;s marksmanship made him take The Big Sleep (and I don&#8217;t mean hibernation). Write your answer below. THEN click here for the (an?) answer.
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: Name Your EV &#8220;Exhaust&#8221; Tune</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-name-your-ev-exhaust-tune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-name-your-ev-exhaust-tune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask the Best and Brightest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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The rise of electric cars has  pedestrian safety and hearing-impaired rights groups worried about the accident potential of near-silent electric cars. And so the race to aurally differentiate EVs is on. Heinrik Fisker tells the New York Times that his company&#8217;s Karma EV will sound like “a cross between a starship and a Formula One [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: What Was the First Car That Blew You Away?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-what-was-the-first-car-that-blew-you-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-what-was-the-first-car-that-blew-you-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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That&#8217;s my lawyer&#8217;s kid, exiting a McLaren F1. I&#8217;ve not heard if young Master Gleason pronounced &#8220;How sweet it is!&#8221; whilst exiting the seminal supercar. Or if this &#8220;boy meets Big Mac&#8221; moment will inspire Hayden to follow his dad down the road to riches, singing Mack the Knife every step of the way. But [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>81</slash:comments>
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