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		<title>Last Night A Ranger Saved My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Ford illustrates the ugly side of social media-based advertising: exploiting and promoting baseless prejudices by reprinting ignorant opinions. Like this misguided and misleading &#8220;thank you&#8221; posted at Thefordstory.com.
I am here today because 5 years ago, I was driving my 1993 Ford Ranger XL. Thats a midsize truck, but not midsize in saving my life. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember The Aztek!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aztek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crossover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lexus RX]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Zarella]]></category>
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When Pontiac&#8217;s infamously retina-searing Aztek pops up in popular auto industry analysis, it&#8217;s usually as little more than a throwaway punchline. So credit Thebigmoney.com&#8217;s Matthew DeBord for trying to leave the Thesaurus entry for &#8220;ugly&#8221; out of a recent piece dedicated entirely to one of the great modern styling miscalculations. Unfortunately, his admirable restraint serves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloom More &#8220;Encouraged&#8221; By Chrysler Plans Than Most</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/bloom-more-encouraged-by-chrysler-plans-than-most/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Crain]]></category>
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&#8220;U.S. encouraged by Fiat plan for Chrysler,&#8221; runs Reuters&#8216; headline, attributed to car czarlet Ron Bloom. After commenting extensively about GM, in which Bloom controls a 60 percent taxpayer stake, he had only this to say about the eight percent government owned Chrysler and its recent plans:
We see management with a huge sense of urgency. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford Fusion Named Motor Trend Car of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[COTY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fusion]]></category>
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The Ford Fusion is a perfectly competent yet utterly bland vehicle. It&#8217;s proof that American firms can compete in the mass-market vanilla sedan segment, but not because it does anything particularly well. Its strength is nothing more than an absence of the glaring issues that kept Detroit out of the Accord/Camry sweepstakes. Which is why [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>TTAC Bids Farewell To Its Founder</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ttac-bids-farewell-to-its-founder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Farago]]></category>
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The die is cast. Robert Farago, the man who founded this site nearly a decade ago and nursed it into relevance and notoriety, has left the building. Those of us who remain behind take his burden onto our willing shoulders, dedicated to realizing his dream of a car blog that covers the most relevant industry [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>NYT: GM Tries Harder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[general motors]]></category>
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You know how terrorism experts talk about increased &#8220;internet chatter&#8221; as foretelling some kind of attack? On Monday, GM will release its post-C11 financial results which, thanks to dubious accounting, could very well mean nothing. Even so, I&#8217;m getting the feeling that there&#8217;s some bad news a brewin&#8217;, &#8217;cause the MSM is kissing some major [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Between The Lines: Freep&#8217;s Whitacre Whitewash</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/between-the-lines-freeps-whitacre-whitewash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ed Whitacre]]></category>
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In four day&#8217;s time, my byline will appear on this website for the last time. During the previous nine-and-a-half years, I&#8217;ve watched the mainstream automotive press slowly evolve from paid cheerleader to . . . nope that&#8217;s it. No progress there. Despite having written literally thousands of diatribes against the media&#8217;s willful ignorance on the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With This Picture: The Price of Optimism Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-the-price-of-optimism-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-the-price-of-optimism-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3WTP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[five year plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optimism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perks]]></category>
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While reading through some of our analysis of Chrysler&#8217;s five-year plan, you may have found yourself wondering &#8220;what did the Pentastar boyz do to convince you of their company&#8217;s viability plan besides flash PowerPoint slides at you for seven hours?&#8221; To fully comply with TTAC&#8217;s stringent disclosure standards, we present Chrysler&#8217;s material compensation for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Is Ford Once Again Leading the Way in Auto Safety?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/is-ford-once-again-leading-the-way-in-auto-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/is-ford-once-again-leading-the-way-in-auto-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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Gag. And sigh. I&#8217;d kinda hoped that New York Times would stay away from the FoMoCo-flavored Kool-Aid long enough to see the potential drawbacks to the automaker&#8217;s inflatable seat belt idea. Or at least provide a reasonably coherent and comprehensive argument for the overarching supposition that the brand&#8217;s dedication to passenger safety supersedes that of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal Gives Motown Vandals the Oxygen of Publicity. As Do We.</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wall-street-journal-gives-motown-vandals-the-oxygen-of-publicity-as-do-we/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wall-street-journal-gives-motown-vandals-the-oxygen-of-publicity-as-do-we/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investigative journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tow truck that wouldn't die]]></category>
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And here&#8217;s how the Wall Street Journal wraps sensationalistic video in the mantle of investigative journalism. [Thanks to clutchcargo for the link.]
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Autoblog Kicks SEMA Ass and Forgets to Name Names</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/autoblog-kicks-sema-ass-and-forgets-to-name-names/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/autoblog-kicks-sema-ass-and-forgets-to-name-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abominations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dodge charger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hubris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joliet illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modded]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scissor doors]]></category>
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It&#8217;s not every day that our friends over at Autoblog rip someone, anyone, a new NSFW. In fact, have they ever done it? Well, now they have. &#8220;SEMA 2009 Worst of Show: This Car Stinks&#8221; tears into a modded Dodge Charger with scissor doors like nothing I&#8217;ve ever read on the Gray Lady of autoblogs. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fortune&#8217;s Alex Taylor&#8217;s Mea Culpa; Ford as Sacred Cow</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fortunes-alex-taylors-mea-culpa-ford-as-sacred-cow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fortunes-alex-taylors-mea-culpa-ford-as-sacred-cow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Inside baseball alert. If you&#8217;re more interested in Metamucil than meta memes, this post&#8217;s not for you (I recommend any of the 1,345,483 website dedicated to bowel health). Otherwise, check out Alex Taylor III&#8217;s &#8220;Readers revolt over Ford.&#8221; Fortune&#8217;s carmudgeon apologizes for the grievous sin of suggesting that Ford&#8217;s product quality may be middling. &#8220;As [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Autoblog&#8217;s &#8220;No-Nonsense&#8221; Nunez Nails It: Landau Tops Rock!</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/autoblogs-no-nonsense-nunez-nails-it-landau-tops-rock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/autoblogs-no-nonsense-nunez-nails-it-landau-tops-rock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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I read the Autoblog headline&#8212;&#8221;Make it stop: Bad landau tops&#8220;&#8212;and I just knew Alex Nunez was the man responsible. Mr. Nunez earned my eternal admiration with his Knight Rider live blogging posts. I certainly don&#8217;t agree with his assertion that some Landau tops are acceptable. The phrase &#8220;a bad Landau top&#8221; is about as redundant/repetitive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day: Why We Fight Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/quote-of-the-day-why-we-fight-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/quote-of-the-day-why-we-fight-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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In yesterday&#8217;s housekeeping post, more than a few readers took TTAC to task for writing flame bait, and then expecting readers not to flame the site, its authors or fellow commentators. A commentator compared us to a seedy bar that expects its patrons to behave like ladies and gentlemen. Compliments on the metaphor, mate, but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jaguar Pulls Out Of CTS-V Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/jaguar-pulls-out-of-cts-v-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/jaguar-pulls-out-of-cts-v-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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If we&#8217;re learning anything from the twists and turns leading into GM&#8217;s Cadillac V-Series Challenge, it&#8217;s that a good stunt is hard to stage these days [unless you have access to China's rich reserves of stunt drivers, as shown above]. Jaguar&#8217;s US PR boss Stuart Schorr has informed us that his firm&#8217;s legal and safety [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>Onstar Scares Edmunds</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/onstar-scares-edmunds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/onstar-scares-edmunds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gizmology]]></category>
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Edmunds Editor-in-Chief Karl Brauer apparently shares our ambivalence about GM&#8217;s in-car nanny, Onstar. And not for paranoid reasons either. He explains:
See, I like to think of myself as relatively self-sufficient. Sure, I&#8217;ll ask for help but I have to really need it first. However, on a semi-regular basis, when I&#8217;m in an OnStar-equipped car I find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endorsement Of The Day: Pessimism In Paradise Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/endorsement-of-the-day-pessimism-in-paradise-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/endorsement-of-the-day-pessimism-in-paradise-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Mickey Kaus and TheBigMoney&#8217;s Matthew DeBord joined in the recent kerfluffle over GM&#8217;s market share predictions, Kaus on the side of TTAC&#8217;s pessimism, and DeBord on the audacity of hope against hope side. DeBord grabs his spade and starts digging, and it only takes a paragraph before he strikes a vast reserve of bubbling&#8230; excuses.
declining [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day: Gravity Always Wins Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/qotd-gravity-always-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/qotd-gravity-always-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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The public plan is 19 percent and change. That is what everything is being based on
GM board member Steven Girsky repeats Fritz Henderson&#8217;s assumption that GM&#8217;s market share will be stable and predictable . Of course, if that&#8217;s the case, someone&#8217;s got some &#8217;splainin to do about the last 30 years. Luckily though, we&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>New York Times to Detroit: See Below</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/new-york-times-to-detroit-zip-it-mate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/new-york-times-to-detroit-zip-it-mate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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Yesterday&#8217;s New York Times published an article dissing Detroit in the Breakingviews.com bit of their Business Section. In a stunning if perhaps singular piece of journalism, the Gray Lady affirms TTAC&#8217;s nine-year rant record of castigating Chrysler, Ford and GM for refusing to remove their rose-colored glasses. In fact, Anthony Currie calls Motown&#8217;s mavens a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Autoextremist: Car Advertising Sucks</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/autoextremist-car-advertising-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/autoextremist-car-advertising-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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On this Wednesday&#8217;s wailing wall, Autoextremist.com lambastes Motown&#8217;s marketeers for their cowardice and creative poverty&#8212;without naming names, providing egregious examples or suggesting rectification. &#8220;Automotive marketers are too often squeamish, risk-averse or clueless. There, I said it. Yes, at least 75 percent of the people involved in automotive marketing don’t know what the hell they’re doing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>TTAC&#8217;s Jack Baruth To Take On GM&#8217;s Bob Lutz In Luxury Sedan Shootout</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ttacs-jack-baruth-to-take-on-gms-bob-lutz-in-luxury-sedan-shootout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ttacs-jack-baruth-to-take-on-gms-bob-lutz-in-luxury-sedan-shootout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Cadillac has confirmed that TTAC&#8217;s very own Jack Baruth will be allowed to compete in Bob Lutz&#8217;s SuperSedan Shootout (also known as the Cadillac V Series Challenge). The race will consist of five hot laps in any production sedan, and will take place at the Monticello Motor Club in upstate New York. Sadly, because of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Car and Driver Admits BMW Bias in Audi S4 vs. 335i Comparo</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/car-and-driver-admits-bmw-bias-in-audi-s4-vs-335i-comparo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/car-and-driver-admits-bmw-bias-in-audi-s4-vs-335i-comparo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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Normally, Car and Driver gets slated for gaming their comparos in BMW&#8217;s favor. In its November issue (har-har), the buff book pits the Audi S4 Quattro against the BMW 335i. The S4 pips the Bimmer at the post, taking first place, racking-up 229 vs. 223 points. The Audi wins even if you discount two &#8220;extra&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cadillac Cans Ad Agency Modernista: Legends of the Fall or Push It Good?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cadillac-cans-ad-agency-modernista-legends-of-the-fall-or-push-it-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cadillac-cans-ad-agency-modernista-legends-of-the-fall-or-push-it-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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Yesterday, we learned that GM CEO Fritz Henderson was surprised by Marketing Maven Mark LaNeve&#8217;s departure. If true, it&#8217;s a revelation that puts paid to the theory that GM has finally learned how to fire someone for something. Make that anything. Today, we learn that Monster Mark LaNeve&#8217;s favorite ad agency, Modernista, &#8220;has elected not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hyundai Momentum: Whitewashing The Good News</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hyundai-momentum-whitewashing-the-good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hyundai-momentum-whitewashing-the-good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=331670</guid>
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The tortured relationship between auto writers and the industry got a little more complicated this week, as Hyundai debuted its &#8220;Hyundai Momentum&#8221; advertising site. The site itself is a wall of images showing reviews of Hyundai products from such fine publications as Autoblog, Edmunds Inside Line, and KickingTires. And of course, carefully curated by Hyundai [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Federal Trade Commission Orders “Clear and Conspicuous” Disclosure For Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/federal-trade-commission-orders-%e2%80%9cclear-and-conspicuous%e2%80%9d-disclosure-for-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/federal-trade-commission-orders-%e2%80%9cclear-and-conspicuous%e2%80%9d-disclosure-for-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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The Federal Trade Commission has announced revised rules guiding advertisement, endorsements and disclosure for bloggers. These new rules will particularly affect car bloggers, due to the heavy influence that advertising relationships exert in editorial decisions by auto journalists. And the seemingly undying trend in mainstream auto &#8220;journalism&#8221; towards pimpatorials. Needless to say, they also validate [...]]]></description>
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