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Report: Detroit Auto Show will be crammed into Cobo Hall until 2017

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Filed under: Detroit Auto Show Automotive News reports that the Detroit Auto Show will remain in the Cobo Center for the next five years. Rod Alberts, executive director of the North American International Auto Show, and Thom Connors, Cobo Center general manager, signed a contract that will keep the show at Cobo through 2017. The report says the deal could mean $1.75 billion in combined economic impact for southeast Michigan . While the Cobo Center has seen significant expansion in recent years, voices from around the automotive industry had called for the show’s move to a new venue.

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Review: 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Coupe

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Filed under: Crossover , Land Rover , Luxury Evoking A New Sense Of Style In The CUV Market We see the form versus function fight played out on a daily basis in the automotive realm. Designers, engineers and accountants lock horns on every model that ever makes its way to the street in order to come up with a suitable compromise that will successfully appease their respective masters. More often than not, a vehicle’s more stylish aspects are left by the wayside as aerodynamics, packaging and economics hammer automotive forms into the same uninspired mold. Anyone who remembers the muscular form of the Chevrolet Volt concept need only look to the limp lines of the production model to see the process in action

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Official: Playboy picks its 2012 Cars of the Year

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Filed under: Etc. , Jaguar Playboy has been around since 1953 for a reason: It’s an arbiter of good taste in the arena of male interests. Sure, that includes naked ladies, but it also encompasses fashion, movies, music and any other consumable that tugs at the heart strings of a man’s billfold. The fashionable male of the modern era also consumes cars, and so Playboy has an opinion about which ones are worthy of their hard-earned dollars.

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Report: Sonic in short supply as Chevy closing in on all-time sales record

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Filed under: Budget , Etc. , Hatchback , Chevrolet , Earnings/Financials It’s been a good year for Chevrolet . The company marked its 100th anniversary in 2011 and is set to beat its all-time sales record. That’s not a bad way to celebrate if you ask us, particularly just a couple of years removed from the bankruptcy of its parent company

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Official: SPOILER ALERT: 2011 Race of Champions returns to Düsseldorf [w/video]

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Filed under: Motorsports Eighteen of the world’s top drivers returned this past weekend to D

2012 Hyundai Veloster DCT

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2012 Hyundai Veloster DCT The Veloster is all about style. I keep hearing everyone say that the back seat of the Hyundai Veloster is usable and that may be true, but it isn’t exactly inviting. I drove the Veloster on a weekend during which my husband and I were going to a Red Wings game at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit (about a 45-minute trip). We were attending the game with another couple and had offered to drive, but when they arrived at our house we opted to take their Toyota RAV4 instead of the Veloster — the hassle in getting two adults (one of whom is about 6’2″) into and out of the back seat wasn’t at all appealing

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