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Last of the six-seat sedans on their way out?

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Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Sedan , Chevrolet , GM 2011 Chevrolet Impala interior – Click above for a high-res image gallery The six-place sedan is coming very close to joining the Passenger Pigeon. Anyone younger than about thirty years old isn’t likely to have memories of straddling the transmission tunnel in the middle of the front seat, trying to keep knees out of the hungry teeth of radio pushbuttons or HVAC controls. In an opinion piece for the Detroit Free Press , Mark Phelan ponders this phenomenon, and notes that big coupes have already gone extinct, with General Motors seemingly providing the last gasp of each format. There are several reasons for this; most mainstream sedans have transverse-mounted powertrains and front-wheel drive, which means no hump to straddle

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Consumer Reports gives top marks to Nissan Altima and Hyundai Sonata among family sedans

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Filed under: Car Buying , Sedan , Chevrolet , Hyundai , Nissan , Suzuki 2010 Nissan Altima and 2011 Hyundai Sonata – Click either image above for high-res image gallery The minds at Consumer Reports have just wrapped up testing on a handful of family sedans. The publication lined up the Chevrolet Impala , Hyundai Sonata , Nissan Altima and Suzuki Kizashi for a four-door throw down, and by the time the dust settled, Nissan and Hyundai reigned supreme. Both the four-cylinder Altima and Sonata racked up ‘Excellent’ ratings from the Consumer Reports testers, but only the Altima managed to walk away with the coveted ‘Recommended’ badge – the Sonata is too new for CR to weigh in on the Big Hyun’s reliability. Likewise, the Kizashi secured an ‘Excellent’ rating, though missed out on the honor of being ‘Recommended’ for the same reason

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Charting the Five-Ohs: Next-gen Cop Car Comparo

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Filed under: Sedan , Chevrolet , Chrysler , Dodge , Ford , GM , Police/Emergency It used to be that every full-line American automaker offered a version of its mainstream full-size sedan to make it appropriate for police duty. By the time 1996 rolled around, the Chevrolet Caprice, which was the last would-be competitor to the standard-setting Ford Crown Victoria, was discontinued, leaving the lucrative police market to the Blue Oval Boys. The automotive industry took notice, and plans began in corporate board rooms to remedy that situation, and even a few new entrants – most notably Carbon Motors – sprung up with promising designs that eschewed the mainstream production-based sedan design. In 2005, Dodge rolled out a factory police package for its full-size Charger sedan, and for the first time in a decade the Crown Victoria faced some stiff V8-powered, rear-wheel-drive competition.

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Charting the Five-Ohs: Next-gen Cop Car Comparo