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- First Drive: Holden Caprice V Series II with 6.0-liter V8
- Mercedes-Benz to Build Second North American Plant in the U.S. or Mexico
- Why You Shouldn't Play Wise Guy on the Highway
- Form an Orderly Queue: Receivers Say More Buyers Show Up for Saab
| First Drive: Holden Caprice V Series II with 6.0-liter V8 Posted: 22 Jan 2012 02:01 PM PST  The car that most Americans know as the Chevy Caprice PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle) owes as much to the Australian designed and built Holden Caprice luxury sedan reviewed here as the latter owes to business decisions Ford Australia made a couple of decades ago. In the early 1970s, Holden – GM's Australian subsidiary – introduced two new models to compete with local rival Ford. The first was the Statesman, a vehicle with no Holden badging whatsoever, designed as a direct competitor to Ford's Australian-built Fairlane and as a replacement for the unloved Brougham sedan.
Thus the Caprice name was born. Over the years the Caprice has grown in interior room, price and standard equipment but retains the same basic idea of what Aussie luxury should be. We took the V8 engined V Series II model out for a week long road test and review. Read more »
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| Mercedes-Benz to Build Second North American Plant in the U.S. or Mexico Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:59 AM PST  Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche has made it clear that he wants Mercedes-Benz to become the number one premium manufacturer in the world, a title that for the time being belongs to its arch-rival BMW.
Last year, Mercedes sold 1.36 million units, around 300,000 less than BMW. According to Manager Magazin, Zetsche plans to reach the number one spot by almost doubling the three-pointed star's production to 2.7 million vehicles by 2020 and increase its operating profit beyond 10 percent. Read more »
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| Why You Shouldn't Play Wise Guy on the Highway Posted: 22 Jan 2012 10:18 AM PST  As the saying goes, there's a time and a place for everything. And stopping on the left lane of a busy highway with the intent of scolding the following vehicle's driver for supposedly approaching too close to your car is beyond doubt the wrong time and wrong place for such a move. See what happens next from the footage recorded on the trailing vehicle's dashboard mounted camera. Read more »
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| Form an Orderly Queue: Receivers Say More Buyers Show Up for Saab Posted: 22 Jan 2012 08:11 AM PST  This is your daily update on the story that is the survival of Saab. Today, we receive news that yet another party is interested in acquiring the Swedish car company, the third in as many days. Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri confirms last month's report that Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra is also interested in Saab. Mahindra, which already owns Korean carmaker SsangYong and wants to become "India's first global cult brand", joins China's Youngman group and Turkish private equity firm Brightwell Holdings in bidding for Saab. Read more »
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