2012 Chevrolet Cruze: Big Bang For Bargain Bucks
I’m zipping through the swamps and across the bayous that dot southern Louisiana, and I look across at my husband, nestled snugly in the passenger’s seat, and I say, “Wow.”
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Tax-Day Drivers, Obama As A Car, And An App With A Growl To Match Our Spunky Engines: Friday News Nuggets
Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to Friday. Please remain in your cubicle until the pilot has turned off the “fasten seatbelt” sign or until the boss skips out for a quick nine holes before dinner. (Whichever comes first.)
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Pet Day At The 2012 New York International Auto Show
If you visited the Javits Center yesterday, you know that the fur was a-flying at the 2012 New York International Auto Show. To celebrate National Pet Day, dogs, cats, and other non-human companions were on the floor, barking and growling and hissing their approval (or maybe that was disapproval) at many new car models.
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Gay-Friendly Brands Sweep KBB’s Brand Image Awards At 2012 The New York Auto Show
The 2012 New York International Auto Show has spawned a lot of noteworthy news items. While our man in the field is sorting through all the reveals and press conferences, we’d like to report on a slightly different story coming out of the Javits Convention Center: the 2012 Brand Image Awards, presented yesterday by Kelley Blue Book.
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Lincoln Sponsors Herb Ritts Retrospective At J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
In the 1980s and 1990s, you weren’t a star unless you’d been photographed by Herb Ritts. As portrait photographers go, few artists — maybe Diane Arbus, possibly Alfred Stieglitz — have been able to capture personalities in 1/100th of a second as well as Ritts did.
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News Bits: GM & The GLAAD Awards, Cars Vs. Politics, And Awesome Auto-Themed Art
It’s that time again: time to say “so long” to another wearisome work week and dust off our list of household chores, which we will totally take care of this weekend. Unlike last weekend. Promise.
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NASCAR Sponsors Love The LGBTs, Rita Hayworth’s Cool Cadillac, And How Many Drag Queens Fit In A Scion iQ?
It’s Friday, which means (a) we’re heading out for a three-margarita lunch, and (b) before we do that, we need to unload the handful auto-related links we’ve been hoarding. See you at the bar!
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2012 Lexus CT200h: Great Car, But Engineers Need To Sweat The Details
Two of my favorite Lexus models of all time are the 2002 IS300 wagon and the current HS250h. The wagon was arguably ugly, but I liked the size, sporty feel, and impeccable build quality. It was also a little out of the Lexus mainstream, which added cachet. Despite its high price, the HS250h has a luxurious leather-lined cabin that also taps the tech genies for a powerful hybrid system, heads-up display, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, and a space shuttle’s worth of toys. Put them together, and you get something like the CT200h.
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Conservative GOP Lawmakers In Indiana Find Another Way To Revoke LGBT License Plates
According to Bilerico, the Indiana Youth Group granted a few low-number plates to its major donors, which violated the contract that the group signed with the BMV. The BMV’s former communications director, Graig Lubsen, says that “traditionally, the BMV has allowed group to give out low-numbered plates as thank-you gifts to donor”. However, such activity is technically illegal and was grounds to cancel the contract, thus ending the sale of the group’s plate.
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2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe
Given Hyundai’s lack of protections for LGBT employees, we face a dilemma: (a) can we be truly fair in our assessment of Hyundai rides, and (b) should we encourage LGBT readers to support a company with workplace policies that lag behind nearly all of America’s major corporations?
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