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If you’ve been driving for twenty years and have a clean driving record, chances are you consider yourself a good driver. A recent study by LeaseTrader.com would beg to differ: according to their results, drivers with the most experience behind the wheel scored the worst on the sample questions used in the survey. Drivers with twenty or more...

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On Tuesday, we posted an audio recording of a mystery car?s exhaust note. To hear it again, click play above. Almost everyone who commented figured out that this week?s sound came from a diesel engine, and more than a few of you specified that the sound came from the 2011 Audi Q7 TDI Quattro. Like [...]

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Filed under: MPG, USA

According to a survey conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, new car buyers are factoring fuel economy as a larger concern in their purchases. That's no real surprise given that prices at the pump remain high, but the study also revealed that those same consumers are unwilling to sacrifice safety just to net a few additional miles per gallon.

The research revealed that 62 percent of buyers say they are planning to buy a vehicle with much better or significantly better fuel economy than their current ride. On average, that translates to fuel economy of 29 mpg or better. Surprisingly enough, 10 percent of those questioned said that they expected 40 mpg or better from their next purchase. That means that buyers will need to be willing to make all sorts of concessions, including making compromises on purchase price, vehicle size and the number of options.

One factor those surveyed evidently won't give up on, however, is safety. Only 11 percent of the total respondents said they would be willing to compromise safety for greater fuel economy. Read the complete summary over at Consumer Reports.

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Here to put beauty and Ferrari droptop back in the same sentence, we present the Ferrari Superamerica 45, a one-off roadster based on the 599. Ferrari’s Special Projects division has specially fabricated the roadster for a wealthy client, Peter Kalikow, an American property mogul, and the Superamerica 45 will debut at this year’s Villa d?Este [...]

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Every summer, auto execs land in a small Michigan resort town for the Center of Automotive Research's Management Briefing seminars. This year, one of the most anticipated speakers was Akio Toyoda, the recently named President of Toyota.

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Acura has evolved the RDX for 2010 with styling revisions, luxury features and tech upgrades to help the company fend off the influx of new competitors from Infiniti, Audi and Volvo and retain its 34-percent market share in the compact luxury segment.

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Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, UK

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Back on March 1st, the price of the Nissan Leaf in the UK shot up by 6.9 percent, a price hike of £2,000 ($3,269 U.S. at today's exchange rate). According to Nissan, the price increase was mainly due to soaring costs of raw materials, which somehow impacted the Leaf's bottom line more than other Nissan models.

The disclosure on Nissan's official UK Leaf Facebook read:

There are several key reasons why the cost of the Leaf has had to be increased. Firstly, an increase in the cost of Raw materials - there has been significant inflation in the cost of raw materials which has meant that most Nissan models will be included in this price increase (maximum of any other model is 1.8%). Also exchange rate fluctuations has played a part on the price increase.

Now comes word that pricing for the Nissan Leaf, which currently starts at £25,990 ($42,483 U.S.) after government subsidies are factored in, will tumble a bit, dipping below £24,000 ($39,230 U.S.) by 2013. Why the price drop? Well, as Nissan's chief vice president of global marketing communications, Simon Sproule, told What Car?:

Building the cars and batteries in Sunderland will bring prices down significantly because of the inherent savings - certainly below the original launch price.

So, how low will the Leaf's UK price go? Looks like we'll find out in 2013.

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Report: Nissan Leaf price to drop below �23,990 ($39,214 U.S.) in UK originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Thu, 26 May 2011 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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