| Welcome to the family: Ford Edge gets first rebate
The arrival of the Edge CUV is now complete with word that Ford has just put some cash on the hood of its golden child for the first time. In reality, the incentive is being offered only for base SE models and is paid to the dealer to use how he or she feels fit. So it's not like you'll be seeing this incentive advertised in your Sunday circular. It turns out that demand for more expensive versions of the Edge has been greater than Ford anticipated, and as a result these base SE models, which so far have comprised only 20% of Edge sales, have been sitting on lots longer than expected. That's the kind of good bad news we'd like to hear if most of our eggs are sitting shotgun in a single model. The base Edge SE starts at $25,995, while the mid-range SEL begins at $27,990 and the top-level SEL Plus at $29,745.
This Valentine's Day, Prove Your Love By Hitting the Road!
/24-7PressRelease/ - DALLAS, TX, February 07, 2007 - Forget the flowers and chuck the chocolates; this year, do something truly special for Valentine's Day! DFW Elite Auto Rental.com's innovative Couples Tour provides the perfect solution to Valentine's Day gift-giving dilemmas. The Couples Tour, part of the exclusive Drive Your Dream program offered by DFW Elite Auto Rental.com, puts drivers and their Valentines in five different cars during the course of a single day. The beautiful luxury vehicles featured on this tour include the Rolls-Royce Phantom, the Hummer H2, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the Porsche Cayenne S and the Mercedes S550 sedan. Couples will spend at least 30 minutes of driving time in each car, following a designated route through some of Texas' most scenic roads. Those carefully chosen roads lead to a five-star restaurant (determined by which route is selected), where couples will enjoy a romantic dinner to top off their unique and memorable Valentine's Day celebration.
Eco-conflicts among friends
TORONTO -- The author of the letter, writing under the nom de plume Madame Marie, was driven to seek the advice of Salon magazine's advice columnist when her niece bought a Hummer. It was beyond the aunt how her Ivy-educated niece and her Republican husband could make such an ill-considered vehicle choice for their daily, multiple-hour commute from their McMansion in burbs to the city and she wondered what she should do. Risk a family feud and point out they are fouling the air we all breathe? Should she give her niece a gift copy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth? Or should she keep quiet and campaign for Gore? The advice columnist felt the best tactic would be to turn her anger to the latter. But 134 readers also weighed in on the debate and offered advice ranging from telling the aunt she should mind her own business to more sympathetic writers who admitted seeing Hummers on the road made them "foaming-in-the-mouth batshit crazy." It appears both global warming and Al Gore have got us hot under the collar.
'King' Andrew in new machine
The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club will hold the first stage of the 2007 National Championship Series next Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit. Sixteen Events are carded for the meeting which will see a three-man team from the USA and one driver from Canada competing. The meeting will also see veteran racer Andrew King taking to the track in a brand new Third Generation Mazda RX7. Sunday's meeting is being sponsored by GT&T, Banks DIH Limited and Skyline Mortgage of the USA. Club President Vishook Persaud disclosed that Team USA will include Khem Lall (Mazda RX7) Joe Mohan (Toyota MR2) and John Joseph (Honda Civic Turbo). Lall will compete in Group Three alongside King, Mark Vieira, Andrew Morgan and others, while Joseph and Mohan will track down the Group Two B category.
Mercedes-Benz E320 Bluetec Review
Performance and luxury are not incompatible. There is no shortage of vehicles which combine high levels of both, in any form imaginable. But add fuel economy to the mix, and the list gets mighty short. Such a vehicle would have to be a hybrid, right? Not necssarily. Hybrids, as currently implemented, are most economical in traffic. In other words, they are at their best in the worst driving conditions. At highway speeds, their gasoline engine does most of the work, and since the engine in most current hybrids is relatively small, it works hard, and real highway mileage can be less than the advertised. So how to best combine luxury, performance, and fuel economy on the open road - particularly the open, no-speed-limit Autobahn? With diesel power. No joke.
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