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One platform, two very different cars (Austin American-Statesman)
We should be grateful that automakers use common components across their model lines. Otherwise, auto parts stores would have to be the size of Wal-Marts, and Chevrolets might cost as much as Cadillacs.

VW Tiguan's A Cute-Ute Whose Time Is Now (Hartford Courant)
Volkswagen often invokes the climes and cultures of North Africa for its products' names: "Touareg," the name of VW's goodly sized off-roader, is borrowed from the aboriginal people of the Sahel. "Scirocco" is a withering desert wind. This is a curious practice since the Germans had a decidedly mixed record in North Africa.

Best 10, worst 10 cars for holding value (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Residual value is a critical factor in car leasing and also reflects how good or bad any car does retaining value.

Unconventional economy cars (Seattle Times)
To relieve the pressure of high gasoline prices, Americans are feeling their way from trucks to cars, or from traditional SUVs to smaller...

On the beat (Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin)
A burglar stole jewelry, cash and silver dollar coins from a home on South Meadow Road Wednesday.

Converter thieves target hospital, health club (Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin)
Thieves stole catalytic converters from two vehicles parked at Jordan Hospital and one parked at Planet Fitness this week. All three thefts occurred during the middle of the day.

Germans Land on Saturn and Things Shape Up (New York Times)
There is a good reason that some of the new Saturns are the best-looking, best-driving cars ever to grace a Saturn dealership: they?re German.