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Fuel mileage makes buying a new car not all it's cracked up to be

Could the American love affair tied in to the purchase of a new car be losing some of its luster? Perhaps, it seems, as ever-increasing gas prices impact U.S. driver's pocketbooks, J.D. Power and Associates is reporting a decline in new car owner satisfaction for the first time in five years. Despite the fact that consumers have been reporting mileage numbers in line with the EPA's newly-revised ratings, the cost of filling up the tank is doing nothing but increasing. Interestingly, though, it is not the fuel-sippers that are scoring the ... Read more →

Prius wins JD Power award for highest consumer satisfaction in U.K. Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click above for a high-resolution gallery of the 2007 Toyota Prius Touring. J.D. Power and Associates' 2008 UK Customer Satisfaction Index Study, produced along with What Car?, indicates that owners ...

Why do we avoid certain cars? How about by country of origin? Jeremy Korzeniewski

JD Power is a very large and influential service that monitors almost everything, then puts the information down in a relatively easy-to-read manner. Many people out there use JD Power's information ...

A1 gets the greenlight, but Audi chief says it's not for the U.S. Derrick Y. Noh

We love what Audi has done for the image of the modern diesel engine, and even though their state-side offering isn't the greenest stable on the block, they pulled a respectable 533 in J.D. Power and ...

The forgetfulness is real: large pickup and SUV sales numbers increase Sebastian Blanco

That upswing we saw just over a week ago in customer interest in large pickups and SUVs is real. While last week the numbers came from the types of cars people were searching for online, news out ...

Influential auto analyst dramatically reduces hybrid sales forecast 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

What if I told you that the director of one of the most influential think tanks in the country once predicted that hybrids would account for as much as 90 percent of the U.S. automotive market by 2025? Seems overly optimistic, doesn't it. Almost silly. Well, it's true and it was Philip Gott of ...

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