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    Consumer Federation of America says SUV/truck mpg exemption is "economic suicide"     1311609360

    In mid-July, automakers – in particular, the Detroit Three – urged the Obama Administration to tone down the proposed CAFE target of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025 for full-size trucks and SUVs. At the automakers' requests, government regulators are reportedly considering a proposal ...

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    Report: Facing high gas prices, dealers get cautious with big SUVs     1293728040

    The average gas price in the U.S. is over $3 right now, and there's a good chance it'll go higher before too long. What do you do in this situation if you're a car dealer with a lot full of SUVs and big crossovers? You start being cautious. That's the takeaway point from an Automotive News ...

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    U.S. car buyers want large vehicles, SUVs again thanks to "stabilizing gas prices"     1281657000

    In the market for a new car this summer? Has it been long enough since the last gas price spike that you're not really worried about possible pain at the pump? If so, then you're like a lot of U.S. car buyers right now, according to new figures from AutoTrader.com. Autotrader analyzed recent ...

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    Ford will increase SUV production because of "low supplies," increased demand     1263506400

    It wasn't all that long ago that Ford was temporarily idling plants that were building SUVs and shifting some over to smaller cars because of low demand for the gas guzzlers. Those days are apparently over, because Ford Americas president Mark Fields told Automotive News [sub. req.] that FoMoCo ...

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    REPORT: 9 of Top 10 clunkers being traded in are large trucks     1248973080

    The fickle nature of the American consumer is on obvious display in car dealerships across the country right now. With the government sponsoring a giant garage cleaning through the CARS ("cash for clunkers") program, people are taking old vehicles and turning them into new ones, with a fancy ...

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    In down economy, searches for big vehicles go up     1238791440

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    Even though auto sales overall were down in March (and February and January and ...), AutoTrader found that American car buyers (and window shoppers) still favor larger, less efficient vehicles. Last month, most of the top 20 used vehicles ...

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    Do you hate SUVs because they guzzle gas or do you hate the haters?     1235436780

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    The days of the SUV carnivals are over. The motor press in the UK is engaged in a debate on the social acceptability of SUVs. Which? Car recently posted a story asking if it was time to ditch the 4x4 (the UK term for SUVs. The ...

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    Obama says filling up our SUVs isn't progress     1226938800

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    "Then the prices go back down and suddenly we act like it's not important, and we start, you know filling up our SUVs again. And, as a consequence, we never make any progress." - Barack Obama
    President-elect Barack Obama was on 60 Minutes last night and ...

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    VIDEO: Suzuki discovers why SUVasaurus went extinct     1226517000

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    As part of Suzuki's recent "Live Large. Drive Small" advertising campaign, the automaker has released a video called SUVasaurus. We've pasted it after the break and it's definitely worth a watch. The video is very well done and attempts to explain why the ...

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    Study: Small SUVs will need to keep all their goodies     1224524880

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    SUV sales are down - way down - when compared to the market boom from a few years back. It's the biggest of the breed that is suffering the most, with large, luxurious models selling in mere fractions of their peak, and trends indicate that buyers are willing to downsize a ...

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