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		<title>Mazda&#8217;s Design Chief wants to Keep Zoom-Zooming.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mazda Motor Corp&#8217;s new design chief, HIkuo Maeda, is known by the nickname &#8220;Speedy,&#8221; because of his notorious lead food, both on and off the race course. In fact, reporters from the Automotive News Japan offices believe he might be the only standing auto executive to have had his driver&#8217;s license revoked more than once. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/03/08/mazdas-design-chief-wants-to-keep-zoom-zooming/</link>
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		<title>Used Car Value Index Rises Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automotive News is reporting today that the latest Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index has been released, and is indicating that a tight supply of used vehicles and strong sales of used cars and trucks have resulted in a continued uptick, carried over from last month. 
Specifically, the index stood at 118.1 in February, 2010, up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/03/05/used-car-value-index-rises-again/</link>
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		<title>FIAT: The Greenest Fuel Engine in the World?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automotive News reported this morning that Fiat has developed a new engine that may be the world&#8217;s greenest fuel engine.
The two-cylinder Twin-Air was unveiled earlier this year at the Geneva Auto Show, and will be used on 500 units of the automaker&#8217;s signature 500 minicar beginning in September. The choice to equip their trademark car [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/03/03/fiat-the-greenest-fuel-engine-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Mitsubishi: Desperately Seeking Dealers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automotive News is reporting this morning that while dealers representing other brands are entering into arbitration to begin working again, Mitsubishi Motors North America is hoping to recruit 25 new dealers this year. The company currently has a roster of 424 dealers, down from 575 in 2005. 
Mitsubishi&#8217;s director of franchise development, Joe Delello,  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/03/01/mitsubishi-desperately-seeking-dealers/</link>
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		<title>Short on Subarus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subaru was one of the few auto makers to show a sales increase for 2009 &#8211; theirs rose roughly 15% while industry-wide there was a 21% decrease in sales. This year, Subaru dealers are trying hard to match that upward trend, and already, they&#8217;re seeing a massive increase in sales of the 2010 Legacy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/02/26/short-on-subarus/</link>
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		<title>A Luxury Car as Best All Around in the Middle of a Recession? Seriously?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the fact that Toyota executives including CEO Akio Toyoda are currently being peppered with questions from Congress about recalls and safety issues, it seems especially ironic that Consumer Reports just named the Lexus LS 460L as their Best Car Overall for 2010 as part of their annual Top Picks list.
Granted, the Lexus line has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/02/24/a-luxury-car-as-best-all-around-in-the-middle-of-a-recession-seriously/</link>
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		<title>Houston and Nissan: A Partnership for an EV Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a report by Reuters printed by Auto News, Houston, a city whose wealth and prominence was established by its oil and gas companies, now wants to be the electric car capital of the world.
Speaking at an event on February 5 to promote the all-electric Nissan Leaf, Houston mayor Annise Parker said, &#8220;We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/02/22/houston-and-nissan-a-partnership-for-an-ev-future/</link>
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		<title>T. Boone, Natural Gas, and the Whiff of Something Else</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard a lot from T. Boone Pickens about alternative energy, but until recently his main focus was wind turbines. Then the economy crashed, investors didn&#8217;t have money to spend on those kinds of projects, and Pickens quit running his TV commercials about big West Texas wind farms.
Speaking in Orlando on Monday, February 15, 2010, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/02/19/t-boone-natural-gas-and-the-whiff-of-something-else/</link>
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		<title>And the Gold Medal for Green Tech Goes To&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amidst stories of tragedy on the luge track, and complaints that NBC isn&#8217;t giving enough coverage to athletes from countries than the USA, it may have gone largely unnoticed that VANOC, the organizing committee for both the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has been pushing to make this year&#8217;s games, &#8220;&#8230;the greenest Olympic Games ever&#8230;&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/02/17/and-the-gold-medal-for-green-tech-goes-to/</link>
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		<title>Kia Goes Green Without Sacrificing Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kia may be mocked by some as being a low-price, low-status brand, but the concept car being shown at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show, the The Kia Ray concept is  definitely high style &#8211; even better, it&#8217;s a high sign from the folks in South Korea that green is defiinitely the way a sleek [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carseekblog.com/2010/02/10/kia-goes-green-without-sacrificing-style/</link>
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