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First Look: 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz Three-Row For America

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Quick, better run out and buy that Type 2 lover in your life some flowers or, ahem, some other plant life. Buzz has been available in other countries, we in America are in need of something a bit more substantial, so a proper three-row minivan is what will be offered here. An EV minivan is an interesting proposition.

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Nobody Knows if the BMW M5 Touring is Coming to America

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Some also noted that a camouflaged M5 Touring prototype had previously been spotted testing the roads in Los Angeles. Wagons haven’t been fashionable in North America since they were supplanted by the minivan in the 1980s. The likely scenario is that the design boss simply spoke out of turn.

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LA show displays green car ‘glimpse into the future’

Green Cars News

The 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show opens to the public today with a glittering display of green cars taking pride of place. The show, based at the Los Angeles Convention Center will host more than 30 significant world and North American debuts and feature more than 900 vehicles from sports cars and sedans to crossovers and minivans.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

People will likely not buy plug-ins without big federal tax breaks." ( Reuters ) 11/29/06 [In response to GMs announcement at the LA Auto Show], Ford Group marketing manager Cisco Codina said the answer for now is full hybrids, like the latest version of its Ford Escape hybrid SUV unveiled at the show. ( People wont buy a full car.

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