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This week on Let’s Talk Cars, we take on the juicy subject of “hangar queens.” These are the vehicles automotive companies wish they hadn’t decided to sell. AutoPacific founder and president George Peterson and VehicleVoice contributor Jim Hall have another of their signature dialogs and take on the entire automotive industry while they’re at it!
But it’s not all negative. Jim Hall thinks Audi has done something extraordinary on the race track that might soon trickle all the way down to a showroom near you.
And we wrap things up with an OpEd piece from George Peterson on the new flood of small (we mean really small) cars hitting the [...]

The first real hybrid battleground arrives in the heart of the car market: mid-size sedans. Will Toyota or Honda dominate, or neither?

iPod Vending Machine Confirms automotive integration of iPods a must.

As human beings, we're apparently not as cool as we think we are. Neurscientists refer to our inability to handle more than one stimulus at a time as, "attentional blink."

Consumer Electronics Show has an entire building devoted to automotive electronics.

Consumer Electronics Show has an entire building devoted to automotive electronics.

Now that I've tasted the fruit, I can't get the taste out of my mouth. True, give me a Dino or an early GTO and the feel of the gears being controlled by my feet and hands is part of the experience - sensual, potent, and invigorating. But, in today's world, with todays' technology... DSG is here and I hope to stay. There's no substitute.

Internet powerhouse Google and automobile manufacturer Volkswagen have announced a partnership in which Google will work with the American division of the German car maker to create a new generation navigation system. Using the satellite mapping software developed by Google as a starting point, the system will, according to sources at Google, provide drivers with a bird's eye real-time view of the road ahead.

Intrepid AWD driver finds high performance summer tires don't make it in even a light snow. He will put on his Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires in November next year.

The real risk relates to electricity itself. Hybrid batteries deliver up to 650 volts, enough to kill a human being. In addition, should the couplings for batteries become severed, free-flowing electricity can ignite leaking fuel or other combustibles, just as might occur if an electrical wire were to fall during a storm or other accident.