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Nissan Sentra wrings out 1 mpg more to sweeten payout

Engineers at Nissan Motor Co. are scurrying to eke another mile or two per gallon out of their vehicles to win customers who come looking for federal cash-for-guzzlers money. "We want as many of our products as possible to pop up on the shopping list," Nissan North America spokesman Brian Brockman says.

BMW M3 Convertible (2008): first official pictures

By Stephen Dobie First Official Pictures 18 January 2008 15:08 The M3 family has swelled further with BMW’s announcement of the new convertible version - and a twin-clutch gearbox. This is the first M3 with a folding metal hardtop, and the first with BMW's new transmission. It's a new seven-speed gearbox called M DCT gearbox – a double-clutch affair (like VW's seven-speed DSG) allowing near-instant changes, with little drop in power.

Raging Artists gives its take on the minivan

What would a minivan commercial look like if it was made by minivan drivers instead of agency suits? A lot less boring than you'd think, as it turns out. The Raging Artists public-relations firm created a strangely comedic video called “A Family Man is Still a Man” with a group of RA employees that owns four minivans among them.