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newVideoPlayer("/Ford-Focus-RS.flv", 494, 350,""); You can have the most forbidden of Ford's fruits, the 2009 Ford Focus RS , for £24,995 in Brit money or $38,359 if you're in the US and into torturing yourself. Every time we see a Focus RS , it reminds us of the famous pre-hippie era image of Woody Guthrie holding his guitar emblazoned with the slogan "This machine kills fascists," only we imagine a bumper sticker on the tail of the Focus RS reading "This machine kills tuners." We want a Focus RS so bad our insides ache. And with today's announcement from Ford that the pocket rocket will be selling for £24,995, or about $38,359 in imaginary US sales dollars, it makes the churning in our gut even more intense. galleryPost('2010FordFocusRSP', 9, ''); For that dough Ford will serve up a turbocharged 2.5 liter five cylinder with 300 HP and 324 lb-ft of torque mated to a six-speed transmission, all good for a 0-62 mph under...
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The Opel Meriva has been spotted undergoing development in the run up to its expected debut in about a year. The Meriva, if you recall, is a compact MPV sporting "flexdoors," which, in the parlance of our times are really suicide doors — apparently including the word "suicide" in the name of any feature of a new car is a marketing faux pas. Who knew? The car seems to maintain most of the styling present in the concept we first saw at the Geneva Auto Show , though the accompanying booth professional is tragically nowhere to be seen in the spy photos. galleryPost('opelmerivageneva', 9, 'Opel Meriva Concept In Geneva'); [ WCF ]
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"The lines of this three-box saloon... suggest refinement and elegance. Its status-enhancing front-end looks are underpinned by the design of the headlamps and the specific grille which is picked out in chrome." And so it goes. The biggest question we have about the 2009 Renault Symbol is, 'Did the Renault PR team even look at the car before they wrote the press release?' The answer is an obvious no, as the new Symbol appears to have finally beaten out the original Toyota Prius as the ugliest three-box sedan in the last decade. Add in the rear removable headrest-mounted DVD player, a Circuit City quality nav-system installation and you've got a "status-symbol" for central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Borat-quality press release after the jump. galleryPost('renaultsymbolext', 6, '2009 Renault Symbol Is Refined Elegance'); galleryPost('renaultsymbolint', 3, 'You Can See The Elegance'); NEW RENAULT SYMBOL, ELEGANT...
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Seems one of the 31 metro Detroit Ford dealers has gotten cute and worked up a Ford Flex woody to entice customers in to buy the station wagon/van/crossover. According to Motor Trend 's Todd Lassa, the Flex in question is your basic stripper model, so the woody option makes it all the more innuendo-tastic, but that's no big deal as the option apparently carries no extra charge on the window sticker. Considering the pending malaise II era breathing down our necks, we wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing starts coming from the factory. [ MotorTrend ]
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