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The MAZDA2 is a relatively newer model in the United States and Canada. But over in its home base of Japan, 2 has been a variant available to customers for years. Now, the Japanese auto maker is offering up its first all-electric MAZDA2, dubbed Electric2. Mazda is the latest manufacturer to build an electric version of an existing gasoline car.

The car just entered a production phase overseas, and its likeability will be tested in

Hyundai currently builds the Sonata and the Elantra at its solitary American Plant in Montgomery, Alabama, while the Santa Fe is built at the Kia subsidiary facility in West Point, GA). However, the company is struggling to meet growing demand. And, as a lack of production capacity retrains its growth, the Korean-based company will consider developing a second U.S. assembly plant. Presently, over half of the cars Hyundai sells are made in the

Ford Motors Co, which has under his wings both LINCOLN and Ford car division, recently shared its plans to differentiate the two divisions.  Visitors at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, Ford Motor Co. had a glimpse of the future LINCOLN interior and exterior designs and technological advancements, including unique powertrains. The ultimate goal of this differentiation is to grow LINCOLN's luxury image by delivering a refreshed array of upper-crust amenities and enhanced performance.

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The Ford Explorer has been the pinnacle of SUV design for well over a decade. 2011's Ford Explorer has achieved an even greater plateau - being named North American Truck of the Year by a panel of automotive journalists.

Under the award voting point system, Explorer scored an amazing 253 points. The other two SUV's from Chrysler scores 138 and 99 respectively.

This is the third consecutive Truck of the Year award for Ford

Members of Drive On, USA Today's online auto community voted the Hyundai Sonata sedan the 2011 Car of Year. The poll, driven by America's largest print newspaper, shows that the Sonata received over twice as many votes of the Chevrolet Volt and over nine times as many votes as the Nissan Leaf.

The Hyundai Sonata is the best-selling Korean car in the U.S. with over 200,000 sold in North America in

A recent study by J.D. Power and Associates, awards the Ford Freestar with the honorable designation of most dependable minivan.  The U.S.-made minivan scored perfectly in all of the four categories in which cars are judged (over the first three years of ownership) for the 2010 Vehicle Dependability Study: Overall Dependability, Powertrain Dependability, Body and Interior Dependability, and Feature and Accessory Dependability.

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