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Nissan’s Ugly Cube Exudes Gen Y Dorky Coolness: Jason H. Harper Man is that thing ugly. Not just homely -- willfully, thoughtfully, ugly. I kind of like it.

Bentley Fetches Top Price at $1.5 Million Classic-Car Auction A 1950s Bentley was the top lot in a U.K. auction of classic cars last night that raised a total of 1 million pounds ($1.5 million). Bidders were encouraged by vehicles with low estimates and avoided some with higher prices.

Mitsubishi All-Wheel Drives Defy Iciest Roads: Jason H. Harper Tim O’Neil appears to be either out of control or simply insane.

Mercedes, BMW Hybrids Lure CEOs Who May Avoid a Prius (Correct) To the great oxymorons of our time, like “military intelligence,” “clean coal,” “reality TV” and “easy mortgage loan,” I propose to add “green luxury sedan.”

Madoff Investors Should’ve Bought Corvettes: Jason H. Harper We all wish we’d bought Microsoft Corp. stock in the 1980s. But what if you’d tucked away a 1965 Shelby roadster like the one that just sold at auction in Scottsdale, Arizona for more than $1 million? Or garaged a pristine 1971 Dodge Challenger, which went for $187,000, or that rare 1970 Ford Mustang for $275,000?

Dogus of Turkey to Grow With New Volkswagen Models, Price Cut Dogus Otomotiv Servis & Ticaret AS, the biggest retailer of Volkswagen AG vehicles in Turkey, will increase its market share to as much as 11 percent this year with new models and price cuts, even as the market shrinks.

Toyota’s Lexus Rallies With Stalwart SUVs, Oddball Supercar “My husband just bought me the top- of-the-line Lexus,” a woman told me the other day. “But who wants a tarted-up Toyota with pedal problems?”

BMW Jerks, Porsche Flashers -- What Your Car Shows About You Thundering down a highway in a smoking-hot BMW M6, I flick on my blinker and slide into the left lane to pass slower vehicles. Immediately a minivan swings in front of me, throws on his brakes and sticks there at a steady 50 miles per hour, boxing me in.

Volkswagen’s GTI Is Porsche Fan’s Starter Car: Jason H. Harper What’s so special about the Volkswagen GTI? A gussied-up Golf with a special grill on its pug nose, this squat squirt certainly is no Maserati.

Cadillac Turns Dad’s Dweeb-Mobile Into Roomy $51,000 Dude Wagon While owning a station wagon was once the equivalent of birth control -- you could forget about scoring a date, ever -- modern-day equivalents are becoming cool.