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2014 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Altitude Review By Steve Purdy

2014 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Altitude Review By Steve Purdy

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2014 Dodge Durango Citadel AWD Review By Steve Purdy

2014 Dodge Durango Citadel AWD Review By Steve Purdy

Dodge Durango started life as a mid-size, rear-wheel drive, body-on-frame SUV and has evolved into this large, 7-passenger, three-row, uni-body CUV. It is still rear-wheel drive but can be optioned with either an unobtrusive all-wheel drive or a fully competent 4-wheel drive for serious towing or off-roading, and it ca ... Continue reading

2014 Chrysler Town & Country A Family's Best Friend

2014 Chrysler Town & Country A Family's Best Friend

2014 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY REVIEW By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau This is the classic “soccer mom” van, a vehicle suffering unjustified disrespect from many quarters, including upscale suburban family buyers. Take our daughter, (Ed Note; and my daughter-in-laws) for example. She has thre ... Continue reading

WWI Vehicular Veteran Honored -1918 Cadillac Immortalized At The Library of Congress

WWI Vehicular Veteran Honored -1918 Cadillac Immortalized At The Library of Congress

By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau Photos By: Bob Benko and Gary Purdy Marc Harmon could hardly contain his enthusiasm as he addressed a gathering of officials and journalists at the General Motors Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, MI describing his experience finding, researching and preserving (not ... Continue reading

C.A.R 2014 MBS Day 4 - Wrap-up

C.A.R 2014 MBS Day 4 - Wrap-up

2014 CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS – TRAVERSE CITY DAY 4 – Wrap Up By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau Another year of the Management Briefing Seminars is history as we pick up our bag lunches for the road. I feel like we’ve just been to a futurist’s confe ... Continue reading

2014 SCION TC 3-DOOR LIFTBACK Review By Steve Purdy

2014 SCION TC 3-DOOR LIFTBACK Review By Steve Purdy

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C.A.R 2014 MBS Day 2 - STEM, Diesels, New Powertrains, Engineers, CAFE, New Plants

C.A.R 2014 MBS Day 2 - STEM, Diesels, New Powertrains, Engineers, CAFE, New Plants

2014 CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS – TRAVERSE CITY DAY 2 By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau Photo by Bob Benko [Photo Caption: Karl Klimek, executive director of Square One making the plea for STEM education] We always love the interesting tidbits encountered here at th ... Continue reading

C.A.R 2014 MBS Day 1 Vehicle Future: Lightweighting

C.A.R 2014 MBS Day 1 Vehicle Future: Lightweighting

2014 CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS – TRAVERSE CITY DAY 1 By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau Photo by Bob Benko [Photo Caption: Jay Baron, Center for Automotive Research CEO] Here we are again, in Michigan’s beautiful north country, Traverse City to be precise, wher ... Continue reading

2015 Hyundai Sonata - Steve Purdy's Initial Impressions +VIDEO

2015 Hyundai Sonata - Steve Purdy's Initial Impressions +VIDEO

2015 HYUNDAI SONATA Initial Impressions By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau The good folks at Hyundai spent the past couple months showing off the new Sonata all over the country to a variety of journalists. You may have seen the report from our senior correspondent, Thom Cannell, a few weeks ago detailin ... Continue reading

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Altitude 4x4 Review By Steve Purdy

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Altitude 4x4 Review By Steve Purdy

2014 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE ALTITUDE 4X4 Review By Steve Purdy The Auto Channel.com Michigan Bureau The Jeep Grand Cherokee Altitude we’re testing this week does not even have an altimeter. I was expecting an off-roader capable of plying the high mountain trails of the Sierra Nevada Mountains while making us feel lik ... Continue reading

2014 Volkswagen CC Executive Review By Steve Purdy +VIDEO

2014 Volkswagen CC Executive Review By Steve Purdy +VIDEO

2014 VOLKSWAGEN CC EXECUTIVE REVIEW By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau Some of us have criticized the VW Passat as a bit too conservative in exterior styling, content and overall image. This week’s test car – the VW CC Executive – is not. It is essentially a mid-size Passat under the skin ... Continue reading

2014 Infiniti Q60 Coupe Journey Review by Steve Purdy +VIDEO

2014 Infiniti Q60 Coupe Journey Review by Steve Purdy +VIDEO

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2014 EyesOn Design Show Preview - A Fathers Day Tradition

2014 EyesOn Design Show Preview - A Fathers Day Tradition

By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau The EyesOn Design show has been a Father’s Day tradition for 27 years with all but two shows being held on the expansive lawns at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores (close-in Detroit suburb on Lake St. Clair). Eyes continues its tradition of s ... Continue reading

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