Automotive Recap: Reviewing What You Might Have Missed

Many thanks are due to everyone who has been supporting this site via your visits. A quick review of Auto Trends reveals that there are now 40+ pages that have been posted in just over two months time.

I’ve been tweaking the site’s structure to help make older posts easier to find and working on some back end administrative functions to make the site much more visible for the search engines. I’m not too fond of the theme, but I’ll keep it for now — making a change at this point would be too time consuming!

In case you’ve missed them, the following are some of the key posts made since Auto Trends was launched in April 2008, good stuff you’ll want to read and (hopefully) comment on:

The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro — I wrote this article in 2005, but at that time I identified the Camaro as a 2009 model. GM had other plans and priorities, pushing the release of the car back until later next year.

2009 Hummer H3T – Coming ‘Atcha! — Who knew that GM would announce that they are considering selling or dropping Hummer? I certainly didn’t when I wrote the article. The H3T is available for sale, but with gas prices over $4 per gallon, just how many will Hummer sell?

Nissan, Renault to Tackle Tata Nano — When the Tata Nano arrives, it will be the cheapest car in the world at least in 2010 and maybe for 2011. Nissan and Renault are planning to challenge the Nano, but don’t look for the combined companies to offer a car for less money.

Ford Confirms Fiesta Production, Hatchback Plans — Ford’s new Fiesta is coming to North America, with a plant in Mexico tasked with building the car. Ford is in the process of making a rapid shift to reducing SUV/truck production in favor of compact cars.

Chrysler Releases Pricing Details For Challenger — In case you missed it, the Dodge Challenger went on sale last month as a 2008 model and promptly sold out for the year. For 2009, three trim levels will be available ranging in price from the low 20s to $40K.

AOCA Offers Timely Gas Saving Tips — I’m sick of high gas prices, aren’t you? Well, there doesn’t seem much that we can do about it other than to work on driving less and increasing our fuel economy. The AOCA offers some good tips on how to accomplish the latter.

That’s a wrap on my first round up. I’m adding new stories 2-3 times per week on average, so please bookmark this site and snag a feed to follow everything that I have to share with you.