Category Archives: AutoPilot

2017 Mercedes-Benz E300
Sept 5, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Always a paragon of engineering, Mercedes-Benz continues to provide the absolute latest in luxury and safety content for its expanding customer base.
The 10th-generation 2017 E-Class that’s now at Mercedes-Benz dealers is the recipient of several advanced systems, some of which have yet to appear in any other M-B model. In fact, they might actually rival Tesla in terms of autonomous functionality. Visually, you won’t find one seam, crease or fold out of place on the new E-Class.

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2017 Ford Raptor
August 29, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

As pickup trucks go, you won’t find anything else quite like the Ford Raptor on the road, trail, in a bog or blasting across the desert. This gutsy, go-anywhere bird of prey does have a few imitators, but it remains in a singular league of its own.
The genesis of the Raptor, which comes to market later this year, was the SVT Raptor, a ground-pounding F-150 offshoot launched for 2010. That truck was instantly recognizable with unique bodywork, jacked-up ride height and a rip-snorting 6.2-liter V-8 that put out 411 horsepower and 434 pound-feet of torque.

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2017 Jaguar F-Pace
August 22, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Who would have thought that Jaguar’s scintillating F-Type coupe and roadster could be the inspiration for an equally sharp-looking family wagon.
Yet that’s what the all-new F-Pace is about; being a thoroughly useful conveyance that can comfortably transport the family and attendant gear on the same twisty roadways as its F-Type relation. A look-see at the F-Pace confirms that Jaguar chose to put style ahead of space and utility. Otherwise the automaker’s design and engineering teams would have chosen the much larger XF or XJ sedans as their starting point. From front to back the bodywork is curvaceous and devoid of any semblance of angularity.

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2017 Volvo S90
August 15, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Volvo isn’t on everyone’s shopping list when it comes to premium automobiles, but with vehicles such as the new S90 entering production, the tide is beginning to change.
Since leaving the fold of the Ford Motor Company in 2010, to be absorbed by Geely Automobile of China, the Sweden-based automaker has been steadily improving and upgrading its product range. The result is an expanding lineup that flouts styling and engineering convention while focusing on numerous safety innovations, which is an attribute that put Volvo on the map in the first place.

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2016 Ford Focus RS
August 8, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Ford has stoked the fires with its modest little Focus and the result is rolling thunder on four wheels.
The RS is available in limited quantities (most are spoken for) for 2016, with more to come near the end of the year as 2017 models. The Germany-built hatchback is antidote for buyers who could afford a loaded mid-$30,000 Mustang GT coupe, but their tastes skew toward a smaller, Euro-style performance package for about the same money.

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2017 Buick Envision
August 1, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Call it a breakthrough of sorts, but Buick’s new Envision wagon is being brought to North America from a General Motors plant in China. Chances are pretty good that David Dunbar Buick, who in 1902 founded what eventually became a division of General Motors, would probably never have envisioned (pun intended) such a development. And he certainly wouldn’t have counted on China, where the Envision has been in showrooms for the past year, becoming the Number One market for Buick vehicles.

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2017 Audi A4
July 25, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Mid-size sedan shoppers can, and often do, purchase loaded-to-the-roof Toyota Camrys, Honda Accords, Ford Fusions, et al, and shell out plenty of currency for their selections. But for not a huge budget stretch, these same folks could be riding high in an entry-luxury model like the 2017 Audi A4.
The A4 and its peers aren’t necessarily the smallest and/or least expensive models in their respective lineups (for example, the A3 is Audi’s budget minder). They are, however, considered gateways to bigger and pricier rides and are frequently referred to ‘sport sedans,’ either by the automakers’ marketing departments or by their owners.

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2017 Ford Fusion
July 18, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

The Ford Fusion sedan does a decent job of covering the bases, or at least it did, anyway. The 2017 version delivers more of the same, but it also stretches the Fusion’s luxury and performance envelope with two hot new models that will appeal to customers with more money. In case you weren’t aware of it, or you’ve purchased nothing but pickup trucks or sport utes lately, there’s a lot more to most mid-size passenger cars than meets the eye. With few exceptions; the Nissan Altima and Volkswagen Passat being two of them Ñ most can be ordered with a thrifty gasoline-electric hybrid option.

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2017 Fiat 124 Spider
July 11, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Sports cars are coveted by many, but purchased by few. With limited financial return, building a new sports car is a dicey proposition from a business standpoint. That’s why Mazda and the Fiat division of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles jointly engineered the Mazda MX-5 Miata and Fiat 124 Spider.
Both models share the same basic structure and are built at Mazda’s plant in Hiroshima, Japan.

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2016 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
July 4, 2016

Overview

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What is Auto Edit?

Welcome to AutoEdit, a new and slightly more irreverent weekly feature from Wheelbase Media.
Rather than your pages being a collection of random auto stories, the AutoEdit feature is intended to be the glue that holds it all together. Just as your editorial page is intended to be the pulse of your newspaper, Auto Edit can also be the pulse of your auto pages.

Auto edit runs 500-550 words and is all about your readers becoming more familiar with our key staff members via their personal views on the automotive world. Of all 18 of our weekly features, AutoEdit is the only one intended to provide weekly commentary. Journalistically speaking, this is just common sense since such commentary does not belong in our other news-type features.

Whether your readers agree or disagree with what’s written, they’ll know exactly how the writers of AutoEdit stand on their chosen topics. And, quite frankly, a little spirited debate is a healthy thing and that seems to be missing from more and more newspapers these days. AutoEdit is all about soul, getting back to the basics of solid content and showing readers that there are real people behind the nine-point typeface.

Story Intro

Some people would consider Mitsubishi an afterthought; a forgotten name amongst an array of better-known automotive brands. But the fact is that the Japan-based automaker still makes some pretty solid vehicles at down-to-earth prices, including the Outlander Sport.
The reduced-length (by 16 inches compared to the larger Outlander) Sport has been a Mitsubishi staple since the 2011 model year.

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