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The Auto Sleuth – Oct 28 , 2013

Overview

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Use: Voted the best automotive news column available: you need it.

What it is: If you could have only one automotive feature, this should be it. At Wheelbase Communications, we’ve chosen to stay away from providing an automotive-news column until we could do it in a non-traditional way. And here it is: the Auto Sleuth. Our worldly gumshoe has his ear to the ground, digging up the latest news on everything from product launches and updates to names in the news. The column is solely driven by reader interest. No boring statistics or auto-company pap here, just the straight goods peppered with the Auto Sleuth’s commentary and speculative, gossipy-style.

Product specifications

Mac and PC print layout with separate text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Multi-platform layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×16 inches (newspaper), but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

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Chrysler Sebring: 2007-’10 – Oct 28, 2013

Overview

Description

The Sebring began as a two-door coupe produced by Mitsubishi’s Illinois plant beginning in early 1995 (a Chrysler-built convertible model followed shortly after). The second-generation Sebring was launched for the 2001 model year and included a new four-door model that replaced the Cirrus sedan. An all-new Sebring sedan arrived for the 2007 model year followed a year later by a convertible. Engine choices included a 173-horsepower four-cylinder engine or optional 2.7- and 3.5-liter V6s that generated 186 and 235 horsepower, respectively. Both body styles received minor styling changes for the 2010 model year before Chrysler’s new Fiat-based management introduced significantly updated and rebadged Chrysler 200 sedan and convertible models, which appeared in early calendar 2011.

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Nicolas Cage – Legends, Oct 28, 2013

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Description

The film “Gone in 60 Seconds” didn’t spark actor Nicholas Cage’s love for cars, it was just an extension of that passion. “To combine film and cars, the two things I love most, was something there was no way to pass up,” said Cage in an interview with his fanWeb site.What happens when two worlds collide, egos clash and a sleeping giant awakens? The Ford GT40 of course, a racing automobile that was the offspring of a feud between Ferrari and Ford, and Henry Ford II’s emerging interest in winning at just about any and all costs. Back in the 1960s, Ferrari dominated international sports-car racing.

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2015 Corvette Z06 – AutoGraph Oct 21 , 2013

AutoGraph

Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

What it is: Weekly automotive infographics that inform, enlighten and delight readers. Our high-impact infographics add visual appeal and variety to your auto-section pages. Wheelbase’s designers are some of the best in the business with numerous awards for dynamic newsgraphics and page design. AutoGraph will show your readers, with engaging visual style, what they want and need to know about their automobiles as well as today’s trends. These professional, useful and intelligent graphics will help raise the profile of your auto section.

Product specifications

Designed by Wheelbase Media’s editorial staff using Macromedia Freehand (for backward compatibility for most systems) as well as Adobe Photoshop.
Mac or PC use.
Files included in your download: native Freehand file; Freehand EPS file (which is how to edit the AutoGraph with Adobe Illustrator) and a 300 dpi CMYK low-compression jpg file.
Print size: 8 inches wide, 6 inches tall, scalable about 10 percent up or down.
AutoGraph uses typical system fonts for compatibility.

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Jacky Ickx – Oct 21, 2013

Overview

Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for print/Web.Professional artwork, editing.

What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

He was supposed to be an ecologist. The young lad, born on New Year’s Day in 1945, wanted to be immersed in fields and forests, plants and nature.

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Kia Sorento: 2006-’10 – Oct 21, 2013

Overview

Description

As a long-serving member of the Kia family, the truck-like Sorento sport utility vehicle specialized in travelling well past the point where the pavement ended. The original engine was a 192-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 that was connected to a five-speed manual transmission or optional four-speed automatic (upgraded to a five-speed automatic for the 2005 model year). An all-new 262-horsepower 3.8-liter V6 became standard for the 2007 model year, upping the Sorento’s towing capacity to 5,000 pounds from the previous rating of 3,500 This rough-and-rugged Kia was also available with a 242-horsepower 3.3-liter V6 for 2009, it’s final year. A completely new Sorento followed for the 2011 model year.

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Nothing like a real inspection to cut through the ad fluff – Full Throttle, Oct 21, 2013

Overview

Use: Media professionals looking to diversify their automotive readership with women authors who provide their views on a wide variety of topics.

What it is: Courtney Hansen, America’s favorite Garage Girl and the former host of The Learning Channel’s Overhaulin’ auto makeover show, a new-book author and the host of Spike TV’s weekend “Power Block,” has teamed up with Wheelbase Communications for this exclusive column. If you’re looking to build more regular readership and to bring more women into the pages of your print publication and Web pages with the help of a friendly and outgoing automotive celebrity, this bi-weekly column that alternates with our own Rhonda Wheeler is a must.

Product specifications

About 800-900 words; Word text file plus high-resolution art files for print and Web use.
Mac and PC layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Coming soon! Multi-platform page layout that opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.

Description

After surfing the Web for months, there it was: a clean-looking 1963 Chevrolet coupe.
It was the first year for the Sting Ray, the only year for the “split” rear window, and although the car was red instead of its original “Sebring Silver,” magical phrases in the Ebay ad such as “restored within the last year,” “new paint,” and “perfect interior,” and 20 or so good photos had the Wheelbase Media gang convinced that the price was more than fair.

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2014 RamEcoDiesel – Oct 21 AutoPilot

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Description

As light-duty pickup trucks go, the upgraded-for-2013 Chrysler-built Ram (neŽ Dodge) is among the best in the business. It has to be to keep pace with the Ford F-150, General Motors’ recently renewed Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, plus maintain its considerable lead over the Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan.

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AutoCross October 21, 2013

Overview

Description

Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

What it is: For the auto thrill-seeker, this is one of the most unique additions to your publication. The International AutoCross will test the knowledge of your readers with trivia that scours automobile parts bins, dealer showrooms and the history of people and places that have made the automobile what it is today. Retain readers and have them coming back on a regular basis for more. Like Wheelbase’s other features, International AutoCross comes to you formatted and ready to use.

Product specifications

Due to the highly complicated graphic nature of this product, we do not yet offer a version that can be played online. Instead, visitors to your Web site can print out the crossword and play it at their leisure. Vote yes to having a playable online version by clicking here.
High-resolution 300 dpi jpg CMYK file suitable for printand Web. Postscript file also included for even higher resolution and no bitmapping of fonts.

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Why buy a car and not drive it? – Oct 21, 2013

Overview

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

It’s a no-brainer, really. Sports cars are summer cars, all shiny and bright. Everyone knows it. You’d be crazy – nuts, in fact – to drive a sports car in the winter.