Category: News
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Where Are We On Electric Vehicles?
Electric vehicles are one of the more teasing and elusive challenges for automakers. As a potential—and we use this term optimistically—replacement for gasoline-powered cars, people are used to seeing a lot of hype and hope about electric vehicles. Assuming you’ve seen some headlines but haven’t thoroughly researched the topic, we thought we’d provide a quick…
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Why Americans’ SUVs Are Starting to Look Like Station Wagons
A few weeks ago, we were talking with a friend in the market for a pre-owned car. After listening to him talk about what he liked about his previous car—spaciousness, powerful engine, sedan body style, comfort on the interior—we ventured a tentative query: “What do you think about a station wagon?” “A station wagon?” “Yeah.”…
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Hybrid Hype: The 2014 Paris Auto Show
Hi. How are you doing this Thursday? That’s great to hear, really great. We wanted to make you aware of some changes going forward in the Leith Cars Blog experience. We’re changing up our formula just a little bit in order to concentrate the quality of our posts here. Rather than spreading out news and…
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Best in Class: Maserati Honored at Monterey Car Week
It is quite fitting that this week’s Best in Class touches on the year-long centenary of a legendary brand. Just last week, Maserati was the guest of honor for the Monterey Car week, which boasted great attendance and many displays and events centered around the Trident. From Sir Stirling Moss to the official American unveiling…
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Showroom and Tell: Filbert and the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class
We are in the throes of 2015 models arriving at our dealerships, and one model we especially appreciate is the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class. As the brand’s most popular class (besides the upper class, ha ha), most times you see a Mercedes-Benz on the road or parked somewhere, odds are that it’s a C-Class. That much…
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New Camera Technology from Continental Shows You Around
Stateside, the first thing that comes to mind when someone hears “Continental” is probably “breakfast.” More bookish types might say “drift.” When we’re playing this word association game in the context of cars, you’ll probably jump instead to “tires.” Continental Tire is based in that asylum masquerading as a state to our south, and many…
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Showroom and Tell: The 2015 Acura TLX
Since it just reached dealerships here in North Carolina within the past week, there is no better vehicle to highlight for Showroom and Tell than the 2015 Acura TLX. Critics gushed over it at the Detroit Auto Show, and consumers clamored for its release. Distribution of the all-new sedan was delayed for nearly two months…
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Best In Class: A Thoughtful Look Into the Plight of Texting And Driving
The frontier of dangerous driving is texting, an action which is devoted to taking your eyes off the road and focusing on a tiny screen for just two seconds, okay maybe five, which is plenty of time for horrific consequences to occur. Those of us fortunate to have hands-free texting in our cars via Bluetooth…
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Showroom and Tell: The 2015 Lincoln MKC
Today is Thursday, so it’s time to cash in on the past three days of indirect vehicular verbiage and just spend one post talking about a car we’re really excited about in our Showroom and Tell column. Today that car is the 2015 Lincoln MKC, available now at Leith Lincoln in Raleigh. The MKC is…
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Best in Class: Honda’s Imaginary Sibling, Donha, Is a Kook
Best in Class is all about choosing our favorite blog post written by a Leith dealership this week, which is always a fun exercise to perform. While there was a lot of interesting news written about this week including new features, models, developments, and technologies, Leith Honda’s humorous invention of Donha, Honda’s evil twin…