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Gallery: the 2009 New York Auto Show

Popular Science checks out the latest automotive tech

Posted 4.13.09 at 2:35 pm 8 Comments

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Acura ZDX
Seth Fletcher
Crossover SUVs have been getting more car-like by the year—think of the Infiniti EX-35, the BMW X6, and the Toyota Venza. But with the Acura ZDX concept car, which the company claims is the first in an “entirely new class of automobile,” the crossover SUV completes its evolution back into car-dom. We’re told that this concept car is very close to production.
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Chevy Cruze
Seth Fletcher
If the Chevy Volt is designed to reinvent GM in the long term, the Cruze is designed to reinvent the company’s balance sheets in the near term. This compact sedan should get around 40 mph a new 1.4-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder and compete with the Toyota Corolla and the Honda Civic. It’s set to arrive in the U.S. in 2011.
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8 Comments

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thetreblechef

04/13/09 at 7:07 pm

Below the Chevy Cruze picture it says "40 mph". Do you mean 40 mpg? I'm hoping the car doesn't do a top speed of 40 mph :)

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AllPop_NoPro

04/14/09 at 12:36 pm

Is money so tight at PopSci that you can no longer afford to pay professional photographers? These pictures are terrible, uninspired, uninteresting and poor technical execution.
I realize you are not a full time Car mag but if you want people to pay attention to your "reports" you need to up the ante significantly.

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Voices1776

04/14/09 at 12:39 pm

The photographer sucks! He cut off part of the car on most of the pictures.

It amazes me that the auto industry still can't make a futuristic car. They keep making the same old crap. Boring...Boring...Boring.

Have some creativity would you!

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fosterd3

04/17/09 at 1:12 am

Voices1776, AllPop_NoPro, please view the photos again, and point out which of the 15 photos have a part of the vehicle cut off. As for creativity of the photos...please people, this is a report on concept and new cars, not an art magazine. If you want provoking and inspiring photos, check out a different kind of magazine.

Love the transformer...I guess the millions spent on putting an ad in a Hollywood film has to pay off eventually!

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Meisem

from Roanoke, Virginia

04/18/09 at 12:33 am

I like this gallery. Yes, the pictures are... mediocre, but they could be worse. I think it is better that they are a little bit "less professional" because it gives you a better feeling of what the car is actually like, instead of a perfect photo that makes the car seem too unrealistic.

I get the feeling that the creator of this gallery had some fun putting it together, or at least took a sarcastic attitude when making it. :)

The last two pictures with the Transformer are hilarious!

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Myo Han Htun

07/02/09 at 11:43 pm

I like Hyundai Nuvis

MYO HAN HTUN (a) KO TOE

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primeape72

07/29/09 at 7:06 pm

Hyundai's designs are really looking good!!!!! Scion IQ...
Very smart! it's smiling :) ...Now that P.U.M.A thing...
it should be renamed the A.W.T.H. iB.....(Accident Waiting To Happen In a Box)... I mean is it just me?????

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