Sales of the 2011 Honda CR-Z Sport Hybrid are scheduled to begin in August.Inside Line says: A 122-horsepower sport coupe with a torsion-beam rear end? Doesn't sound very sporty to us.

The 2011 GMC Acadia Denali, a high-end trim level usually reserved for GMC SUVs, will arrive in showrooms in the third quarter of 2010, GM announced on Thursday. Pricing has not yet been announced.

It is the concept-ized version of the next Chevrolet Aveo. And, yes, Chevrolet is keeping the Aveo line going, even after it introduces the yet-smaller, Korean-conceived Spark. Stranger still, the company is going to keep the Aveo name and try to rehabilitate it in the minds of small-car buyers instead of just making up some other name, such as Nutria or Dengue or Flatus.

Porsche rolled out a new open-top version of the Boxster, the Boxster Spyder, at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. The new model is slated to begin going on sale worldwide alongside its Boxster and Boxster S siblings next February.

Honda's Personal-Neo Urban Transport, which made its world debut at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday, offers a vision of urban transportation beyond such mighty mites as the Smart Fortwo.

"Minivan" apparently is a bit of a dirty word to Toyota. The Japanese automaker rolled out its 2011 Toyota Sienna minivan at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show, emphasizing how sedanlike the redesign has made this people hauler.

On the heels of its global debut last month in Korea, the 2011 Hyundai Sonata is being introduced to U.S. customers this week at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show.

If Ford manages to follow through with its plan for the 2011 Ford Mustang V6, these jokes could all go away, as massive powertrain improvements could not only lift the lesser Mustang out from the land of ridicule but also actually put it in direct competition with the excellent 2010 Chevrolet Camaro V6.

Two years after its launch in China, Europe and other major global markets, the Ford Fiesta is finally coming to the U.S. in 2010 and will be on display at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. The subcompact Fiesta was last sold here in 1980.Ford introduced the sixth-generation Fiesta in early 2008, following the car's unveiling as the Verve concept at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show. The Fiesta is currently built in Spain, Germany and China and will go into production next year in Thailand.

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