Accelerate Mpls

I have already mentioned in another post about how good looking I think the new 2011 Kia Optima is.  Recently AutoBlog reported that Kia is considering a wagon and possibly a coupe variant as additions to the Optima line up.  Of course if this was approved we probably will not see it on sale until close to–if not–mid 2012.  Needless to say Theophilius Chin put together two renderings of what the wagon would possibly look like.  Not bad, not bad at all.

Source- This Week In Motors

Episode 19 starts by diving right into the major news of the week segment.  This week included-

• Cadillac Distances From GM to Avoid Bankruptcy Stigma
• All-new 2011 Kia Optima
• New Malibu renderings

We then proceed to the clip of the week segment.  This week we featured a newer 2010 Lexus Hybrid Commercial: ‘Milestones’

We continued with our newer section called tweetmeme.  This week we focused on the recent cases involving the Toyota Prius and unattended acceleration.

This week the topics included cop car wars, new commercial van wars and also the recent heavy duty truck announcements.

Last but certainly not least, we discuss the past week on both of our respective blogs, AutoBird Blog and AccelerateMpls.  The week in review included- my 2010 Minneapolis Auto Show write up, my First Drive of the 2010 Corvette ZR1, along with Colin’s By the Numbers post.

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