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While you may not see many Kia K900 on the road, rental car companies have already taken action to acquire the K900 into their fleet.

I was at the airport earlier today and found some rental car companies have quite a lot of the K900 parking in their lot. For example here is what Enterprise has when I was there, they have at least three K900 (there may be more because I did not check and count all).

I asked for the rate, and was told it is around $50 – $60 per day (but it may vary depending on what time frame you want to rent). I opened one K900’s door and briefly checked the interior, it is nicely equipped (even the base K900 is very well equipped) and luxury...

In part 1 of this article, we have talked about the Miata’s engine layout. Let’s continue with more analysis.

2. The front suspension. Many people can tell from the image that the Miata is using a double wishbone suspension. Many other similar sports car in the price range usually use the MacPherson suspension design; by using the double wishbone structure (of course it costs more to build), the Miata provides better value for the consumer.

However, story does not just stop there...

Today in the 2014 New York auto show, Mazda revealed the 25th year anniversary edition MX-5 Miata. Together with the existing model, Mazada also provides some insight about its next generation MX-5, which Mazda hopes to deduct approx. 100kg from the current model.

In this article, we are not going to talk about what special features that the anniversary edition MX-5 has, or what is the SKYACTIV technologies that Mazda has been mentioning during the recent years. In the following sections I will examine the Miata from a holistic view, and briefly explain why the Mazda Miata is special and what makes it so popular for more than 20 years.

For those who are fans of V8 muscle...

It has been known to all for a while that BMW is going to sell the Alpina version of the 6 series Gran Coupe.

The key point is not only the Alpina car to be sold here in the US side. It sends us an important signal from BMW: the Bavarian auto maker finally feels necessary that it has a high performance version  AWD sedan in the market. Currenlty the BMW in-house performance branch “M”, is only providing rear-wheel-drive performance sedans and coupes.

Previously BMW never sold an Alpina version in US market, if there is already a M version being sold at the same time. For example we have BMW M3 here, so you will never see the Alpina B3 in the showroom...

Yesterday we reported Aston Martin makes an astonishing decision to sell the 2015 Vantage GT for less than $100k.

Some news are claiming this to be a good deal. But we say, this is actually a big deal. We do not mean whether you should go and buy one, instead we view this incident from other aspects.

To US market Vantage GT is identical to the European market Vantage N430 special edition. In UK, the base Vantage’s MSRP is GBP 84,995; and the N430 is selling for GBP 89,995. The base Vantage V8 MSRP in US starts from $122,400. So how come the better equipped GT trim is now selling for significantly less money in the US market?

Financially speaking, there are usually two rea...