Redesigned Iconic Cars Toughen Up

Everyone on scene at the 2013 New York Auto Show, which kicked off this morning, knew Chevrolet was bringing its new version of the Camaro SS to the Jacob Javits Center. More surprising was the car Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America, introduced after the SS.

TheCarConnection.com submits: In recent months and years, U.S. automakers have rallied that American cars are now on equal or better footing than Japanese (and Korean) cars in terms of quality, reliability, and durability. The campaigns, along with sea-change improvements in some of the products coming from Detroit, as observed by TheCarConnection.com, seem to have worked.

EDMONTON — Three days each week, approximately 300 men and women pack the Oasis Edmonton Conference Centre in this city’s west end. Many have come from abroad, from countries such as England, Australia, Germany and the United States, and stay for months at a time, volunteering at the conference centre and attending the three-hour “meetings”. These are conducted mostly in silence, with long periods of intense gazing toward the front of the room.

TORONTO — Clothing from Roots will be available at Target for a limited time when the retailer comes to Canada this spring. Target — expected to open stores north of the border in March and April — announced its list of partners and limited collections on Thursday. The Roots Outfitters collection, including fashions for women, men, boys, girls and toddlers, will be available from March to June. Target is also touting a women’s apparel collection from stylist Kate Young, to be on offer from April 14 to the end of May.

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Senate Democrats are working to toughen the bill known as the JOBS Act, which passed the GOP-controlled House last week in a rare display of bipartisanship.A House-passed bill that aims to make it easier for small businesses to raise money also weakens investor protections and could create the next generation of telemarketing boiler rooms, according a growing number of critics such as AARP and federal securities regulators.

The price tag for some of the most iconic logos of all time vary drastically.