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It will come as no surprise to anyone who's taken a road trip with a member of the opposite sex that men and women navigate differently. Now a new study shows that they even use in-car navigation systems differently.

The differences start before purchase. Both men and women are equally aware of navigation systems (at 90 percent each in the groups surveyed by Navteq), but the single greatest source of information for women was word of mouth. For men, it's the media.

Women use features built into their navigation systems, like traffic warnings and Point-of-Interest maps, far less than men do. Almost 39 percent of women "never" use the traffic...

Yesterday TheCarConnection.com brought you a first drive of the new 2010 Lexus HS 250h hybrid. To give you a brief recap, we’re positively impressed but not completely thrilled with the HS. The exterior styling is a little awkward, and its interior and cargo space feel a bit more restricted than in the Prius. And the HS performs well enough to meet most expectations, with fuel economy in the 30s, but it’s by no means a performance car.

With that middling impression, you might wonder, what is really to like about the HS? Well, it has a safety-feature mother lode, with a class-leading ten airbags, and it’s a gadget geek’s dream.

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