New Bus Rollover Standard Proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation
4 Aug 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In an attempt to harmonize European bus safety standards with the ones applied in the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently cooking up new rules that will im...
GM Targeted Yet Again By Collective Lawsuit
1 Aug 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After 60 recalls and almost 30 million faulty vehicles, General Motors finds itself at the firing end of a barrel of a gun, with numerous victims intending lawsuits for accidents linked to sub-stan...
Suzuki Verona Called In Due to Overheating DRL Module
31 Jul 2014, 09:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Suzuki informed that some of its Verona sedans are prone to catch fire. Also known as the Chevrolet Evanda in Eastern Europe and Daewoo Evanda / Magnus in other markets, the mid-size Suzuki sedans i...
Fiat Recalls 500L Over Knee Airbags Deployment Issues
31 Jul 2014, 08:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Everybody loves the Fiat 500 city car, but its L, L Trekking and L Living mini MPV derivates haven't really cut the mustard since they were introduced. We're not necessarily referring to t...
Hyundai Sonata Recalled Over Fragile Shift Cable
30 Jul 2014, 17:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Oh my! Just two days ago the NHTSA announced that the 2015 Hyundai Sonata needs more sturdy front brake calipers, the second recall after the sedan was previously called back over a faulty wiring ha...
GM Pool of Potential Victims Expands with 505 New Death and Injury Claims
24 Jul 2014, 08:50 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After GM announced yesterday its 60th safety recall so far this year, more dirt has been uncovered about the manufacturer's lousy practices - through the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis...
General Motors Recall Saga Continues With 6 New Campaigns
23 Jul 2014, 18:50 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We're in the 30th week of the year and General Motors' recall tally approaches the 30 million mark. As if that wasn't enough of a handful, the manufacturer recently announced that it&...
Jeep Commander, Grand Cherokee Recalled Over Ignition Switch Fault
23 Jul 2014, 09:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's not like only GM has hit it low with those millions of vehicles called back over very diverse safety or non-compliance defects. Now Chrysler is recalling almost 800k SUVs over the same pro...
1.3 Million GM Vehicles Recalled Over Electric Power Steering Issues
21 Jul 2014, 15:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / While the entire automotive industry has recalled almost 28 million automobiles last year, General Motors is getting perilously close to the 30 million mark. If you take into consideration this lous...
Cadillac CTS, SRX Stop-Sale Order Is a Little Late
21 Jul 2014, 08:21 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although Caddy should be focusing its efforts with the launch of the 2015 model year CTS and fine-tuning the 2016 CTS-V, something big came up and it's not pretty at all. A call back operation ...
2014 Kia Soul Recalled For Loss of Steering
19 Jul 2014, 04:27 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / As this year continues to rack up a record number of vehicle defects, few automakers have been immune to the dreaded recall bug. Although Kia has managed to stay off the recall radar, the National H...
Vehicle Safety Recalls Explained
18 Jul 2014, 15:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You may have heard on the news or read on our website that the recall tally in the United States is breaking records this year, with 37.5 million cars called back in the first six months of 2014 ove...
Jeep Grand Cherokee, Liberty to Cost $151M, Conclude by Early 2015
18 Jul 2014, 01:37 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave Chrysler until July 16 to explain why it’s been so slow to produce the parts to recall for the 1993-98 Grand Cheroke...
Delphi Blames GM for Faulty Ignition Switches
17 Jul 2014, 16:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A little while back, we reported that the U.S. Senate Commerce Comitee's panel of investigators has summoned Rodney O'Neal, the chief executive officer of Delphi, on Capitol Hill's ho...
GM Lied to Federal Authorities About Ignition-Related Fatal Accidents
17 Jul 2014, 12:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Another day, another ignition switch headline to make you get cold feet about driving a vehicle designed and assembled by GM. That's seems to be the norm these days and a new analysis further d...
Hiding Safety Defects May Get Auto Execs Prison Time
16 Jul 2014, 20:30 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Bob Casey are cooking quite the recipe for misbehaving higher-ups in the auto industry. These two are reportedly working on a bill that would punish bigwigs with...
GM Could be Charged with Fraud Over Ignition Switch Recall Delay
14 Jul 2014, 18:59 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Several federal prosecuters have joined forces and are currently doing their homework in order to charge General Motors with fraud over the notorious defective ignition switch recall. Evidence of mi...
Ford Crown Victoria Investigated Over Steering Problem
13 Jul 2014, 13:36 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The NHTSA is hard at work nowadays, the most recent preliminary evaluation looking into a potential issue with the Ford Crown Victoria. The Office of Defects Investigation has received 5 complaints ...
Stolen Tesla Model S Driver Allegedly Dies After High-Speed Crash
11 Jul 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you were sitting at home watching TV on the 4th of July, then you might have heard that a stolen Tesla Model S kicked off a high-speed police pursuit that ultimately ended with a fiery crash that...
Chrysler Recalling 895k SUVs Over Electrical Defect
11 Jul 2014, 13:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Chrysler just announced that an estimated 895k SUVs are being called back over a pretty atypical fault. It's not about ignition switches, Takata airbags, a glitchy power steering control module...