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GM Recalls Over 300,000 Impalas for Seatbelt Issues

16 Oct 2010, 14:36 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / American automaker giant General Motors recently announced a recall involving 303,100 Chevrolet Impalas due to problems with the front seatbelts in 2009 and 2010 model-year vehicles. The notice ...

Mercedes-Benz Recalls 85,000 Cars Due to Power Steering Issues

11 Oct 2010, 14:55 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has just released a safety warning from Mercedes-Benz, according to which the German automaker is pulling off the market no less than 85,07...

GM Recalls 4,000 Cadillac SRX

8 Oct 2010, 06:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer GM announced today the second major recall for the SRX model in less than half a year. Whereas back in May the crossovers manufactured in 2010 have been pulled back because of ...

BMW Recalling 200,000 Vehicles

5 Oct 2010, 06:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In what is surely one of the biggest recalls German manufacturer BMW had to make in the U.S., no less than 198,352 models produced in between 2004 and 2010 will be sent to dealerships and services b...

MINI Under Investigation for Steering Issues

29 Sep 2010, 10:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The current year has already been one of the busiest for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), with more than enough problems in cars produced by most of the manufacturers in t...

GM Halts Battery Replacement for Recalled Hybrids

28 Sep 2010, 12:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A disturbing problem looms on the horizon for American manufacturer GM, which will soon see pretty much all the mild hybrids sold since 2007 (Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Saturn Vue vehicles) b...

Hyundai Recalls 140,000 Sonata Models

26 Sep 2010, 18:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / South Korean manufacturer Hyundai announced this weekend it will initiate a recall for 139,500 Sonata models manufactured between December 2009 and September 2010. The models are being sent to deale...

Bentley Recalls 600 Cars for Hood Ornament Corrosion

21 Sep 2010, 12:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When you pay for a car enough money to make other people bleed in envy, you expect it to be perfect. And we're not talking here about the supercars which are meant to be driven to exhaustion, b...

Kia Vice Chairman Resigns Because of Recall

7 Sep 2010, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although minor compared to the recall ordered by Toyota in late 2009-early 2010, Kia's problems with the Soul and Sorento were enough to force Chung Sung-eun, the carmaker's vice chairman,...

Kia Recalls Soul, Sorento

3 Sep 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After in the middle of last month news of the NHTSA having begun an investigation into possible steering issues regarding the new Kia Soul model have surfaced, another problem with the model now com...

Ferrari to Begin 458 Italia Recall [Rumor]

28 Aug 2010, 10:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fires which have wreaked havoc among the brand new 458 Italia models is likely to prompt a recall made by the Italian manufacturer, shortly after news of Ferrari launching an investigation into ...

Ford Recalls Half a Million Windstars

28 Aug 2010, 08:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new recall, this time involving American manufacturer Ford, has hit the US consumers after yesterday the Japanese from Toyota announced over 1 million Corolla, Matrix and Vibe models will be calle...

Garmin Recalls nuvi GPS Devices for Fire Risk

27 Aug 2010, 13:07 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Garmin has recently issued a recall involving more than 1.25 million nuvi portable GPS units (with 796,000 in the U.S. only), due to the fact that the battery can overheat and cause a fire. Fortunat...

Toyota Recalls Corolla, Matrix, Vibe

26 Aug 2010, 20:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just about when the automotive industry was getting ready to leave behind the huge recall Toyota was forced to do at the beginning of the year, the Japanese have done it again and announced another ...

Mazda3 and Mazda5 Recalled in the UK

23 Aug 2010, 13:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After earlier today Japanese manufacturer Mazda announced it will begin recalling previous generation Mazda3 vehicles in Australia, the British division of the manufacturer did the same thing, but a...

Mazda Recall Expands to Australia

23 Aug 2010, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The problems Japanese manufacturer Mazda is experiencing with the Electro Hydraulic Power Assist System (EHPAS) of the previous generation Mazda3 model are expending to Australia as well. The carmak...

GM Recalls 240,000 Crossovers

17 Aug 2010, 13:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer GM announced today it is recalling no less than 243,403 vehicles to fix a potential problem with the second-row safety belts, a problem which in some cases may “make an o...

Drivers Mostly at Fault for Toyota Crashes

11 Aug 2010, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the investigation in what was the automotive industry's largest recall in history continues, more and more data points to the whole deal having been caused by driver error, rather than by a ...

Mercedes-Benz Recalls 3,500 G-Klasse Vehicles Due to Turn Signals Issue

11 Aug 2010, 07:25 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The automotive industry seems to be following a new rule: new day, new recall. Whether they are severe or not, or involve an important or just a limited number of vehicles, call-back campaigns just ...

Yamaha Recalls 2006-2010 YZF-R6

9 Aug 2010, 14:54 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The North American division of Yamaha recently announced it is recalling 54,000 certain model 2006 through 2010 YZF-R6 motorcycles manufactured from August 2005 through March 2010 due to a faulty pl...