140k Owners of Recalled GM Vehicles Can't Be Contacted by the Automaker
8 Aug 2014, 12:32 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As if the 30 million sub-standard vehicles weren't enough of a handful for General Motors, the company has recently told the NHTSA a very worrying thing: close to 140,000 owners of cars called ...
Mitsubishi Outlander Recalled Over Power Steering Problem
6 Aug 2014, 14:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Contrary to popular belief, cars engineered and manufactured in Japan aren't not as reliable as ignorants believe them to be. Try to remember the notorious Toyota sudden unintended acceleration...
Fiat 500 Recalled in Australia Over Wiring Mess-Up
4 Aug 2014, 17:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In the United States, recalls are announced by an agency called the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In the Land Down Under, the equivalent to that is the ACCC, which has informed tha...
GM Recall Center Website Found to Give Misleading Search Results
4 Aug 2014, 15:56 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This just in from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: the GM Recall Center is not working properly. One might be lead to think that there may be an unindented fault in the system, bu...
Senator Proposes Life Sentence for Execs that Delay Auto Recalls Resulting in Deaths
4 Aug 2014, 14:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Claire McCaskill. Automotive bigwigs should tremble with fear when they hear this Senator's name 'cause she's the lady that recently introduced the Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety En...
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 Milford Proving Ground Celebrates Its 90th Anniversary
1 Aug 2014, 15:49 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When General Motors acquired the 2,300 acres of land in Michigan for the Milford Proving Ground back in 1923, nobody understood the importance of the industry's first dedicated automobile testi...
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...
Used Car Dealers From NY Targeted for Selling Unfixed Recalled Vehicles
31 Jul 2014, 14:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Whoa! What's the matter with the auto industry these days? On one hand there's General Motors and its almost 30 million population of recalled vehicles and now we found out that NYC munici...
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...
Scion FR-S (Toyota GT 86) Gets 2014 Top Safety Pick in IIHS Small Overlap Crash
30 Jul 2014, 15:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It took a while, but we now have the results with Scion FR-S in the infamous small overlap crash test done by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). And it took it with flying colors. ...
IIHS Tests Show Mazda5 Is Unsafe in a Crash
30 Jul 2014, 14:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The American Insurance Institute of Highway Safety recently conducted crash tests on several smaller cars at their Arlington center in Vancouver, reporting mixed results. After being subjected to th...
2014 Fiat 500L Fails IIHS Crash Test
30 Jul 2014, 12:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Fiat 500L promised to bring all the fun of a regular 500 with the practicality of a bigger car. Is sounded like the perfect formula, but since it went on sale last year, several chinks have been...
IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Awarded to 2014 Chevrolet Volt
30 Jul 2014, 11:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / That + is what makes the difference between a really safe car and an average one based on the IIHS' crash test procedures. Fitted with the available Forward Collision Alert system, the 2014 Che...
Kendall Jenner Drives with "No Hands" While Listening to Avril Lavigne’s Sk8er Boi
30 Jul 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Model and reality television star Kendall Jenner seems like she knows about her Range Rover’s safety features, as she thought it would be cool to dance and sing with her girlfriend while drivi...
Toyota Should Recall 177,500 Camry Models According to Consumer Reports
29 Jul 2014, 11:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Not too long ago, Toyota issued a recall covering 2007 to 2011 model year Camrys for two different problems. Still, the automaker should start a new investigation as more and more owners are complai...
Feds Up to Discover How Stoned Is Too Stoned to Drive
29 Jul 2014, 09:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With Colorado and Washington states now allowing free marijuana consumption, the government raised a big question by comparing it with alcohol - how much are you allowed to have before driving a car...
Cellphone Using Prohibitions While Driving Are Ineffective, Study Says
28 Jul 2014, 10:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you were talking on a telephone while you were driving your car in the 80s, people knew you are loaded, because only luxury cars came with a phone fitted somewhere between the front seats. And th...