Oregon Jeep Crash Caused by 3-year-old Boy
25 Jul 2014, 18:31 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / Just in case you need more proof that you should never leave young children unattended and you should always set your parking brake, check out this story. KPTV Fox 12 reports that a 3-year-old Orego...
Everything You Need to Know About Fuel Cell Vehicles
25 Jul 2014, 18:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A lot of fuss has been recently created around fuel cell vehicles, which are advertised as the cars of the future and will hit mass production next year. Since we heard a lot of questions lately fro...
Hellaflush Might Be Banned in Quebec, You’ve Been Warned
25 Jul 2014, 15:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As long as the camber on your ride doesn’t make the wheels look like they’re broken (see pic above), then yeah, a bit of hellaflush looks OK. However, the authorities in Quebec have anot...
GM Recall Costs Totaled $1.5 Billion In the Second Quarter, Profit Falls 85 Percent
24 Jul 2014, 13:45 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although the American company announced $0.2 billion second quarter net income attributable to common stockholders, the actual net profit is $190 million, translating to an 85 percent drop compared ...
Holden Commodore Recalled Over Sub-Standard Seat Weld
24 Jul 2014, 12:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Considering that the Aussie nameplate has been recalled four times in three months' time and this fifth campaign hikes the tally to a whopping 100,000 affected vehicles, it makes you wonder if ...
Car-Hacking To Be Solved With $150 Device
24 Jul 2014, 11:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When people started to mess around over the Internet and created malware, companies formed quickly to create anti-malware softwares. We won’t get to discuss the conspiracy that those companies...
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&...
Continental Shows Its Augmented Reality Head-up Display for 2017
23 Jul 2014, 16:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Head-up displays, or simply HUDs, have a pretty long history. They evolved from the old reflector sight used on pre-World War II fighter aircrafts to eliminate parallax for pilots needing to take ai...
Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG Turned Into Luxury Tank by INKAS
23 Jul 2014, 12:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Mercedes-Benz G-Class has always imposed a sensation of safety and robustness. From it’s boxy classic shape to the massive exterior door hinges and the closing sound the doors them selves ...
HARKEN System Promising Driver Alert Monitoring on Cheaper Cars
23 Jul 2014, 09:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everyone knows Mercedes-Benz luxury models come with more driver monitoring sensors than a hospital. Which is nice, but what do you do with the other 400,000 drivers that can’t afford an S Cla...
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...
Seoul Putting a Ban on Uber App
23 Jul 2014, 09:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The most famous ride-sharing app continues to create controversies with its services. This time it’s South Korea’s capital Seoul, where the city council is currently planning to ban the ...
Volvo XC90's World First Safety Technology Revealed · Video
22 Jul 2014, 14:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Swedish carmaker Volvo has just revealed an extensive list of safety systems and features that will be incorporated into the next generation of the XC90. This is their flagship model and a lot is ri...
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...
2015 smart fortwo vs Mercedes S-Class Crash Test
18 Jul 2014, 12:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / One of them is a full-size sedan that weighs 2 tons (4,409 lbs) or so, while the other is a teeny-weeny city car that tips the scale at under 1,000 kilograms (2,204 lbs). The first of them is herald...
GM Legal Staff Takes the Heat at Recall Hearing
17 Jul 2014, 17:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After Delphi's CEO blamed GM for the sub-standard ignition switches, the automaker's Mary Barra stepped up and testified before the Committee's Chairman McCaskill and Ranking Member H...