Chrysler Recalls 600k SUVs Over Corrosion Issue
12 Jun 2014, 10:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The American automaker announced that over 600,000 sport utility vehicles are prone to premature corrosion. Specifically, brake boosters fitted to those vehicles are very vulnerable to rust damage, ...
Owners of Recalled GM Vehicles Won't Be Compensated For Depreciation
12 Jun 2014, 07:57 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / An official statement from General Motors indicates that owners of recalled GM-branded cars will not receive any kind of compensation for lost value on their vehicles. However, the Detroit manufactu...
More Takata Airbag-Fitted Toyotas Recalled in Japan
11 Jun 2014, 17:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Takata, one of the top three auto safety equipment manufacturers, discovered last year it did a little boo-boo with the explosive chemicals used to detonate the airbags on vehicles fitted with their...
Americans Want to Pay More on Fuel For Better Roads
11 Jun 2014, 16:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you’ve ever been on California or Louisiana roads, you know how bad some of the highways are. You can consider yourself lucky if you can play a CD and keep your soda in the cup holder. Of c...
NHTSA Halts $7k Daily Fines Against General Motors
11 Jun 2014, 16:00 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors doesn't have to pay anymore daily fines after the Detroit manufacturer successfully addressed the agency's recall inquiries. For the reason of failing to meet the April 3rd ...
Salting Roads During Winter Kills Butterflies in the Summer
10 Jun 2014, 16:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Winter chill and heavy snow are long gone now, being replaced by sun, plants and butterflies. Speaking of these funky colored creatures, if you don't see as many of them as last year, some stud...
GM Lays Off 15 Employees Over Delayed Ignition Switch Scandal
9 Jun 2014, 07:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to the extremely "thorough, brutally tough" and "deeply troubling" Valukas report, the 13 fatally injured connected to GM's faulty ignition switches lead the autom...
Most Teen Deaths Caused by Vehicle Crashes, Study Shows
8 Jun 2014, 17:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A study conducted by Safe Kids Worldwide found out that circa 2,500 teens die in vehicle accidents each year in the United States. More worryingly, the "Teens in Cars" report shows that mo...
10k Jeep Vehicles Recalled Over Cruise Control Software Glitch
7 Jun 2014, 16:31 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After we informed you just the other day that rougly 21,000 Ram ProMaster full-size vans are recalled over an electrical corrosion issue, the Chrysler Group returns with a new call back operation co...
GM Recall Saga Continues: 90k Vehicles Affected
7 Jun 2014, 16:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As if General Motors didn't have enough on its head already, the manufacturer announced recently three extra safety recalls and a non-compliance call back operation, all of which were reported ...
iSimple BluClik Is a Steering Wheel Remote Control for Your Smartphone
6 Jun 2014, 19:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Some of the older cars come with an AUX plug for you to connect your smartphone and play the music you want without carrying tons of CDs around. It’s one of the best third-party inventions and...
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, Cadillac CTS-V Recalled Over Defective Supercharger
4 Jun 2014, 17:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This just in: General Motors announced the supercharger bolted atop the 6.2-liter V8 powerplant fitted to the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and Cadillac CTS-V might not work properly. According to the Detroi...
Watch a Car Being Hacked Remotely
4 Jun 2014, 17:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Have you seen that game Watch Dogs in which a guy can control a lot of electronic devices remotely via his smartphone? Well it looks like we’re not that far from such a fantasy, as some skillf...
Epic Fail: GM Sent Recall Notices To Victims' Families
4 Jun 2014, 16:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's common knowledge that the 2.6 million General Motors vehicles fitted with defective ignition switches caused at least 13 fatalities, although an independent analysis hikes that figure to a...
Renault Twizy Leads Euro NCAP Quadricycle Crash Tests, Still Dangerous
4 Jun 2014, 11:48 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Today is an important day for quadricycles, with these hybrids that mix motorcycles and cars receiving their Euro NCAP test results for the first time. We’ve already talked about the poor over...
Euro NCAP Quadricycle Crash Tests: Disaster Strikes
4 Jun 2014, 11:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Euro NCAP has recently strayed from its usual business of bashing all sorts of cars against its official walls, with the safety body taking on quadricycles. Not unexpectedly, the results are rather ...
Watch the New Golf GTI Crash Its Way to IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus
3 Jun 2014, 15:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The latest car to have undergone the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) crash tests is the Volkswagen Golf 7. The hatch managed to receive the Top Safety Pick Plus title, but only...
Intel Entering Self-Driving Cars Business With New Tech
2 Jun 2014, 18:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With all this technology getting into our cars nowadays, there’s no wonder that many electronic and software giants started do develop an affinity for the auto industry. Google just unveiled i...
Jeep's 2012 Airbag Recall Investigated By U.S. Safety Regulators
2 Jun 2014, 15:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This just in: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation regarding the Chrysler Group's 2012 recall involving 919,545 Jeep SUVs fitted with defective airbags. Ev...
Chicago Potholes Filled by Funny Rebel Artist
2 Jun 2014, 14:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Nothing beats traffic jams’ frustration than finally starting to get going only to hit several spine-shaking potholes, isn’t it? Those tax money surely lost their way somewhere between t...