GM Offers Big Discounts to Owners of Recalled Vehicles
12 May 2014, 09:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though employee pricing deals have been accounted as one of the biggest factors that led to General Motors' bankruptcy back in 2009, it looks like the Detroit manufacturer wants to use the...
Chrysler Recalling 780K Minivans for Electrical Issue
11 May 2014, 10:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / 2010 to 2014 model year Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country minivans are included in the company's latest call-back. According to the manufacturer, all cars have been assembled ...
Fiat 500e Recalled for Power Inverter Module Fault
11 May 2014, 09:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Chrysler Group announced that 4,141 electric Cinquecentos may suffer from power loss or even short circuit due to a design flaw in the PIM. This is the second time the Stateside-only Fiat 500...
Almost 700K Ford Escape and C-Max Hybrid Vehicles Recalled Over Separate Issues
11 May 2014, 09:06 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though it's been launched just two years ago, the Escape CUV has been subjected to an alarming number of recalls concerning overheating, engine compartment fire, as well as a sticky brake ...
2014 Chevrolet Malibu, Buick LaCrosse Recalled Over Braking Issue
9 May 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors just announced its fifth call-back in the past two weeks. This time, the recall operation involves both the 2014 Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse sedans, which may suffer from &quo...
Switzerland Has Safest Roads in Europe, ETSC Report Says
8 May 2014, 15:26 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A new report from the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) demonstrates that the number of car occupants killed on European roads has halved in the last decade. Despite continuous improvements i...
This Is How GM Tested Revised Ignition Switches
8 May 2014, 14:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Almost two weeks ago, GM started shipping redesigned ignition switch kits to Stateside dealership service departments. But are these all-new units safer than their potentially defective predecessors...
GM Recalls 56K Saturn Aura Vehicles For Shifter Cable Flaw
7 May 2014, 15:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Anyone remember Saturn? Yeah, that very Saturn that General Motors killed off four years ago for being a very shallow "different kind of car company" with mediocre sales volumes. One of th...
GM Recalls 51K SUVs for Fuel Gauge Flaw
6 May 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As if the faulty ignition switches fiasco wasn't enough already, General Motors announced that three SUV models will also be recalled for a minor fuel gauge glitch. Things over at GM seem to...
Watch President Obama’s Limo Receive a Quick Cleaning
5 May 2014, 14:29 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Many of us take quite a lot of things for granted and, as a car guy, being able to wash your ride is one of them. Perhaps there isn’t always time to take the vehicle to the carwash, but we tak...
IIHS Crash Tests: Behind the Scenes
3 May 2014, 14:17 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We bet most of our readers know what the men and women working for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety usually do for a living. But their line of work isn't as simple as most of us imagi...
2013 Cadillac SRX Recalled for Transmission Flaw
2 May 2014, 13:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Along with the affected SRX units, General Motors announced that 51 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickup trucks will also be recalled for fuel pipe connections not properly torqued. Ci...
2015 GMC Canyon Boasts First-in-Segment Child Safety Feature
30 Apr 2014, 08:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors announced that the all-new GMC Canyon pickup truck will come to a showroom near you this fall chuck-full of active safety technologies and a first-in-segment child restraint safety fe...
Google Showing Off New Self-Driving Cars Advanced Features
29 Apr 2014, 14:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Internet-related services and products giant Google has now the most advanced technology when it comes to self-driving vehicles, being able to recognize a whole range of road objects, pedestrians an...
In Sierra Leone, a Board Game Will Grant You a Drivers License...Eventually
25 Apr 2014, 11:12 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As a young person preparing for its driver’s license exam, you might have been used a PC driving simulator to make sure you’re gonna do fine in the actual test. Most of them are 3D and y...
Ford Recalls 43,000 Vehicles Over Sub-Standard Seat Welds
24 Apr 2014, 08:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Ford Motor Company recently announced that a number of vehicles wearing the Blue Oval and Lincoln logos are subjected to a new recall operation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administratio...
GM Starts Shipping Revised Ignition Switches To Dealers
23 Apr 2014, 18:00 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Detroit auto giant announced today that the first few thousands of kits containing redesigned ignition switches are currently being transported to General Motors dealerships Stateside. About ...
NHTSA Investigates 60,000 '14 Chevrolet Impala Sedans Over Braking Issue
23 Apr 2014, 09:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Following a single report of "inappropriate activation of the emergency braking system", the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started preliminary investigations in order to f...
Defective Ignition Switches Persuade GM to Restructure its Global Engineering Division
22 Apr 2014, 16:43 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Addressing the functional safety and compliance in its vehicles, General Motors announced it will split its Global Engineering organization. In order to wash away the sins of the faulty ignition swi...
Volvo Designs Ultra-Light Inflatable Child Seat Concept
14 Apr 2014, 13:46 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Child seats may be an indispensable accessory, but when you have to carry one around, you’ll notice that it also requires body-building skills. Well, if anybody would be on track to change all...