GM Ignition Switch Saga Continues with Newly Identified Lock Cylinder Problem
11 Apr 2014, 12:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Things just went from worse to worser for General Motors: the Detroit giant recently informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that no less than 2.2 million ignition lock c...
2014 Toyota Highlander Gets IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Award
8 Apr 2014, 14:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just rolled another round of its already-famous small overlapping front crash test, this time aimed at midsize SUVs. And as expected, most of them p...
Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain Rated Top Safety Pick+
8 Apr 2014, 13:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Out of nine midsize SUVs recently evaluated, only a handful earned the prestigious Top Safety Pick+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). On the small overlap front crash te...
Range Rovers Being Stolen Like Cupcakes in London
7 Apr 2014, 13:47 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Apparently, if somebody wants a Range Rover in London, they don’t go into a dealership an acquire one. Instead, they have one... ahem... repositioned for them. At least this is what British ca...
Gasoline-Loving Spiders Are Back: 52,000 Mazda6 Units Recalled
7 Apr 2014, 13:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We petrolheads like to consider ourselves special, but, as it turns out, we’re not the only ones who enjoy the smell of gasoline. Apparently, the yellow sac spider is a huge fan of this odor a...
Ford Transit Connect Wagon Earns Five-Star Safety Rating
7 Apr 2014, 08:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded Ford's 2014 Transit Connect Wagon a five-star Overall Vehicle Score in its New Car Assessment Program. This comes as no surpri...
Ford MyKey Grows Popular with Fleet Owners
3 Apr 2014, 11:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / First marketed as a safety feature for teenage drivers, Ford MyKey technology is slowly being adopted by fleet owners. Now standard on nearly all Ford and Lincoln models, the first car to benefit fr...
Chrysler Recalls 867,795 SUVs Over Brake Problem
2 Apr 2014, 16:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After General Motors' most recent recalls of over six million vehicles in the U.S., another American car maker issued a large scale recall over a brake defect. We're talking about the Chry...
Lexus - First Automaker Offering Standard Rearview Cameras in Australia
2 Apr 2014, 14:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As vehicles these days tend to come with all sorts of designs that block out your rear view surroundings, US’ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced that all...
Tesla Leads Lobby Effort for Scrapping Side Mirrors
2 Apr 2014, 11:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / As we reported, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently introduced legislation that makes backup cameras mandatory by May 2018 and it seems that Tesla aims to take the initiative...
Tesla Model S Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
2 Apr 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Tesla has been constantly updating their Model S ever since this was released, with the company learning from the various issues arising. The latest example of this is fitting the car with a titaniu...
All New Vehicles To Require Rearview Cameras by 2018
1 Apr 2014, 14:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As an effort to reduce deaths and serious injuries caused by reversing accidents, the Transportation Department issued a rule that will require all new vehicles built from May 1st, 2018, that weigh ...
Chevrolet Malibu Earns Top Safety Pick+ from IIHS
1 Apr 2014, 11:43 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The 2014 Chevrolet Malibu with Forward Collision Alert gets the much-revered Top Safety Pick+ rating according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. In order to receive 2014 Top Safety Pick...
Toyota Has the Most Innovative Welcab Solutions
31 Mar 2014, 14:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Being paralyzed waist-down doesn’t mean you can’t drive anymore. If you have two functional hands there are a lot of ways you can adapt a vehicle to be used without your legs. However...
Over 100,000 Toyota Avalon Sedans Recalled - Airbag Issues
28 Mar 2014, 13:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Thought that Toyota recalls have stopped? Well, not really. Rushing to provide the market as many vehicles as required, Toyota might have forgotten some parts here and there... The sad thing is that...
Mercedes-Benz Pre-Safe Turns 15, Doesn't Get Party
27 Mar 2014, 11:08 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Now available in no less than 16 different model series right across the entire Mercedes-Benz model range, the Pre-Safe active safety system will soon turning 15 years since it was first thought of ...
Crash Test Dummies Come Alive in CRUSH Short Film
25 Mar 2014, 13:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / There’s something in dummies that simply ignites the human imagination, inspiring us to come up with various forms of art. We have seen countless examples of this over the years and now there&...
GM CEO to Testify Before US House on Ignition Switch Recall
21 Mar 2014, 16:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors CEO Mary Barra will testify before the US House Committee about the manufacturer's handling of its ignition switch recall. The hearing is set for April 1. Mary Barra will be j...
GM CEO Says Recalled Cars Are “Safe to Drive”
20 Mar 2014, 10:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / GM’s ignition switch-related recall, which was linked to 13 deaths so far (a recent study claims 303 have been killed), is the hot topic this spring, with the manufacturer being subjected to m...
Toyota Reaches $1.2 Billion Unintended Acceleration Settlement
19 Mar 2014, 15:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Today, Toyota announced that it finally reached an agreement with the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to resolve the investigation initiated in February 2010 regardi...