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Allstate sues Toyota over sudden-acceleration-related insurance claims
Allstate Corp. has sued Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden-acceleration-related claims it has paid, alleging that the accidents were caused by vehicle defects. The suit, filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks $3 million in compensation for about 270 claims that the insurance giant has paid out since January 2007. It charges that “certain [...]
Plan to hike auto fees dies
A proposal that would have allowed California car dealers to sharply increase fees charged for processing auto purchases and lease agreements has died.The plan was being promoted by state Sen. Alex Padilla (D- Pacoima) as a so-called trailer bill to the state budget. That status would allow the proposal to become law without going through [...]
Nissan Juke review: Carmaker heads in new direction with peppy little ‘sport cross’
Many a time, we’ve woken up to the sound of squealing tires. So it was difficult not to feel like a jerk as I cranked hard on the wheel for a tight left turn one evening, careening around my neighborhood traffic circle doing donuts in a new Nissan Juke.The Juke responded with compliance, hugging the [...]
Toyota offers free maintenance to new-car buyers
In an effort to boost sales, Toyota Motor Co. has begun pitching two years of free maintenance with the purchase of its Toyota and Scion cars, making them the first mass-market auto brands to offer such a service. The offer is the latest in a campaign by the world’s largest automaker to reassure buyers that [...]
2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe: Unmistakably American
It appears Cadillac’s design studio has finally found a remedy to U.S. automakers’ inferiority complex. For decades, the neurosis has afflicted the studios of Detroit, causing them to turn out bland, awkward or copycat designs, while their German and Japanese counterparts created strong visual identities unique to their brands.Now comes a dose of the 2011 [...]
2011 Porsche Cayenne S turns up the heat
Though it’s been around since 2002, the Cayenne S has finally earned its Porsche crest with the 2011 rendition.When the company decided to call its SUV the Cayenne, it probably had no idea how apt the moniker would be. The mere idea that Porsche would relent to consumers’ infatuation with sport utility vehicles elicited a [...]
Government unveils new system for auto safety ratings
Federal safety officials unveiled a more comprehensive crash rating system for vehicles that for the first time evaluates how women fare in accidents by using female crash dummies and takes into account side pole crashes and crash-prevention technology such as electronic stability control. The Transportation Department and its National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it [...]
Ford to close 175 Lincoln dealerships in big metro areas
Ford Motor Co. is eliminating 175 Lincoln dealerships in major metropolitan areas in a move that it said would improve profitability for the remaining stores. Ford executives delivered the message Tuesday during a gathering of Lincoln dealers at its headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. There are 1,200 Lincoln dealerships nationwide. The nation’s No. 2 automaker said [...]
GM, Ford, Chrysler report jumps in September auto sales
The auto industry continued along its road to recovery from its worst year in nearly three decades as General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group reported selling more vehicles in September than a year earlier. GM, the nation’s largest automaker, saw its new vehicle sales in the U.S. increase 12% to 173,031. Ford [...]
Anderson Germany melodies Bentley Continental Supersports
Considering that would Bentley’s many put enormous engines to shame a freight train, unveiling the continental Supersports to say as the most powerful in the company’s history has.But that doesn’t mean it room for improvements fehlt.Lassen you it to Anderson Germany, then to find that extra oomph bit. The German tuning House which recently gave [...]
Mitsubishi remote control provide test drives of real Outlander Sport
Mitsubishi wants people to take note of its 2011 Outlander Sport.It is traditional print and TV campaigns, but the automaker checks also new opportunities to achieve new Autokäufer.Durch his creative agency 180 LA, Mitsubishi, plans to put a bunch of car buyers behind the wheel of the new crossover. Not literally, but practical. The automaker [...]
Lexus safety experience: common know made enthusiast
You are a car enthusiast. Know what all acronyms on the buttons to your dash stand for. You understand that braking performance can beat power 99% of the time. You get the feeling of the activation of the ABS? It is not “scary” and you know, keep your foot should.The problem is that the [...]
Nissan leaf buyers to facilitate area fear free conventional car loan?
December Nissan leaf closer 2011 have 2010 start every day and thousands of people already signed to reserve your place for one. Still, some would-be buyers may suffer under a touch of “Range anxiety” – that is, a nervous concern about juice, barely stranded somewhere.To suppress the fear reports TheDetroitBureau.com that Nissan is a option [...]
Official MSP numbers: Chevy caprice is fastest, fastest police car… barely
Official MSP numbers: Chevy caprice is fastest, fastest police car… Barelyby Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Oct 8th, 2010 at 7: 00 pm 2011 Chevrolet caprice PPV – click above for high-res gallery image The numbers are in, people.This year’s Michigan State police vehicle evaluation pitted of Ford’s Jurassic Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (the new [...]
Report: PSA may onward transfer hybrid vehicles in China
Cracking the burgeoning Chinese passenger car market is a challenge that is almost all automobile manufacturers in the world currently dealing mit.Unter must be the countless reasons why Chinese mother is a tough, is to crack one, the Government has set, strict rules and laws that meets before all automakers activities within its borders [...]
Report: 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Super crew start at $44,315 *.
To with your friends in a Baja blastin’ stompin Ford SVT Raptor ‘ go, but don’t know how much you need below for the new for 2011 4-door Super crew plunk? Grab your PIN and your checkbook, then record 4-4-3-1-5.Pricing announced for the newly expanded area.The EIA on the spacious 4-door Super crew is $44,315 [...]
Scion free still a Special Edition, this time xD release series 3.0
In an effort to keep its aging hatchback of a little fresh Scion xD created the limited edition xD release series 3.0 for 2011 model year.Only 1,500 examples of RS 3.0 for cars, equipped with a five-speed manual transmission with pricing werden.Entscheiden built set of $17,625 (free of charge including the $720 target) for the [...]
Worldwide sales of Toyota Prius crack 2 – million, 10 year anniversary celebration planned
The Toyota Prius in Japan 1997 in life launched and introduced in North America, Europe and other markets in the year 2000 is without a doubt the best selling hybrid vehicle ever produziert.Mit a market that most gas electric spread spans more than 70 countries and regions, the Toyota Motor Company which is economically [...]
Rumor: Ford GT supercar of successor will be green machine
Back in 2003 Ford gave us the GT supercar – road homage to the iconic GT40 cars.Ford set the GT, if debuted its high powered Shelby GT500 for the 2007 model year but now the word to Dearborn is that it may be a different end blue oval supercar coming down Pipeline.This time around, but [...]
Spartan V-track car is a motorcycle on four wheels
Just when you thought that the municipal fascination with Frank Miller’s 300 had all but washed away, a track machine dedicated to the old fighting Spartans hit of the scene.Meet a Spartan V – light all-star-with a heart that Ducati borrowed is correct, enter this machine hits of the scales at less than 661 pounds [...]
Vintage motorcycles set to take over Road America
Ford posts best June sales performance in down market
Mansory Maserati Gran Turismo S throttles good taste within Customs his life
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