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Filed under: Japan , Recalls , Toyota Oh, what a terrible feeling it must have been when Toyota's president, Akio Toyoda, had to sit down and write out this here mea culpa, mia maxima culpa for today's Washington Post . As the bad news continues to fall upon Toyota's bruised crown, we imagine that Mr. Toyoda realized that his company had reached the point where continued sound bite apologies (here's...
Filed under: Performance , Ferrari Purists who've given up hope with Porsche amidst their sedan and SUV shenanigans aren't going to like this one bit. After all but completely phasing out even the option of a manual transmission in Ferrari road cars (in favor of robotized sequentials and dual-clutch gearboxes), Ferrari's management says it can't rule out the possibility of a V6 in the near future....
Filed under: Budget , Sedan , Japan , Recalls , Safety , Toyota 2009 Toyota Corolla, now power steering woes? - click above for high-res image gallery Will it ever stop? Yo, we don't know. And yes, we're quoting Vanilla Ice because... well, at this point in the never ending Toyota tale of woe , why not? Anyhow, there have been 83 complaints about the power steering systems in 2009 and 2010 Toyota...
Filed under: Spy Photos , Budget , Sedan , Kia , South Korea 2011 Kia Optima - Click above for high-res image gallery According to a very well placed source deep within the South Korean manufacturing giant Hyundai Kia Automotive Group , the sedan above is not the 2012 Hyundai Azera as reported yesterday . Not only is the car not an Azera , it's not even a Hyundai. You are in fact looking at the 2011...
Filed under: Coupe , Videos , Toyota Toyota FT-86 Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery We're used to seeing Digg boosting our stories, but once in a while the popular user-voted news site generates some original content of its own. This time, a Digg correspondent got 30 minutes of camera time with Jim Lentz, who, as President and COO of Toyota Motor Sales USA, very well might be the busiest...
Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Coupe , Scion 2010 Scion tC Release Series 6.0 - Click above for high-res image gallery Scion has chosen Speedway Blue for its latest Release Series special, the 2010 tC Release Series 6.0 (tC RS 6.0), that should start speeding into dealerships in March. Gotta say, we're digging the blue a whole lot more than the electric lilac color that they chose for the xB RS...
Filed under: Government/Legal , Recalls , Safety , Lexus , Toyota It looks like the Toyota recall mess is going to keep getting messier. Today we're hearing that there might be some, let's say, inappropriate ties between the Japanese automaker and the lawmakers that have been investigating its recent round of recalls. The Associated Press reports that the group of investigators includes "a senator...
Filed under: Spy Photos , Sedan , Europe , Mercedes-Benz , Luxury 2012 Mercedes-Benz S-Class mule - click above for high-res image gallery We find it hard to believe that the W221 S-Class has been with us for five years already. Introduced to the world in the fall of 2005 at the Geneva Motor Show , the tenth generation S-Class is the biggest, fastest and heaviest of them all - at least in S65 twin-turbo...
Filed under: Sedan , Geneva Motor Show , Volvo 2011 Volvo S60 - Click above for high-res image gallery The 2011 Volvo S60 is set to make its debut at next month's Geneva Motor Show , and as expected, the automaker's newest midsize offering remains true to the concept that bowed in Detroit last year and comes packing a formidable blend of tech and safety features. The images in the gallery below speak...
Filed under: China , Etc. , Videos , Hummer , Humor Click above to watch the video after the jump Hummer may be the most hated automotive brand in the history of the green movement, but even Al Gore has to admit that there are times when a big, hulking SUV are necessary. The snowed-in residents of Baltimore City are likely very happy there was at least one H2 nearby when one of their massive snow...
Toyota’s having a bad week. It is already recalling millions of cars to fix floor mats and gas pedals that have led to unintentional acceleration — a snafu costing the company more than $2 billion. Now it has announced that it will recall about 150,000 of its hybrid vehicles due to problems in the software controlling the anti-lock brake systems in its 2010 Prius and 2010 Lexus HS 250h...
Filed under: Crossover , Honda , Reviews 2010 Honda CR-V - Click above for high-res image gallery T he Honda CR-V charged into the breach back in 1996, showing traditional SUV buyers that a rapier could work as well as a broadsword. When gas prices turned the body-on-frame market topsy-turvy, might didn't necessarily equal right. The meek crossover inherited the Earth, or at least a lot of conquest...
If you were ever concerned that your cable box is smarter than you, it is. TiVo boxes, and presumably the run-of-the-mill DVRs the cable companies give you, can track our every movement. They can tell the company when we pause, what commercials we forward through and, in the case of the Super Bowl, what spots we go back and watch the most. I'm pretty sure they can even track how long we pause a show...
Filed under: Hybrid , Transportation Alternatives , Toyota Car sharing company Zipcar has responded to the Toyota Prius recall by shutting down rentals of that particular model until the "brake concerns have been addressed appropriately by Toyota." How many Priuses are there in Zipcar's fleet? All told, Zipcar has around 6,500 cars, and less than one percent of them are Priuses. Earlier,...
Filed under: Motorsports , Dodge , Racing The SpeedFactory 426 Charger does 9.453 in the quarter - Click above to watch video The Chrysler-mad tuners at SpeedFactory have taken a 2006 Dodge Charger , ripped out its interior and inserted a GEN III Hemi stroker motor boosted by a Vortech supercharger under the hood. The 3,700-pound, 900-horsepower sedan has kept its factory transmission and independent...
Wouldn’t you want to have an extremely rare classic Ferrari in your collection? But first you would need to have several million dollars lying around. If you’re interested, make sure that you attend a public auction for a Ferrari 250 GTO at RM Auctions.
Seat released today the first images with its new Ibiza ST, a new station wagon based on the IBZ Concept unveiled back in September at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Are you one of those who have been wishing for a true replacement for the classic Alfa Romeo Spider? It could be that one such model is included in this lineup of all-new cars readied in order to secure the company’s future.
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