It was reported yesterday that the NHTSA has opened a preliminary inquiry into possible steering loss on the 2010 Kia Soul. The move came after a single incident involving a 2-month old Soul had steering failure without warning. Kia Motors America said that it is working with its supply base and is reviewing the manufacturing [...]
The Ferrari California was, by the Italian company”s standards, considered a relatively tame car: the front engined, four seater V8 has filled a GT niche for Ferrari. To accommodate this niche, Ferrari had to turn down the vehicle”s raw power compared to its brothers. To rectify this, tuning company Anderson Germany has created a new [...]
The 2010 LA Auto Show will be held this November and we’re really looking forward to paying a visit to the west coast. According to LA Auto Show’s Twitter status, Saab has confirmed that it will unveil the new 9-4x Crossover at the show in November. The Saab 9-4X crossover will most likely be based [...]
The next-generation Mercedes-Benz CLS isn’t supposed to make its world debut until the 2010 Paris Motor Show next month but you can always count on the internet for leaks. What you’re looking at are leaked brochure images of the CLS that show how close the model is to the F800 Style Concept (which was revealed [...]
So a lot of Toyota owners are getting worried that their vehicles may be experiencing unintended acceleration. What they don’t know is that today”s vehicles can cause engine rpm to increase slightly without warning. The “slight increase in rpm” causes owners to panic and run to Toyota for help. Well, it came to a point [...]
FoMoCo announced today that sales of the Ford Edge, which arrived on the market in late 2006, hit 400,000 this past weekend, more than any midsize crossover vehicle during the same period. As of July, sales of the Edge were up 33 percent over last year, more than double the overall industry sales. “Edge competes [...]
As reported earlier this morning, Mini has kicked off the advertising campaign for the Mini Countryman. Today, Mini released a video showing their first crossover, a Countryman Cooper S, rolling off the production line in Graz, Austria on August 2nd, 2010. We’re still waiting on U.S. pricing details for the Mini Countryman. Click here for [...]
The Chevrolet Corvette is one of the most storied cars in American automotive history, and the Grand Sport is perhaps the most alluded to chapters of that story. Way back in the day, Corvette”s Chief Engineer, Zora Arkus-Duntov made it his objective to produce a lightweight variant of the 1963 “˜Vette prototype, mainly in response [...]
General Motors announced today that it is voluntarily conducting a safety recall for 2009-2010 models of the Lambda based crossovers including the Chevrolet Traverse, Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and the late Saturn Outlook. The recall is being made to inspect second-row safety belts for damage that in rare cases could make an occupant think the [...]
The new top-selling 2010 Ford Taurus is posting a resale value increase of 39 percent after just one year of sales. That’s an increase of $7,100 over the 2009 model, FoMoCo said in a statement today. “The successful product launch of the 2010 Ford Taurus coupled with the vehicle”s best-in-class quality, upscale design and state-of-the-art [...]
