| Name That Shifter, No. 170 |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until mid-day Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the Manuals button and sticker.* Good luck! (* […]
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| Local Motors Again Calls Upon the Crowd, Will 3D Print New EV |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Local Motors, the company known for its awesome Rally Fighter off-roader and its unique crowdsourced design technique, is back at it—this time with an EV. But the electric car won’t just be some Nissan Leaf doppelgänger. Instead, like the Rally Fighter, its design will be crowd-sourced. And it will be 3D printed at the International […]
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| Honda Recalls Nearly 900,000 U.S.-Market Odysseys for Fire Risk |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Honda is voluntarily recalling 886,815 2005–2010 model year Odyssey minivans built in Alabama to replace the fuel pump strainer, which Honda has discovered can deteriorate after “prolonged exposure to acidic chemicals” found in some car wash formulas and the environment in general, particularly combined with high ambient temperatures. This in turn could cause cracks in […]
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| IIHS Says Rearview Cameras More Effective than Parking Sensors, We Say “Duh” |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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From the “duh” file comes a new report from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) that concludes that rear cameras help you detect objects better than sensors. IIHS put 111 volunteer drivers in Los Angeles behind the wheel of a 2013 Chevrolet Equinox and had them back up, just as a stationary object—a cutout […]
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| Driven: 2015 Audi A3 Sedan is Tailor-Made for America |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Who says Americans don’t like small cars? Certainly not Audi, which is hoping that its new A3 will dominate the premium small-sedan segment, a class of cars that the company expects will grow by up to 400 percent in coming years. And Audi expects the growth to happen not just in sales numbers but diversity […]
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| Drive Me, I’m Irish: The Five Most Popular Cars in Ireland [Happy St. Patrick's Day] |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Long about Saint Patrick’s Day—it’s this coming Monday—many of us start channeling our inner Irish. Some of the signs are obvious: We rummage through the back reaches of bottom dresser drawers for that green sweater from Aunt Millie that we once tried (but failed) to re-gift, or we pour an extra finger of Jameson […]
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| Get a CUE! 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe to Offer 4G LTE Connectivity, New CUE Collection |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Cadillac announced that the upcoming 2015 ATS coupe will include OnStar 4G LTE as well as the CUE suite of applications when it appears in dealerships later this summer. AT&T will be the provider for the high-speed service. Chevrolet announced the technology earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new, […]
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| 2014 McLaren P1 Hypercar Driven! It’s Every Bit as Good as You Hoped |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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I do not normally cackle. I am not, by nature, a cackler. I trust you have seen plenty of cacklers in various automotive videos and on television programs. You know the shot: It’s the in-car view of the host when he lays into the throttle for the first time and begins whooping and hollering and, […]
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| Vision Warranty Selects StoneEagle’s SEcureARCH Platform |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Vision Warranty has deployed the SEcureARCH software platform from StoneEagle, which provides erating, econtracting and eremittance capabilities.
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| Dealer Count in Carfax Antitrust Suit Reaches 530 |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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The lawsuit, which was filed last April, now lists 530 dealer plaintiffs, with the firm leading the case reporting that new dealers are being added every day.
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