| OnStar Celebrates Five Years of Stolen Vehicle Slowdowns |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
If you're a crook trying to make a fast getaway in a GM car, OnStar wants to slow you down. The automaker in recent years has been working with U.S. law-enforcement agencies to help them make more effective use of its connected safety-and-security system, and the efforts have been paying off. During the past five years, a signal to an OnStar-equipped stolen vehicle has helped slow and stop ...
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| Volkswagen sales top 7M vehicles for first time in China |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
Deliveries rose 4.8 percent to 7.03 million cars and trucks, the Wolfsburg, Germany-based automaker, the ...
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| Toyota plans to introduce new driver safety technology |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
File photo of the Toyota Avalon Hybrid. The Japanese automaker is exploring new driver safety technology that could be used in its vehicles. Need help navigating your vehicle? Toyota Motor Corp. plans to offer some assistance. The company says it has developed a next-generation, advanced-driving support system, Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA), that supports safer highway driving. AHDA ...
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| China auto sales surge as Japan brands rebound |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
BEIJING (AP) China's auto sales grew at their fastest rate in eight months in September as Japanese brands rebounded from a slump sparked by political tensions with Tokyo. Sales of passenger vehicles rose 21.1 percent to 1.6 million vehicles, up from August's 10 percent growth, an industry group, the China Association of Auto Manufacturers, said Friday. China is the world's biggest auto market by ...
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| SUV hits 3 parked cars flips over in University City |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
Two women were taken to the hospital after an SUV hit three parked cars and flipped over in University City. It happened just after midnight on Friday. There's no word yet on what caused the crash. The 8100 block of Delmar Boulevard was shut down while police cleaned up the wreck, but reopened by 5 a.m. No additional information was immediately available. ...
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| Toyota escapes liability for car death |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
A jury has found that Toyota is not liable for the death of a woman who was killed when her car apparently accelerated and crashed despite her efforts to stop.Jurors deliberated for about five days before concluding the 2006 Camry's design did not contribute to the death of Noriko Uno, who died in August 2009 when she was struck by another motorist, sending her vehicle into a telephone pole ...
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| Jury clears Toyota in wrongful-death lawsuit |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
Toyota Motor Corp. a significant legal victory Thursday, clearing it of responsibility in a 2009 crash of a Camry that accelerated out of control, killing the ...
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| Grand Theft Auto V Might Make It To PC After All Report |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
Eurogamer reports that Rockstar’s latest open world crime simulator will be coming to the PC in the first quarter of 2014. The report comes from multiple unnamed industry sources who said that GTA V’s PC release will be similar to GTA IV’s PC release – eight months after the console release. If that’s the case, we’ll see GTA V hit the PC in May. It’s not ...
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| 2014 Chevrolet Malibu First Drive |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
has had a problem during the past year. Sales of the latest model, updated for the 2013 model year, have not been as good as the company had expected. In a string of post-bankruptcy hits like the Cruze compact and Equinox crossover, the redesigned Malibu has stood out as a miss, due to some competitiveness issues in fuel economy and interior room. But this is ...
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| INTERVIEW-Toyota Turkey shifts export focus to emerging markets |
Oct 11th, 2013 |
Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:10am EDT * Company focuses on alternative markets as Europe weak * Decision expected by year-end on production of new model * CEO says current lira level reasonable (Adds quotes, details, background) By Evren Ballim ADAPAZARI, Turkey, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp's Turkish subsidiary aims to increase output by some 46 percent next year to 150,000 vehicles and ...
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