Toyota's floor mat safety issue is rapidly turning into a public spectacle, as the NHTSA yesterday said statements made in a letter to customers about the floor mats were "inaccurate and misleading." The worst part? The NHTSA says the letter was inaccurate and misleading about the existence of defects in the 3.8 million vehicles at issue. Catch...
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Detroit Dominates NACTOY Finalists
Detroit – or more precisely, General Motors – dominates the finalist list for North American Car and Truck-of-the-Year. In an unmistakable vote of confidence, GM grabbed four of the six top spots in the ...
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Audi Drops Top on A3 Cabriolet
Another week, another new Audi . Hot on the heels of the Cross Cabriolet quattro at the L.A. Motor Show comes first pictures of the droptop A3 compact hatchback. Due on sale in Europe in the spring, the ...
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Land Rover Celebrates 60 Years
Legendary British off-road firm Land Rover celebrates its 60th birthday during 2008, and has unveiled a special-edition Defender to mark the event. While most of the 25,000 units built every year are ...
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Hyundai i10 Bows in Europe
The second installment in Hyundai’s drive to rebrand its entire European range has begun. Hot on the heels of the i30 compact hatchback comes the i10 city car, due in dealerships from March. At just 140.4 ...
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Tokyo: Renault/Nissan Doing Fine, Thanks
The Renault/Nissan alliance, which many skeptics thought would unravel, is proving to be both durable and productive. The Japanese-French alliance has already outlasted the highly touted merger between ...
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We Drive Mazda’s 2
Several car manufacturers have been living by the maxim “bigger is better” when replacing their European B-segment superminis. But instead of following the trend and making the new Mazda 2 larger than the ...
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Chrysler’s Press Talks Change
In a closing evening at Chrysler's dealer sales meeting, Vice Chairman and President Jim Press introduced funnyman Jay Leno with an ease and showmanship that by some accounts was rare to see during Press's ...
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First Ride: Tesla Roadster
The driver squeezes down on the accelerator pedal, and the little roadster responds like a racehorse at the starting gate, launching aggressively down the pavement. Twenty, forty, sixty, we’ve gone ...

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