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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1997 Pontiac Grand Am: Check Engine Light Is On
Q--I've got a ‘97 Pontiac Grand Am, and the check engine light is on. I stopped at AutoZone to have them plug their diagnostic tool up to my car and see why the engine light is on, but they couldn't get it to ...
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Ford EcoBoost: V-8 Power from Six?
Automotive engineering is all about trade-offs. You want to build something bigger, you normally wind up with more weight. More features? A higher price tag. To improve performance, meanwhile, you sacrifice ...
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Is the Volt Really Coming That Soon?
What’s the deal with lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles? Are they really coming as soon as Chevy’s Volt would seem to indicate — or are they still too pie-in-the-sky to gamble on? GM is racing ...
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China Building Cars in Mexico
One of China 's top automakers expects to open an assembly plant in Mexico in the next three years. Officials from Grupo Elektra S.A. de C.V., a leading specialty retailer, consumer finance, and banking ...
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TheCarConnection’s Holiday Wish List
Buying gifts for a gearhead is easy — if you're a gearhead yourself. But what if you have no clue what to buy for your four-wheel-minded significant other? That's where a cheat sheet comes in ...
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Flint: Next Year—Better or Worse?
That ugly word “recession” is being heard in the land. On financial TV shows they talk of a coming recession all the time. The columnist Dan Dorfman says it will be worse than recession. If times are bad, ...
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Chrysler Cherys Will Take a While
The new alliance between Chery and Chrysler LLC is up and running, but it be a while before the cars spawned by the collaboration will reach showrooms in the U.S. and Europe , a Chery executive says. Lin ...
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Ford Drops New N.A. Plant Plans
Ford is shelving plans to build a new assembly plant in northern Mexico . Instead, Ford has promised the United Auto Workers in its new labor pact to build a small car in the U.S. Pushing both Ford ...

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