The Truth About Cars
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found about 47 hours ago by Michael Karesh
I conduct a car reliability survey at TrueDelta.com. Since we promptly update our results four times a year, we can report on new models ahead of anyone else. Last year, we announced that the 2009 Jaguar XF was faring poorly. This provoked a...
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found about 47 hours ago by Steven Lang
Some people just don’t get ‘it’. My wife can’t understand why I like Davesfarm videos and Bruce Springsteen. I can’t understand why she listens to whiny effeminate men who pretend to be musicians. Fair enough… we’re living up to our...
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found about 45 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
Gawker reports that Toyota Motor Sales has sent a letter to ABC News President David Westin, requesting that Brian Ross’s report on unintended acceleration in Toyotas be retracted. Gawker had previously uncovered Ross’s deceptive video editing,...
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found about 21 hours ago by Paul Niedermeyer
I’m going to let this one speak for itself, since it’s quite...
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found about 33 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt
Black box data in New York and Japan shows that crashing Prius drivers had their feet on the wrong pedals and wrongly blamed their cars. In Harrison, NY, the NHTSA declared that cause of the Prius incident was driver error. “Computer data from a...
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found about 30 hours ago by The Newspaper
The cities of Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Santa Fe have sixty days to pull down the red light cameras and speed cameras currently operating on state and federal roads in New Mexico. The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) announced...
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found about 30 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt
Last November, Dutch lawmakers approved the first “pay-as-you-drive” tax system in Europe. A GPS gizmo, promptly dubbed “Spionagekastje” (“spy box,”) by the Dutch, was supposed to record where and when people would drive in the land of...
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found about 29 hours ago by Michael Karesh
If Lincoln were a person, it would have been committed to a psych ward years ago. Battered by corporate politics, economic cycles, and a desire to both retain traditional customers and conquest new ones, the brand has lacked a coherent identity for...
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found about 29 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
We’re ready to seal the deal. If the deal fails, the problem is not on our side. We have not violated any part of the agreement. The situation is changing constantly…and the process of the negotiation is very tough. We will put as much effort as...
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found about 28 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
“What are you, blind?” It’s got to be one of the motorist’s most-used phrases, but it’s also clearly a rhetorical one. Of all the hardships that come with visual impairment, the inability to drive is surely one of the most frustrating,...
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found about 27 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
In addition to lowering prices on 2010 models, Saab is introducing $4k-$8k incentives on 2009 models, according to bankrate.com. Will that be enough to make the company’s goal of 100k sales? With only 500 2009 models available in the US, and 2009...
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found about 26 hours ago by Paul Niedermeyer
The legend of how Carroll Shelby was inspired by Ford’s very compact new V8 to create the Cobra by stuffing it into an elderly and underpowered little British roadster is well known. The fact that it had a copycat is not quite so legendary. That...
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found about 26 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
What was once merely a tastelessly expensive and unnecessary car has been transformed by tuners into a full-fledged affront to nature at the 2010 Bodensee Tuning World show [via...
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found about 25 hours ago by Paul Niedermeyer
The legend of how Carroll Shelby was inspired by Ford’s very compact new V8 to create the Cobra by stuffing it into an elderly and underpowered little British roadster is well known. The fact that it had a copycat is not quite so legendary. That...
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found about 24 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
Workers at the former Toyota-GM joint venture NUMMI have approved a severance offer from Toyota. Union officials won’t reveal the exact amount involved, and while the Detroit Free Press reports that workers will make a “minimum” of $21,175,...
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found about 24 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
If there are two words that can’t be left out of any discussion of 2010 auto sales numbers, they are “incentives” and “fleet.” With a fleet sales binge well underway, and Toyota recall-triggered incentive wars raging with no end in sight,...
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found about 5 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt
“Leading San Francisco product liability attorney, Mary Alexander states if you or a loved one has been injured or killed due to stuck accelerator pedals, break issues, or steering problems prompted by a defective Toyota vehicle, you may have a...
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found about 23 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
If we have something to be talking about positively with Hummer, believe me we’d be talking about it GM International’s Tim Lee in the WSJ, commenting on earlier rumors that post-Tengzhong offers for HUMMER were being...
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found about 22 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
The DOT policy is to incorporate safe and convenient walking and bicycling facilities into transportation projects. Every transportation agency, including DOT, has the responsibility to improve conditions and opportunities for walking and bicycling...
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found about 3 hours ago by Justin Berkowitz
Palin To Toyota: Just Resign From Making Cars Former Alaska Governer Sarah Palin has a message for Toyota: “The best thing they can do at this point is resign from manufacturing cars,” she said in a statement posted on her refrigerator. These...
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found about 1 hour ago by Bertel Schmitt
March 20, 2010. Spring Equinox. Spring has sprung. How would Thetruthaboutcars.com celebrate this occasion better than with a concise pictorial history of springs? Apart from tires and seats (which typically have their own springs, the seats, not...
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found about 16 hours ago by Paul Niedermeyer
[Update: I was afraid if I just posted the pictures and put the tongue-in-cheek caption on the bumper on the headline while I went out and installed a new turn signal cam in my old Ford truck, some readers might get the wrong (negative) impression....
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found about 9 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt
PSA, Europe’s second largest car maker after Volkswagen (14.9 percent and 20.8 percent market share respectively in February 2010, as per ACEA) considers changing their name, says Bloomberg. There are several choices on the table, the front-runner...
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found about 8 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt
Lavish cash on the hood of Japanese cars may help their U.S. sales (or soften the fall in Toyota’s case). The largess also “will put pressure on earnings,” says The Nikkei [sub]. Toyota, Nissan, Honda raised sales incentives in February to an...
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found about 7 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt
This morning, Beijing woke up in a massive yellow cloud. Motorists found their cars covered by thick layers of yellow grit. Air filters were quickly overwhelmed. What happened?A huge sand storm had transported tons of sand from the Gobi desert and...
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found about 3 hours ago by Edward Niedermeyer
Bob Lutz and Bob Eaton bask in the glow of niche appeal, circa 1997 [via The NY Times' eulogy for Bob Lutz]. But don’t put MaxBob in a box: “People who characterize me as a mindless muscle-car, cubic-inches fanatic don’t know my...
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found about 1 hour ago by Edward Niedermeyer
Statistically speaking, it’s a little early to be ragging on the baby boomers. In addition to numerical advantages, the boomers also haven’t slipped fully into retirement, meaning mainstream culture will be stuck for a little longer in the era...
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found about 1 hour ago by Paul Niedermeyer
As a boy in the pre-internet early sixties, I became obsessed with unveiling the secrets of that inexplicably alluring object of male interest. I had a general notion of what transpired within: the rhythmic in and out motions, the frenzy of moving...
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found 18 minutes ago by Paul Niedermeyer
After a record mild winter, the grass is calf-high, and its time to bring out my fine vintage mowers from the shed. I don’t know about you, but lawnmowers were a critical childhood gateway to satisfy my childhood lust for cars and internal...
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