| Deadly Toyota Camry ride blamed on lack of brake override |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
(32 mins ago) A lawyer for US plaintiffs in a wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. told a jury in Los Angeles Thursday he will ask for US$20 million in damages for the family of a woman who died when her Camry suddenly accelerated and crashed despite her efforts to stop. The case involving the 2009 death of Noriko Uno is the first involving the issue to go to trial in state court, ...
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| Toyota trial opens in suit over fatal crash |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
Toyota says that driver error caused the death of Noriko Uno, whose family argues that the carmaker failed to install a device that would have prevented unexpected ...
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| Guidelines aim to fine-tune private vehicle auto warranties |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
/enpproperty--> China's top quality supervision authority is making final preparations to implement a policy that will enhance warranties on private vehicles, officials said on Thursday. "We are soliciting opinions and suggestions on guidelines to assess serious safety defects in private vehicles that were drafted by the defective-product administrative center under the ...
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| Honda Civic dominates IIHS small car crash tests |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
has taken the top two spots in the latest round of the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) small overlap front crash tests involving small cars. Covering 12 of the North American market’s best-selling small cars, the crash tests resulted in half earning a ‘good’ or ‘acceptable’ rating, qualifying them for the IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award. The ...
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| Volkswagen Tiguan 118TSI six-speed DSG added to line-up |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
Volkswagen Australia has introduced a six-speed dual-clutch DSG automatic option for the entry-level front-wheel-drive Tiguan 118TSI, which is priced from $30,990. The addition of the 118TSI DSG means Volkswagen's most affordable ...
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| Toyota 86 GTS manual accounts for 40 percent of sales |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
have gone against initial expectations with the highest proportion of buyers opting for a white, manual high-spec 86 GTS. In Canberra at an eventmarking the one-year anniversary ...
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| Luxury European cars use tungsten mined by Columbian terrorists report |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
that is illegally mined by a terrorist group in Columbia, according to a Bloomberg Markets magazine report. Bloomberg followed the journey of the tungsten ore, called wolframite, which is mined in the Amazon jungle by the rebel FARC group before being processed in Pennsylvannia and shipped to Austria. It is made into tungsten by local company Plansee and used in engine crankshaft components ...
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| Toyota 86 Australia ranks 3rd in global sales |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
market, with over 6000 units sold locally since its June 2012 launch. Despite our relatively small population and one million per year new car market (which includes commercial and fleet sales), Australian's love of ...
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| Crash tests reveal safest small cars |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
(WPRI) - A new round of crash tests finds many small cars don't perform well in front-end collisions. For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested what they call small overlap front crash - because 25% of most serious injuries are caused this way. The Honda Civic earned the top safety rating in a new kind of crash test to see just how well the front corner of small ...
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| Nissan Posts Record Results for July |
Aug 9th, 2013 |
Nissan set a July record with U.S. sales of 109,041 deliveries, an increase of 10.9 percent over 98,341 units a year earlier, the company announced Thursday. "With the launch of the all-new Versa Note, Nissan has now refreshed four of our top-five selling models in just more than a year," Fred Diaz, divisional vice president, Nissan Sales & Marketing, Service & Parts, said ...
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