| First Toyota sudden acceleration case set to begin Monday |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
Jeffrey Uno, right, and his father, Peter Uno, the son and husband of Noriko Uno, seen in framed photo, who died in an alleged 'sudden unintended acceleration' crash in a Toyota Camry in August 2009, after a news conference in Los Angeles. (Damian ...
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| Black Boxes in Cars A Question of Privacy |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
When Timothy P. Murray crashed his government-issued Ford Crown Victoria in 2011, he was fortunate, as car accidents go. Mr Murray, then the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, was not seriously hurt, and he told the police he was wearing a seat belt and was not speeding. But a different story soon ...
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| Used-car bargains for college |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
Why would you put any vehicle on this list (for college students) that gets less than 30 mpg?! Do you have any idea how expensive gas is when you're paying for ...
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| 2014 BMW M6 Gran Coupe Review |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
The 2014 BMW M6 Gran Coupe combines the elegance of the brand's coupelike sedan style-leader with the aggressive nature of an M car. It's really a sedan, but the car draws its name from the rear roofline. "Don't be sad that there is no M7, because in my mind we have one," says Albert ...
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| Rollover pins two people inside Honda Accord |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
AUSTIN (KXAN) - APD says a rollover crash on Interstate 35 NB Frontage Rd. at Wilshire Blvd. pinned two people inside a Honda Accord. The call came in at 10:12 AM. Police say an 18-wheeler was involved. The two people were pulled out of the car and transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Interstate 35 northbound service road at 38 1/2 St. was closed for an hour until the ...
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| Autos troubles race at root of Detroit collapse |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
For generations, Detroit was a place where the American dream came true. Blue-collar workers poured into its cavernous auto plants, confident that a sturdy back and strong work ethic would bring them economic security.It came true in cities across the industrial heartland, for a time, until the nation's economy began to shift away from the business of making things.Yet while all of the ...
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| Detroits downfall Decline of autos troubled racial history blamed for citys decline |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
For generations, Detroit was a place where the American dream came true. Blue-collar workers poured into its cavernous auto plants, confident that a sturdy back and strong work ethic would bring them economic security. It came true in cities across the industrial heartland, for a time, until the nation's economy began to shift away from the business of making things. Yet while all of the ...
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| 20 cars torched near Paris after veil tensions |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
TRAPPES, France -; Riot police patrolled Sunday in suburbs west of Paris that have seen cars torched and a police station attacked amid tensions linked to authorities' handling of France's ban on Muslim face ...
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| First Toyota sudden acceleration case involving death of Calif woman set to begin in LA |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
LOS ANGELES -- Noriko Uno was afraid of driving fast, often avoiding the freeway and taking the same route every day from her Upland home to and from her family's sushi restaurant. She had put only 10,000 miles on her 2006 Camry in about four years. So when her car unexpectedly accelerated to speeds up to 100 mph on a street with a posted limit of 30, the 66-year-old bookkeeper did ...
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| The Unions Didnt Bankrupt Detroit But Great American Cars Did |
Jul 21st, 2013 |
The Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit serves as the global headquarters of General Motors. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Those who rent cars are increasingly aware of the high quality vehicles manufactured by wrongly bailed out U.S. automakers. More on the bailouts later, but the fact that American cars drive so well today paradoxically helps explain why Detroit filed for bankruptcy last week. ...
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