| Porsche 911 Carrera pushes 50 with gas euphoria throaty engine |
May 4th, 2013 |
A 1974 Porsche AG 911 Carrera vehicle, prepared by Brumos Racing, sits parked in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. The Porsche AG 911, flagship of the current line up of Porsche vehicles, celebrates it's 50th anniversary this year. (Photo by Scott Eells / ...
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| Chryslers production up in April |
May 4th, 2013 |
Chrysler Group LLC, moving past costly rollouts of new Ram pickups and Jeep sport-utility vehicles, said production rebounded in April for the No. 3 U.S. automaker's first monthly increase since November.Chrysler's North American output rose 13 percent to 216,758 cars, SUVs and trucks, from 192,491 a year earlier, the Auburn Hills, Michigan-based company said on its website. Production ...
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| Car sales April 2013 Winners and losers |
May 4th, 2013 |
Mazda 3 , which managed just 2842 sales in its softest month for the year. Despite its rival topping the charts in the first three months of 2013, the Corolla's 662-unit April win now leaves it just 217 sales behind the Mazda 3. Fewer new cars were sold in April than in any other month in 2013 to date, with official VFACTS data released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) ...
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| The cult of food trucks |
May 4th, 2013 |
Customers line up to buy lunch from the Guanaco Truck, selling El Salvadorian food, outside City Hall in Vancouver in this April 2, 2012, file photo. (Darryl Dyck for The Globe and ...
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| UN 270000 pedestrians killed by cars annually calls for better traffic safety |
May 4th, 2013 |
The U.N.'s heath agency says that more than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on roads each year and called for better traffic safety. The World Health Organization says pedestrian casualties account for 22 per cent of the total 1.24 million annual road traffic deaths. The Geneva-based agency wants new laws to reduce speeding, curb drinking and driving, decrease mobile phone use, improve ...
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| Range Rover Sport Review Quick drive |
May 4th, 2013 |
Land Rover executives won't put a figure on the final development cost of the second-generation Range Rover Sport , except to reveal that 6000 engineers were involved and no expense was spared. Certainly, the build process seems impressive – the ...
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| Recall Alert 2007-13 Toyota FJ Cruiser |
May 3rd, 2013 |
SUVs due to auxiliary headlights that do not comply with federal safety standards for brightness, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The affected vehicles were manufactured between Jan. 25, 2006, and Feb. 23, 2013, and are equipped with a Toyota Auxiliary Driving Lamp Kit mounted to the front bumper. These lamp assemblies include 55-watt bulbs that, in combination ...
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| General Motors to sell internet capable cars in 2014 |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Dan Akerson is pushing General Motors Co to build cars that the U.S. automaker's top executive hopes will attract a target demographic: his ...
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| Tesla changes finance plan for Model S to address criticisms |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Tesla Motors Inc., the maker of electric cars led by billionaire Elon Musk, is adjusting a lease-style financing plan for its Model S sedan to address criticisms made when it was unveiled last month."We appreciate the feedback from a number of journalists and customers that the first version of our financing product wasn't quite right," Musk, Tesla's co-founder and chief ...
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| Toyota headlamps too bright on recall |
May 3rd, 2013 |
Japanese automaker Toyota said it would recall 11,489 FJ Cruiser SUVs due to headlights that could temporarily blind oncoming drivers. The recall involves 2007-13 Cruisers with "Auxiliary Driving Lamp Kits," that have 55-watt bulbs in an assembly mounted on the front bumper. The bulbs, it could be said, work too well. Combined with the standard headlights, the bulbs exceed regulations ...
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