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All-New 2013 Acura RDX Awarded "Top Safety Pick" by IIHS
The all-new 2013 Acura RDX crossover featured in the Avengers movie is apparently very safe, as the car was just named a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The IIHS award means the RDX did a good job at protecting vehicle occupants involved in front, side and rear crashes, plus ... Continue Reading →
▶ Toyota Prius C and Chevrolet Malibu Eco: IIHS Top Safety Pick [Video]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has recently offered its Top Safety Pick title to the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, as well as to the 2012 Toyota Prius C. The 2013 Malibu followed the footsteps of the 2012 model, which was also a IIHS Top Safety Pick and managed to do so wven without the optional si... Continue Reading →
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Mercedes B-Class and Valente Van Get 5-Star ANCAP Rating
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) today announced that it has rewarded its maximum 5-star safety rating for 2 Mercedes-Benz models, the B-Class and the Valente van. The B-Class performed well during the impacts tests thanks to a multitude of Safety Assist Technologies (SAT) that include a radar-b... Continue Reading →
New UK Laws to Make Driving on Drugs a Criminal Offense
After more than 3 years of debates and changes, the UK is getting ready to embrace its new ‘drugged driving’ laws. While drug testing is currently done at the police station, cops in the field will apparently get a ‘drugalyzer’ device, which will test motorists for drugs in pretty much the sam... Continue Reading →
NHTSA Probing 2012 Hyundai Elantra for Faulty Airbag
With plenty of sales, features, economy and safety on its side, the 2012 Hyundai Elantra seemed unbeatable... until now. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been notified of a potentially damaging safety flaw with the car that could ruin its flawless reputation. "The photographs of ... Continue Reading →
US Youths Still Text While Driving Despite Knowing the Risks
Despite the general consensus being that doing, really, anything other than holding the wheel, while driving is bad, especially actions involving taking one’s eyes off the road. As a recent survey by Consumer Reports points out, most young American drivers are aware of the risk, yet still choose to do it anyway... Continue Reading →
Eating while Driving Deadlier than Using the Phone
In an effort to make people aware of the dangers of doing, well, anything while driving, apart from driving, the University of Leeds has recently published a study called “Two Hands Better Than One”. Its aim is to raise awareness towards the dangers of eating, talking on the phone and even drinking wh... Continue Reading →
▶ Texting While Driving? Think again! [Video]
The mobile phone is now omnipresent in our daily lives, and if we could and wanted to, we would attach it to our body and become 'phone-borgs'. At least we’d save ourselves the trouble of actually texting somebody, while letting the human-phone symbiosis do it for us. This is the only scenario we coul... Continue Reading →
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Is Wearing Headphones while Driving Legal in the US?
One tends to see many people driving around while wearing headphones, yet very few people ask themselves whether or not it is legal. The short answer is ‘it depends’ on which state you’re in. For instance, in some states it’s only legal to wear headphones in one ear, not both, and the level of... Continue Reading →
▶ IIHS Study: Child Seats too Hard to Install [Video]
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), it’s not really your fault for not being able to safely and easily install a child seat. Out of 100 best selling vehicles they looked at, only under a quarter met their criteria for easy installment. So automakers are actually to blame for makin... Continue Reading →
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2013 Lexus GS Named IIHS Top Safety Pick
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has named the 2013 Lexus GS as a Top Safety Pick. This is the third Lexus model in the lineup to earn a score of ‘Good’ in all the crash tests it’s subjected to - frontal impact, side impact and rear impact, plus the roof strength test that measures ... Continue Reading →
Buick Verano Named IIHS Top Safety Pick
The Buick Verano has been name 2012 Top Safety Pick by the American nsurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). This means that all cars built by the GM brand now come with a full bill of health from the safety body. The IIHS tested the Verano in front, side, and rollover crashes, and specifically tests seats an... Continue Reading →
2012 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Named IIHS Top Safety Pick
2012 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is an interesting little crossover with more character in a compact package than the full-sizzed Outlander. Despite not having the financial might of GM or Volkswagen, Mitsubishi has managed to create a decent platform, which now underpins the Peugeot 4008 and Citroen C4 Aircross Frenc... Continue Reading →
1.9 Million Ford and Mercury Vehicles Investigated by NHTSA
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association has concluded that at least 1.92 million cars under the Ford and Mercury badge could suffer from the same problem faced by the 2005 and 2006 model year Ford Taurus - a stuck throttle caused by a cruise control cable coming detached. The official NHTSA investigation w... Continue Reading →
2012 Honda Civic Gets Five-Star Euro NCAP Rating
The new Honda Civic hatchback for the European market has been tested by Euro NCAP and we have good news: there are no horror stories, it’s decently safe and got the maximum five-star rating. Since the Civic is a good looking toad of a car, we’d want to enjoy it by ourselves, with no kids, pedestrians ... Continue Reading →
▶ Jeep Compass Only Receives Two-Star Euro NCAP Rating [Video]
Euro NCAP annually raises the criteria for a five-star rating and the organisation has not only announced the 2012 rules, but also released its first test results for this year. We are talkign about the Jeep Compass and the new Honda Civic - while the latter achieved a five-star rating, the first disappointed, only m... Continue Reading →
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Chevy TrailBlazer Investigated for Door Fire
We don’t think this well cheer all the current Chevy TrailBlazer owners who will likely not be allowed to buy the new generation in the US... but here goes! A total of 309,000 Chevrolet Trailblazers are currently under investigation for possible fire hazard in the driver side door. The NHTSA says these fires... Continue Reading →
2007 Toyota Camry and RAV4 Investigated by NHTSA
Another week another recall… well not yet, but it might be coming. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening an investigation into 830,000 Toyota Camry sedans, Camry Solara coupes and cabriolets and RAV4 SUVs, all built in the 2007 model year. The safety body says it received six... Continue Reading →
NHTSA Looking to Reward Accident Avoidance Tech
Safety bodies such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration constantly upgrade their rating, forcing automotive producers to make cars safer in order to receive the top score and it is now time for the NHTSA to introduce a new move of this kind. The Administration is currently looking to introduce a r... Continue Reading →
NHTSA Investigating 2004 Ford Freestar, Mercury Monterey
If you own a 2004 Ford Freestar or a Mercury Monterey, you should be aware that there’s probably something wrong with it, and the feds are looking into it. The NHTSA has announced it’s opened a probe into about 63,000 2004 Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans after reports that the seat anchors ... Continue Reading →
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