International Carmakers Support Vehicle Safety Improvements
7 May 2010, 14:20 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) recently stressed the importance of automotive safety and outlined future directions in the field. The AIAM showed both opportunit...
US Toughens Auto Safety Standards
6 May 2010, 07:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As a result of Toyota's mishandling of the huge recall it was forced to do earlier this year, several US senators are now planning a bill which will toughen auto safety standards and give the N...
Infiniti Recalls Over 134,000 G35 Sedans and Coupes
5 May 2010, 06:23 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Nissan Motor Company announced a recall for almost 134,215 Infiniti G35 luxury sedans and coupes. The recall is related to faulty airbags that may not deploy during a crash, U.S. regulators said. ...
GM Recalling 40,000 Corvettes Due to Steering Column Issue
4 May 2010, 09:58 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Although automotive enthusiasts regard performance vehicles as true heroes of the road, these cars have their fair share of Achilles’ heel(s), with various issues standing in the way of road b...
161,000 Dodge Calibers Under Investigation for Sticky Accelerator Pedals
3 May 2010, 14:52 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / The sticky accelerator pedal problem seems to affect other automakers as well, not only Toyota. Chrysler Group accelerator pedals made by the same company that supplied Toyota Motor Corporation are ...
Toyota Highlander Fatal Crash Investigated by the NHTSA
28 Apr 2010, 09:01 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / There's no such thing as bad publicity, right? Well, Toyota might not approve of that, considering the wave of bad news the Japanese company had to endure in the past few months. And now, once ...
Toyota Agrees to Pay Record Fine, Denies Wrongdoing
20 Apr 2010, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With basically no choice left but to accept the $16.4 million fine (the largest in history given to a carmaker), Japanese carmaker Toyota said it will pay the penalty for failing to recall 2.3 mill...
Toyota May Be Fined Again
11 Apr 2010, 12:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After last week US regulators announced they will fine Japanese carmaker Toyota $16.4 million for the way in handled the sticky pedal recall, the same regulators are now considering fining Toyota ag...
The Toyota Fine Dilemma...
7 Apr 2010, 10:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As you know by now, US regulators, commanded by US Secretary of Transportation ray LaHood and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have called for a $16.4 million fine to be ha...
Japan Silent over Toyota Fine
6 Apr 2010, 14:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The biggest fine handed to an automaker in the United States, the one NHTSA is poised to give Toyota, has not stirred much commotion in Toyota's home country, Japan. The country's official...
Potential Brake Issue in 6.2M GM Cars
6 Apr 2010, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just after American manufacturer GM announced it will make available on all its models a brake override system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced it has opened a p...
Toyota to Be Fined a Record $16.4 Million
6 Apr 2010, 07:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After a longer period of time than expected, it would seem US regulators decided to penalize Japanese manufacturer Toyota for its role in the massive recall which started last year and, according to...
NHTSA Administrator to Speak at the SAE World Congress
23 Mar 2010, 10:26 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / David Strickland, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator is scheduled to speak on April 15 at the SAE International 2010 World Congress at Cobo Center in Detroit. Prior...
Toyota Asks to Meet US Officials Regarding Recalls
19 Mar 2010, 15:44 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Toyota seems to be followed by bad luck at every step. According to Reuters, the Japanese car manufacturer said it wanted to meet U.S. officials to discuss an early-stage investigation of the stalli...
NHTSA Says 2009 Fatalities Lowest Since 1954
12 Mar 2010, 08:41 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / US traffic seems to have become safer. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the number of overall traffic fatalities reported at the end of 2009 reached the lowest level since 1954, d...
1990 Daihatsu Rocky Recalled in the US
10 Mar 2010, 15:06 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Toyota managed to create a complete recall madness. Nowadays, whoever hears about a recall gets instantly scared, as problems seem all related to painful, fiery deaths. But that’s not always t...
Toyota Fix Fixes Nothing
4 Mar 2010, 10:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The acclaimed fix to all accelerator problems for Japanese carmaker Toyota, installed these days in affected vehicles seems to be worthless, as more and more reports come to say the cars still accel...
GM Vehicles Fitted with New Generation Crash Recorders
28 Feb 2010, 12:45 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / General Motors will introduce a new generation Event Data Recorders (EDRs) in all its future vehicles, in order to record imported crash information. The EDRs only record data in the period that ...
Lincoln MKT Gets NHTSA Five-Star Safety Rating
24 Feb 2010, 07:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ford's range of vehicles which have received a five-star rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has increased with the addition of the 2010 Lincoln MKT. The luxury cross...
Congressman Begins Attack on Toyota
23 Feb 2010, 09:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., fired the first shot in the battle which will peak with Tuesday's Congressional hearing on the Toyota recall. According ...