2014 Ford Fusion Gains Rear Inflatable Safety Belt
14 Aug 2013, 08:27 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford has announced the introduction of its rear inflatable safety belt on the 2014 Fusion, which thus becomes the first mid-size sedan to offer such a feature. Already available in the Explored, ...
Ford Focus ST, Electric Recalled Over Headlight Issue
12 Aug 2013, 15:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford is recalling 6,308 units of the 2012-2013 Focus Electric and 2013 Focus ST over HID headlights that fail to comply to federal requirements due to a wiring incompatibility. The recall will af...
2013 Hyundai Elantra Receives Top Safety Pick+ Rating (Video)
10 Aug 2013, 09:01 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2013 Hyundai Elantra sedan earned a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway (IIHS), becoming one of the only six small cars to receive the Institute's highest award...
2013 Ford Focus Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick+
9 Aug 2013, 13:31 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2013 Ford Focus earned a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway (IIHS) to become one of the only six small cars to achieve the agency’s highest rating. The Blu...
Toyota Recalling 342,000 Tacoma Trucks Over Faulty Seatbelts
9 Aug 2013, 11:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Toyota will conduct a voluntary recall for about 342,000 Tacoma Access Cab pickup trucks built from 2004 through 2011 over faulty seatbelt pretensioners. According to a company statement, “...
Toyota Recalls Over 300,000 Tacomas for Faulty Seatbelt Pre-tensioners
8 Aug 2013, 08:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Sales, USA, has recently announced that will do a voluntary recall involving about 342,000 Tacoma Access Cab models due to some seatbelt pre-tensioners issues. The issue may affect A...
Toyota Land Cruiser Gets Big Brake Kit from Tarox
6 Aug 2013, 09:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The popular Toyota Land Cruiser 4.5 V8 J200 model can be equipped with some big over-engineered brakes recently introduced by Italian brake manufacturer Tarox. The new brake kit was engineered to...
Ford Pays $17 Million to Settle Escape Recall Charges
2 Aug 2013, 12:49 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Motor Co. has agreed to pay a $17.35 million fine to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as settlement over a recall concerning certain older Escape models. The automa...
2014 Mitsubishi Outlander Earns Top Safety Pick+
2 Aug 2013, 11:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander has received the Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), becoming one of only two small crossover SUVs to earn this title, with t...
2014 Nissan Versa Note Gets Early Recall
1 Aug 2013, 09:31 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Japanese automaker Nissan is recalling almost 13,000 new Versa Note subcompact hatchbacks to fix a problem related with various bolts used in the vehicle’s assembly process. According to th...
General Motors Donates $200,000 to Safe Kids Worldwide
31 Jul 2013, 15:40 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The General Motors Foundation has announced plans to donate $200,000 to Safe Kids Worldwide to help raise awareness against children being left alone in vehicles during hot summer temperatures, an i...
Horn Scares Russian Driver into a Crash
31 Jul 2013, 13:20 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / When the wise engineers of old gifted our cars with those devices known as “horns”, these were installed with the purpose of preventing accidents. However, it seems that, in Russia, the ...
Toyota Continues to Implement Efficient Solutions for Non-Profit Organizations
30 Jul 2013, 16:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Good Guy Toyota made its name not only for being the biggest automotive seller, but for its philanthropy campaigns. After helping The Food Bank of New York distributing food for people affected b...
Toyota Prius Controlled by Hackers
29 Jul 2013, 09:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You might want to be more careful with your Toyota Prius after you read this, as slashed tires is not the worst case scenario that can happen if someone envies your green lifestyle. Attackers can...
This is How Engineers Made the Toyota RAV4 EV Safe
25 Jul 2013, 09:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / While in a normal gasoline-powered vehicle you are carrying about 60 liters of flammable fuel which may or may not catch fire and transform the car into a flaming wreck after an impact, in an electr...
Toyota Study Shows Houston Teen Drivers Are Distracted by Smartphones
24 Jul 2013, 16:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) works with leading North American universities, hospitals, research institutes and agencies to develop new safety technologies aiming to re...
Toyota Settling Sudden Acceleration Cases
22 Jul 2013, 07:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Following the sudden acceleration problems on Toyota vehicles in 2009, the Japanese automaker won final approval of a settlement, valued at about $1,63 billion. The settlement will solve economic...
Titan Access Security Helps With Toyota/Lexus Lost Keys
20 Jul 2013, 12:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Have you ever lost your car keys? We live in a stressfully environment and it can happen to everyone, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. The ugly part is that if you haven’t lost them at ...
2014 Toyota RAV4 IIHS Crash Test
12 Jul 2013, 11:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) looked at Europe’s NCAP safety tests and said “This is crazy! Nobody will crash like that...”, so they came up with front overlapp...
2013 Toyota RAV4 Small Overlap Crash Test Looks Bad
12 Jul 2013, 08:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / IIHS’ small overlap frontal crash test meant bad news for the 2013 Toyota RAV4, with the Japanese crossover earning a poor rating for protecting its passengers. Even though Toyota made addi...