Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Today at High Gear Media: Toyota, Electric Cars and 300

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:11 PM PDT

Toyota recalls, the electric-car race, and the 2012 Chrysler 300 -- it's all here today at High Gear Media: The 2011 Ford F-150 gains four new engine options, everything from a base V-6 to a turbo EcoBoost six and a pair of V-8s. Pickups are back...and better than ever. [TheCarConnection] Can one million Toyota owners be wrong? Not all of...


Today in Car News: Corvettes, Porsches, and Mustang II

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:08 PM PDT

It's Wednesday--the less glamorous middle sister to fabulous Friday--and High Gear Media is settling down in the Bay Area, ready for this weekend's Pebble Beach Concours and classics weekend. While we're putting up the tents and setting up the wireless connections, here's what we're browsing from our feed readers: Save your jangled nerves: all...


Insurance Fraud Up Again: Inflated Bills, Staged Accidents Rampant

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 01:51 PM PDT

Smashed windshields, staged accidents, and suspicious fender-benders and vehicle fires might remain relatively common tactics for deceiving insurance companies—and might be more rampant in a down economy—but insurers are definitely catching on. Last week, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released a questionable claims analysis for the...


2011 Ford F-150: New EcoBoost V-6 Headlines Four New Engines

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:12 PM PDT

With its 2011 F-150, Ford [NYSE:F] is boosting fuel economy by up to 20 percent by going with a fuel-efficient, turbocharged gasoline V-6 as its mainstream engine in the lineup. Once upon a time, the automaker would have been laughed out of any serious truck owner's stall. Turbos were peaky; they lagged in responsiveness; and they were finicky...


Middle Eastern Supercar Hoodlums Torment Posh Parts of London

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:50 AM PDT

Let's face it, this is hardly home invasion or drive-by shootings. But some of London's most expensive residential neighborhoods are feeling beset by a particularly specialized new threat: public misbehavior by supercar-driving rich folks, at least some of them from wealthy Arab nations. Yesterday, two wealthy Abu Dhabi residents managed to smash...


Battle Of The Brands: Which Asian Automakers Bare All On YouTube?

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:41 AM PDT

Hello, and welcome to another round of Battle of the Brands: YouTube edition. We've already taken a peek at YouTube channels run by American and European manufacturers, and today, we're moving a few thousand miles to the east, to Asia -- which for American consumers, really boils down to Japan and Korea. What's the point of all this nerdy...


What Do Nissan Dealers Really Know About The 2011 Leaf?

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:00 AM PDT

It's hardly a secret that the 2011 Nissan Leaf is one of the most anticipated electric cars this year. Nissan now has over 20,000 customers who have paid $99 to be placed on the waiting list, securing a place in electric car history. But as with any new car roll-out, those who eagerly sign up for a new car even before it's hit the showrooms are...


NHTSA: Toyota Electronics Have No 'Sudden Acceleration' Fault

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 06:25 AM PDT

So-called 'sudden acceleration' has a long and unfortunate history, almost destroying Audi sales in the mid-1980s after 60 Minutes accused the Audi 5000 of accelerating out of control at random. Now, as previewed a few weeks ago, an NHTSA report finds no electronic cause for the phenomenon--and suggests that in the cases that involve Toyota...


Auto Incentives Surged This Spring, But Affordability Fell Flat

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:18 PM PDT

This spring might have been the time of enticing incentives for some automakers—and record high incentives from Toyota—but in a snapshot of the market as a whole it doesn't look like they made vehicles any more affordable. According to Comerica, the average vehicle took 23.6 weeks of median family income to purchase, over the second quarter of...


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