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• Volvo Hit With $1.5M NHTSA Fine For Late Recalls
• 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid: 47 MPG City, Better Than Prius V?
• June 2012 Car Sales: The Best-Selling (And Worst-Selling) Vehicles
• Evolution #FAIL: Why Animals Lose To Cars, Every Time
• Motor City As ‘Z World’? Entrepreneur Floats Idea Of 200-Acre Zombie Theme Park
• Is 'Made In America' More Important Than 'Made By U.S. Company'?
• 2013 Audi Allroad Driven, VW To Buy Rest Of Porsche: Today's Car News
• Fiat Ups Stake In Chrysler, Volkswagen Buys Rest Of Porsche

Volvo Hit With $1.5M NHTSA Fine For Late Recalls Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:18 PM PDT Volvo Cars North America will have to pay $1.5 million in fines as a result of seven late recalls since 2010. That’s according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) which on Tuesday ordered Volvo to pay the civil penalties to settle claims that the company failed to report safety defects in a timely manner. As...

2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid: 47 MPG City, Better Than Prius V? Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:19 AM PDT Ford touts its all-new 2013 C-Max Hybrid as more fuel-efficient, more powerful and cheaper than the Toyota Prius V, its closest rival. Ford is looking to entice consumers into trying a hybrid for the first time and hopes further that about 50 percent of C-Max Hybrid buyers will be conquest sales. But how do the five-passenger C-Max Hybrid’s...

June 2012 Car Sales: The Best-Selling (And Worst-Selling) Vehicles Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:16 AM PDT History, it’s said, is doomed to repeat itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in June's new car sales, particularly the monthly list of best (and worst) selling vehicles in the U.S. market. As with May’s numbers, the big winners seemed to be trucks and fuel-efficient sedans, while the big losers were leftovers, the automotive...

Evolution #FAIL: Why Animals Lose To Cars, Every Time Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT In many areas of the country, it's that time of year when drivers know to keep a keen eye out for roadside vermin. And by "vermin," we mean the hoofed kind. State Farm says there are more than 1 million automobile collisions with dear every year, which do hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. Not to mention a couple of hundred human deaths...

Motor City As ‘Z World’? Entrepreneur Floats Idea Of 200-Acre Zombie Theme Park Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:27 AM PDT Word of warning: This story is not a joke, although some may find it laughable. Anyone who’s familiar with the long-time economic slide affecting Detroit knows that the Motor City has steadily lost a lot more than jobs in the past 50-some years. It’s also lost 60 percent of its population. Vast parcels of land sit vacant, strewn with...

Is 'Made In America' More Important Than 'Made By U.S. Company'? Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT When you're looking for a new ride, which is more important: the company that makes the car or the country where it's made? Once upon a time, that question would've seemed absurd. Honda is a Japanese company, so its cars are made in Japan, right? But thanks to increasingly international corporations, that's not so true anymore. Automakers like...

2013 Audi Allroad Driven, VW To Buy Rest Of Porsche: Today's Car News Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT Today at High Gear Media, we compared the 2012 Ford Focus SFE to the 2012 Chevrolet Cruze Eco and announced our cross-country road trip in the Six-Month Road Test Hyundai Veloster. We named the most important American cars of the past 25 years and Volkswagen bought Porsche. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection...

Fiat Ups Stake In Chrysler, Volkswagen Buys Rest Of Porsche Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT While Americans were celebrating independence yesterday, two European automakers announced plans to gobble up more of their partners -- including one very American company. Fiat and Chrysler Here in the U.S., Chrysler/Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne announced that Fiat's ownership stake in Chrysler would soon creep upward, from 58.5% to 61.8%. The...

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