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- Today at High Gear Media: Toyota, Electric Cars and 300
- Today in Car News: Corvettes, Porsches, and Mustang II
- Insurance Fraud Up Again: Inflated Bills, Staged Accidents Rampant
- 2011 Ford F-150: New EcoBoost V-6 Headlines Four New Engines
- Middle Eastern Supercar Hoodlums Torment Posh Parts of London
- Battle Of The Brands: Which Asian Automakers Bare All On YouTube?
- What Do Nissan Dealers Really Know About The 2011 Leaf?
- NHTSA: Toyota Electronics Have No 'Sudden Acceleration' Fault
| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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