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- Chrysler Fires Lunch-Hour Partiers At Grand Cherokee Plant
- Research: Could Texting Laws Be Increasing Crashes?
- Young Women Wealthier--And Leasing More Luxury Cars--Than Male Peers?
- Settlement Addresses Engine-Sludge Issue In Audi A4, VW Passat
- Why Don't In-Car Voice Controls Work Better?
- Smart Car Shopping: Five High-Performance Family Cars
- Study: Over Half Of Drivers Interested In Internet Radio
- Shoppers Over 50 Account For Most New Car Purchases
- Fireball Run Day 5: The Glorious Grind
- Spy Shots: The 2012 Mediocrity, or A Waste of Our Time?
- From 97 Ford Cars and Trucks...to 20?
- What Oil For A 2009 Hyundai Sonata In The Iraqi Desert?
| Chrysler Fires Lunch-Hour Partiers At Grand Cherokee Plant Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:30 PM PDT  At the Detroit area plant that assembles the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, thirteen employees caught on camera last week boozing during their lunch hour have been fired, with two others suspended without pay. The footage was captured by Detroit Fox affiliate WJBK-TV, then picked up first nationally by Fox News, showing workers buying and guzzling...
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| Research: Could Texting Laws Be Increasing Crashes? Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:02 PM PDT  If you know that talking or texting while driving is illegal, are you just as likely to do it, but in a more concealed way that takes your eyes away from the road and jeopardizes safety? That's one of the potential explanations for new data from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), the research arm of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
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| Young Women Wealthier--And Leasing More Luxury Cars--Than Male Peers? Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:08 PM PDT  We've heard it quite a bit in the news recently: Women haven't been hit as hard as men by the recession, and young women in large cities are actually earning more then young men. That in itself might be surprising, but it seems like a natural extension that women now are driving more leased luxury vehicles than men. According to recent data from...
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| Settlement Addresses Engine-Sludge Issue In Audi A4, VW Passat Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:24 PM PDT  A settlement made by the U.S. District Court in Boston could affect owners of 1997-2004 Audi A4 and 1998-2004 Volkswagen Passat models with the 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine—badged for much of that time as 1.8T. According to court records—as reported in a press release from counsels for the plaintiffs—these engines...
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| Why Don't In-Car Voice Controls Work Better? Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:07 AM PDT  If you have one of the newer smartphones, like an iPhone or anything running Android, chances are you have an app (or several) that takes advantage of voice-recognition capabilities. These new apps, for the most part, are amazingly good, getting quite accurate results even when whispering, or speaking with affectation. So how is it that your...
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| Smart Car Shopping: Five High-Performance Family Cars Posted: 28 Sep 2010 08:00 AM PDT  Do kids equal "Camry?" Does parenthood mean the end of loving what you drive? Don't responsible adults get something with four cylinders, an automatic transmission and a suspension built from marshmallows as soon as they put soccer practice on the calendar? Not necessarily. Learning what exactly the LATCH connectors do in your car doesn't have to...
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| Study: Over Half Of Drivers Interested In Internet Radio Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:26 AM PDT  There's a lot of talk these days about the death of print media. Newspapers are shuttering left and right, magazines are folding, catalogs...well, they're still showing up as junk mail, but here's hoping they meet grisly ends soon. There's far less talk about the ways in which broadcast media is changing -- how radio and television are reinventing...
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| Shoppers Over 50 Account For Most New Car Purchases Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:10 AM PDT  Ever since Baby Boomers came of age in the late 1950s and 60s, America has been obsessed with youth culture. Each week, it seems there's a new report talking about the spending power of Millennials or Tweens or some new, even younger demographic. But when it comes to cars, young people are just kid stuff: according to a new study from AARP Media...
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| Fireball Run Day 5: The Glorious Grind Posted: 28 Sep 2010 05:00 AM PDT  This morning Joel and I awoke in Gallup, New Mexico at 6:00 a.m. and by 9:00 a.m. we were in the midst of a police escort headed toward Albuquerque to guide us past President Obama's motorcade. And that was the least exciting part of the day. I've tried to communicate how intense it is navigating hundreds of miles on cryptic hints, and I've...
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| Spy Shots: The 2012 Mediocrity, or A Waste of Our Time? Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:45 AM PDT  Here at MotorAuthority, we get spy shots of upcoming vehicles from different sources--trusted lenspeople scouring the deserts and tundras of the world, just trying to hustle and make a dollar. Sometimes they come from readers like you (and we like that). And every so often, our own crack team comes up with shots of their own, like the 2012...
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| From 97 Ford Cars and Trucks...to 20? Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:12 AM PDT  With a brace of new products arriving in the 2011 model years--the Fiesta, the F-150 and a Focus lineup coming soon--Ford is planning more new vehicles for its namesake and Lincoln brands. In the future, though, the number of models the company sells could fall dramatically, according to CEO Alan Mulally. In a press conference on Monday in London...
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| What Oil For A 2009 Hyundai Sonata In The Iraqi Desert? Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:05 PM PDT  The reach of The Car Connection was evident in the All Car Advice mail bag recently when TCC forwarded an email from Mohammed in Iraq. The reader has a white 2009 Hyundai Sonata with a four-cylinder engine that he wants to protect for the long haul. His question is what kind of oil is the best to use. Two of the 11 driving conditions that may...
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