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- Trains Are Safer Than Cars--Unless a Truck Falls On You
- 2010 L.A. Auto Show Preview: 2011 BMW X3, Concept 6-Series Coupe
- Owners Keeping Vehicles Longer, Aftermarket Serves To Benefit
- Latest Data Showing SUVs Safer Than Cars
- Is Social Media Driving Young People Away From, Well, Driving?
- Recall Issued For 2011 Mercedes-Benz E, GL, M, And R Classes
- 2011 Mazda3: Driven
| Trains Are Safer Than Cars--Unless a Truck Falls On You Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:28 PM PDT  It's widely established that riding on a train is safer, statistically, than driving a car. In fact, in the U.S., it's a remarkable 24 times safer, measured in fatalities per 100 million miles traveled. Unless, of course, a truck happens to fall onto the train car you're riding in. Which is exactly what happened today outside Oxshott, Surrey...
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| 2010 L.A. Auto Show Preview: 2011 BMW X3, Concept 6-Series Coupe Posted: 05 Nov 2010 01:47 PM PDT  With just about a week and a half until the start of press days for the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show, BMW is getting excited about its stand. Unfortunately, it's going to be filled with cars we've already seen--just not in North America. The headliner is the Concept 6-Series Coupe, BMW's "design study" (read: production preview) of its next 2+2...
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| Owners Keeping Vehicles Longer, Aftermarket Serves To Benefit Posted: 05 Nov 2010 01:24 PM PDT  It seems the days of buying a brand-new car every two to three years are fading into history, as most buyers are keeping their new cars for much longer. Among families who buy their cars new, six, eight, even ten years isn't uncommon. According to Polk, car ownership continues to get longer; as of the second quarter of this year, consumers are now...
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| Latest Data Showing SUVs Safer Than Cars Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PDT  SUVs are safer, right? You probably have a coworker, or someone in the family, who's always insisted that. It wasn't always true, however. When really digging into the numbers in years past, it turned out that SUVs had a disproportionately high rate of rollover when they did crash, and that the fatality rate when they did roll—due to poor...
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| Is Social Media Driving Young People Away From, Well, Driving? Posted: 05 Nov 2010 08:14 AM PDT  If you read our sister sites, you already know that shoppers over 50 account for nearly two-thirds of all new car purchases. What you may not know is that the stats on shoppers under 35 -- better known as Generation Y or Millennials -- are in the tank, and they may not improve much. When news first broke about the buying power of the AARP set, we...
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| Recall Issued For 2011 Mercedes-Benz E, GL, M, And R Classes Posted: 05 Nov 2010 07:15 AM PDT  Mercedes-Benz has issued a recall for E, GL, M, and R Class vehicles from the 2011 model year. According to a bulletin from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the fuel filter O-ring on those models may have been improperly lubricated, which could cause some unpleasant leakage. The NHTSA bulletin explains the safety hazard ...
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| Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:34 AM PDT  The Mazda3 is one of our favorite small cars on the market, but with every drive, we're reminded that this benchmark fun-to-drive small car (and Mazda's best-seller) might not be the right choice for every small-car shopper. In our opinion, there's only one way to go regarding the body styles. The 3 comes in (less expensive) four-door sedan form...
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