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- GM Recalls 249,260 Mid-Size SUVs For Door Fire Risk
- AT&T Asks Drivers To Pledge Sept. 19 To Never Text And Drive
- Seat Belt Use Declines In U.S. By 1 Percent
- Most Drunk Driving Deaths Caused By Drivers With Twice Legal BAC Limit
- Help Design Domino's Pizza's Ultimate Delivery Vehicle
- Fisker Recall, Next-Gen Audi A4, 2013 Fiat 500 Turbo,
- Chrysler Ends Bonuses For Strong Customer Service
- Americans Own Fewer Cars Than Europeans, More Than Chinese
- 2013 Chevrolet Volt
- 2013 Dodge Durango Recalled For Airbag Problem
| GM Recalls 249,260 Mid-Size SUVs For Door Fire Risk Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:43 AM PDT  General Motors is conducting a safety recall of some 249,260 mid-size SUVs following a preliminary investigation earlier this year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) over door fire risk. A notice on the NHTSA website identifies the vehicles as certain model year 2006 Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL, 2006-2007...
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| AT&T Asks Drivers To Pledge Sept. 19 To Never Text And Drive Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:35 AM PDT  With more than 100,000 crashes each year linked to texting and driving, getting the message out about the national epidemic of texting while driving is gaining momentum. AT&T and other wireless carriers are tackling the issue head-on. AT&T is continuing its anti-texting campaign by asking drivers to sign a pledge that they’ll never...
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| Seat Belt Use Declines In U.S. By 1 Percent Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT  A new report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that seat belt use in the United States dropped one percent last year. Nationally, seat belt use declined from 85 percent to 84 percent. This is still up from the 80 percent it was in 2004. A report in The Detroit News says that Michigan’s seat belt use last...
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| Most Drunk Driving Deaths Caused By Drivers With Twice Legal BAC Limit Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:29 AM PDT  New research released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that in 2010, more than two-thirds of the 10,228 drunk driving deaths (7,145 or 70 percent) involved drivers with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .15 or higher. The report, “Prevalence of High BAC in Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatal Crashes,”...
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| Help Design Domino's Pizza's Ultimate Delivery Vehicle Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:28 AM PDT  Who doesn’t love pizza? That is, pizza that’s delivered piping hot, not with toppings sliding off to the side or suffering other delivery-related mishaps. Domino’s Pizza the “recognized world leader in pizza delivery,” now focuses its attention on creating the Ultimate Delivery Vehicle by asking consumers to help...
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| Fisker Recall, Next-Gen Audi A4, 2013 Fiat 500 Turbo, Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT  Today at High Gear Media, Cadillac teased a new concept car and Fiat introduced the 2013 500 Turbo. A group calling itself Friends of Carroll Shelby unveiled a tribute car in his honor, and Fisker recalled the Karma. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. Will Hondas be as "American" as Detroit cars by 2015?...
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| Chrysler Ends Bonuses For Strong Customer Service Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT  Until recently, Chrysler offered its dealers up to $800,000 per year in exchange for good customer service and sparkling showrooms. According to a report in AutoNews, however, Chrysler's new dealer program nixes the cash bonuses, substituting enhanced training and research to help dealerships succeed on their own merits. The old way of doing...
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| Americans Own Fewer Cars Than Europeans, More Than Chinese Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT  We live in exciting times. Cell phones and jet planes have made the world vastly smaller. The internet has radically changed the way we communicate and do business. And although poverty and disease remain huge problems around the globe, entrepreneurs, agencies, and governments are developing new arsenals of tools to improve lives. But like all...
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| Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:30 PM PDT  Now in its third model year, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt is still the most technologically advanced vehicle GM sells. The Volt went on sale as a 2011 model in December 2010, and today it sells in numbers roughly equivalent to those of the equally specialized--but very different--Corvette sports car. Many consider the Volt a plug-in hybrid...
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| 2013 Dodge Durango Recalled For Airbag Problem Posted: 18 Aug 2012 11:04 AM PDT  Chrysler is conducting a voluntary safety recall of certain 2013 model year seven-passenger Durango SUVs over concerns that some side airbags may fail to function properly. A notice on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) site lists the number of vehicle potentially involved as 1,449. Affected vehicles were produced from...
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