If you're the parent of a teenage driver, your biggest fear may be letting your kid drive alone. But according to AAA, there's a bigger danger: letting your kid drive with other teens. In advance of Teen Driver Safety Week (October 14 - 21), AAA has released some startling statistics uncovered by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The...
Today at The Car Connection, we spied the 2013 Nissan Leaf and Tesla received $10 million. Acura discontinued the ZDX, and find out what happened to the Six-Month Road Test 2012 VW Passat. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. The NHTSA is looking into shattering sunroofs on the 2012 Hyundai Veloster. What...
How much do you love your car? Enough to buy another of the same make when it's time to upgrade? Or at least enough to buy another from the same automaker? If you drive a vehicle from the Toyota family -- including Scion and Lexus -- chances are pretty good that your answer to that third question is "yes". That nugget of information comes courtesy...
The Acura ZDX is a five-door hatchback that matches up against the BMW X6 and, in theory, melds crossover utility and versatility with a sexy coupe form. In reality, it's still tough to tell what Acura was thinking when it first signed off on the ZDX; succeeds in looking swoopy and coupe-like, and it performs reasonably well, but it fails at...
Acura's ZDX has to be one of the most perplexing packages of any vehicle. Best described as a crossover luxury coupe, it mates a curvaceous, swoopy hatchback form over sturdy utility-vehicle underpinnings, with an intimate luxury-car interior. While it seduces in some respects and hits all the right buttons aesthetically, it's sorely lacking on...
Toyota is conducting a voluntary safety recall involving some 2.5 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix a faulty power-window switch that could melt and lead to a fire. Worldwide, the safety recall involves 7.4 million vehicles, marking the largest recall in Toyota’s 75-year history. The Japanese automaker said today that it would inspect the...
A minor refresh plus a reconfigured feature set are headed to the 2013 Acura ZDX. And then it's history. The slow-selling ZDX, which was never missing beauty and aesthetic charm but always missing a clear purpose, as we saw it, has been whittled down to a single configuration, and Acura announced that this will be its final model year. On the...
While the Nissan Leaf electric car hasn't sold as well as hoped, the company is doubling down on its most advanced model. These photos show a prototype for a new, less expensive model of the 2013 Nissan Leaf being tested in Arizona yesterday. The company will start assembling Leaf electric cars in its Smyrna, Tennessee, assembly plant in...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation into reports alleging that the panoramic sunroofs on certain 2012 model year Hyundai Veloster compact cars suddenly shattered without warning. The agency’s office of defects investigation (ODI) has received 11 complaints from consumers alleging...
Our VW Passat TDI is entering the home stretch, after more than 7000 miles of trouble-free driving with just a lapsed satellite-radio service and an advanced odometer to show for its advancing age. Until today, when it greeted us with an overhead interior light and a radio blast, but a locked steering column and zero inclination to free up its...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation into alleged ignition interlock failures involving 577,100 Honda Odyssey minivan and Pilot SUV models from the 2003 and 2004 model years. A report in the Wall Street Journal says the “alleged flaw can allow the driver to remove the...
We are driving from Atlanta to Detroit in the Cadillac ATS. So far we are averaging 20 mpg. #Cadillac #ATS #Detroit #Atlanta http://instagr.am/p/Qpa8WuxP3B/[see more]10/11/12 3:34PM
Acura is discontinuing the ZDX after this year, and it's been a slow seller from the start. Would it have done better if it had a lower price tag?[see more]10/11/12 2:30PM
Today's car news includes our review of the 2013 Toyota USA FJ Cruise, the Nissan LEAF's future, and Ram Trucks ads.[see more]10/11/12 5:57AM
We know you are worried about us, but don't be. Our sunroof in the Six-Month Road Test Hyundai Veloster hasn't shattered.[see more]10/10/12 10:37PM
Do you own a 2003-2004 Honda Pilot or Honda Odyssey?[see more]10/10/12 7:48PM
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If you're the parent of a teenage driver, your biggest fear may be letting your kid drive alone. But according to AAA, there's a bigger danger: letting your kid drive with other teens. In advance of Teen Driver Safety Week (October 14 - 21), AAA has released some startling statistics uncovered by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The...
Today at The Car Connection, we spied the 2013 Nissan Leaf and Tesla received $10 million. Acura discontinued the ZDX, and find out what happened to the Six-Month Road Test 2012 VW Passat. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. The NHTSA is looking into shattering sunroofs on the 2012 Hyundai Veloster. What...
How much do you love your car? Enough to buy another of the same make when it's time to upgrade? Or at least enough to buy another from the same automaker? If you drive a vehicle from the Toyota family -- including Scion and Lexus -- chances are pretty good that your answer to that third question is "yes". That nugget of information comes courtesy...
The Acura ZDX is a five-door hatchback that matches up against the BMW X6 and, in theory, melds crossover utility and versatility with a sexy coupe form. In reality, it's still tough to tell what Acura was thinking when it first signed off on the ZDX; succeeds in looking swoopy and coupe-like, and it performs reasonably well, but it fails at...
Toyota is conducting a voluntary safety recall involving some 2.5 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix a faulty power-window switch that could melt and lead to a fire. Worldwide, the safety recall involves 7.4 million vehicles, marking the largest recall in Toyota’s 75-year history. The Japanese automaker said today that it would inspect the...
While the Nissan Leaf electric car hasn't sold as well as hoped, the company is doubling down on its most advanced model. These photos show a prototype for a new, less expensive model of the 2013 Nissan Leaf being tested in Arizona yesterday. The company will start assembling Leaf electric cars in its Smyrna, Tennessee, assembly plant in...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation into reports alleging that the panoramic sunroofs on certain 2012 model year Hyundai Veloster compact cars suddenly shattered without warning. The agency’s office of defects investigation (ODI) has received 11 complaints from consumers alleging...
Our VW Passat TDI is entering the home stretch, after more than 7000 miles of trouble-free driving with just a lapsed satellite-radio service and an advanced odometer to show for its advancing age. Until today, when it greeted us with an overhead interior light and a radio blast, but a locked steering column and zero inclination to free up its...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation into alleged ignition interlock failures involving 577,100 Honda Odyssey minivan and Pilot SUV models from the 2003 and 2004 model years. A report in the Wall Street Journal says the “alleged flaw can allow the driver to remove the...
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