One of the major contributing factors to the Great Recession was the U.S. credit crunch. For years, banks had been loaning money to many people who probably shouldn't have been taking on additional debt. When the economy began tanking, a significant number of those consumers defaulted on their loans. As a result, banks became more cautious with...
Today at The Car Connection, GM discontinued its hybrid trucks and Infiniti may be planning a new flagship model. Cadillac released the first image of the 2014 ELR range-extended electric car, and Dodge announced the new 2013 Charger Sport. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. BMW announced the 2014 Z4 with...
Back in June, Toyota added the 2010 Lexus RX to a long list of vehicles that were recalled due to problems with accelerator pedals sticking beneath floor mats. That was unusual because Toyota launched the recall more than two years earlier, in the winter of 2010. To the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 2010 RX seemed a little...
Though it's been in Porsche's range for nearly a decade, the Cayenne remains a controversial subject for brand loyalists who see the sports car as the true heart of the marque. Nevertheless, the Cayenne's success for Porsche can't be denied, and with the addition of a new diesel model for the 2013 model year, it looks as though its position will...
Infiniti will sweep away 23 years' worth of its current naming strategy for the 2014 model year, when it replaces its current EX, FX, G, M, and JX nameplates with ones starting with the letter Q. The first new vehicle to take on the new identity will be the 2014 Infiniti Q50, the replacement for the outgoing G37 sedan. The new luxury four-door is...
Following a more than two-and-a-half-year-old investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) into possible unintended acceleration of Ford vehicles after gas pedal entrapment, the agency has intensified the probe to a full engineering analysis. The NHTSA upgrade, posted on the agency’s website, now involves an...
Toyota USA has agreed to pay a $17.35 million fine because of the timeliness of the Lexus floor mat recall. Do you think this is the final chapter in Toyota's unintended acceleration woes?[see more]12/18/12 3:40PM
Today's car news includes the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette, Ford Motor Company's fuel economy numbers, and a Dodge recall.[see more]12/18/12 6:18AM
Will the renaming work in Infiniti's favor, as it has at Cadillac? Or will it dilute the brand name even more, as the mixed results at Acura and the Lincoln Motor Company suggest?[see more]12/18/12 12:13AM
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One of the major contributing factors to the Great Recession was the U.S. credit crunch. For years, banks had been loaning money to many people who probably shouldn't have been taking on additional debt. When the economy began tanking, a significant number of those consumers defaulted on their loans. As a result, banks became more cautious with...
Today at The Car Connection, GM discontinued its hybrid trucks and Infiniti may be planning a new flagship model. Cadillac released the first image of the 2014 ELR range-extended electric car, and Dodge announced the new 2013 Charger Sport. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. BMW announced the 2014 Z4 with...
Back in June, Toyota added the 2010 Lexus RX to a long list of vehicles that were recalled due to problems with accelerator pedals sticking beneath floor mats. That was unusual because Toyota launched the recall more than two years earlier, in the winter of 2010. To the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 2010 RX seemed a little...
Though it's been in Porsche's range for nearly a decade, the Cayenne remains a controversial subject for brand loyalists who see the sports car as the true heart of the marque. Nevertheless, the Cayenne's success for Porsche can't be denied, and with the addition of a new diesel model for the 2013 model year, it looks as though its position will...
Infiniti will sweep away 23 years' worth of its current naming strategy for the 2014 model year, when it replaces its current EX, FX, G, M, and JX nameplates with ones starting with the letter Q. The first new vehicle to take on the new identity will be the 2014 Infiniti Q50, the replacement for the outgoing G37 sedan. The new luxury four-door is...
Following a more than two-and-a-half-year-old investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) into possible unintended acceleration of Ford vehicles after gas pedal entrapment, the agency has intensified the probe to a full engineering analysis. The NHTSA upgrade, posted on the agency’s website, now involves an...
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