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Hummer Fake Hood Vents Pose A Hazard, Recall Issued
GM is recalling 2006 through 2010 Hummer H3s are being recalled because the faux-hood louvers can detatch and hit another vehicle. The retaining clips on the hood louvers can malfunction, and according to a severe warning issued by NHTSA “… could strike a following vehicle and cause injury and/or property damage.” GM says that no…
Demand For Honda Light Trucks Is Strong
Demand for Honda’s light trucks, like the CR-V, Pilot and Ridgeline, with the company posting a 33% sales increase for light trucks compared to 2009. High demand and lower inventory levels mean that Honda has been able to stave off the barrage of incentives that rival Toyota has been promoting, due to a series of…
2012 Ford Explorer Previewed, But Launch Date Unclear
The 2012 Ford Explorer was shown to dealers at a meeting Tuesday, but confusion over the launch date of the vehicle put a damper on the buzz surrounding the pivotal Ford product. The Explorer is a popular vehicle for Ford, but the new generation will change from a traditional truck-based SUV to a car-based crossover….
2011 Mercedes ML-Class Grand Edition; Another Way For MB To Part You And Your Money
Mercedes-Benz has just unveiled its Grand Edition package for the ML-lineup (ML63 excluded) and as far as we can tell, it’s an appearance package with new wheels, blue tinted glass, fancy LED headlights and some other minor cosmetic upgrades. Make ours an ML350 Bluetec in white. If the outrageous ML63 AMG isn’t available, then we…
Ford Ranger Hangs In There For April, Outsells Mustang, Suburban, Fit
The Ford Ranger has been on the market for 12 years in its current incarnation, and while the Ford F-Series might be America’s favorite truck, the Ranger doesn’t look like its slowing down any time soon either. With the April sales numbers released yesterday, Pickuptrucks.com made the startling discovery that in April of 2010, the…
Russian Firm Dartz Builds Gold Car, Lenin Weeps In His Tomb
A couple decades after the fall of Communism, Russian firm Dartz is set to make the most conspicuous, ostentatious and absurd vehicle to ever hit the road. The Dartz Prombron Car With The Golden Wheels (yes, that is the name of the car) really does feature gold wheels (as in, gold plated, not gold colored)…
Land Rover Provides Safe Haven For The Sword Shy (Video Inside)
When you associate Land Rovers and weapons, you tend to go with firearms as your tool for the job; whether it’s the “Pink Panther” of the British Army, the Holland & Holland Range Rover (complete with shotgun rack) or one of the many Land Rovers used by the British Royal Family on hunting expeditions. According…
Arden Reveals Renderings of 2010 Range Rover Sport AR5
Arden has been a long time tuner of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles, dating all the way back to 1976. They’ve done some radical things with Range Rover Sports in the past, including wing doors that are reminiscent of Lamborghini’s vertical doors. Their choice of styling is a nice blend of subtle, yet aggressive –…
Audi, Lexus Set Big Numbers In April
Despite a still shaky economy and all sorts of doom-and-gloom rhetoric from political pundits, two major luxury brands posted excellent April numbers, with Audi up 33% and Lexus up 29%. Audi posted exceptional sales figures, with A3 sales up 144%, A6 sales up 105% and the Q5 up 60% from April 2009. Audi credits the…
Bavarian Police Test BMW X3 for Active Duty
No, somebody’s mother didn’t take Halloween a little too far. The Bavarian Police, presumably unaware of the correlation between shopping bags and the BMW X3, are testing a version of the soft roader for highway duty. The model in question is the X3 xDrive30d — complete with a stonking 218 horsepower six-cylinder diesel engine. Aside…
Lexus Resumes Sales Of GX460, Soccer Moms Denied Opposite Lock Hoonage
Lexus has resumed selling its awesome drift-wagon full-sized GX460 SUV, with a new software update for the stability control system. The “stop-sale” order was given after Consumers Reports magazine deemed the GX460 unsafe and put it on the magazines “Do Not Buy” list, after the GX460 oversteered during Consumer Reports’ “Throttle Lift Test.” Astute readers…
Recall Notice: Ford Recalling 2010 Explorer Sport Trac for Faulty Seat Recliner
Ford Motor Company recently announced that it is recalling 2010 Explorer Sport Trac models, built between December 15 2009 and February 3 this year, for faulty seat recliner mechanisms
Mercedes Test Driver Crashes ML Prototype, One Dead
A heavily disguised prototype of the 2012 Mercedes ML crashed into a Mazda that was stranded on the side of a road near Stuttgart, Germany. The driver of the Mazda was killed, and the ML rolled down the road for 800 feet before coming to a stop. Three fatal crashes involving manufacturer test vehicles have…
Report: New Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 To Debut In 2012, Targeting BMW X5 M Performance
The Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is a vehicle commonly driven by backwards-hat types, who like to blast loud music and cut you off indiscriminately, as well as ostentatious chairmen of multinational corporations. With a new Grand Cherokee premiering in 2011, a void will be left in the lineup for those who aspire to the heights of…
Recall Notice: Toyota Recalls 2003 Sequoia for Stability Control Upgrade
Toyota‘s recall issues just keep coming, with news from the Japanese automaker that it will recall 50,000 Sequoia SUVs from 2003. The problem with the trucks stems from the Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) system, but it is quite unlike the VSC problem recently identified in the Lexus GX460 – which was recalled for a stability…
China’s Huatai B35 SUV Combines Porsche, Bentley, Audi and Who Knows What Else
Having been to BYD Auto’s facilities in Shenzhen, China, we have witnessed first-hand the development stages of China’s new-age automotive manufacturers. What was most entertaining was how BYD Auto blatantly copies well-established auto manufacturers when it comes to the styling of its vehicles. In fact, one of the vehicles they had displayed in their museum…
Lotus Engineering Previews The Next Decade Of Passenger Cars
“Add lightness,” is the world famous maxim of Lotus founder Colin Chapman, and decades on, the British specialty firm rigidly adheres to their mantra, producing cars like the Elise, Exige and Evora that can hang with the world’s best supercars and still deliver terrific fuel economy, thanks to their featherweight construction and efficient powertrains. But…
Natural Gas Infused ‘GDiesel’ Delivers 30 Percent Improvement in Fuel Economy
Dr. Rudolf Gunnerman, has created GDiesel, a new fuel for diesel engines that combines conventional ultra low sulfur diesel with natural gas, which is mostly methane.
Land Rover to Ford: Remember Where Terrain Response was Invented
Surely, being part of a much smaller company affords Land Rover employees certain…perks. Other than a company blog (rare for an automaker), it seems the U.K.-based off-road specialists also allow employees like Andrew Polsinelli, general manager of product planning for Land Rover North America to say things that would have been censored in a larger…
Report: Dodge Nitro May Be Sold In Europe As A Fiat
. The Dodge Nitro is already sold in Europe, but parent company Fiat appears to be looking for a piece of the action. Industry journal Automotive News reports that the Jeep Liberty-based SUV could be badged as a Fiat product by the end of this year. The export model would presumably be manufactured in Chrysler’s…
Report: BMW May Suspend SUV Production in South Carolina After Icelandic Volcano Delays Parts
More bad news from the “Icelandic Volcano” front. In addition to thousands of travelers stranded while trying to fly into or out of Europe (including this author’s parents, stuck in Paris), The Associated Press reports that BMW may have to shut down production of its Spartanburg, SC facility, which produces the X5 and X6. According…
Recall Notice: Toyota Announces Lexus GX460 Recall to Update Stability Control Software
Toyota has just announced that it will recall the Lexus GX460 luxury SUV in order to update the vehicle’s stability control software. The recall applies to just 9,400 2010 model year SUVs – which only recently went on sale. This recall comes as just a few weeks ago Consumer Reports issued a “Do No Buy”…
BorgWarner Supplying VTG Turbo for New Hyundai and Kia Engines
Korean car manufacturers Hyundai and Kia have been making quite the buzz lately. From clever marketing campaigns to assistance programs to entice consumers into their products, both manufacturers are now staple competitors in the ever-growing automotive market. Part of their brilliant success is developing the right partnerships with the right people. Hyundai has done a…
Next-Gen Ford Explorer Getting Easy-to-Use “Trail Management System”
While Ford has made the decision to turn the Explorer from an SUV into a crossover, it seems committed to making that crossover as capable as possible. Ahead of its debut, Ford has announced the new Explorer will get a “terrain management system” to help owners get the most out of the 4WD system. After…
