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Recent news about U.S. car recalls because of technical problems with Takata airbags have to be completed with new details from Toyota Motor Corp. that is recalling almost 1.6 million additional vehicles for front passenger side Takata airbag inflators that could rupture.Faulty Takata inflators have been linked to more than 100 injuries and 13 deaths worldwide. Toyota said the new recall includes some but not all Corolla, Matrix, Yaris, 4Runner, Sienna, Scion xB, Lexus ES, GX and IS vehicles built between 2006 and 2011. This report will be folowed by data from other 17 auto...
A study published today revealed that more than four out of five people would prefer not to ride in fully autonomous vehicles. Almost 50% of the respondents would like to drive in a simple vehicle with no self-driving capabilities, maybe just with partially self-driving or completely self-driving technology, it is what the results of the study from University of Michigan show. Only 6% of the participants at this study would like to drive such a car, while 39% of them prefer partially self-driving cars. If we'd have to make some comparisons between the young drivers and the...
Jaguar's F-Pace is a very promising new brand's crossover and the automaker expects it will become its best-selling model to date. There are already about 25,000 customers who pre-ordered the F-Pace ahead of its European launch at the end of last month. Jaguar predicts that China and the U.S will be the top two markets for the SUV.The biggest-selling Jaguar ever, the F-Pace, enters a fast-growing segment and will allow Jaguar to attract younger customers. The average age of Jaguar buyers is 54 and the F-Pace could reduce this to 44. Jaguar also e...
The days of auto sales increasing are reaching their end this month, at least that's what J.D. Power and LMC Automotive think.This May wasn't this friendly to new car sales, that is why they will fall down to 5.7% from the same month last year. The reason of such a decrease is partly because this year has two fewer selling days. That's how the seasonally adjusted annualized rate will slip to 17.4 million vehicles from 17.71 million in May a year earlier. This April, had the same adjusted annualized results as this May may have. Because of these runnin...
Federal California judge was asked by Volkswagen Group to dismiss some claims in a suit filed by the U.S. government over diesel vehicles that cheat pollution controls. After the automaker got sued in January, being accused of using illegal devices on 600.000 Volkswagen and Porsche vehicles, it is considered that these devices are hiding the real diesel emissions. It's been said that VW defendants knew about the problem in 3.0 liter subject vehicles but they are still covering it. Are all of those 85.000 cars really inconsistent and lacking facts as U.S. claims, we don'...
