When cars rear-end semi tractor-trailers—on an icy road, for instance, where traffic ahead is stopped—the consequences can be quite deadly. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), that's because the underride guards—those cheap-looking bars that hand below the load floor at the back of the...
While cars are coming with increasingly complex instrument panels, you might notice one feature is missing from your new vehicle: the coolant temperature gauge. Over the past several years, we've noticed the trend across a wide range of vehicles. Such is the case, too, with the latest versions of the Mazda3 introduced last year, and with the new...
Shopping for a new car is full of mistrust. Given the tremendous flexibility in vehicle pricing, even if shoppers manage to secure an excellent deal, they often leave the dealership with no reassurance of it, leaving some thinking that they've been scammed. Yet dealerships have been seeing their per-vehicle earnings withering away, and hundreds of...
Kia has muscled past GM and Toyota to earn itself a spot on Consumer Reports' Top Picks list for 2011. The 2011 Kia Sorento is this year's top pick in the Family SUV category and takes that spot from the Chevrolet Traverse; in previous years that spot had also been held by the Toyota Highlander and Hyundai Santa Fe. The Nissan Altima retained its...
A new safety requirement that would require rearview camera systems in all new vehicles by 2014 might be delayed, as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has asked Congress for more time to finalize the new rules. As we reported a few months ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA (its vehicle safety agency)...
The Ford Sync system is now installed in about 70 percent of U.S. Ford models, in a total of 2.5 million vehicles. With voice-command-based, hands-free access to cellphones and media players, via Bluetooth and USB, Sync arguably helps keep your eyes on the road by replacing button-pushing with words. The next step up from Sync is MyFord Touch...
When cars rear-end semi tractor-trailers—on an icy road, for instance, where traffic ahead is stopped—the consequences can be quite deadly. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), that's because the underride guards—those cheap-looking bars that hand below the load floor at the back of the...
While cars are coming with increasingly complex instrument panels, you might notice one feature is missing from your new vehicle: the coolant temperature gauge. Over the past several years, we've noticed the trend across a wide range of vehicles. Such is the case, too, with the latest versions of the Mazda3 introduced last year, and with the new...
Shopping for a new car is full of mistrust. Given the tremendous flexibility in vehicle pricing, even if shoppers manage to secure an excellent deal, they often leave the dealership with no reassurance of it, leaving some thinking that they've been scammed. Yet dealerships have been seeing their per-vehicle earnings withering away, and hundreds of...
Kia has muscled past GM and Toyota to earn itself a spot on Consumer Reports' Top Picks list for 2011. The 2011 Kia Sorento is this year's top pick in the Family SUV category and takes that spot from the Chevrolet Traverse; in previous years that spot had also been held by the Toyota Highlander and Hyundai Santa Fe. The Nissan Altima retained its...
A new safety requirement that would require rearview camera systems in all new vehicles by 2014 might be delayed, as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has asked Congress for more time to finalize the new rules. As we reported a few months ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA (its vehicle safety agency)...
The Ford Sync system is now installed in about 70 percent of U.S. Ford models, in a total of 2.5 million vehicles. With voice-command-based, hands-free access to cellphones and media players, via Bluetooth and USB, Sync arguably helps keep your eyes on the road by replacing button-pushing with words. The next step up from Sync is MyFord Touch...
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