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2007 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
In August 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary probe into whether 223,000 Wranglers are spilling fuel during fill-ups. The move came after the NHTSA received 217 complaints.
Federal regulators announced today that they have closed the investigation into 2007-2008 Jeep Wrangler models and is rejected a recall since the ‘artificially high’ number of complaints may have been the cause of ‘internet-related publicity.’…
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Geneva— The car industry, it seems, just can’t get a break.
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A GM NVH engineer brags: [GMC] Terrain measured quieter than the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 in our on-road interior noise tests. At 70 miles per hour, Terrain’s interior is quiet enough to allow conversation in normal tones of voice. How did they manage that? Hours of engine tuning, right? Wrong. When GM engineers set [...]
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“Am I the only one,” one of my Twitter friends-I’ve-never-really-met wrote, “who looks at Gadaffi and sees Renee Zellweger in ten years?” I used to get Renee Zellweger and Joey Lauren Adams confused, at least until “Mallrats” when it was revealed that Ms. Adams was closer to Twiggy than Sophia Loren. Ms. Zellweger, on the [...]
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Without doubt, American drivers are feeling the pinch at the gas pump again as fuel prices have recently surged well past the $3 per gallon mark, recording a 20 per cent increase in the past year. According to the U.S. Energy information Administration, the nationwide average in America on February 21, 2011 was $3.19 for a gallon of regular…
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If there’s one thing all Americans are good at, it’s producing waste: thirty million tons of it a year, in fact. From food scraps to old newspapers, a lot of compostable materials end up in the nation’s landfills. Thomas Quinn, the founder of Silicon Valley start-up E-Fuel wants to change all that.
The E-Fuel system uses two washing machine…
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Just as we suspected when Porsche first announced its plans to present a brand new hybrid model at the Geneva Salon, the German firm’s ‘surprise’ is indeed the Panamera S Hybrid. According to the automaker, the new 380HP hybrid GT is the most economical Porsche of all time with a combined fuel economy of 6.8 lt/100km or 34.6 mpg US, and also…
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When I set out to buy my son a car, I went with my conviction to buy him the safest one I could, so hopefully he will be around in my declining years to drive me around like I have been doing for his first 17 years. As a parent, testing cars has given me great insight in what would be the best car for a teen—one that's not too big so it is difficult to handle in emergency situations and not too small that it would not stand up well in a crash with a heavier vehicle. When parents ask me what car …
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NASCAR announced today it has entered into a partnership with
Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronic Systems to develop and integrate fuel
injection systems into the Sprint Cup Series beginning with the 2012 season. The announcement
was made by Robin Pemberton, NASCAR vice president of competition, and Lou Lutostanski of
Freescale and Peter van Manen of McLaren.
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