Photo: Tom Craig Today, July 17th, is Luke Bryan’s birthday! So we’ve decided to celebrate. Luke Bryan, alongside many other country artists, is known for his references to his truck throughout his songs. Last year, Chevrolet named Luke Bryan the official ambassador for their brand, and with good reason. Throughout his songs, Luke Bryan mentions…
Ford Racing 2(2003) Photo: : Empire Interactive, Feral Interactive, Take-Two Interactive, Gotham Games When you think of car advertisements, your mind recalls television commercials, radio jingles, and online banner ads. You probably don’t think of video games. Yet, Ford saw an opportunity to reach fans and give them the opportunity to race their favorite Ford…
Every year, residents and visitors of the Big Apple flock to the New York International Auto Show to see the most impressive newcomers to the automotive industry. This year, attendees were not disappointed. Popular brands like Mazda, Chevy, Nissan, Lincoln, and Acura showed off new and improved models, while others introduced quirky vehicles designed to catch the attention…
The 2003 Honda Element, one of the vehicles affected in the Honda airbag recall After stating their intentions to do so in a congressional hearing last Friday, Honda has now officially and voluntarily expanded its recall of vehicles which contain faulty Takata airbags. Today the once-regional Honda airbag recall expands nationwide to cover approximately 5.4…
Mary Barra named Jeffrey Boyer GM’s new VP of global vehicle safety on Tuesday. Since the GM recall has all the makings of an alleyway dumpster fire burning out of control—particularly with the news that General Motors will be issuing three new recalls for another 1.5 million vehicles—it makes all the sense in the world…
Matt Lauer, host of The Today Show and longtime antagonist of reasonable hair styles, interviewed embattled GM CEO Mary Barra on Thursday morning in the wake of a stop-sale order being issued for all 2013-2014 Chevy Cruze. Lauer may as well have been practicing his fast pitch technique with a busted shoulder for all the…
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe Renault are two of the world’s largest automakers. A new proposal from FCA would result in an even larger automotive company. Yesterday, FCA submitted a proposal for a merger with Renault. The result would be the third-largest automaker in the world. It’s SUV Season: Why are SUVs so popular now?…
A couple of weeks ago, reports hit the news that multiple automakers were recalling vehicles for faulty airbags made by Japanese company Takata. Of all the brands affected, Honda was by far the hardest hit. And now, the Honda Takata recall is expanding to include vehicles in seven states, including more of the brand’s most…
The Scion iA is renowned for offering a standard pre-collision system In the last few years, automotive safety recalls have almost become the norm. The most notable recalls of the last two years have included GM’s ignition switch fiasco, and the Takata airbag recall that affected huge automakers like Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. Now, rather…
As the weather heats up, many of us are thinking of one thing only: vacation. Perhaps you plan on hitting the Caribbean for a cruise, or flying to some exotic locale across the globe. But many of us prefer to enjoy what the good ol’ US of A has to offer, and what more perfect…
Lately, it feels like we live in the era of the recall—we of course have the big four of the GM ignition switch recall, the Toyota accelerator recall, the Takata airbag recall, and the VW emissions-cheating recall, but automotive news in general is peppered with small recalls over things like faulty windshield wipers and leaking…
Toyota Canada has announced it is conducting the final phase of the safety recall involving Takata airbag inflators ahead of schedule, as the final remedy inflators are now available. In Canada, the affected models include the 2003-2008 Corolla, 2002-2007 Sequoia, 2003-2006 Tundra, and 2002-2010 Lexus SC 430, adding up to about 37,591 vehicles. According to…
Honda North America Executive Vice President Rick Schostek, who announced a nationwide Honda airbag recall today While Japanese airbag manufacturing company Takata continues to defy the NHTSA’s mandated nationwide recall, instead insisting that recalls are only needed in high-humidity areas where the climate makes their defective driver-side airbags more likely to explode, Honda has taken…
Recalls have long been a problem for automakers (especially in the past few years). Not only is there the expense of fixing the problem, there is also deploying that information to the dealers, contacting the owners of the affected vehicles, and getting each to laboriously come in to the dealership to get the problem fixed….
The 2005 Honda Accord, one of many 2000’s-era Honda vehicles that wants to kill you in your sleep Although the Japanese company Takata has insisted that its faulty, exploding airbags are only really explodey in humid climates, such as Florida, there has been mounting pressure for Takata to recall and fix all of the 14…
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