Toyota has issued a voluntary recall to owners of 1998 - 2010 Sienna minivans in states that use salt to counter winter road conditions. The cable that affixes the spare tire under the rear of the Toyota Sienna can become corroded over time. If this cable breaks, the spare tire could fall to the...
Toyota has halted sales of the Lexus GX 460 full-size SUV in order to investigate a problem with the stability control system, as discovered by Consumer Reports magazine. In extreme circumstances, the stability control does not intervene quick enough, causing severe oversteer and possible loss of...
A group of engineer's from Helsinki's Metropolia University of Applied Sciences have built an electric sports car for competition in Progressive Insurance's Automotive X-Prize. Called the ERA, for Electric Race About, the car has some impressive design specs. Motors, powered by lithium ion...
As anyone who has ever worked a trade show at the Javits Center in NYC will attest to, anything not bolted down to the exhibit hall floor is fair game for theft. BMW got the worst of it this year, but their losses occured before the cars hit the show floor. Six vehicles being imported for the...
At the turn of the 20th century, a few intrepid drivers attempted to prove the viability of the automobile by racing around the globe from New York to Paris. Some 102 years later, a group calling themselves "Project Evie" look to do a very similar thing to prove the viability of electric cars:...
Route 422 was the site of the shooting incident. The morning commute along a Pennsylvania highway in Upper Providence at approximately 7:17 a.m. was event filled for a female motorist and another driver transporting her two year year old. The female motorist was shot and wounded by a male driving...
In honor of being named the pace car for this year's Indianapolis 500 race, Chevy is building a limited production run of Camaro Pace Car Replicas. Five hundred copies will be built, each painted Inferno Orange with pearly white stripes. The cars will all be SS versions with the 400 horsepower...
The U.S. Department of Transportation has hit Toyota with a $16.4 million fine, for failing to promply disclose the issue of sticking accelerator pedals in certain Toyota vehicles. Under federal law, auto manufacturers have five business days to notify the D.O.T. of issues impacting vehicle safety;...
The first production Corvette Z06 Carbon edition sold at the Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach auction for a whopping $297,000, setting the high price for this year's event. Chevrolet hasn't yet set pricing for the limited edition Corvette, of which only 500 examples will be built, but it's expected to...
Despite the defeat of earlier proposed bans, the EU is once again considering a ban on motorcycles producing more than 100 horsepower. Currently, France is the only EU member with a 100 horsepower limit on motorcycles sold in country. Other EU countries have a stepped rider education system that...
