Category Archives: Cars

Toyota recalls 1.53 million vehicles worldwide

By doris | Published: October 21, 2010

Full Story atmsnbc.msn.com TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it was recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems. The world’s biggest auto-maker will call back about 740,000 cars in the U.S. for repairs and 599,000 in Japan. The remainder are [...]

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Toyota settles suit over high-profile US crash

By doris | Published: September 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SANTA ANA, California — Toyota Motor Corp. has settled what is widely regarded as the most serious lawsuit of the hundreds of claims the automaker faces. The company has agreed to settle the suit brought by relatives of four family members killed in a high-speed crash near San Diego that galvanized [...]

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Kyle Busch gets unprecedented NASCAR sweep

By doris | Published: August 22, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com BRISTOL, Tenn. – As Kyle Busch crossed the finish line for a three-race sweep, his crew quickly credited the driver for his role in the record-setting moment. “We are in the presence of greatness,” a team member said over the radio. Indeed, they were.

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Bodies of 2 children recovered from river; mom arrested

By doris | Published: August 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The bodies of two children trapped inside a car submerged in the Edisto River in South Carolina have been recovered, and their mother has been arrested, authorities said Monday. State troopers responded to a report of a car accident early Monday and found a Chrysler sedan in the water [...]

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Bear gets stuck in car, goes on brief ride

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you think you’ve heard it all, follow this tale of a hungry black bear who went for a ride, literally. Douglas County, Colorado, Sheriff’s deputies early Friday got a call about a honking car and a commotion inside. Perhaps it was teenagers or a thief, they thought as [...]

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Teen wins Soap Box Derby with late sister’s car

By doris | Published: July 25, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com AKRON, Ohio – Real life beat Hollywood to the finish line at the 73rd Annual All-American Soap Box Derby on Saturday. With actor-director Corbin Bernsen filming the movie “Hill 25,” based on the Soap Box Derby, 14-year-old Sean Brown rolled to victory in the Rally Super Stock Division in a way [...]

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Mayor Wants To Force Gas Stations To Post Prices

By doris | Published: May 19, 2010

Full Story atwftv.com ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Mayor Buddy Dyer announced a proposed city ordinance Tuesday morning to crack down on gas stations that he said are being very misleading. The Mayor says gas stations near Orlando International Airport don’t display prices for drivers and some drivers don’t even know what they’ve paid until after [...]

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Car bomb found in parked SUV in Times Square

By doris | Published: May 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A T-shirt vendor who noticed smoke coming out of a tinted, dark green sport utility vehicle alerted police to what turned out to be a potential bomb placed in Times Square. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg early Sunday morning. “It [...]

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NASA will help probe Toyota accelerators

By doris | Published: March 30, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government’s effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota’s massive recalls. NASA scientists with expertise in electronics will help the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study potential electronic ties to unintended acceleration in [...]

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Driver: My Prius took me for a ride

By doris | Published: March 13, 2010

Technology or just money that the cars are not safe. You judge for your self.Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car’s accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a [...]

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Uneasy mix found in auto industry, regulation

By doris | Published: March 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK – Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota’s runaway acceleration problems. A Washington Post analysis shows as many as 33 former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration employees and Transportation Department appointees left those jobs [...]

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G.M. and Ford Channel Toyota to Beat Toyota

By doris | Published: March 7, 2010

Full Story at NYTimes.com JOSH SMITH is a large man with a shaved head, a goatee and a look in his eyes that can only be described as stoked. And he is never more stoked than when he talks about his job, one of the strangest at the General Motors Proving Grounds, here in this [...]

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Recalls don’t scare some loyal Toyota fans

By doris | Published: February 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Toyota’s reputation for making trusty, reliable cars has come into question after the company recalled millions of cars because of sticking gas pedals last week. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told lawmakers Wednesday that drivers of cars affected by the recall should “stop driving” them and take them to the [...]

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Toyota adds 1 million vehicles to recall

By doris | Published: January 28, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com New York (CNNMoney.com) — Toyota announced Wednesday night that it is adding another 1.1 million vehicles to an an earlier 4.2 million vehicle recall originally announced in November. The vehicles are being recalled to fix a problem in which the gas pedal can become caught on the edge of the removable [...]

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Why cheap oil is here to stay

By doris | Published: December 4, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Because oil prices have always been directly related to the strength of the economy, a recovery might have seen headlines like these: • The recession ends: Get ready for $100 oil • The economy roars: $140 oil, is there an end in sight? • Everyone in China buys [...]

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Flood rescuer repeats father’s heroic actions

By doris | Published: October 4, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died. For three decades, he’d carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas. Riding on the back of Dad’s motorcycle. Tommie Stephney’s love for drag-racing. But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to [...]

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Car lovers seek green energy, not gas guzzlers

By doris | Published: October 1, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The Belle Mead, New Jersey, resident runs the car-review Web site mpgomatic.com with a focus on fuel efficiency, but even he strays over to public transit every now and then. Nowadays, even the biggest car lovers are taking notice of energy conservation. Readers may not realize a guy who revs engines [...]

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Children sickened from lead dust in family car

By doris | Published: August 21, 2009

Full Story atmsnbc.com ATLANTA – Some childhood lead poisonings in Maine last year came from an unusual source — the family car. Government health officials said Thursday the six cases are the first ever attributed to lead dust on childhood safety seats. The car seats themselves weren’t the source; the inside of family cars were [...]

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Ohio bus driver was on phone when man killed

By doris | Published: August 9, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CLEVELAND – An Ohio bus driver who had been fired and reinstated after an earlier accident was on her cell phone when her bus struck and killed a pedestrian in March, according to investigators. Angela Williams, 49, of Cleveland, was indicted Thursday on a felony charge of aggravated vehicular homicide. If [...]

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Hey stupid! Drop the cell phone and drive

By doris | Published: July 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com While heroic politicians all over America are mandating bicycle helmets, it’s still legal to drive 4,000 pounds of steel 60 miles an hour while your brain is turned to the moron setting. Oh you know exactly who and what I’m talking about. You know because you are that one guy in [...]

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