Industry authority Automotive News is reporting this morning from Toyota. It seems that information from onboard data recorders shows that in at least 35 of the 58 crashes blamed on unintended acceleration, the drivers never hit the brakes. At all. In addition, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said there was no evidence of [...]
As a result of findings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Honda has issued a recall on the 585 2010 Honda Elements already sold, and has issued a stop sale for the rest of the product. The recall is limited to Elements that rolled off the assembly line between April 1 and June 25, [...]
There are two recalls in the news today. First, Subaru has issued a recall of more than 800 of the 2010-2011 Outback and Legacy models with six-speed manual transmissions. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall was triggered by a manufacturing error. Apparently some of the manual transmissions on the affected models [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that Volvo has issued a recall on the 2010 XC90. The recall covers roughly 2,500 vehicles, and is due to a potential leak in the fuel line between the line and a connector. The first sign of the leak MAY be the smell of fuel, but it’s [...]
Just when Toyota Motor Corp thought things couldn’t get any worse, they have: earlier today, the automaker announced the recall of 870,000 Sienna minivans sold in cold-weather parts of the United States and Canada since the 1998 model, because long exposure to low temperatures and road salt could cause enough corrosion to cause the spare [...]