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The Truth About Cars: Jeeps Get Hitched To Prevent Fiery Union
As we reported yesterday, Chrysler will be recalling the 2.7 million 1.56 million Jeeps being targeted by NHTSA over rear-end crashes that can lead to a fiery death. The solution; a trailer hitch out of the Mopar catalog.
Both Chrysler and NHTSA get t...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:15am -07:00T (155 words)
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The Truth About Cars: MyFord Touch Doesn’t Need Buttons
I’m slow to embrace technology. When people say this in modern times, it usually means that they only have 274 iPhone apps and they’re still stuck using the iPad 3. But when I say it, I mean that, sitting on my desk as I write this, is an actual bill...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:15am -07:00T (942 words)
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The Truth About Cars: More Chinese Cities To Limit Car Growth
China’s car restrictions are spreading to the provinces. I always thought Beijing is one of China’s most polluted cities, but no, says the Wall Street Journal, Shijiazhuang is. And it is putting a stop to willy-nilly car buying.
The capital of stee...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (140 words)
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The Truth About Cars: Famed Non-Automotive Journalist Michael Hastings Turns A C250 Into A “Bomb”
The writing-about-writing crowd is abuzz with discussion about the rather unusual death of Buzzfeed/RollingStone/Gawker writer Michael Hastings. Mr. Hastings, whose name is never mentioned in the press without the immediate mention that he was “the...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (785 words)
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The Truth About Cars: $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Against Porsche Goes To Court
After a court in Braunschweig, Germany, dismissed two investor lawsuits against Porsche SE, it didn’t take the third one either. Instead, it delegated a lawsuit that seeks $2.7 billion in damages to a Hanover-based court that specializes in cartel matt...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:45am -07:00T (126 words)
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The Truth About Cars: Capsule Review: 2014 Fiat 500L
The car you see above is actually not the 2014 Fiat 500L. For most of you, this will be a relief. It’s actually a Fiat Multipla from the mid-1990s. It is ugly. So ugly, in fact, that I love it. I’ve been thinking about importing an LPG-fueled...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:45am -07:00T (851 words)
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The Truth About Cars: GM Good News: No More Investments Into PSA
We can’t help it that there is so much crummy news about GM, but here is something decidedly positive: GM “has no plans to make additional investments in its French partner PSA Peugeot Citroen SA which is subject to the depressed European automobil...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:45am -07:00T (122 words)
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The Truth About Cars: Hail Mary: Cadillac Bets Big On China
When GM announced last week that it wants to increase Cadillac’s share of the global luxury market from 8.5 percent now to 9 percent by 2016, we opined that from “looking at the plan, GM appears to be betting big on the success of its new Chinese ass...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 5:31am -07:00T (596 words)
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The Truth About Cars: The Last Soldier Prepares To Cross The Block
The bare and plain fact that TTAC was, to some degree, built on the GM Death Watch series often causes our readers to think that we, as a group of writers, hate GM. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your humble author grew up thinking the “M...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 5:31am -07:00T (406 words)
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The Truth About Cars: Toyota Pulls Plug After Hack Attack
Toyota’s main corporate website in Japan has been hacked. According to a Toyota spokesman in Tokyo, Toyota’s main corporate website at www.toyota.co.jp was penetrated by unknown attackers. Data on the site was changed, the hack then led users to a ...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 4:16am -07:00T (206 words)
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The Truth About Cars: Chrysler Stands Down, Recalls Jeeps
Facing a looming deadline to comply with a NHTSA request to recall 2.7 million 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty SUVs – some of which are close to 20 years old at this point – Chrysler had decided to comply with NHTSA&r...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 12:16pm -07:00T (257 words)
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The Truth About Cars: Tesla Confirms Battery Swap For Model S
Tesla’s long-rumored battery swap technology will get its first reveal Thursday night, according to a Tweet from Elon Musk himself.
The Tesla battery swap project has been in the works for some time, with the Model S apparently having the capability...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 11:16am -07:00T (100 words)
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The Truth About Cars: How Well Does Armoring Work? Matt Farah Finds Out
Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire is one of TTAC’s most loyal readers, and we’d hate to see anything bad happen to him. But sometimes he really brings it upon himself.
When a $2500 Mercedes-Benz S600 Guard turned up on Craigslist, Matt decide...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:46am -07:00T (196 words)
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The Truth About Cars: New Statistics Predict New Doom For Opel – In France, At Least
The sagging EU economy led to the worst car sales since 20 years (cause and effect could also be the other way round.)  With so much riding on car sales, France’s La Lettre Auto K7 found a way to predict them with greater certainty: They simply ask ca...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:46am -07:00T (385 words)
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The Truth About Cars: War Of The Noses: Germany, Alone Against The Rest Of Europe In CO2 Debate
Senior members of the German government are leaning heavily on EU member states, warning “that German automakers could scale back or scrap production plans in their countries unless they support weakened carbon emissions rules,†Reuters writes. Cabin...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 8:31am -07:00T (332 words)
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