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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) president Jan Withers wants a summit dedicated to how better to save lives, one that goes beyond stopping drunk drivers. "MADD is prepared to call a summit meeting of leading traffic safety organizations and companies committed to keeping our roads safe," she said. "This summit would focus ...    Read more

Here are some facts: the earth is revolving around the sun. This means that summer, is basically here. When it's summer, things tend to warm up. They warm up a lot, in fact, and especially in parked cars. And so that means it's time for the annual warning against leaving ...    Read more

There's a funny thing that happens when a car's odometer ticks past its six-figure "planned obsolescence" marker—it rolls over and resets itself. There's literally nowhere else to turn. It goes back to zero, brand new again, as if it was a phoenix reborn from the ashes. What's a million miles, or ...    Read more

Last month, Dario Franchitti won the 96th Indianapolis 500 with Chip Ganassi Racing. His car, like a third of Indy cars, was powered by a Honda V-6. "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday," goes the saying that's propped up NASCAR for five decades—and now Honda aims to heed that, with the ...    Read more

Because it's a tough economy, and because our paramedics and cleanup crews are sitting by listlessly, many states are eliminating their motorcycle helmet laws. It promotes tourism , they say, especially in Michigan, a state known for its fiscal woes but not so much for its ...    Read more

No, the title of this post does not indicate that luxury cars will give you cancer. And boy, we can't wait for that fearmongering causation/correlation post to sweep the "blogosphere:" BMWs cause prostate cancer! Audis to blame for leukemia? But until that erroneous line of reasoning happens—sometime next week when it ...    Read more

Intrepid spy photographers have caught the 2013 Honda Accord sedan and coupe testing in the Arizona desert. And psychedelic camera-fooling paint scheme aside, we can deduce that the Accord is going to be an evolutionary design, albeit one that injects a little more style into the storied nameplate. Up front, the ...    Read more

Imagine having a personal assistant at your disposal while you're driving. Sound interesting? Well Honda, Toyota, and General Motors think so, as each respective automaker will begin integrating Siri, Apple's version of a personal assistant now featured on the iPhone 4S, into select 2013 model year vehicles. Siri can already be ...    Read more

About 50,000 Honda Civics built for model year 2012 are being recalled for their left driveshaft, which could come apart while driving and cause an accident. The driver's side driveshaft was not assembled correctly, Honda says. While in motion, it might separate from the rest of the car and become disconnected ...    Read more

In a rare move for a Japanese company, Honda admits that its export business is losing it money on the cars it builds in Japan and then sends to America. Honda currently imports its smaller cars and hybrids; the CR-Z, Insight, and Fit account for a third of Honda's imports, as well ...    Read more

The first full week of June has come and gone but not without some news from the automotive world. Ford kicked off the news week as it revealed the 2013 F-150 to its largest concentration of truck consumers in Texas. Tuesday followed up the best-selling truck for 35 years running ...    Read more

Toyota is recalling select RAV-4 crossovers produced for the 2006 to 2008 model years thanks to several complaints filed by consumers with the Office of Defects Investigation. While it's not known the exact number of RAV-4 vehicles affected by the recall, the part being called into question is the rear ...    Read more

Honda announced that the EPA has rated its Honda Fit EV at 118 miles per gallon equivalent, or mpge, making it the most efficient electric car in the segment. New for model year 2013, the Honda Fit EV outlasts the former fuel efficiency champion Mitsubishi i (112 mpge), ...    Read more

Last week we showed you spy photos of the next-generation 2013 Honda Accord, caught out in the wild, but heavily camouflaged from the windows down. That left us speculating as to what exactly Honda had in store for its new Accord sedan. We ...    Read more

Memorial Day may have shortened the week for most folks, but not for us. After the barbeques and races (congrats to Dario Franchitti at the Indy 500), the rest of the world got back to work on Tuesday, and that means more in the world of cars. We drove the ...    Read more

Toyota ran away with the Japanese sales crown for May, beating Infiniti and Honda—both of which also enjoyed a lucrative month—by a wide margin. With a staggering 202,973 units sold, Toyota closed out May of 2012 with an increase of 72.9 percent, or 87.3 percent when unadjusted for 26 selling ...    Read more

This is a true story: one night in Allston, Massachusetts, my friends and I went back to our cars to spring for a drive down to Seaport, because it was relatively quiet and there was nothing else to do. My buddy Igor had a flashy, cherry red Honda S2000, which he ...    Read more

Earlier this year, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandated that all automakers selling 20,000 cars or more per year in the Golden State will have to have a 15-percent mix of zero-emissions vehicles. They'll get credits for selling these "compliance" cars—three for a 100-mile car like a Nissan Leaf ...    Read more

The first spy shots of the 2013 Honda Accord have been captured, and by all indications, fans of the current Accord sedan will like what they see when the car is officially unveiled later this summer. The 2013 Honda Accord will be an evolutionary step, in that the basic suspension and ...    Read more

When college campuses across the nation are being bombarded by leggy, short-shorts-wearing girls in flip-flops, you know that winter is officially over. Though that happens earlier in the year here in Los Angeles than other parts of the country, we’re no less immune from what the seasonal awakening actually means: ...    Read more

Remember that report earlier this year that consumers, yet again, were losing interest in hybrid vehicles? Well, don't tell that to Chevrolet and its Volt hybrid electric car. April sales for the Chevrolet Volt saw a 200-percent jump compared to last year despite the so-called ...    Read more

The auto industry has been facing the perfect storm since the beginning of the new millennium; 2009 especially proved to be a low point as General Motors and Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Subsequent events like Toyota's "sudden acceleration" recalls and the Japanese earthquake in early 2011 literally shook auto companies into ...    Read more

With bloated prices at the pumps, it should come as little surprise that Americans say fuel economy is the number one factor when considering the purchase of a new car. Still, it’s surprising. In a recent Consumer Reports survey, Americans chose fuel economy over quality, value, safety, and performance. And ...    Read more

In a page taken from Tony Stark's management handbook, Toyota president Akio Toyoda was candid when asked what vehicles he liked from the competition. Speaking to a group at his inauguration as Chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the grandson of Toyota's founder Kiichiro Toyoda called out his favorite ...    Read more

Honda is always trying to experiment with getting humans out of their products and onto its other products. How else could you explain a company that builds cars, motorcycles, the HondaJet, and—for professionally supervised landscaping shenanigans—riding lawnmowers? This, more than anything, will explain the gestation ...    Read more