The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety performed a battery of tests on new SUVs and determined that in 20-mph crashes the following vehicles performed poorly in the area of neck restraint:BMW X3 and X5; Buick Rainier, Chevrolet TrailBlazer,...
The first bullet of the General's press release makes everything sound so rosy and cheerful down in the phallic tower of power in the heart of Detroit:
A GM insider forwarded along an incentive program bulletin the General sent out to dealerships this week. The bulletin announces GM's (continued?) intent to push dealers to "form, increase, or maintain service/rental fleets that feature GM...
Paging Charles Atlas. The boys from BusinessWeek give the business to carmakers' least potent rides — the ones most likely to have sand kicked in their faces by competitors. Some of the standouts (standdowns?) include the Lincoln Zephyr...
A number of minivans may not save passengers' necks in a crash. (By "necks" we mean their actual necks, not their metaphoric ones.) The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave a number of minivans poor marks for preventing injuries during...
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