Saab 9-5 gets (another) ill-fitting nose job – at hands of China’s BAW
April 21, 2010 by admin
Filed under Concept Cars
Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, Saab, Beijing Motor Show, Luxury
Chinese carmaker BAIC paid $200 million late last year for parts from General Motors‘ parts bin for Saab: the previous generation Saab 9-5 platform and the pre-2006 Saab 9-3 platform, along with a third mystery platform, two engines and two transmissions.
The Beijing Motor Show is [...]
Report: Another Prius accelerates unintentionally in New York and crashes
Filed under: Hybrid, Recalls, Hatchback, Toyota
Not one day after a high-profile incident involving a Prius taking off on its owner in Southern California, we’re hearing reports that another one of Toyota’s popular hybrids has suffered unintended acceleration in New York. This time, instead of the car eventually succumbing to the will of its braking system, [...]
Study: Want to improve your odds of surviving a crash? Have another sammich
Filed under: Safety
There aren’t a lot of positives about being overweight, but a study by the University of Michigan shows that there could be one reason for the chunky among us to celebrate. U of M studied 300,000 traffic fatalities obtained from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration between 1998 and 2008, and it has [...]
