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Right time for a recall

Right time for a recall

Nissan announced a recall for about 540,000 of their vehicles on Wednesday for two separate problems with their cars that have not caused any injuries or deaths. This comes only one day after GM issued a recall (see yesterday’s post for more details on it) for 1.3 million of its cars. Don’t you find it [...]

GM recall a sign of a checkered past

GM recall a sign of a checkered past

On Tuesday, GM announced a recall for about 1.3 million vehicles in North America. Models include the Chevrolet Cobalt and various Pontiacs (depending on the country you’re in). The reason is for a faulty power steering problem that can make it hard to maneuver. No deaths have been reported from these problems and they do not [...]

End of the line for Hummer

End of the line for Hummer

GM announced Wednesday that it was closing down the Hummer brand after it failed to complete its sale to a Chinese firm. Although they promised to honour existing warranties for the ones still on the road, this will mark the end of the famous and infamous brand. Hummers became very popular in the 90′s and [...]

China officially world’s largest auto market

According to statistics released Monday in China by the government run news agency Xinhua, the United States is officially no longer the largest auto market in the world. Last year, China took that spot by purchasing 3.21 million more vehicles than the US. The recession played a big part in this as it hurt the [...]

The auto industry – reputations precede them

Before I begin, I want to make it clear that none of the companies I am writing about in this article have paid me to say or to not say anything in this article and the views I express here come from my own extensive knowledge and experience of automobiles and the automobile industry alone. [...]