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Car Thieves Still Love Jacking Escalades & Full-Sized Pickups
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (AKA the people who have all the fun smashing cars into walls without getting ticketed) has released its annual report on which vehicles are the most- and...
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Luxury Cars Aren't Doing So Well In New Crash Tests But Hey, Check Out That...
There you are, rolling along in your nice luxury car with custom leather interior, awesome speakers and one of those voice-activated virtual assistants offering to find you a late-night taco joint and...
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Camry, Prius V, Several Luxury Cars Fail New Crash Tests
You all know the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; they’re the folks that get paid to smash cars into walls. Now the IIHS has added a new level to its Top Safety Pick certification — Top Safety...
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Consumer Reports Pulls Recommendations For 3 Toyotas & An Audi Over...
Our cohorts at Consumer Reports do an awful lot of testing on the cars they rate, but one thing they can’t do is crash-testing. That’s why, following the results of recent crash tests from the...
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Mini Cars Are Mega Failures In New Crash Test Results
The Honda Fit (left) and the Fiat 500 (right) were the two worst performers in a crash-test group with no real standouts. (Photos: IIHS)The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (better known as the...
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Consumer Reports Pulls Recommendation For Honda Fit After Poor Crash Test...
The Honda Fit after being run through the IIHS small overlap test.Earlier today, we told you how all but one of the subcompact cars (aka mini cars) tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
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Report: 74 Deaths May Be Tied To GM Ignition Defect
The detent plunger in the ignition switch is believed to be the source of the defect.While General Motors has admitted that an ignition switch defect in Chevy Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other vehicles...
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Only 1 Out 12 Small Cars Gets “Good” Rating In New Crash Test Results
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (the place that crashes cars into walls for science) recently ran a dozen popular small cars, including the Chevy Volt, Ford C-Max Hybrid, Mini Cooper...
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Hardware Designed To Make Child Car Seat Installation Easy Is Often Difficult...
When driving with the most precious of cargo — your child — you obviously want to ensure that youngster is as safe as possible, but what good are the newest child safety measures if they’re too...
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Automakers Commit To Making Sensor-Based Emergency Braking Systems Standard...
Earlier this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced plans to change its vehicle safety rating program to include two sensor-based automatic emergency braking systems. While...
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