Category archives: Auto Industry

Hyundai Motor Co is recalling some Santa Fe SUVs and Sonata sedans for separate air bag issues, U.S. safety regulators said Monday. In the United States, Hyundai is recalling 199,118 Santa Fe SUVs from the model years 2007 to 2009 that were made from April 2006 through July 7, 2008,…

This is the kind of negotiating that a car buyer could get used to. Through Monday, eBay is selling at least 10 new cars per day in a very unique way: The asking price for each vehicle starts at MSRP—and then drops by $500 every hour until somebody buys. Starting…

Toyota has long been the world’s largest automaker, but it might not be the most valuable. A new report from market research group Millward Brown suggests that BMW has overtaken Toyota as the automotive sector’s most valuable brand. The new ranking comes from a report called BrandZ Top 100 Most…

Great little story out of Muncie on bringing fruitful land back from a former salvage yard! Work has begun on a plan to re-vegetate Car Doctors, a former auto salvage yard on Burlington Drive adjacent to the Cardinal Greenway. Revegatation is important in preventing erosion by water and wind and…

Go Texas!  While just a bit tardy to give the American economy of 2009 a jolt, a $10.4 million stimulus grant is just now being put to work getting Austin residents into electric cars at a steal. Pecan Street, an environmental nonprofit based on the University of Texas campus, is…

With fleets of electric cars starting to hit the roads, the next big mother lode for salvage companies is expected to be the expensive, newfangled batteries powering them. Yet even as automakers vaunt the ways these cars can benefit the environment, they are divided over how best to handle the…

Michael Wilson of the Federal Trade Commission confirmed in a letter to the ARA the use of recycled automotive parts is OK for warranties! In the letter, the FTC says: “Warrantors may not claim that a warranty is void simply because a consumer has used an authorized or recycled part.”…

I had quite a few of these myself a couple of years back with my new Dodge Caravan.  As the level of technology in today’s new cars and trucks increases, so too does the challenge for automakers to design and build vehicles with the high levels of initial quality that…

Toyota this past week revealed more details of its new 2012 Prius V hybrid wagon – and reaffirmed plans to begin selling the car in the United States this fall, even though it has been delayed in Japan and other markets because of the March earthquake and tsunami. The first…