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Boy, that's one hot car, that Passat. But is it so hot, in fact, that it self-immolates? The NHTSA seems to think that the ignition coil packs are prone to faults that can lead to fires underhood, in ... Tags: passat, cars, nhtsa, fires, faults, vw passat, instrument panel, pot, tdi, combustion, lucky owners, bloomberg, investigations, winding road, passats, w8, hot car
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Ford has not been having much luck with the 6.4-liter diesel engines for its Super Duty trucks of late. In the latest twist of a saga that began in January, Navistar, the company that makes those engi ... Tags: ford, warranty, warranty claims, bread and butter, fires, automotive news, diesel engines, liter engines, saga, damages, super duty trucks, duty diesel, ford navistar, diesel truck engines, counterclaim
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As if Ford didn't have enough problems, they also have to contend with the gift that keeps on giving: their cruise control switches. The company previously recalled 5.8 million vehicles because a manu ... Tags: ford, suvs, tally, usa today, cruise control, lincoln, fires, million vehicles, highway traffic safety, traffic safety administration, national highway traffic, national highway traffic safety administration, national highway traffic safety, customer complaints, series trucks, redux, lincoln blackwood
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What is it with DaimlerChrysler and seating surface conflagration? Coming hot on the heals of the Grand Cherokee's recent recall for heated-seat fires is an investigation of the 2001-2003 Dodge Durang ... Tags: dodge, grand cherokee, detroit news, daimlerchrysler, nhtsa, fires, dodge durango, heated seat, seating surface, conflagration
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A tragedy on Toronto streets that claimed the lives of a pair of enthusiasts has once again set alight political fires alight by those looking to ban performance modifications to automobiles. Whether ... Tags: wheels, deaths, fires, automobiles, enthusiasts, aftermarket parts, conclusions, rants, prostitutes, performance modifications, street racing, toronto star, kenzie, chief scribe, canadian tragedy, short skirts, short skirt, toronto streets, metaphors, prostitute
NBC's Dateline has been looking to compile an episode on anti-Muslim attitudes here in the United States, and to kick things off, the news program decided to take "Muslim-looking men" and a ... Tags: gm, nascar, fires, size trucks, quot, fuel tanks, auto enthusiasts, nbc, martinsville, contract negotiations, dateline, nascar event, side saddle, camera crew, safety problems, religious intolerance, news program, racism, muslim, attitudes
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From the "Who-didn't-see-this-coming" file comes word that British government officials have agreed to shell out some £660,000 ($1.16M USD) in grants to Nanjing Automobile in order to ... Tags: demise, money, automaker, carmaker, automobile, fires, mg rover, marque, quot, collapse, phoenix, cash infusion, dollar basis, british government officials, birmingham city council, channel 4 news, longbridge plant, coughing up, west midlands, grants
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Volvo's XC90 is smokin', and we're not talking sales, necessarily… The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating some 39,500 XC90s due to reports of the cable connecting t ... Tags: volvo, nhtsa, fires, highway traffic safety, traffic safety administration, national highway traffic, national highway traffic safety administration, national highway traffic safety, volvo xc90, crashes, xc90 volvo
Though it was previously reported that Mazda was citing driver error as the cause of some mysterious Mazda5 exhaust fires that prompted a recall, Automotive News is reporting that Mazda will be giving ... Tags: mazda, car payment, fires, wagons, automotive news, christmas, mazda5, recent history, warranties, driver error, free car, generosity
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The Chrysler Group announced last Friday that it will be recalling more than 100,000 of its 1995 MY Jeep Grand Cherokee because water contamination of the transmission fluid could result in fires unde ... Tags: jeep grand cherokee, grand cherokee, models, chrysler, jeep, exhaust system, fires, chrysler group, car owners, temperatures, jeep cherokee, drip, air conditioner, last friday, transmission fluid, dollar rent a car, water contamination, domino effect
Ford issued a press release today stating that its recent recall of the Mazda5 due to exhaust system fires is not due to defective parts, but rather driver error. Mazda has determined that the cause o ... Tags: heat shield, ford, rpm, automatic transmission, press release, mazda, fires, possession, instances, manual mode, highway speeds, mazda5, electronic control unit, unsold inventory, aggressive campaign, driver error
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Considering the recent recall of the Mazda5 for exhaust system-related fires, perhaps Mazda's marketing people knew something everyone else didn't when they wrote on Mazda's own website that the new p ... Tags: mazda, marketing, exhaust system, fires, north america, flames, mazda5, own website, exhaust systems, ching
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AutoWeek reports that Mazda Motor has stopped production of the '06 Mazda5 and has recalled 2,700 of the minivans in North America because of exhaust system-related fires. The cause of the problem is ... Tags: cars, autoweek, europe, minivans, japan, mazda, exhaust system, fires, north america, mazda motor, mazda5, replacement vehicles, ecus, engine specs
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An article in the Corvallis Gazette-Times makes the obvious connection between the cost-cutting effort by automakers to share platforms across multiple models and recent mega recalls that affect upwar ... Tags: automakers, ford, models, other vehicles, automaker, platforms, consumers, lincoln, lincoln navigator, fires, million vehicles, scope, insight, red flag, bronco, corvallis gazette times, cruise control systems, enormous scale, single model
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I've always known that water in the transmission fluid is bad, but I didn't think it was the sort of thing that would cause fires. But that's exactly the reason that Chrysler is recalling about 240,00 ... Tags: grand cherokee, chrysler, jeep, exhaust system, fires, leaks, overflow, jeep grand cherokees, fluid contamination, small drain, drain tube, dipstick, transmission fluid, evaporator
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Another week, another half-assed recall. You'll have to pardon me, folks, but the announcement of a recall of 3.8 million Ford vehicles for cruise-control switch failures has just about sent me over t ... Tags: gm, cars, ford, decade, headlines, cruise control, fires, size trucks, million vehicles, six years, canada, ford vehicles, control switch, major news, three times, negative public perception, statistic analysis, problem vehicles, half year
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When a fire ripped through a home in January 2004 and killed a 4-year-old girl, no one at the time suspected that the 2001 F-150 Super Crew parked inside the attached garage was at fault, and the case ... Tags: ford, cruise control, nhtsa, fires, ford vehicles, switches, control switch, old girl, wrongful death lawsuit, fatal fire, fierce battle, navigators, expeditions
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CNN has reported that an investigation has revealed a defect in millions of more Ford trucks and SUVs that could result in fires, even when the engine is not running. These fires can be caused by a $2 ... Tags: ford, suvs, cnn, fires, million vehicles, highway traffic safety, traffic safety administration, national highway traffic, national highway traffic safety administration, national highway traffic safety, fords, ford trucks, recalls, fire risk, cruise control deactivation switch, deactivation
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The "blue-collar luxury" brand still has an identity crisis and vehicles like the Mark LT truck doesn't help things. Ford's North American design chief, Peter Horbury, is at odds with J Mays and his r ... Tags: ford, chrysler, lincoln, fires, retro design, mays, luxury brand, mark lt, suicide doors, odds, design chief, horbury, lincoln dealers, design thoughts, mark lt truck, identity crisis
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Didn't we just do a story about trying to keep recalls down this year? Ford breaks the seal with over three-quarters of a million trucks being recalled for overheating speed control switches that can ... Tags: ford, trucks, three quarters, fires, navigators, control switches, speed control
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