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PRO Honda: Look After Your Honda Like a Pro

PRO Honda: Look After Your Honda Like a Pro

The PRO Honda range has been revised to give customers a wider choice of Honda aftersales care and to keep their Honda in showroom condition. ... Continue reading

Toyota Responds to Inaccurate Reports of Future Prius Recall for Floormat Entrapment

Toyota Responds to Inaccurate Reports of Future Prius Recall for Floormat Entrapment

TORRANCE, CA - March 10, 2010: Media reports, citing a Wall Street Journal article, have incorrectly reported that Toyota plans to announce a new recall for the 2004-2009 Prius to address the potential risk for floor mat entrapment of accelerator pedals. There is no new recall being planned for the Prius to address thi ... Continue reading

Toyota Goes on Offensive to Discredit Critics - COMPLETE VIDEO

Toyota Goes on Offensive to Discredit Critics - COMPLETE VIDEO

Toyota took its strongest step yet Monday to silence critics who blame faulty electronics for runaway cars and trucks.According to MSNBC, Toyota assembled a group of experts to refute studies by an Illinois professor who revved Toyota engines simply by short-circuiting the wiring. Toyota's experts say the experiments w ... Continue reading

Automotive Expert Bobby Likis' 'State of the Automotive Industry' Suite

Automotive Expert Bobby Likis' 'State of the Automotive Industry' Suite

Frank commentary on Aftermarket Sweet Spot, Automotive Maintenance, Gas Prices, General Motors and Chairman Toyoda's Testimony PENSACOLA, Fla., March 8 -- Respected automotive industry expert & host of the nationally syndicated "Bobby Likis Car Clinic" broadcast, Bobby Likis tells it like it is in the automotive servic ... Continue reading

Who is Sean Kane, the Man Behind the Bogus Gilbert/ABC Toyota Tests?

Who is Sean Kane, the Man Behind the Bogus Gilbert/ABC Toyota Tests?

AUTO CENTRAL - March 8, 2010: Back on February 5th, The Auto Channel's Marc Rauch wrote an editorial that was critical of the handling of the whole Toyota SUA situation. The editorial is titled "" and can be found by clicking on the link. In that editorial, Marc referenced a newly completed extensive study that admitte ... Continue reading

ABC Joins CBS and NBC in Rarified Air of Fabricating Evidence ...CONGRATULATIONS!

ABC Joins CBS and NBC in Rarified Air of Fabricating Evidence ...CONGRATULATIONS!

March 8, 2010: Unless the will be some amazing rebuttal testimony to today's expose' of the faulty nature of the Gilbert experiment to try and prove that Toyota vehicles are bad, ABC and the legal group that co-sponsored the tests have shot themselves in the head. TheAutoChannel will have the complete video at the conc ... Continue reading

Toyota rebuts Professor Gilbert, reports nothing found wrong with remedied vehicles

Toyota rebuts Professor Gilbert, reports nothing found wrong with remedied vehicles

During the first round of Congressional hearings last month, Toyota was blindsided by one Professor David Gilbert who was added to the witness list at the last minute to talk about an experiment in which he induced sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) in a late model Toyota Avalon. His test was reproduced in a shoddy A ... Continue reading

Toyota LIVE Testing Demonstration Broadcast at 1:15PM EST - WATCH IT HERE

Toyota LIVE Testing Demonstration Broadcast at 1:15PM EST - WATCH IT HERE

NEW TESTING RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT GILBERT DEMONSTRATION ON ALLEGED UNINTENDED ACCELERATION Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 1:15 p.m. EST Independent and Toyota engineers will duplicate the demonstration referenced by Prof. David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University in his Congressional testimony. This presentation will sho ... Continue reading

Toyota's Acceleration Problems Prove the Existence of UFOs and Extraterrestrial Visitations

Toyota's Acceleration Problems Prove the Existence of UFOs and Extraterrestrial Visitations

By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher Congress, the general media, what seems like the entire legal profession, and the public-at large are convinced that Toyota automobiles are all subject to “sudden unintended acceleration” and are hazardous to drive. They are convinced to the point that any ot ... Continue reading

What's in a Name: Generic versus Brand Name Auto Parts

What's in a Name: Generic versus Brand Name Auto Parts

Editor- "Unlike many consumer products such as food, there are no government regulations on most auto parts. Yet poorly made auto parts can pose a real safety risk." Doesn't this pose a real danger to drivers? Take a look at the article below. Thanks! Jenn What's in a Name: Generic versus Brand Name Auto Parts The Part ... Continue reading

Toyota Statement on Rebuttal of Professor Gilbert's 'Unintended Acceleration' Demonstration

Toyota Statement on Rebuttal of Professor Gilbert's 'Unintended Acceleration' Demonstration

EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week I watched the Congressional witch hunt interogation of Jim Lentz, head of Toyota's American operations. The subject of Professor Gilbert's experiment came up and Jim Lentz admitted that Toyota had just conducted the same test that Gilbert performed. The Congresswoman zeroed in for the kill as s ... Continue reading

Toyota Evaluates Unintended Acceleration Complaints in Remedied Vehicles

Toyota Evaluates Unintended Acceleration Complaints in Remedied Vehicles

Brake Override Feature Operation Explained TORRANCE, Calif., March 4 -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., has received verifiable information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) about some vehicles whose owners have reported unintended acceleration after receiving the accelerator pedal ... Continue reading

Nissan North America Announces Recalls on 500,000 Vehicles

Nissan North America Announces Recalls on 500,000 Vehicles

Nissan North America (NNA) today announced recalls to inspect and, if necessary, repair brake pedal pins and fuel-gauge components on certain trucks and minivans. No accidents or injuries have been reported with these issues. “At Nissan, we’re committed to the safety and satisfaction of our customers. We regr ... Continue reading

Plug In Solutions Announces Answer to Toyota's Runaway Car Problem

Plug In Solutions Announces Answer to Toyota's Runaway Car Problem

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.--Plug In Solutions, Orange County’s largest Plug In Hybrid Kit manufacturer, is now offering a solution for the Toyota runaway car problem. “The same patent pending technology that we use in our Plug In Hybrid Kits just happens to solve Toyota’s latest issues with their custom ... Continue reading

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