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2018 Kia Soul And Sportage Earn Highest Possible Safety Rating From The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety

2018 Kia Soul And Sportage Earn Highest Possible Safety Rating From The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 3, 2017 -- The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has awarded its best rating possible, Top Safety Pick Plus (TSP+), to 2018 Kia Souls when equipped with high-intensity discharge (HID) headlights – offered on the Primo Lit package – and 2018 Kia Sportages built after June 2017 when e ... Continue reading

Drivers unsure of how to prevent a collision with wildlife

Drivers unsure of how to prevent a collision with wildlife

New State Farm® Canada survey sheds light on how Canadians react to wildlife while driving. ... Continue reading

GEICO Earns Top Companies for Women Technologists Award

GEICO Earns Top Companies for Women Technologists Award

Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail GEICO sent an A-Team of IT associates to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando, Fla., to help celebrate the company's Top Companies for Women Technologists Award. Pictured (from left) are: Marie Motowylak, Decision Sciences & Transformation director; Anu Pahwa, ... Continue reading

Nutson's Automotive News Digest Oct 16-22, 2017; CR Reliability Rankings; Teen Crash Deaths Down; Autonomous In NYC; GM Helps The Henry Ford; NAFTA; Spare Tires Gone; Recalls Of Course

Nutson's Automotive News Digest Oct 16-22, 2017; CR Reliability Rankings; Teen Crash Deaths Down; Autonomous In NYC; GM Helps The Henry Ford; NAFTA; Spare Tires Gone; Recalls Of Course

TACH's "take" on this past week's automotive news in easy to "catch up" news nuggets. For More search the past 25 year's millions of pages of automotive news, automotive stories, articles, reviews, video, audio, residing in The Auto Channel Automotive News Library. ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM October 21, 2017

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM October 21, 2017

Auto Lab is also about the automotive industry, its history, and its culture, presenting the ideas and advice of leading college faculty, authors, and automotive practitioners in a relaxed, conversational interactive format. Listeners can hear the past 18 years of archived Auto Lab shows as simulcast on www.theautochan ... Continue reading

IIHS Crash Ratings Mid-size Cars

IIHS Crash Ratings Mid-size Cars

October 19, 2017 Subscribe A new crash test program from IIHS aims to ensure that manufacturers pay attention to the safety of front passengers as well as drivers. The test was developed after it became clear that some manufacturers were giving short shrift to the right side of the vehicle when it comes to small overla ... Continue reading

Spare Me! AAA Finds Nearly One-Third of New Vehicles are Missing a Spare Tire

Spare Me! AAA Finds Nearly One-Third of New Vehicles are Missing a Spare Tire

In an effort to reduce weight and improve fuel economy, automakers continue to eliminate spare tires from new vehicles. According to new research from AAA, nearly one-third (28 percent) of 2017 model year vehicles do not come with a spare tire as standard equipment, creating an unnecessary hassle and expense for driver ... Continue reading

How to Identify a Flood Damaged Vehicle

How to Identify a Flood Damaged Vehicle

Following one of the worst hurricane seasons in years and record-setting rainfall in many areas of the country, flooding has taken its toll on vehicles. ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM October 14, 2017

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM October 14, 2017

Auto Lab is about Repairs, second opinions, the automotive industry, its history, and its culture, presenting the ideas and advice of leading college faculty, authors, and automotive practitioners in a relaxed, conversational interactive format. ... Continue reading

Driverless Cars Bring Up More Questions Than Answers And Training Will Be Crucial, Finds 'Driver Ahead?' Conference

Driverless Cars Bring Up More Questions Than Answers And Training Will Be Crucial, Finds 'Driver Ahead?' Conference

Driverless cars could create a highway to confusion unless training and coaching catches up with the fast pace of change and helps drivers cope with a whole new set of demands. That is the overall conclusion reached by a collection of industry experts who converged on London for the IAM RoadSmart/RAC Foundation/Pirelli ... Continue reading

Fewer Young Men Driving Cars More Seniors Driving

Fewer Young Men Driving Cars More Seniors Driving

Number of cars insured drops significantly among 16-24 year-olds MONTREAL, Oct. 11, 2017 Whether they're environmentally conscious, fans of the collaborative economy, prefer to take public transit or want to spend their money on other things, regardless of the reasons, 16-24 year-olds have little interest in owning a c ... Continue reading

Subaru Canada: 2018 Subaru Crosstrek and WRX Earn Highest Award from IIHS

Subaru Canada: 2018 Subaru Crosstrek and WRX Earn Highest Award from IIHS

The redesigned 2018 Subaru Crosstrek and the 2018 Subaru WRX join the ranks of 2017 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ winners. Subaru's small crossover, the Crosstrek, has optional front crash prevention that earns a superior rating. ... Continue reading

2018 Honda Odyssey CabinWatch Wins "2017 Best of What's New" Award From Popular Science Magazine

2018 Honda Odyssey CabinWatch Wins "2017 Best of What's New" Award From Popular Science Magazine

Highlighting one of its many new and innovative family-friendly features, Popular Science recognized the 2018 Honda Odyssey's CabinWatch with its "2017 Best of What's New" award. ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM October 7, 2017

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM October 7, 2017

Auto Lab is also about the automotive industry, its history, and its culture, presenting the ideas and advice of leading college faculty, authors, and automotive practitioners in a relaxed, conversational interactive format. ... Continue reading

New AAA Study Reveals Shocking News: ICE IS COLD!

New AAA Study Reveals Shocking News: ICE IS COLD!

And New Vehicle Infotainment Systems Increase Distractions Behind the Wheel. Almost 8 years ago, we published a story titled "The Ultimate Driving Distraction: Electric Cars." Our story pointed out the irony of all the new in-car innovations being unveiled at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas just a ... Continue reading

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