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Big anniversaries appear to be a flavour of a month lately, with Alfa Romeo celebrating its 100th and Range Rover imprinting the 40th, all inside of the integrate of weeks, it’s now Mazda’s turn as it takes the look back during 90 years of commercial operation in the attention.

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Recent interpretation points to a surge in Florida of so-called “staged accidents,” incidents where criminals fake the no-fault collision to pickup insurance income. The National Insurance Crime Bureau reported the 58% jump in a series of suspicious accidents from 2008 to 2009.

The anti-fraud section of insurers says the leap distant outpaces alternative sorts of insurance rascal seen in a state, expected since Florida is a single of 12 states with no-fault automobile accident coverage, permitting criminal group to file claims for purported injuries, pickup major payments as well as mount small risk of removing held.

The NICB found which whilst South Florida stays the prohibited mark for the crime, operations have stretched northward to Tampa, which has become a activity’s epicenter with 487 questionable accidents which appear staged final year, a 290% increase. Miami had 258 incidents, an 11% enlarge, as well as… Read the rest of this entry

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During the tumultuous sale of Saab from GM to Spyker, product skeleton were left the small up in the air. While a brand new company pronounced the 9-4X crossover would positively be in a lineup, we schooled today which in truth a 9-4X — the antecedent is graphic above — is entrance, as well as it will be revealed later this year.

The news was partial of a press recover touting a company’s newest ad debate “Move Your Mind.” The release additionally says which a Saab lineup will goon to be powered by turbo engines. Most of Saab’s new car offerings featured turbos, though a GM-based 9-7X SUV was not. This likely equates to a 9-4X will embrace a single or both of a turbo engines… Read the rest of this entry

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Small, zero-emission car building association, Riversimple, has started touring the two-seat, hydrogen-powered automobile in Australia to raise awareness for possible prolongation.

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All 1.7 million people who only paid for the new iPhone need to realize a single thing: It’s made of glass. On both sides. Drop it and you’ll likely be shattering which flattering square of hardware, so the box is necessary for this era iPhone.

Case-mate is one of a major case-makers upon a market, and they’ve got a handful of cases available for a brand new iPhone. One is called a Vroom, that has the tire-tread pattern etched into a back of a soothing rubber case. It’s a tidy look as well as will expected do good with anyone who likes cars. Plus, it’s $14.99; that’s half of what Apple is charging for the bumpers, which only confine a device.

Check out a video below to see the case-mate worker show it off.

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We here at Cars.com wish to instruct everyone a happy Independence Day, though we additionally remind you to stay protected at the back of a wheel during a holiday. The Fourth of July is a day with a most deadly crashes in a U.S., with an normal of 148 deaths, according to a Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

An IIHS research of sovereign deadly pile-up interpretation found that July 4, Aug. 13, July 15 as well as, unsurprisingly, Jan. 1 were a days when the many people died in motor vehicles during 2004-2008. For comparison’s consequence, 114 people die in cars each day upon average.

IIHS President Adrian Lund penned a press recover reminding people to stay safe, though also, interestingly, knocked a sudden focus on dreaming pushing.

According to Lund, most courtesy has been since to texting as well as talking… Read the rest of this entry

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After the total offseason of acid for a new Reasonably Priced Car for a BBC’s Top Gear, a Stig has spoken (not literally of course) and selected, good, the reasonably labeled automobile: the Kia cee’d 2.

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Electronic fortitude carryout in the brand new 2011 Ford Explorer will come with an ascent called curve control, which helps a vehicle perform better if a motorist goes into the curve as well fast.

By monitoring the steering-wheel point of view, wheel speed and car submit 100 times per second, fortitude control can cut energy to the engine as well as request the brakes if the driver veers off march. Curve control uses one more sensors to guard if a SUV isn’t branch as quick as the motorist needs it to and can dump a vehicle’s speed by as much as 10 mph in the second.

Ford says each year there have been 50,000 crashes in the U.S. involving curves. While it doesn’t overrule a driver’s braking, curve carryout can support in slowing car speed and react some-more fast than the tellurian motorist. … Read the rest of this entry

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Maserati has announced brand new plans for the subsequent era Quattroporte, that will see the brand new indication focus on fuel efficiency.