Autoblog Podcast #177 – What’s up with The AB Podcast in iTunes?

Filed under: Podcasts, Etc., Technology, Acura, Audi, BMW, Toyota, Ferrari, Diesel

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Before we get to this week’s show, we wanted to explain what’s up with The Autoblog Podcast in iTunes. The short story is that TV Squad, one of our sister sites in the AOL [...]

Report: Mitsubishi looking to claw back to 100,000 sales in U.S. in three years

Filed under: Car Buying, Mitsubishi, Earnings/Financials

2010 Mitsubishi Outlander GT – Click above for high-res image gallery

When the healthy catches a cold, the sickly contract the flu. Over the past few years, Mitsubishi has been suffering from a degenerative case of bronchial pneumonia, with a side of strep and a nasty rash. In other, less contagious [...]

TomTom data reveals U.S. drivers’ average speed, fastest highway

Filed under: Government/Legal
If you have a TomTom, the eye in the sky has been watching you and tracking your interstate speeds over the past two years. Don’t worry, TomTom isn’t going nark you out – it’s tracking the data from its Speed Profiles program to help fleet drivers find the fastest routes around the nation. [...]

Report: Toyota continuing to sell recalled vehicles without a fix

Filed under: Car Buying, Safety, Toyota

Toyota is in the beginning stages of a new voluntary recall that affects 2.3 million vehicles. The recall involves accelerator pedal mechanisms that could stick due to wear and cause unintended acceleration, though it is technically not related to an earlier, larger recall to fix floor mats on certain [...]

Report: AMG pondering RWD performance version of small FWD Benz

Filed under: Mercedes-Benz, Rumormill
When we think of AMG, the first thing that comes to mind is a herculean 6.3-liter V8 engine that delivers hellacious thrust. We don’t give rear-wheel drive much think time because with Mercedes-Benz and AMG, it’s a given. That will change for Mercedes in the next couple years with the introduction of [...]