Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Government/Legal, Earnings/Financials, Rumormill, Fisker, Electric Hiccup or death knell? That’s what watchers of California-based automaker Fisker Automotive are trying to figure out after the maker of the Karma plug-in luxury sedan laid off about 65 workers and contractors in Delaware and California while renegotiating loan details with the U.S. Department of [...]
Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Government/Legal, Safety, Acura, Luxury Honda can thank Wal-Mart for the automaker’s recent victory in a class-action lawsuit over Acura RL models equipped with the company’s Collision Mitigation Braking System. The system was designed to warn drivers of a potential crash, tighten the vehicle’s seat belts and automatically apply the brakes. However, [...]
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Etc., Ferrari, UK, Luxury In 2008, a technician at The Ferrari Centre in Kent, England took a customer’s Ferrari 348 TS for a test ride. The tech, Shane Harris, said he was told by the shop owner, Roger Collingwood, to “open her up” and do 100 miles per hour. So Harris [...]
Filed under: Government/Legal TMZ is reporting tonight that automotive legend Carroll Shelby has been accused of sexual assault by a former receptionist. Angelica Smith, who reportedly began working for Shelby back in 2005, filed her lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court earlier today. In it she claims that Shelby ran a “pervasively hostile work environment” [...]
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal Here’s your warning: this appears to be a case that will have people again howling for legal reform. According to USA Today, on July 26, 2009 Diane Schuler drove her minivan the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in New York, eventually colliding head-on with an SUV. Schuler was killed, [...]
