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Paul Clinton of Government-Fleet.com reported that Dodge has added a new option to the Charger: a more performance-oriented gear ratio, to compete more effectively with the Caprice and 2012-model-year Volvo-based turbocharged cars. Police departments may now get either the usual 2.65:1 ratio for better gas mileage, or a 3.06:1 ratio for quicker launches. California has [...]
A judicial panel has decreed that all Toyota unintentional-acceleration lawsuits will be consolidated in the automaker’s US-headquarters state of California. Over one hundred cases have been filed, with very different demands. Most are claiming compensation for deaths and injuries. Others, though, only aim to force Toyota to broaden its recalls, demand the inclusion of brake [...]
After the Detroit News wrote that the California Air Resources Board was threatening to renege on a deal with the White House and automakers to reach compromise national standards, CARB’s chair, Mary D. Nichols, denied that they had ever made this threat. Nichols wrote that they were “fully committed to the agreement” announced by President Obama [...]
The California Air Resources Board announced that vehicles with soft plastic windows, such as those in the Jeep Wrangler, will be exempt from new regulations that require thermal-control windows. The regulations, to be phased in starting in model year 2012, are designed to reduce vehicle emissions by cutting the load on air conditioners. Due to [...]