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REPORT: Enterprise sold cars after removing side impact airbags

Enterprise, the country's largest car rental and fleet agency, is finding itself in hot water after purposely deleting standard safety equipment from some 66,000 Chevrolet Impalas it purchased between 2006 and 2008 for its nation-wide fleet of rental cars. The full-size Chevy comes fitted standard with side-impact curtain airbags, but Enterprise chose to have the equipment removed to save the cost. In an investigative piece broken by The Kansas City Star, industry sources say that deleting "unwanted equipment" can save fleet buyers like ... Read more →

Ford will shut down 10 N.A. plants in early January Chris Paukert

A bitingly cold wind is sweeping through the Motor City this day, but the bigger chill continues to be the rapidly increasing number of idle plants from Detroit's automakers. As part of a ...

1.2 mil gallons of unleaded gas go up in flames Frank Filipponio

You'd think the folks in Kansas City, Kansas had money to burn judging by this huge bonfire they held with a reservoir full of $4-per-gallon unleaded. Actually, the fire was caused by a lightning ...

Duo critically injured when race-prepped Porsche flies off highway Alex Nunez

Click image to see one other photo of the wrecked 944 Cody, a reader from the Kansas City area, let us know about a story that made the rounds on the local news there on Monday. Two men were in a ...

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REPORT: Enterprise sold cars after removing side impact airbags 4 months ago on Autoblog

Ford will shut down 10 N.A. plants in early January 12 months ago on Autoblog

A bitingly cold wind is sweeping through the Motor City this day, but the bigger chill continues to be the rapidly increasing number of idle plants from Detroit's automakers. As part of a previously-announced bid to trim first-quarter output by nearly 38%, Ford now says it will shut down ten North ...

1.2 mil gallons of unleaded gas go up in flames 1 year ago on Autoblog

You'd think the folks in Kansas City, Kansas had money to burn judging by this huge bonfire they held with a reservoir full of $4-per-gallon unleaded. Actually, the fire was caused by a lightning strike Tuesday night. After battling it for some time, firefighters said they would have to let it burn ...

Duo critically injured when race-prepped Porsche flies off highway 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image to see one other photo of the wrecked 944 Cody, a reader from the Kansas City area, let us know about a story that made the rounds on the local news there on Monday. Two men were in a race-prepared Porsche 944 driving down Highway 350 when the driver, an employee of the owner (who was ...

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Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too!

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