News and Reviews about Jeep Cars

A reader is looking for a small, gas-sipping, economical car with as much legroom as possible, and Ask.cars.com makes a few suggestions. Then, at PickupTrucks.com, an Aussie recounts his road trip from Los Angeles to Detroit in a Ram 1500. Finally, MotherProof.com has the scoop on a blogger who writes about someone’s car every single [...]

One of the two controversial Toyota Prius crashes earlier this month is now being attributed to driver error, according to the National Highway Traffic Administration. However, the information released by the agency was brief:
“Information retrieved from the vehicle's onboard computer systems indicated there was no application of the brakes and the throttle was fully open."
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Even though gas prices stayed just over $2 per gallon for most of 2009, the installation rate for V-6 and V-8 engines fell as if those sky-high fuel prices from 2008 had never left. The five-year decline was capped with a reduction from 63.9% of all light-duty vehicles — including trucks, cars, crossovers [...]

 
One of the great fears about hydrogen vehicles is that they will all be mini-Hindenbergs on the road — highly combustible accidents just waiting to happen. The experience for GM, though, has allayed those fears so far.
Having put 120 Chevy Equinox fuel-cell vehicles on the road, GM has five test cases to point [...]

While we still don’t know what happened to and in James Sikes’ Prius, the recent runaway raised a question for law enforcement: Do state and local police have a protocol for dealing with out-of-control cars? The answer seems to be largely no, according to an informal survey conducted by The New York Times.
Officers [...]

Over the years, we’ve read numerous firsthand anecdotes from car owners about problems with their vehicles. They’re written in our comments, on message boards and on other blogs. While they serve as a useful resource, they are still anecdotes and not official complaints to the government or automaker, which can lead to recalls.
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Porsche claimed the top ranking in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2010 Vehicle Dependability Study, with Lincoln, Buick, Lexus and Mercury rounding out the top five.
Buick fell from the top spot in the 2009 study (as did Jaguar and Lexus, which were ranked second and third in 2009, respectively), while Porsche came from 10th [...]

More than 100 cars in Austin, Texas, were hacked and either disabled or had their car alarms go off, apparently the work of a former employee of a car dealership, police said.
The vehicles were equipped with Pay Technologies immobilizers, which are units put into financed cars so that if owners are late with [...]

“Shane” from Pennsylvania traded in his BMW 5 Series for a 2011 Hyundai Sonata, which at first glance seems like a strange choice. On the other hand, he’s so happy with the Sonata that maybe Hyundai should start targeting former luxury drivers. Still, you can’t have everything in a Sonata that you have in a [...]

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McLaren MP4-12C at company unveiling – Click above for high-res image gallery

Early this morning, at least in the U.S., McLaren Automotive had a coming out party in its home town of Woking, England. We were there in person and witnessed the unveiling of not only a new sports car company, McLaren [...]