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Consumer Reports Cars Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
It is easy to assume that certain automakers build only reliable cars and others don’t, however, nearly every manufacturer have their share of winners and losers in our annual reliability survey. Each company and even brand product portfolio runs a spectrum of reliability performance, with its own best and worst examples. For some, the range can span from much better than average to much worse...
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Consumer Reports Cars Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
A few recalls have been announced recently that affect the Audi A3 and Audi TT and Roadster, Infiniti M35 and M45, Nissan Cube, Murano, and Rogue, and Pontiac Vibe. If your vehicle is listed here, the manufacturer will contact you with information about what to do, or you can use one of the numbers we list below to contact the manufacturer yourself. 2006-2010 Audi A3, 2008-2010 Audi TT and TT Roadster...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I wrote my first test drive in 1984, and plenty of them were obituaries for departed brands that either died or left the U.S. market — Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Peugeot, Daihatsu, Daewoo, Yugo, Eagle, Isuzu, TVR, Bitter, Laforza, Merkur, Renault, Sterling, Alfa-Romeo, AM General — and man, that list turned out to be a lot longer than I thought it would be when I started writing this sentence....
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World Auto News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Even though the brand is officially dead, General Motors is recalling 10,119 Pontiac Vibe hatchbacks over brake vacuum components that can freeze in very low ambient temperatures. The recall covers Vibes sold or currently registered in 19 northern states. Copyright © 2007 World Auto News & Reviews This feed is intended only for the personal, not commercial use. Fingerprinted: 90d0c6d8260d58aaac9f48zz16bf68a5...
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Even though the brand is officially dead, General Motors is recalling 10,119 Pontiac Vibe hatchbacks over brake vacuum components that can freeze in very low ambient temperatures. The recall covers Vibes sold or currently registered in 19 northern states. GM says that dealers will inspect and modify the brake vacuum lines on those Vibes covered by [...]
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Hatchback , Pontiac 2010 Pontiac Vibe GT - Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors is recalling 10,119 units of the Pontiac Vibe due to cold weather-related brake problems. The vehicles subject to the recall are all fitted with the 1.8-liter four-cylinder powerplant, and were sold or are currently registered in one of about two dozen snow belt states....
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KickingTires (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
GM has issued a recall for certain Pontiac Vibe vehicles from the 2009-2010 model years, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They are specifically recalling those models equipped with a 1.8-liter engine and originally sold or currently registered...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Seems the next Mercedes B-Class is abandoning its MPV shape in favor of a more five-door-hatch-like profile. The shape matters not to us as long as they remove the un-Mercedes-like amounts of suck from the current car. [ SecretNewCars ]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
A woman was killed, a pedestrian was badly hurt and two other people were injured in a crash involving an ambulance and an SUV at a downtown Las Vegas intersection. Police say the woman who died was a passenger in a 2005 Pontiac Vibe that collided with the... Sponsored Topics: Las Vegas Nevada - United States - Las Vegas - Nevada - Adult
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KickingTires (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Toyota has issued a recall for 105,824 cars from the 2008-2010 model years, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall includes the 2009 Pontiac Vibe, 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla and Corolla Matrix, and the 2008-2009 Scion xD. It...
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Car News (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
As even mighty Toyota finds itself with excess production capacity in North America and elsewhere, the Japanese automaker has finally made the decision to shutter an assembly plant. The loss of the Pontiac Vibe means that it wasn't viable to keep the NUMMI factory in Fremont, CA operating on its own, but the rest of the products it builds are still in demand to varying degrees. We've already heard...
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Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
"Toyota Motor Corp. will shut an assembly plant for the first time in its 72-year history ... New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. in Fremont, California, will end production of Corolla cars and Tacoma pickups in March 2010, Toyota said in a statement. GM in June said it would end assembly of Pontiac Vibes at the plant, known as Nummi, and quit the venture ... Nummi employs 5,400 people, including...
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BusinessWeek Online -- Auto Beat (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
Toyota Motor Corp. said that it will shutter its New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif, in 2010. The move came almost two months after General Motors decided to pull out of the 25-year-old joint venture. It should come as no surprise. NUMMI already had everything going against it when GM decided to kill Pontiac and pull out of the venture in July. Its United Auto Workers contract...
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back-report.com (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
I have a 2005 Pontiac Vibe. I drive it about 80 miles round trip 2-3 times per week. After each trip, I have pain in my mid-lower back. I have explored new vehicles with lumbar support, but I’m not sure if that will really solve the issue. Any suggestions on relieving back pain associated with an extended [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) today announced it has received notice that Toyota will not order vehicles from NUMMI beyond March 2010. Production of the Pontiac Vibe at NUMMI for General Motors Corp. (GM) ended ...
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