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Recalls, Recalls, Recalls: Where Does Toyota's Problem Rank In The History Of Famous Recalls?

Agent00R submitted on 1/31/2010 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:37:52 PM

Oh-kay, oh-kay. So there has been a lot of discussion on Toyota's latest troubles and we all know that in some form or fashion that this will all remain in buyer's memories for years to come. Automotive recalls are not something that the industry is ...

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How Well Will Toyota Handle the Issues of Public Perception in its Recently Announced Recall?

autotronic submitted on 9/30/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:23:38 PM

While there will be a lot of inevitable hand-wringing over the Toyota recall involving 3.8-million vehicles, what’s probably far more important to its well-crafted image of reliability, is how it handles the crisis. Will it quickly step forward and a...

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2009 Nissan GT-R Acceleration Test

bankhead submitted on 3/31/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 6:42:20 PM

Okay, we've strapped Japan's latest monster car to a four-wheel Dynojet dynamometer and tortured it into giving up a 430.6-horsepower rating at the wheels. That translates to between 507 and 574 horses at the crank depending on how much power one ass...

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Thane Peterson gets Lexus LS460L to go from 0 to 60mph in 5.4 seconds

XeroK00L submitted on 2/18/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:00:20 AM

For such a big vehicle, the LS 460l is scary fast. Lexus says the regular LS 460 can jump from 0 to 60 in 5.5 seconds but I figured the long version would be slower. I was wrong. The 460l weighs 4,332 lbs, just 88 lbs more than the 460, and it's equa...

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