President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told a Senate panel Wednesday that he would restore the agency’s reputation following the General Motors Co. and Takata Corp. recalls by increasing efforts to catch automakers who don’t report safety defects, and to enforce recalls. Mark Rosekind told the Senate Commerce Committee…
A California federal judge has nixedTwitter’s attempt to escape a $5 million proposed class action alleging the social media giant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages, saying that the equipment Twitter uses to make calls is considered an automatic dialing system. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said on Wednesday that…
Cargill has agreed to pay $6.1 million to settle a consumer class action accusing the company of marketing its Truvia sweetener as natural when it actually contains largely synthetic and chemically produced ingredients, according to documents signed by a Hawaii federal judge. Under the deal, the agribusiness company will pay $6.1 million into a settlement…
Domino’s Pizza was hit with a putative class action in Florida federal court Sunday alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by a consumer who says he continued to receive marketing text messages from the restaurant chain even after he opted out of receiving coupon offers. Christopher Legg hopes to represent a nationwide class…
Toyota Motor Credit Corp. on Friday said that it faces a potential fine from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly engaging in discriminatory pricing of auto loans.
Kia has issued Kia Service Campaign # SC106, meant to address repeated stalling of the Kia Sorrento. We want to hear from Sorrento owners who have had the PCM reprogrammed based on this service campaign. Has it worked to solve low-speed stalling? Do you have stalling at other than low speeds? Let us know!
Stalling Engines in the Santa Fe years 2010-12 What’s causing the Hyundai Santa Fe 2010–12 engines in these SUVs to stall at any time? Hyundai is only letting out dribbles of admissions. This SUV has an engine with a nasty reputation of stalling at any speed, any time, without any warning. That means no acceleration….
Luxury car maker Ferrari was hit with a $3.5 million civil penalty by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for failing to submit certain early warning reports identifying possible safety issues with its vehicles, the U.S. auto regulator said Friday. As part of a consent order filed in an agency administrative proceeding, Ferrari, which is…
A starter interrupter allows a creditor to disable the engine’s starter motor remotely, preventing anyone from driving the car. Starter interrupters can either be manually triggered once a borrower falls behind on his or her loan payments, or they can be activated through a program that tracks the borrower’s payments and automatically disables the car…
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. will pay $100 million — the largest penalty ever levied under the Clean Air Act — to settle claims they sold more than 1 million vehicles that emit much greater quantities of greenhouse gases than what they had certified to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department…
