By Kyoko Hasegawa
Japanese auto parts maker Takata on Thursday rejected a high-profile report that claimed it had covered up the results of tests on faulty airbags linked to as many as five driver deaths.
Honda reports new exploding Takata-airbag death
By Kyoko Hasegawa
Honda said Thursday that an exploding airbag in one of its cars killed a woman in Malaysia, bringing to five the number of deaths linked to a defect in parts made by embattled Japanese supplier Takata.
US Gov’t tells drivers “get used to cheap gas”
By JONATHAN FAHEY
Those low gas prices on station signs aren’t going away soon, the government says. In a dramatic shift from previous forecasts, the Energy Department predicted Wednesday that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. will be $2.94 a gallon in 2015. That is a 44-cent drop from an outlook issued just a month ago.
Daimler’s Car2Go will soon top 1-million users
Daimler’s Car2Go car-sharing unit will have more than 1 million registered users by the end of the year, a company executive said.
2015 Motor Trend Car of the Year is Volkswagen Golf family
Motor Trend named the Volkswagen Golf family—Golf 1.8T, Golf TDI Clean Diesel, Golf GTI and e-Golf models—as the 2015 Motor Trend Car of the Year. The Golf has won Car Of The Year (COTY) only once before, in 1985.
