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2023 Chevrolet Corvette ZO6 details and Interview with Shad Balch

The C8 Corvette is about to get a new version, the 2023 ZO6. While Chevrolet dealers are already taking orders, we don’t expect to see them hit the showrooms until the mid-summer of 2022. This upgraded model harnesses insane power and handling, once left to sport’s cars costing 2-4 times as much.  While Chevrolet Representative, …

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Car Coach: Steel Industry Foiled By Car Maker’s Aluminum Crush

  Friday, 26 Sep 2014   Automakers are pushing tin — cars and trucks forged from aluminum — to create lighter vehicles that are sturdy, yet fuel-efficient, and steelmakers are steamed about losing business, automotive writer Lauren Fix, “The Car Coach,” told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV Thursday. <script height=”401px” width=”584px” src=”player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=ZjAzYmI1NWUzODYwZjQ4NmMzODViNjZk&ec=JkOTRwcDoG8BDD4c3JRhy9eFnyz_7AHY”></script&gt;   …

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Audi Takes Advertising Lead from BMW in Advance of Luxury Brand Battle

According to an article in MediaPost the last week of 2014, Audi plans to invest an additional $2 billion over the next five years to develop new models of electric sports cars and sports activity vehicles, aka “SAVs.”
The reason? To upend BMW as the top luxury car manufacturer by 2020. As a precursor to that battle, let’s see how the two brands stacked up against each other for U.S. national TV ad spend and digital activity during 2014.

US Vehicle Recall System ‘Broken’

Auto expert Lauren Fix, The Car Coach appears on NewsMaxTV MidPoint to discuss the millions of recalled cars in 2014 and problems with US vehicle recalls. A string of defects leading to millions of recalled vehicles in 2014 shows the “recall system is broken” and in need of overhaul, starting with the ineffective National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, automotive writer and “Car Coach” Lauren Fix told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV.

NHTSA Expands Faulty Airbag Warning to 7.8 Million Vehicles

***Latest Updates**** Many sources are misreporting on the following information regarding the recent airbag recall. Here are the facts, from Lauren Fix, The Car Coach.     Removing an airbag is a federal offense – for a dealer to remove an airbag and send a car on its way until the replacement air bag has arrived …

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Read the Manual!

Car dealers need to do more explaining, and car buyers need to do more reading, for the ever-more complex electronics and communications devices in new vehicles so that they don’t become driver hazards, automotive writer Lauren Fix, the “Car Coach,” told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV.

Privacy Battles Looms Over Black-Box Crash Data – Lauren Fix

Who owns your car’s black-box crash data? Lauren Fix, the “Car Coach” blogger and automotive industry watcher, told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV on Wednesday that U.S. law, effective Sept. 1, requires data-recording black boxes inside all new cars sold in the United States — but doesn’t say who owns the data, which includes speed, location, and whether seat belts are in use during a crash. Who owns your car’s black-box crash data?

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