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Followup: Airbag recall forces Honda past Toyota in total recalls for 2012

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Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Acura , Honda , Toyota Honda has surpassed Toyota for the largest number of recalled vehicles in 2011. Wards Auto reports that Honda expanded an airbag recall to encompass a total of 2.5 million million vehicles last year, pushing the total number of recalled units to 3.9 million vehicles over 17 campaigns. Previous estimates put Toyota at the head of the recall pile with 13 campaigns covering 3.5 million vehicles.

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Report: Toyota tops recall list again in 2011, overall number of U.S. recalls down

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Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Ford , GM , Toyota Toyota launched a total of 13 recall campaigns in 2011 covering over 3.5 million vehicles. Those figures put the Japanese automaker at the top of the most-recalled list for the third year in a row, according to Ward’s Auto . Between 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled nearly 11.5 million vehicles in North America for a variety of reasons, including troublesome floor mats and sticky accelerators tied to the company’s unintended acceleration woes.

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2012 Jaguar XKR-S Coupe

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2012 Jaguar XKR-S Coupe Jaguar is building some of the most emotionally appealing cars on the market today. Eric Tingwall found great delight in chucking an XKR-S around a racetrack, but my short time behind the wheel of this uber-Jag was spent in the Detroit suburbs and a brief jaunt on the highways back to Ann Arbor. It was a journey where I could easily forget just how much power lay under my right foot.

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Nissan details three upcoming safety technologies

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Filed under: Safety , Technology , Nissan Nissan has released details on its latest trio of safety-related technologies designed to reduce fatal and serious injuries caused by collisions. Nissan’s “Acceleration Suppression for Pedal Misapplication” technology works to mitigate collisions in confined areas by detecting whether or not the driver actually intended to step on the accelerator pedal. This system relies on four Around View Monitors that detect nearby objects and limit the response of the accelerator pedal if necessary Next in line is Nissan’s “Multi-Sensing System with Rear Camera.” This technology again uses the automaker’s Around View Monitors to detect pedestrians, vehicles and road conditions to alert drivers of collision risks. This system features blind-spot warning, moving-object detection and lane-departure warning and will be installed in select models beginning in 2012.

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Video: GMC Terrain to get novel single-camera collision alert system

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Filed under: Safety , Crossover , GMC The 2012 GMC Terrain is putting downward pressure on the price of camera-based forward collision detection and lane departure systems. The new $295 option buys customers a system that reduces the complexity of the setups carried by zooty luxury brands by using a single camera instead of the hybrid camera-laser-radar systems you’ll find elsewhere. The GMC system employs a camera for both collision warning and lane departure functions, relying on software to detect vehicles.

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Active Sound Design enhances V8 burble inside BMW M5

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Filed under: Sedan , Performance , Technology , BMW , Luxury Here’s an interesting tidbit we missed while scouring through BMW’s massive press release on the 2012 M5 . According to the text, BMW has employed a system it’s calling “Active Sound Design” on the new M5, which takes in engine speed and load data from the ECU and plumbs it through the stereo to play a real-time recording of the M5′s engine. Here’s BMW’s official explanation: The Active Sound Design technology specially developed for the new BMW M5 takes its cues from the driving situation at any one time to deliver an accurate reproduction of the engine’s sound through the car’s audio system.

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