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New crash test ratings

to earn a 5-star safety rating, meaning it’s about to get easier for consumers to identify safe cars.On the Thursday, the government announced it is launching the overhauled rating system and said it will begin using the new guidelines to begin testing

Toyota mulls domestic cash incentive plan

October 1, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reported on Friday. Toyota expects the end of government subsidies for eco-friendly cars at the end of September to lead to a decline in domestic new car sales after October, the paper said. The incentive program,

NTSB criticizes Washington Metro over 2009 crash

transportation safety improvements. The safety board is recommending that the government set standards for the ability of transit cars to withstand crashes, as well as the ability of passengers to get out of damaged cars. Loading weather data

Electric car subsidy to be saved

The government has shown support for UK manufacturing of electric cars Motorists who buy an electric plug-in car from January next year will get a grant worth up to £5,000 from the government. The project was announced by Labour but

Australian PM announces new policy on vehicle emission…

2000 dollars (1,791 U.S. dollars) rebate from the government. ‘Australians own a lot of old motor cars, and those old cars guzzle a lot of petrol and they spew out a lot of pollution,’ Gillard told reporters in the marginal Labor-held electorate of

Julia’s $2000 lure to buy new car

meets emissions standards will receive a $2000 rebate from the government. “Australians own a lot of old motor cars, and those old cars guzzle a lot of petrol and they spew out a lot of pollution,” Ms Gillard told reporters in the marginal Labor-held

Kosovo independence not illegal: UN court

move. The non-binding verdict has been greeted with euphoria among Kosovo’s majority ethnic Albanian population who hooted cars horns in delight while their president said it removed the last vestiges of doubt over independence. But the government in

Gunbattles Paralyze Mexican City

Blog this on: (NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico)-Mexican soldiers fought late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets in a city across the border from Texas. The Nuevo Laredo city government posted

How about a Nano instead of autorickshaw for public…

comes true. Transport minister R Ashoka on Saturday said the government is thinking of purchasing 10,000 Nano cars and renting them out in Bangalore. The profit will be shared between the government and the driver, at 40:60 ratio respectively . The

China subsidizes rural purchases of 5.51m cars,…

BEIJING — The Chinese government has subsidized the purchase of 5.51 million cars and motorcycles in the first half of this year, providing subsidies worth 7.89 billion yuan ($1.16 billion) to rural residents, the Ministry of Commerce said here Friday.