A second recall on the Chevrolet Optra has been published today. This one targets 35,146 units from the 2004 to 2006 model years.
In some cases, a harness connector in the instrument panel could melt and prevent the headlights from functioning. On a rainy or snowy day, or during hours of darkness, this could compromise the driver's ability to see the road and its users.
Owners are advised to take their Optra to a GM dealer, which will remove the harness connector and permanently join the wires.
Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf have dominated the ALMS so far this season for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, and were on pole for the start of the 4-hour long race at Road America.
But Chris Dyson and Guy Smith came through with their second win of the season.
And it didn't look good for Dyson Racing at the start: gearbox issues had them back at the back of the grid. Factoring in the upper hand Graf and Luhr have had all season in their HPD ARX-03a over the Lola coupe, it seemed all said and done.
But a lengthy pit stop to repair a broken hose costed Muscle Milk four laps.
Which means in the closing stages of the race, the two cars were neck and neck - just like last year where, in the closest finish ever, Muscle Milk pulled the win over Dyson. In 2012, Smith and Dyson had their revenge, ending up with the win, as well as the new record for the closest finish, bringing last year's 0.112 seconds down to just 0.083s.
Issues experienced by both P1 front-running teams meant Martin Plowman and David Heinemeier-Hansson, in the P2 Conquest Endurance Racing Morgan-Nissan got to lead overall for a few laps. More importantly, they got a win of their own in class, benefiting from issues to both the rival No. 55 and 95 Level 5 Motorsport entries.
Dempsey Racing also took advantage of Level 5's problems, as actor Patrick Dempsey and Joe Foster got their best ALMS result ever, coming home second in class aboard their No. 27 Lola-Judd prototype.
In GT, BMW took a long-awaited win, thanks to Bill Auberlen and Jörg Müller for beating Flying Lizard's Patrick Long and Jörg Bergmeister to the checkered. Scott Sharp and Johannes van Overbeek placed their Extreme Speed Motorsport Ferrari in third.
Kuno Wittmer and Dominik Farnbacher drove the best-finishing Viper, ending the race in 22nd place overall, ninth in class.
The PC race crowned this year's champions, CORE autosport's Alex Popow and Tom Kimber-Smith, who won the race as well. It must be said, making the start was a feat in itself for Popow, since he started the day racing Daytona prototypes in Montreal.
GTC saw Alex Job Racing come out on top, thanks to Cooper MacNeil and Jeroen Bleekemolen.
GM and Isuzu are recalling more than 258,000 SUVs in the United States and Canada to repair short-circuits in power-window and door-lock switches that can cause fires.
Fisker Automotive, a maker of luxury plug-in hybrid cars backed by federal government loans, plans to recall all its $103,000 Karma sedans to fix a flawed cooling fan linked to a California fire.
Yes, the annual Woodward Dream Cruise is, at its core, a celebration of domestic cars. But that doesn't mean imports vanish for the weekend -- on the contrary.
A 1968 Ford GT40 racer sold on Friday night for $11 million -- a record for any American auto at auction -- at the start of a series of car sales in California with an unprecedented lineup of high-value classics.
Chrysler Group used the backdrop of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to pull the covers off its new supercar, the 2013 SRT Viper GTS Launch Edition.
We'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but here's a look at some of our favorite classic General Motors sheetmetal from this year's Woodward Dream Cruise.
Not to be confused with weird stuff, hot rods and custom cars are a very distinct genre, resulting in some of the most meticulously crafted creations seen at the Woodward Dream Cruise.
Bosch is in talks with workers in Germany to cut their work hours in response to weakening demand in the automotive sector. Opel also wants to reduce workers' hours in Germany while Ford already has.
While most auto executives don't envision a fully self-driving, or autonomous, vehicle before 2025, features such as adaptive cruise control or traffic jam assist that automatically slow or apply the brakes for a car in certain situations are...
Automakers -- seeking to raise productivity and speed product development -- are increasingly using social enterprise tools to mine information from their most important resource: their employees' minds.
Ayr, Ontario's J.R. Fitzpatick won the Autopro 100, round of the NASCAR Canadian Tire race held Saturday on the Gilles Villeneuve road course in Montreal during the NAPA Auto Parts 200.
Photos: Sebastien D'Amour
The 23-lap race was delayed on several occasions by full course yellows. Fitzpatrick, who drives the No. 84 Equipment Express Chevrolet enjoyed a race-long battle for the lead against two-time series' champion and second place starter, Andrew Ranger.
The race was yellow flagged for oil on the track with just a hanful of laps to go. It was restarted with just two laps to go. Ranger tried everything to pass Fitzpatrick, without success.
The field got the white flag (one lap to go) but two seperate accidents happened simultenously. Unfortunately for Ranger, one car got stuck in the last chicane, causing the officials to display a full-course yellow.
Fitzpatrick crossed the line in first place behind the pace car, scoring his second victory of the season. Andrew Ranger finished second ahead of veteran Robin Buck.
Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas not only won the Montreal 200 aboard their No. 01 BMW/Riley DP, they extended their points lead in the championship as well, and bagged Chip Ganassi Racing's 150th motorsport victory.
Their pair has enjoyed limited success this season, despite leading the championship. They only had one victory so far in 2012, which happened at Road America. With the win in Montreal, their lead in the standings has stretched to 18 points.
Pole-sitters Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty (No. 99 Corvette DP) failed again to capitalize on a good qualifying, coming home in second place, nevertheless. Action Express's David Donohue and Paul Tracy clawed their way back to third in their No. 5 after a first lap incident.
Ryan Dalziel was the big looser of the race, in the No. 8 Starworks Motorsport Ford/Riley he shared with Alex Tagliani. The pair held on to the lead early on, but fell back when Dalziel collected Ricky Taylor into a spin. A penalty for aggressive driving set the back further to an eighth-place finish.
In GT, Robin Liddell and John Edwards (No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Camaro GT.R) put on a clinic.
After grabbing pole the day before, they earned their second win of the season, fourth in Montreal. Following closing in Liddell's strides at the finish was the No. 69 FXDD AIM Autosport Team Ferrari of Emil Assentato and Jeff Segal, who benefited from Leh Keen and Andrew Davis' (No. 59 Brumos Porsche) broken radiator.
Daniel Juncadella (Prema Powerteam) established himself as the man to beat at the Nürburgring's FIA European Formula 3 championship round by winning the first of two races presented this weekend at the German venue.
Juncadella actually started the weekend with a double pole, good enough to put him of the first row of both races. The 21-year-old Spaniard had a clean get away, although right at the start, he could see his teammate Sven Muller, starting second, would be a threat.
The gap between the two Prema drivers increased up until a mistake from Juncadella, on which Muller was unable to capitalize.
In the end, the pair crossed the finish 1-2, the order unchanged, followed by Pascal Wehrlein at the checkered.
The win allowed Juncadella to leapfrog another of his teammate, Raffaele Marciello on top of the series' standings.
Result Race 1 - F3 Euro (Nürburgring)
1. Juncadella in 29 laps and 40 minutes and 45.981 seconds
2. Muller + 5.4053. Wehrlein + 7.854, 4. Rosenqvist +8.590, 5. Jaafar + 16.973, 6. Marciello + 17.646, 7. Sainz + 18.739, 8. Sims + 19.950, 9. Blomqvist + 25.864, 10. Buller + 29.823, 11. Bernstorff + 30.134, 12. Wolf + 38.842, 13. Roda + 39.943, 14. Sa Silva + 44.075, 15. Lewis + 44.751, 16. Zeller + 56.248, 17. Goddard 1 lap
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