Ford Motor Company is recalling 2020-2023 Escape and 2021-2023 Bronco Sport vehicles equipped with 1.5-liter engines because a fuel injector may crack and leak fuel inside the engine compartment starting a fire. More than 521,000 vehicles are affected.
Ford in the required filing made public today by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the safety defect concerned prior under-hood fire reports from oil separator inspections associated with NHTSA Recall 22V-19. Ford reviewed two under-hood fire reports from a 2022 model-year Escape and 2022 model-year Bronco Sport vehicle with the 1.5-liter ‘Dragon’ engine. Continue reading
Recycling – Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo at 2022 Automobility LA
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There are prototype concepts and there are phantom or vaporware concepts or an amalgamation of the two. Hyundai’s hydrogen fuel-cell hybrid concept made its US debut at Automobility LA, which closes this Sunday. The recycling of a recycled concept is pertinent in an age where sustainability is necessary for ecological survival. Consider the N vision 2025 that first appeared in an earlier life as we recall at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show. Then it was a prototype-build as the Vision Gran Turismo project to commemorate Hyundai’s 50th anniversary coming in 2017.
This time around the N 2025 Vision concept promotes the Hyundai N sub-brand* electrification business centered on zero-emissions technologies. This one first appeared in 2015. The so-called ‘Rolling Lab,’ like so many others before and to come – is a “testbed of future technologies seeking the highest level of emotional involvement for the driver.” … “This strategic approach allows the N brand to experiment with the most advanced technologies from both motorsport and production car development,” Hyundai said. Continue reading →