A thousand complaints about the sudden loss of power steering in one vehicle made from 2007 to 2011. Dozens of complaints about intermittent loss of electrical power in a 2012 model. Inexplicable headlight outages. Brake failures possibly linked to ice. Carbon monoxide build-up serious enough to cause a driver fatigue, nausea and headache. All are examples of problems in cars or trucks traveling U.S. highways. All were recently brought to the attention of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. All are problems I can't detail for you, identifying makes and models, because none ever prompted a formal inquiry by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation, according to a report last...
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