sunroof
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sunroofs
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The descriptions of those incidents listed in a federal database are harrowing: A Kia minivan’s sunroof spontaneously exploded on a Wisconsin highway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“If there was an option to get my car without a sunroof, I would’ve done it,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The automaker has commissioned multiple studies to analyze sunroof breakage, it said, but hasn’t found an inherent defect as a cause, only issues related to foreign objects impacting the glass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
There is a bit of Hollywood magic in this episode of “Margo,” though: During their characters’ joyride, Fanning and Pfeiffer stick their heads out of the limo’s sunroof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the unseasonal car, with its powerful air-conditioning switched off and sunroof closed, we started for home.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The agency said federal regulations allow sunroofs to be made with tempered glass, which must break into gravel-like pieces, or laminated glass, where pieces stay stuck to a plastic interlayer instead of scattering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Outside the Al Thumama Stadium after the game, cars were beeping their horns and supporters were waving Morocco flags from open sunroofs.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
The faithful waved palm branches through barely cracked windows and sunroofs, recalling the procession welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem just before his crucifixion that’s celebrated on Palm Sunday.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
Two mechanics needed help scaling their car company, which installed moon roofs and sunroofs on high-end vehicles being shipped to the Middle East.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2015
One company, T-Ink, has developed inks so robust that circuits, sensors and switches can be printed on flat plastic and then molded into three-dimensional components that control overhead lights and sunroofs in cars.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2012
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