Car Buyers Flee SUVs, Prius Sales Triple May 4, 2005 U.S. consumer interest in SUVs dropped sharply in April as people turned to more fuel-efficient vehicles. Truck-based SUVs have become a traditional profit center for U.S. automakers while fuel savers have long been a strength of Japanese...

In Arizona, if you get into a collision and don't have insurance, the cops impound your car. http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/91125.php Tucson police have impounded around 30 vehicles in the past 20 days under a strict new state law that requires police to seize crashed vehicles if the...

On Feb 23, 9:33 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote: > > > By LESLIE MILLER > Associated Press Writer > WASHINGTON > > The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into > the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, > safety advocates and members of...

Not clear if this applies to LLDs doing the speed limit. Wouldn't that be crazy - to make it a crime to obey the law? http://www.local10.com/news/4357777/detail.html Law Targets Those Who Enrage, Not Those Who Rage POSTED: 5:48 pm EDT April 7, 2005 UPDATED: 6:38 pm EDT April 7, 2005

Hello, I was convicted for DUI (first offense) more than a year ago. I am wondering if you know what car rental company doesn't check driving records at the counter? I know for sure that most of rental companies deny service if DUI is less than 3 years old. Has anybody ever had similar...

The Wall Street Journal Moves Come Despite Concerns Over Safety, High Gas Prices; 80 Miles Per Hour in Texas By STEPHANIE CHEN July 20, 2006; Page D1 With gasoline prices approaching an average of $3 a gallon and Middle East strife escalating, it might seem like a bad time to encourage drivers to...

Why have there been 3,000 cars abandoned at the Dubai airport? You had to know it was going to end. Dubai's storied boom is starting to falter as the worldwide economic woes catch up with the nation's real estate and financial services-fueled good times. Abandoned cars are beginning to pile up...

(as that is where both are headed) If the U.S. economy is to remain intact into the 22nd century, we will have to convert from a oil-based economy to a (most likely) hydrogen-based economy. Oil is running out, period. We need to use what is left for manufacturing and lubrication of vehicles that...

SECOND OPINION: CRASHES: SPEED TRUMPS SAFETY Car culture recklessly puts all of us at risk ANDRE PICARD November 8, 2007 Three-year-old Bianca Leduc was mowed down on her babysitter's lawn while she was putting up Halloween decorations.

Hi Viatologists, Surprisingly, it's possible to each the two Californian super-cities w/o a single freeway. By commanding several state routes, and some city streets, you can get the journey done in a full day by car. Here's how it can be done. (For our international readers, the terms SB,...

U.S. regulators seek brake-throttle override mandate for all light vehicles Christina Rogers Automotive News -- April 12, 2012 - 12:28 pm ET UPDATED: 4/12/12 4:09 pm ET U.S. regulators today proposed a requirement that light vehicles have an override mechanism that enables a driver to stop a...

I am driving North bound on one of the many two lane state roads in Illinois. A group of cars in front of me is going 5 under the speed limit (55MPH). I pull within a few car lengths, and notice the driver ahead of me start throwing something out the window. They then shift their car to the...

They kill and maim innocent people constantly in this country. Speeding is the commonest violent crime in america and yet they still get off with fines!!!!!!!

Why is it, some cars (half?) have the fuel filler intake on the left side, while others on the right? -- Rich

Curious as hell about this. Was taught by the parents to drive in general on a 65 Chevy with an auto tranny. Then the parents taught me to drive a stick on a 67 Dodge 3-on-the-tree Dart. None of them had a tach.

Is this a joke ? Do you really believe this ? Do you think I have a pea sized brain? Then why post such nonsense ? " It's all Bush's fault" over and over you Leftist say this..... You know you sound like little babies...whiney little babies.

In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote: > Ethanol is a solvent that cleans out impurities in a pipeline, meaning > ethanol transported by pipeline won't remain a gasoline-quality > product, said Norm Olson, manager of Iowa State University's biomass > energy...

Should there be No Smoking signs in some cars? A driver today needed one. I was going 70 on a two-lane roadway and noticed a driver waiting to leave a shopping centre driveway on my left. There was no street opposite the shopping centre. I was about 50 m from the driveway when the Sloth...

Jesus, we are looking for terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and we have them right here among us. Don't tell me terrorists who are willing to blow themselves up are worse than these. Perhaps these are selfish terrorists who only care about their own survival leaving the victim to bleed on the...

So check it out... I'm an 18 year old kid that still doesn't know how to drive a stick :shakehead My uncle is in the process of teaching me how so that'll help some, but I hardly get to practice with him and he's the only family member I have that drives manual cars only... Does anybody know...