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There are almost as many ways to buy a car as there are automakers. What are your options and which one is right for you?
The Internet
Best suited for: Web-savvy consumers; anyone who likes research. This shopping method can be combined with others. For example, you could do some [...]
cudlautosmart.com
When you’ve got a family and an active lifestyle, nothing’s more practical than a minivan. But some vans are more practical than others. To help out with your decision-making process, we’ve put together a list of the 10 features we consider the most important to have in these family-centered vehicles, plus some bonus goodies. We’ve [...]
With gasoline prices reaching new heights on a weekly basis, perhaps the most important information you can have is how to make your gas last longer and how to find the lowest prices. Here are some handy tips that might help take some of the sting out of your next visit to the pump.
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An Interview with Buddy Evans
Vice President of Big Bucks Autoâ„¢
When selling a used car, the first places people tend to turn to find out the value of their vehicle are often Kelley’s Blue Book, Edmonds, or other similar sites. In reality though, Kelley Blue Book’s and these other site’s suggested retail values can be [...]
By Randy Alfred
1908: A British company strikes oil in Persia (now Iran). It’s the first big petroleum find in the Middle East, and it sets off a wave of exploration, extraction and exploitation that will change the region’s — and the world’s — history.
Englishman William D’Arcy had obtained a license to explore for oil [...]
Christopher Helman with Emily Schmall
National governments are hogging 70% of the world’s most accessible petroleum. You can get a piece of the action by buying shares of companies like Statoil.
The Jack 2 Well drilled in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico in 2006 was heralded as opening up 15 billion barrels of [...]
By PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writer
Oil rose above $133 a barrel Monday on persistent worries about global petroleum supplies and the outlook for the U.S. economy and the dollar.
Reports of an attack by militants on an oil pipeline in Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest oil exporters, also helped boost prices.
Light, sweet crude for [...]
100 MPG Vehicles Will Race to Share $10 Million Prize
NEW YORK, New York, March 23, 2008 (ENS)
The Automotive X PRIZE Foundation will award at least $10 million in privately funded prizes to teams that can engineer clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon, or its energy equivalent fuel efficiency, and win [...]
Consumer Reports’ tests show how to get the best gas mileage
The best way to burn less fuel is to buy a car that gets better gas mileage. But our tests with a Toyota Camry and other vehicles show there are ways to minimize what you spend at the pump with your current car.
Drive at a [...]
Guide to gasoline-electric hybrid cars and powertrains
ConsumerReports.org
Most people know by now that hybrids use electricity to achieve good gas mileage, but how their advanced powertrains work and whether they help your pocketbook is a bit more complicated. Here we’ll take a look at the basic technology and its variations. In a future article we’ll discuss [...]
The pint-size 2008 Smart fortwo receives the highest rating in front-end and side-impact testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
By The Associated Press
The pint-size 2008 Smart fortwo receives the highest rating in front-end and side-impact testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The 2008 Smart fortwo micro car, the smallest car for sale in [...]
by Daniel Rook
TOKYO (AFP) - Toyota Motor Corp. warned Thursday that it expects its first drop in annual profits in nine years due to a weak US economy, a stronger yen and soaring raw material costs.
Japan’s largest automaker reported another record performance for the financial year which ended in March on the back of [...]
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