Faulty mileage readings like those found in some Hondas might cost you big bucks if your vehicle warranty expires prematurely. To protect yourself, run a check. By Bankrate.com Is your odometer costing you money? As bizarre as that question may seem, a recent lawsuit settlement has revealed that all odometers are not created equal. Some [...]
Economy models haven’t been big sellers in recent years, and carmakers built relatively few of them. Now supplies are tight as demand for the vehicles soars along with gas prices. By The Wall Street Journal The appeal of fuel efficiency is moving beyond the new-car market and creating a run on small used cars. Used [...]
Fast cars and racetracks go together like Monaco and money. By Greg Brown of MSN autos Were you the kid who raced toy cars over the hills of your bedspread at night and then dreamed of winning the Monaco Grand Prix? Were you the teenager who sneaked car magazines into class between the covers of [...]
Written by Alan Bellows In Britain, there is a very small car company called Ariel, and they make a very small car called the Atom 2. Ariel has been building cars for since 1898– over 100 years– yet today they have fewer than 10 employees, and work out of a barn. But as small as [...]
• New reports says Fortwo is greenest car • Based on CO2 and nitrogen oxide emissions • Toyota Prius came 12th in survey In the study by Cardiff University and automotive consultants Thames Clifford, researchers gave a car’s carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions 50% weighting in assessing its overall environmental score. For the other [...]
Exhibit A: the Swiss-built Weber Faster One By Mike Spinelli Let’s face it. It’s hard to design a new exotic supercar. The most timeless shapes were spoken for years ago, and every exotic since then has been just a derivative mishmash of science fiction and aerodynamics optimization (especially the homemade ones). That’s not to say [...]
By Amanda Ripley The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs. If gas prices went up, well, we kept our Explorers aimed at the horizon, and little changed. We truthfully didn’t have lots of options. Unlike Europeans, we didn’t have jobs we could bike to or convenient public transit. Gasoline prices [...]
GM’s Hummer leads the sales nose-dive By Joe Benton ConsumerAffairs.com Consumers are snapping up Hondas as gasoline prices head higher. The Japanese automaker reported a 13.8 percent gain over June 2007 and a new monthly sales record. But for almost every other automaker, June sales were the worst in recent memory. Toyota sales dropped 11.5 [...]
Most expensive holiday weekend prices ever By Joe Benton ConsumerAffairs.com The July 4 holiday will see $4 gasoline throughout most of the country. Consumers will spend more money per gallon on gasoline celebrating the national holiday weekend than they have ever spent in the history of the nation. Retail gas prices set a record price [...]
Ford, Mazda also rank well in J.D. Power study ConsumerAffairs.com With more and more people using the Internet to shop for a new car, Kia.com has pulled into the lead. The site ranks highest among automotive manufacturer Web sites for usefulness in the search for a new vehicle, according to the J.D. Power and Associates [...]
Consumers are looking at other transportation options to ease the burden on their wallets. With the rising cost of fuel, consumers are looking at other transportation options to ease the burden on their wallets. Consequently, interest in motorcycles and motor scooters has increased dramatically of late, evidenced by both sales and feedback from our readers. [...]
Are you paying for the car or the name? By Lawrence Ulrich of MSN autos Here’s a question that buyers of top-shelf, name-in-lights cars usually don’t care to confront: How much are you paying for the car, and how much for the brand-name badge? There’s no doubt that companies such as BMW, Porsche and even [...]
Next Page »
