Automobiles

Why Are Lovebugs Flying Around My Car?

Mark Hostetler | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Cars, Insects, Pests, Automobiles, Highways, Bugs, Flies, Weird Science, Lovebugs, Weird News News

If you live in Florida or in the Southeast, you are currently being inundated by swarms of lovebugs flying around your vehicle. You may be thinking, "Do these critters have a death wish?" Well, there is a reason for everything.

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2012 Hyundai Veloster

Christina Selter | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Automobiles, Hyundai, Herhighway, Cars, Car Review, Hyundai Veloster, 2012 Hyundai Veloster, Business News

With a lot of today's cars, you have to sacrifice a little fuel economy in order to gain real sports car handling. But the 2012 Hyundai Veloster is a pretty slick little package that does a nice job of delivering both.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and Green Too: Can Transportation Drive the Future?

Michael Rose | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Futurama, Automobiles, Germany, Chevy Volt, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, President Obama, International Transport Forum, Mitt Romney, Cars, China, Los Angeles, Center for Automotive Research, Norman Bel Geddes, Oecd, Bmw, High-Speed Rail, Rick Scott, General Motors, Angel Gurria, Bicycles, Leipzig, Scott Walker, Electric Cars, John Kasich, India, New York Worlds Fair, Norman Baker, Light Rail, Auto Bailout, Politics News

Republican governors Rick Scott of Florida, John Kasich of Ohio and Scott Walker of Wisconsin all turned down available Federal funds. California's governor is happy to take the money to build a system linking Los Angeles and San Francisco but it's become tied up by routing and funding disputes.

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It's Not A Good Time To Buy A Car

Loren Berlin | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Vehicle Transaction Price, Vehicle-Prices, Automobile Prices, Automobiles, Vehicles, Car Prices, Car Prices Rising, Cars, Transaction Price, Money News

In the old days, we could tour a car lot, see the sticker price on a shiny new vehicle and feel confident about negotiating a better deal. But the opp...

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First Car Memories: What Was Your First Set Of Wheels? (SUBMIT YOUR OWN)

Posted 03.27.2012

Everyone remembers his or her first. Many times, pictures help us remember. Fortunately, this isn't that kind of story. What we here at Huffpos...

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Exxon Mobil Predicts Surge In Hybrid Vehicles

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Autos, Hybrids, Automobiles, Video, Hybrid Cars, Green Technology, Hybrid Vehicles, Electric Cars, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrids, Ap, Green-Technology, Green News

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Time for a New Gauge

Harris Silver | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Efficiency, Automobiles, Mpg, Sci-Arc, Calories, Fuel Efficiency, Energy Diet, Dashboard, Oil, Government Motors, Gm, Green, Sustainability, Harris Silver, Policy, Environment General Motors, Dot, Transportation, Green News

The way you drive affects your efficiency performance. With an efficiency gauge you experience this in real time. By watching the gauge, you learn how to drive more efficiently.

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In Texas, New State Law Missing Key Sentence

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Texas, Motor Vehicle Laws, Video, Automobiles, Texas-Department-of-Motor-Vehicles, Joe PIckett, Texas Politics, Motor-Vehicles, Georgia License Plates, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Department of Motor Vehicles, License Plates, Texas-License-Plates, Politics News

A one-sentence omission in new Texas license plate law could jeopardize provisions for enforcing regulations on missing and illegitimate plates. Te...

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Revenge of the Electric Car Charges Into Theaters

Michael Rose | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Carlo Ghosn, Chevrolet, Automobiles, Greg ?Gadget? Abbott, Gm, Alternative Energy, Cars, Volt, Chris Paine, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Jay Leno, Who Killed the Electric Car, Electric Cars, Leaf, Global Warming, Nisan, Entertainment News

What Revenge of the Electric Car makes clear is that designing, engineering, building and marketing this transportation revolution isn't going to be easy. Making it affordable and keeping the enthusiasm alive inside the car companies is going to be challenging.

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When Kids Are Left in Cars: Blame the Brain

Kent Greenfield | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Boston, Child Neglect, Tragedy, Automobiles, Brain, Hypothermia, Brain Science, Children's Health, Parents, Children's Safety, Parents News

I have never forgotten my child in the back of the car, or at school, or at a friend's house. But I understand how it could happen, and I bet most parents can, too.

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Hang Up and Drive, Governor Brown

Steve Heilig | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Telephones, Automobiles, Driving, Governor Jerry Brown, Cars, Accidents, Cell Phones, Simitian, Nanny State, Jerry Brown, San Francisco News

Jerry Brown flubbed a big one this month when he vetoed a bill that would have significantly increased fines for using a cell phone for talk or texting while driving.

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The War on Automobiles

Chuck Thies | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Taxis, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Automobiles, Dc Job Growth, Busses, Cars, Job Growth, Dc Traffic, Beltway, Zipcar, Metro, DC News

If you live in the Washington metropolitan area, owning an automobile is a practical adventure well worth experiencing. And it does not have to be an environmental train wreck.

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WATCH: Berlin Experiences Surge Of Mysterious Arson Attacks On Cars

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Berlin Car Arson Attacks, Video, Car Arson Attacks, Automobiles, Berlin Germany, Vandalism, Arson, Berlin, World News

BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin police say a new spate of arson attacks on cars in the German capital is continuing into a second week despite their efforts to ...

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A Thumbnail Sketch of the Lemon Law

Steve Lehto | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Automobiles, Lemon-Law, Business News

Ever have a car that just couldn't be fixed? It seems we've all owned a bum car at one time or another. The mysterious engine hesitation or surge the...

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'Car Fetish: I Drive, Therefore I Am'

VernissageTV | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Photography, Basel, Automobiles, Southern California, Photographers, Switzerland, Classic Cars, Cars, Portraits, Los Angeles, Art Exhibitions, Andrew Bush, Carmageddon, Vector Portraits, Arts News

Back in 1888, when Berta Benz made the pioneering long distance trip with her husband's car, no one could imagine traffic jams or even "Carmageddons"....

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Road Remedy? Chinese Doctor Sets Out To 'Cure' Bad Driving

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Traffic, Driving, Automobiles, Bad Driving Cure, Jin Huiqing, Bad Drivers, China, World News

HEFEI, China — In China, where someone is killed in traffic every five minutes, one entrepreneurial doctor has an unusual approach for making ro...

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Small Businesses Look To Turn 'Carmageddon' Into Cash-athon

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: 405 Freeway, Mulholland Drive Bridge, Carmageddon, Small Business, Automobiles, Southern California, Sherman Oaks Galleria Mall, Cars, Bob Hope Airport, Mammoth Mountain, Los Angeles, Long Beach Airport, Lapd, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Business owners touted promotions Wednesday aimed at cashing in on the upcoming closure of part of heavily traveled Interstate 405...

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Volatile Gas Prices: Public Anger, Secret Panic

Catherine Lutz | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Sprawl, Automobiles, Oil Industry, Transit, Auto Industry, Transportation, Driving, Business News

Rich enough to buy a Bentley on a whim or poor enough to be set back by a simple traffic fine, Americans are angry about gas prices. This upsurge of emotion is about much more than money.

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The Car Plays: Real Drive-In Theater in Downtown LA?

Wyatt Closs | Posted 08.15.2011

Couldn't resist the pun in that headline, but in this case the stage is a car, so it works. In fact, the stage is 15 cars. Thats the number that sit i...

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Who Killed the Multifuel Car?

Steve Lehto | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Automobiles, Turbine Car, Alternative Energy, Gas & Oil, Chrysler Turbine, Detroit Auto, Chrysler Turbine Car, Alternative Energy Cars, Detroit, Green Automobiles, Green Cars, Green News

Detroit built a car as early as 1953 that would run on any number of fuels, some of which could have been manufactured here. What if the turbine car had gone into wide scale production? Would we still be tied to petroleum?

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Why I Have the Greatest Job in the World

Rep. Bruce Braley | Posted 07.18.2011

Sixteen hours of traveling, endless delays, torrential rains -- to most travelers, this sounds like the Trip from Hell. For me, it was a trip I'll never forget, and it will always be the best Friday the 13th of my life.

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If These Gas Prices Keep Going Up, I Swear I Will Keep Paying Them

James Napoli | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Automobiles, Gasoline, Oil Prices, Oil, Cars, The Economy, Big Oil Profits, Tax Subsidies, Big Oil, Tax Cuts for the Rich, Comedy News

I hereby declare that if the price of gasoline keeps going up, I shall have no other option but to continue paying whatever they ask for it.

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Driving While Human: Is Car Safety An Oxymoron?

Catherine Lutz | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Automobiles, Driving, Distracted Driving, Car Crash, Safety, Cars, Auto Industry, Transportation, Health, Home News

As individuals, we each have options to drive less that can make our families safer.

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Automakers Could Lose More Than Half A Million Cars To Japan Quake

Bloomberg Businessweek | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Business News, Supply Chain, Cars, Automobiles, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Economic Crisis, Business News

(Bloomberg) -- Global automakers may lose production of 600,000 vehicles by the end of the month as the earthquake in Japan halts assembly lines and w...

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Japan Disaster Threatens Economic Recovery, Affects Economies Globally

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suppliers, Tokyo, Sendai, Automobiles, Japan Earthquake, Nuclear Power, Economic Crisis, Business News, Japan, Japan Earthquake Economy, Technology, Business News

The disaster in Japan threatens to significantly impede the nation's economic recovery, perhaps spreading to other nations, say economists. The worst...

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