The wife of the Ecuadorean man hit by a car, trapped under a van and dragged for nearly 20 miles through New York City is demanding justice for her husband's death.
The man who was hit by a car, trapped under a van and dragged for nearly 20 miles through the city was a hardworking immigrant who religiously sent money home to his wife and daughter in Ecuador, relatives said Thursday.
With less than a week to go before General Motors and Chrysler are due to submit long-term viability plans to Congress, a power vacuum in Washington is raising questions about the next steps in bailout of the auto industry.
North Texas authorities seized 22 dogs found crammed inside a station wagon with their owner. The owner locked the car doors and refused to come out when a constable tried to serve her a warrant for the seizure of the dogs early Monday, said SPCA spokeswoman Maura Davies.
A car abandoned in a garage in Britain for half a century sold at an auction in Paris for euro3.4 million (about $4.4 million) Friday.
Shopping for a used car is always risky. You never really know what happened to that vehicle before it went on the lot. Was it wrecked? Was it underwater in a flood? Was it totaled by the insurance company, then sold at auction and put back together again?
U.S. automakers have been struggling to sell cars ever since the economy went south. Now it looks like a sharp drop in travel spending — specifically, on rental cars — has also caught up with the troubled industry.
Northwood police said a man is in custody after ramming his car three times into the police chief's four-wheel drive squad truck. Police Chief Keith Prosser said he was trying to make a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon when a 58-year-old man turned his car around and rammed the chief's patrol vehicle.
Michael Wasserman saw the first signs that business at his Arizona car dealership was slipping as early as October 2006, long before the country entered a recession and the depths of the nation’s housing industry collapse were apparent.
As the nation’s car dealers gather at the industry’s annual convention in New Orleans this week, many, if not most, must be wondering when the moribund automotive market will come back to life.
Optimism in Britain's manufacturing sector has slid to a near 30-year low despite the falling pound, while the car industry continues to suffer amid plummeting demand, business leaders said Thursday.
Authorities said an Oldsmar man crashed into a parked pick-up truck, a business, a fence and a tree before he finally landed in the Pinellas County Jail. According to a news release, a 42-year-old man left a liquor store Tuesday night, climbed into his car and backed into the truck. He then rammed the truck through the front window of the business he had just left.
With our freshly minted new president's inaugural call for shared sacrifice still echoing in the ears of the nation's consumers, we might expect that shoppers would be ready squeeze into tiny, fuel-efficient transportation boxes. Driving spartan, minimalist vehicles could be the Obama-era version of the Victory Garden.
Police on Long Island arrested a man after he allegedly kicked a police car and asked to be deported back to his home country of Guatemala. Police said the 27-year-old man called the Southold Police Department early Sunday and asked to be arrested so he could be deported.
Sheboygan County prosecutors say a 21-year-old man who crashed his uncle's car called police to report that he stole the car and had been drinking. The man was charged Friday with a felony count of taking and driving a vehicle without the owner's consent. The charge carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
With all the talk about a new fleet of electric cars coming down the pike, Jacob in Denver is wondering: Is the nation's power grid really ready for all these vehicles?
The rail car President-elect Barack Obama will ride to Washington for his inauguration contains the trappings of a fine hotel or yacht, with painted walls, cherry wood, brass Pullman lamps and modern amenities for a comfortable ride.
The European Union's industry chief said Friday ailing automakers will be helped with some loans but warned them not to expect a free ride in state aid to overcome the financial crisis.
Toyota presented its 2009 Formula One car on the Internet on Thursday, taking a low-key approach at a time when the sport is under pressure to cut costs.
A luxury Chrysler sedan that President-elect Barack Obama drove before winning the White House is being auctioned off on eBay. Starting bid: $100,000.
Just a few years ago, the world’s automakers took a scattershot approach to the growing need for alternative-fuel technologies, pursuing strategies for everything from hydrogen fuel cells to ethanol, biodiesel and natural gas.
A group of adventurers set out from London for Timbuktu on Wednesday, planning to travel by flying car.
Plaxico Burress was suspended when his team was knocked out of the NFL playoffs last weekend, but the embattled New York Giants star scored a small victory on Wednesday.
The curious dichotomy of the 2009 Detroit auto show is that, while the showmanship has diminished from years past (no Dodge Ram cattle drive past the Cobo Center, for instance), in other ways hype is still at an all-time high.
Police are investigating the theft of a car from a London street, and a newspaper is reporting the vehicle was a BMW owned by Princess Beatrice.