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.
PITTSBURGH -- A Highland Park man is facing charges after he allegedly left his 3-year-old child locked in a car in a grocery store parking lot. The incident happened Thursday afternoon at the Giant Eagle Market District store on Centre Avenue in Shadyside.
Excerpt: Your 2001 Toyota Camry comes to a sputtering stop.
Millions of new unsold cars are parked in ports and factories. These 10 pix show the depth of car maker's problems better than any chart. Check the predictions at page bottom.
The emergency loans last December to GM and Chrysler enabled the companies to stagger into the Obama era, but just barely. Their factories are closed, consumers on hold and balance sheets in a shambles.
Dream: Getting rid of high-living UAW workers will help Detroit compete. Reality: Unions have already made significant concessions. At this point, there may not be much more to squeeze out.
Dream: Trimming underperforming brands and their dealer networks will streamline operations. Reality: It might help GM, but it's not easy or quick ................................................
Dream: Higher quality cars can bring back buyers who've gone to Asian brands. Reality: Regaining the trust of car buyers will be key. But it's a long-term issue. ................................................................ Ford Motor Co.
Dream: Small, fuel-efficient cars will bring back buyers. Reality: Small cars are important... as loss leaders. ................................. Small, good cars are crucial for bringing in first-time buyers who trade up to more expensive products later on.
Dream: Plug-in cars will leapfrog General Motors and Chrysler ahead of Asian competitors. Reality: Electric cars are pricey and unprofitable. ........................... In reality, neither of these plans will yield big profits or particularly high sales numbers in either case.
While driving Rihanna home to her Hancock Park apartment, Brown reportedly received a sexually-explicit text message from a woman. "He got a booty call. He got a text. Rihanna saw it and she got upset. They started to argue," said the Daily News source.
BRADENTON, Fla. -- A Sarasota man was arrested after allowing his 8-year-old son to drive a van, police said. Police arrested Mark A. Belanger, 34, just before midnight Sunday on charges of child abuse and permitting an unlicensed driver to drive.
22 dogs, including two puppies, were found crammed inside a [station] wagon by Texas authorities in Pottsboro, a city about 70 miles north of Dallas.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Two suspects in a convenience store robbery may have been able to get away from the scene of the crime, but the heat from their car ultimately gave them away.
A novel kind of transit system, in which cars are replaced by a network of automated electric vehicles, is about to get its first large-scale testing and deployment.
West Memphis detectives investigating a bombing that severely injured the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board are "at a dead end" only three days after the attack, the police chief said Friday.
A Michigan judge says he's learned a lesson about locking his car after a 16-year-old prisoner who escaped from a courthouse cell was found hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
JENSEN BEACH — Martin County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the remains of a female fetus found in a bag in a Ford Escort at an apartment complex, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Thursday.
A man was arrested in a supermarket car park after shoppers spotted him kissing two inflatable sex dolls in his car.
Taxicabs are not only driven in Poughkeepsie. They're made in Poughkeepsie, and now, they're sold and running in Poughkeepsie.
Excerpt: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM-- More than 125,000 crashes were caused last year by motorists with colds and flu, as new scientific research reveals the serious impact of driver illness on accident rates(2).
---Photos on link page.--- Excerpt: Update: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived".
A motorist who allowed a driver hurt in an accident to take refuge in his car after a crash had to endure the sight of firefighters cutting off his roof to remove the injured man.
A 23-year-old man launched his car off a steep slope into the roof of a Limbach-Oberfrohna church in a high-speed accident that left the driver seriously injured, police in the state of Saxony reported on Monday.
FRANKLIN (Somerset) —Hundreds of dead birds have fallen across the southern part of the township, and at least one resident who found her lawn and car littered with the carcasses Saturday is being told she has to clean up the mess.