RICHARD MEADOWS Car ownership is a fantastic way to burn through cash. A friend learnt this cheerful lesson just last week. She was aghast at an insurance quote in which the annual premiums were half the price of her new car. As a young and inexperienced driver, she was discriminated against - and for good reason. The ...
India has a new ultracheap small car. Well, sort of. The company that introduced it on Tuesday, Bajaj Auto, best known for making motorcycles and motorized three-wheeled rickshaws, does not even call its newest product, the RE60, a car. Bajaj (no relation to the reporter) prefers the generic term four wheeler. Executives say they have no plans to ...
AAP After hitting a 30-year low in 2009, US car sales are poised for a second straight year of growth in 2012. The pick-up is the result of easier credit, low interest rates and pent-up demand for cars and trucks created by the Great Recession. The sales forecast bodes well for the industry's continued recovery and for the ...
Four more car fires broke out in the Los Angeles area New Year's Eve, leaving authorities to probe for any links to a series of arson blazes that burned dozens of cars and spread to some structures in recent days. In a sobering counterpoint to the typical revelry of the night, fire trucks were stationed in ...
LOS ANGELES—Another car fire has been reported in an underground garage in Hollywood and fire officials believe it may be linked to a series of overnight arson fires in the area. Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Jaime Moore tells the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/rxqFxb) it's "very possible" that the fire reported at about 7 p.m. ...