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The new Lola-Aston Martin Le Mans 24 Hours challenger hit the track for the first time at Paul Ricard today. The first two Aston Martin Racing-entered LMP1 coupes were put through their paces in the official pre-season Le Mans Series test at the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Your Minneapolis and St. Paul resource to buy and research new cars, used cars, trucks, SUVs and vans sold by auto dealers and private sellers, plus get a dealer quote, find a dealer, get auto coupons, read vehicle reviews and sell your car FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Although the auto industry has been hit hard worldwide, carmakers from across the globe have flocked to the 79th Geneva Motor Show, which opened Thursday, to display their latest concept and production cars. Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, Korea’s FirstChoiceAutoFinder

COLUMN: Umbrella can offer peace of mind - Star-Press
A personal “umbrella” policy is liability insurance protection which can be purchased through a property and casualty insurance agent. This provides blanket coverage for liability over and beyond the primary limits of a homeowners or automobile

Cruiser totaled in Southgate traffic crash - Daily Jeffersonian
Photo By Ryan Pavlov/The Daily Jeffersonian www.buyjeffphotos.com Cambridge firefighters and United Ambulance Service personnel work to free a Cambridge man from a Ford Ranger following a three-vehicle crash on Southgate Parkway and Campbell Avenue

Speed limit on rural roads to be cut to 50mph - Daily Mail
Go slow: The speed limit on single-carriageway roads may fall to 50mph The Government is considering cutting speed limits on most rural single-carriageway roads from 60mph to 50mph, it has emerged. Ministers believe the potentially unpopular move may

Have Smartphone, Can Travel - Gainesville Sun
CAN a smartphone make you a smart driver? Perhaps. Most BlackBerry owners, for example, know they can improve their Interstate I.Q. by using the navigation function of their smartphones, and people with a Web browser on their phone can check out

On this date in NEPA, March 8 - Scranton Times
50 years ago, Lynady Motors in Simpson and Lackawanna Automobile in Scranton advertised a sale on the 1959 Edsel Ranger sedan for $2,599. The “extra features” included turn signals and a clock. 25 years ago, giardia cysts, which cause the

Shelby: ‘Dead’ Banks Should Close; Citigroup a ‘Problem Child’ - ABC News Blogs
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, said today on “This Week” that the government should let trouble banks fail. “I don’t want to nationalize them, I think we need to close them,” Shelby told me this

At least 17 cars were reported burglarized in Costa Mesa on Monday, an unusually high number that police said Wednesday serves as a reminder for people to take care of the valuables in their vehicles. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

AAA Texas and the Houston Police Department have entered a long-term partnership to provide services and education addressing car theft prevention and awareness. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

More drivers opting for repairs over new cars (Pensacola News Journal)
Repair shops keep more cars on the road

Bloomington wrestlers compete with heavy hearts (Bloomington Sun-Current)
Bloomington Kennedy/Jefferson wrestlers experienced an emotional incident off the mat last week. Jefferson sophomore wrestler Tim Crockett’s 34-year-old mother, DoraLasheen Lake, was killed in an automobile crash Jan. 19. Team members and coaches attended her funeral Saturday.

Six injured as two cars collide (Central Chronicle)
New Delhi, Feb 15 Six people were injured, two of them seriously, when two cars collided in the Aman Vihar area in Rohini in north west Delhi late last night, police said.

Family flees, garage fire destroys home, cars in Watchung (Echoes-Sentinel)
WATCHUNG – A family of four were forced to flee their home at 118 Johnston Drive at 8:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, when a fire that probably started in the garage beneath the living room and kitchen caused significant damage to the entire home and two cars, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest and Watchung Police Chief Sean Whelan.

Stewart-Haas loses two cars to a blown tire (Winston-Salem Journal)
Defending Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman and teammate Tony Stewart wrecked during the final practice session before the Daytona 500 yesterday, tearing up Stewart-Haas Racing’s two cars before today’s season-opening race.

French auto major Renault has temporarily put on hold its plans to launch cars in India by 2010 in the wake of the global slowdown as the company has decided to hold back on investments on assembly line at its Chennai plant. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath said on Sunday that Canadian companies have extensive opportunity in India for joint ventures and investments in sectors such as infrastructure, automobile, power generation, petroleum, mining and environment. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Changan Automobile (Group) Ltd. said it will ask shareholders for approval next month to buy back as much as HK$909 million ($117 million) of its foreign currency- denominated Class B shares to help boost the slumping share price. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

CARS that talk to each other and respond to danger much faster than drivers could be on the road within three years. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

New Delhi, Feb 15 Six people were injured, two of them seriously, when two cars collided in the Aman Vihar area in Rohini in north west Delhi late last night, police said. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The bankrupt Prebul automobile dealerships in Chattanooga and Dalton, Ga., could resume limited operations this week and get new owners by this spring, the court-appointed trustee for the businesses said Saturday. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Repair shops keep more cars on the road FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Auto stocks outperformed the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex this week on hopes that the government may announce some tax sops to the automobile sector in the interim Budget on Monday. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Defending Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman and teammate Tony Stewart wrecked during the final practice session before the Daytona 500 yesterday, tearing up Stewart-Haas Racing’s two cars before today’s season-opening race. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

WATCHUNG – A family of four were forced to flee their home at 118 Johnston Drive at 8:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, when a fire that probably started in the garage beneath the living room and kitchen caused significant damage to the entire home and two cars, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest and Watchung Police Chief Sean Whelan. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

As a truck driver, Gul Mohmamad regularly ferries containers full of food and other supplies along the Khyber Pass route to Western forces in the Afghan capital. It’s an increasingly dangerous occupation, with Taliban forces attacking trucks on the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

There are at least 10,000 employees in the Ministry of Transport who practically have nothing to do, the minister said. Amer Abduljabbar Ismael said the employees were highly skilled but the scaling down of public transport activities has made them FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Higher foreign exchange costs have forced domestic car companies to raise prices even as they face difficulty in realizing higher sales this year. Industry leader Toyota Motor Philippines Corp. and all-commercial vehicle player Isuzu Philippines have FirstChoiceAutoFinder

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Interstate 5 remains closed to trucks at the Fawndale exit 10 miles north of Redding this morning. The California Department of Transportation required chains for all other motorists. About a thousand vehicles were backed up at the Fawndale exit at FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Caroline County authorities today identified a 63-year-old man killed in Saturday’s fire at his home. Robert E. Jeter Sr.‘s remains were found after firefighters extinguished the fire at the house in the 30000 block of Bethlehem Road in the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Most of the time, such small choices have little consequence. But on the morning of Feb. 3, when a blinding snowstorm triggered one of the biggest highway crashes Indiana has ever seen, small choices were the difference between life and death. Snow FirstChoiceAutoFinder

I periodically see one or two flatbed trucks - either empty or with products on them - on the westbound service road of the Long Island Expressway between exits 48 and 50. I have no idea what’s on these trucks. I finally took pictures of the trucks FirstChoiceAutoFinder

According to Israeli media, 9 British activists on their way to join a humanitarian aid caravan to Gaza were seized by British ‘anti-terror’ police, along with the aid in their vehicles and the vehicles themselves. Most of them were released FirstChoiceAutoFinder

WATCHUNG – A family of four were forced to flee their home at 118 Johnston Drive at 8:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, when a fire that probably started in the garage beneath the living room and kitchen caused significant damage to the entire home and two cars, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest and Watchung Police Chief Sean Whelan. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Mike Anderson was a very happy man in Columbia Saturday as his Tigers extended their home-court winning streak to 17 games. Rick Majerus, on the other hand, had to be miserable. He stayed back in St. Louis to tend to his girlfriend, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Auto stocks outperformed the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex this week on hopes that the government may announce some tax sops to the automobile sector in the interim Budget on Monday. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

AAA Texas and the Houston Police Department have entered a long-term partnership to provide services and education addressing car theft prevention and awareness. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

French auto major Renault has temporarily put on hold its plans to launch cars in India by 2010 in the wake of the global slowdown as the company has decided to hold back on investments on assembly line at its Chennai plant. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Boynton Beach theft investigators are grappling to stop a wave of GPS units being stolen from cars. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath said on Sunday that Canadian companies have extensive opportunity in India for joint ventures and investments in sectors such as infrastructure, automobile, power generation, petroleum, mining and environment. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Changan Automobile (Group) Ltd. said it will ask shareholders for approval next month to buy back as much as HK$909 million ($117 million) of its foreign currency- denominated Class B shares to help boost the slumping share price. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Emergency responders bid farewell to boy who dreamed of being a - Blueridgenow.com
It was a river of lights streaming for what looked like a mile, yet the procession was silent save for the hum of the fire trucks, cars and ambulances joining the final journey of Garrett Sheehan. The six-year-old son of a firefighter died Monday

Illinois police sell old cars on e-Bay - News-Democrat
MATTOON, Ill. — A central Illinois police force is harnessing the power of e-Bay. The Mattoon Police Department recently put an out-of-service detective car and two squad cars up for sale on the online auction site. And Police Chief Dave Griffith

Car dealers try to survive as economy, sales drop - Lincoln Journal Star
NEW ORLEANS - At this year’s version of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, survival has passed maximizing profits as the focus of the annual event. So as thousands of dealers from across the U.S. gathered Saturday in New Orleans

Suspect held after shots fired at cars - Raleigh News & Observer
RALEIGH — A man was arrested Friday and charged with shooting at two vehicles while driving on a highway. Charlie Moon Lytle, 27, of Darwin Court is charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and two counts of

Detroit auto show’s electric promises belie internal combustion - Detroit News
Listening, watching and reading the international media’s reporting on the Detroit car show, you could be forgiven for thinking that we will soon all be zipping around noiselessly in environmentally neutral electric cars. Ford said it will have

Readers describe their first cars - Everything Alabama
Back in the late’50s when I was a kid, a friend of mine and I were cruising the backroads near Brewton in his World War II surplus jeep, returning from a dove shoot late one afternoon when we passed an old, dilapidated farmhouse with a new Cadillac

Chrysler eliminates jobs bank for now - Chicago Sun-Times
NEW ORLEANS—- Chrysler LLC has eliminated — at least temporarily — the controversial “jobs bank” program that gives union workers most of their pay and benefits while they are laid off, according to a union official. The jobs bank will end on

AEBTRI supplies mineral water to drivers blocked at Bulgarian - Focus Infomation
Kulata. The Association of Bulgarian Enterprises for International Road Transports and the Roads (AEBTRI) sends two vehicles loaded with bottles of mineral water for the drivers blocked at the Bulgarian – Greek border checkpoints, Association told

Tennis: Roddick confirms Williams preteen victory over him, says she - MSN UK News
Andy Roddick has laughed off a 16-year-old loss to Serena Williams, saying he was just a skinny 10-year-old while she was “bench-pressing dump trucks.” Williams says on her website her triumph over Roddick when they were preteens training together in

Background: The inside story of Gaza’s blighted border crossings - Jerusalem Post
How to help the Palestinians in Gaza has lately been reduced to the realm of simple slogans aimed at Israel, such as “end the blockade” or “open the crossings.” Karni Crossing has been closed since Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip. When

Green garbage dumps? Mexico City vows to try - MSNBC
MEXICO CITY - Mexico City wants to turn one of the planet’s biggest and messiest waste management systems into the greenest in Latin America, if not the developing world. A newly formed Waste Commission is working to build four state-of-the-art

Flemington reborn to keep on rockin’ in the free world - Age
See some of the biggest names in music and who their unlikely twins are - it’s like looking into a mirror! See the strange pics. AS NEIL Young arrived in Melbourne — via private jet — staff were putting the finishing touches last night on the

Builder hopes to rack up sales with new invention - Charlotte Business Journal
Ben Collins couldn’t find the right storage rack to handle the needs of his construction business. So he invented his own. Ben Collins grew sick of hauling cargo too big to fit in today’s pickup trucks. And bigger, gas-guzzling trucks weren’t a

Pakistan reopens NATO supply route - Newsweek
Pakistan reopened a supply route for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday after tribesmen ended a three-day blockade. The road through the frontier town of Chaman is one of two main routes into Afghanistan for trucks carrying fuel and

Canadian union riled at U.S. truck deal - United Press International
CHATHAM, Ontario, Jan. 15 (UPI) — The Canadian Auto Workers union is upset the federal government awarded a contract for military trucks to a U.S. manufacturer in Texas. Earlier this week, the Conservative government announced it had awarded a $274

Crackdown on trucks urged as cyclist crushed by cement mixer - Independent
The cordoned-off scene at Harold?s Cross Bridge in Dublin yesterday after a cyclist was killed following a collision with a cement truck CAMPAIGNERS last night called for city restrictions to be imposed on heavy goods lorries following the death of a

NATO supply route in SW Pakistan reopens - Tehran Times
CHAMAN, Pakistan (AFP) – A key route for NATO supply trucks through southwest Pakistan into Afghanistan reopened Wednesday five days after tribesmen blocked it over the killing of a man in a drugs raid, police said. Hundreds of trucks and tankers

Schools closed, traffic delayed around Minn. due to cold - Minnesota Public Radio
That’s the latest advice from the National Weather Service on Thursday, as Minnesota remains trapped in a bitter cold spell. Nearly all of the state is under a wind chill warning, and schools in nearly 200 communities statewide are closing or