Tim Goodwin doesn't spend much time behind the wheel of his 2004 Chevy Tahoe. Even though he only covers about 3,000 miles per year -- using it just for weekend trips -- he had, until recently, been getting no special deal on his insurance for driving so little.
Cell phones and TVs converging with the Internet? That's so 2008. The next big tech trend may be the marriage of computer technology to your car or truck.
Okay, you've decided what model of car you want to buy. And you know, more or less, how much you want to spend -- or how much you can afford. You've kicked tires, talked to salesmen, taken a few shiny new numbers for a test-drive and you're ready to make the deal.
A new discount plan from GMAC Insurance gives a discount on premiums to drivers of General Motors vehicles with the OnStar service if they let the insurer track the number of miles they drive.
Throughout their history, insurance companies have done more than collect premiums and pay claims. They've made the world a safer place - by promoting fire prevention, lobbying for building codes, testing the crash-worthiness of cars and rating vehicles for safety.
It may come as a shock to hometown boosters in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit, but the biggest auto show in North America opens on Feb. 8 and it isn't in any of those cities. Instead it fills the cavernous spaces of McCormick Place in Chicago and draws more potential customers than exhibitions in those lesser cities. Expect it to make plenty of news this year.
A Texas woman was allegedly robbed and killed by three hurricane evacuees she befriended after meeting them at her church, according to Pasadena, Texas, police.
Tim Goodwin doesn't spend much time behind the wheel of his 2004 Chevy Tahoe. Even though he only covers about 3,000 miles per year -- using it just for weekend trips -- he had, until recently, been getting no special deal on his insurance for driving so little.
Cell phones and TVs converging with the Internet? That's so 2008. The next big tech trend may be the marriage of computer technology to your car or truck.
Okay, you've decided what model of car you want to buy. And you know, more or less, how much you want to spend -- or how much you can afford. You've kicked tires, talked to salesmen, taken a few shiny new numbers for a test-drive and you're ready to make the deal.
A new discount plan from GMAC Insurance gives a discount on premiums to drivers of General Motors vehicles with the OnStar service if they let the insurer track the number of miles they drive.
Throughout their history, insurance companies have done more than collect premiums and pay claims. They've made the world a safer place - by promoting fire prevention, lobbying for building codes, testing the crash-worthiness of cars and rating vehicles for safety.
It may come as a shock to hometown boosters in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit, but the biggest auto show in North America opens on Feb. 8 and it isn't in any of those cities. Instead it fills the cavernous spaces of McCormick Place in Chicago and draws more potential customers than exhibitions in those lesser cities. Expect it to make plenty of news this year.
A Texas woman was allegedly robbed and killed by three hurricane evacuees she befriended after meeting them at her church, according to Pasadena, Texas, police.
Online mapping sites are great. I try to remember how I found my way before they existed. The thought of tracing out routes on a paper map seems like a hassle and potentially dangerous.
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I climb into one of Detroit's latest creations--the 2004 Cadillac Escalade, a shiny black SUV about the size of my living room--and throw it into reverse. "Boing! Boing! Boing!" Ultrasonic signals ...
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I can see how some people might have problems with On Time, an increasingly popular product designed to force car owners to pay up on their loans by subjecting them to humiliation and--at best--ext...
In the late 1990s, General Motors' OnStar seemed like one of those world-changing technologies. By connecting motorists to a call center, a wireless network, and the Internet, OnStar would transfor...
Best concept. To you, it may look like a glorified go-cart. But to more than 200,000 drivers in Europe and Japan, DaimlerChrysler's eight-foot-long "smart car" (right) is a very big deal. Think of ...
At a time when people are connected at home, in the office, and even on top of Mount Everest, the automobile has remained more or less an isolation chamber. Even drivers who cruise the expressway w...
The 49-year-old president of e-GM is a veteran engineer. Hogan has spent the past 26 years at General Motors and now runs the company's e-consumer efforts. He is overseeing the development of the O...
As a new generation of hands-free phones, wireless modems, palmtops, dashboard GPS maps with voice-activated displays, and OnStar-type services transforms the automobile from its traditional role a...
If you happened to hear a collective sigh on Feb. 2, it was the sound of disappointment on the lips of automotive types--analysts, executives, bankers, car enthusiasts--over the news that General M...
As if NATO's decision whether to open a ground offensive in Kosovo weren't weighty enough, consider: It could affect your next car purchase. Without diminishing the gravity of the Yugoslav conflict...
Roadside assistance: Many new cars now come with an 800 number for emergency roadside assistance, but General Motors' OnStar (available on 25 models so far) is special: OnStar works with global pos...
If James Bond ever retires and moves to the suburbs, he'll probably drive a vehicle a lot like Delco Electronics' experimental SSC car. It doesn't have a passenger-side ejection seat or .30 caliber...
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