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CNNMoney: Newest Volkswagen Beetle unveiledupdated: Mon Apr 18 2011 16:36:00

The 2012 New Beetle, the car that Oprah Winfrey gave away to her audience back in November, is finally ready to show itself in public.

10 cars that might rekindle your youthupdated: Fri Oct 10 2008 09:25:00

Magazines are full of beauty and health secrets with tips on how to improve your inner health and polish and paint your external persona. All of this designed to keep you feeling young.

CNNMoney: Fuel-saving tips: a closer lookupdated: Mon Jun 09 2008 11:27:00

Two recent stories we did on gas saving tips resulted in a lot of reader email. And three tips in particular generated some pretty heated debate.

Secrets to finding hidden car dealsupdated: Fri Apr 11 2008 10:16:00

You've done your homework. You've navigated countless car dealerships at the end of the month and quarter, with Internet quotes in hand so you know what's out there. You know about rebates and why invoice price may still leave you out of pocket. You've studied "The Donald's" negotiating skills. And you still can't find a car at a price that suits.

Time.com: The World's Cheapest Carupdated: Thu Jan 10 2008 11:00:00

India's new $2,500 Nano just may change the lives of millions of the world's poor. But some worry it could also complicate environmental problems

Most Recalled Cars of 2007updated: Fri Dec 14 2007 10:04:00

It's been the kind of year when the total number of recalls almost seemed to match auto industry production figures.

Ford's Escape battles the SuperDuty F-450updated: Mon Mar 05 2007 17:16:00

Matching the right vehicle to the job is important - especially in small business, where efficiency and image count. You wouldn't drive a Jaguar to the dump, just as you wouldn't cram the soccer team into a Volkswagen Beetle.

FSB: Lightweight or SuperDuty?updated: Thu Mar 01 2007 00:01:00

MATCHING THE RIGHT VEHICLE TO THE job is important—especially in small business, where efficiency and image count. You wouldn't drive a Jaguar to the dump, just as you wouldn't cram the soccer team...

More showers loom in wake of landslide updated: Tue Feb 27 2007 16:51:00

More rain predicted in San Francisco threatens to further crumble a hillside that fell apart in a landslide Tuesday.

Sale of 'world's most valuable car' postponedupdated: Fri Feb 09 2007 14:11:00

The auction of a rare 1939 German race car, which had been expected to command the highest price ever paid for any automobile at auction, has been postponed, the Christie's auction house said Friday.

Fortune: Behind the scenes at the Detroit auto showupdated: Fri Jan 05 2007 16:15:00

For the next couple of days, you won't be able to escape the avalanche of news from the Detroit auto show. Manufacturers will do everything in their power to focus attention on the models they'll be unveiling. They have compiled elaborate information kits and planned glitzy product reveals to extract the last ounce of glamour and drama from the displays.

Money Magazine: Things My Father Taught Me About Moneyupdated: Tue May 02 2006 11:44:00

Several months ago I was helping my father haul some old, rusty filing cabinets out to the garage. One of the drawer latches popped, and a stack of black, bound financial ledgers spilled onto the c...

CNNMoney: Extreme home sellingupdated: Thu Jan 26 2006 09:07:00

Everybody wants something for nothing, and as housing markets slows, homebuyers are starting to get just that. Sellers, reluctant to drop home prices, have been finding creative ways to move product.

showbuzzupdated: Fri Jun 24 2005 16:04:00

Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson and partner Arpad Busson announced Friday that they are separating.

Hollywood hocus-pocusupdated: Tue Jun 21 2005 14:49:00

"Bewitched," a feature film based on the '60s TV series, comes out this weekend.

Space probe on way to Saturn moonupdated: Fri Dec 24 2004 23:19:00

A small space probe launched from NASA's Cassini spacecraft late Friday is making a beeline for the surface of Saturn's hazy moon Titan, taking an historic trip to unlock the stubborn mysteries of a perplexing place -- discoveries that might even shed light on Earth's own origins.

CNNMoney: Hybrid Insight most efficient vehicleupdated: Fri Oct 08 2004 07:32:00

Honda's gas-electric hybrid Insight edged out the Toyota hybrid Prius for the most fuel-efficient vehicle, according to the government mileage readings, while the Dodge Ram pickup was measured as the worst gas guzzler.

CNNMoney: Will Smart's weird cars make it here?updated: Thu Sep 09 2004 10:22:00

If you've been to Europe in the past few years, you may have seen people driving around in small cars that look like giant insect heads.

Money Magazine: Wheels: Fun in the Sun Five New Convertibles To Heat Up Your Summerupdated: Thu Jul 01 2004 00:01:00

Among my road rules: Anyone who loves cars must own at least one convertible before he dies. Even if he lives in Duluth.

CNNMoney: Score one for the little guysupdated: Fri Mar 12 2004 10:26:00

America loves big. Big spaces. Big portions. And always, big cars. Make that big trucks, with the sales balance tipped firmly in favor of colossal crossovers, mega-minivans, and portly pickups and SUVs.

Fortune: Designing a Legacyupdated: Mon Sep 01 2003 00:01:00

Apple's Cube, VW's Beetle, Michael Graves's toaster: The material world has never looked so good. It is, to some degree, a Brooks Stevens world. A pioneer of industrial design's first golden age (a...

FSB: Geek Unique? Suddenly every computer repair service has a sense of humor.updated: Mon Jul 01 2002 00:01:00

How many times can you recall holding your breath in reservation when your computer crashed? And not because your system was down. Because it meant waking the beast and dialing up the company's tec...

Fortune: The Playlistupdated: Mon Mar 04 2002 00:01:00

Lovage Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By 75 Ark

Fortune: These Guys Have A Cool Web Strategy Geek Squad gets small businesses ready for the Internet by building a solid tech foundation.updated: Mon Mar 05 2001 00:01:00

For the past seven years, or about as long as dot-coms have been part of the business landscape, a team of special agents in clip-on ties and high-water pants has driven around Minnesota's Twin Cit...

FSB: These guys have a cool Web strategy Geek Squad gets small business ready for the Net by building a solid tech foundation.updated: Thu Feb 01 2001 00:01:00

For the past seven years, or about as long as dot-coms have been part of the business landscape, a team of special agents donning clip-on ties and high-water pants has driven around Minnesota's Twi...

FSB: Cuddly Carsupdated: Wed Nov 01 2000 00:01:00

You've heard of chick flicks. Say hello to chick cars. American drivers drooled over fins in the '50s, swooned over chrome in the '60s, and steered aerodynamic jelly beans through the '70s and '80s...

Money Magazine: Maybe You Could Drive My Carupdated: Sun Oct 01 2000 00:01:00

Actor Kiko Ellsworth, who plays street-smart Jamal Woods on ABC's General Hospital spin-off, Port Charles, also plays it smart on the highways of Southern California, earning $350 a month to displa...

Fortune: The Next Wave: Personal Submersiblesupdated: Mon Mar 20 2000 00:01:00

Like space, undersea exploration has proved difficult for folks without a government agency or good friends in the Navy. While the technology has existed for years to build light, safe, compact sub...

Fortune: The 20th Century: A Life Leadership Speed Excess Ingenuity Salesmanship Follyupdated: Mon Nov 22 1999 00:01:00

The past 100 years have easily been the most frenetically paced in the history of business, bookended by the flowering of the Industrial Revolution and the global ball of e-string that is the Inter...

Fortune: Blodget on Net Stocks And the Next Shakeoutupdated: Mon Nov 22 1999 00:01:00

Predicting the fate of Internet stocks has become a national obsession. Investors watch anxiously as the sector peaks and plummets and as IPOs flood the market. When picking a Net stock can mean th...

Fortune: Why eBay Is Flyingupdated: Mon Dec 07 1998 00:01:00

The dangerous thing about auctions is that bidders can end up paying more than they ever meant to, because they don't want to risk missing a great opportunity. Kind of like the way investors are tr...

Fortune: SUBJECTIVELY SEEKING THE CAR OF THE CENTURY HEY! WHAT ABOUT THE YUGO?updated: Mon Nov 10 1997 00:01:00

With the end of the century drawing ever closer, we are already being inundated by contests and stunts to determine the most important whatever of the past 100 years. Among the competitions already...

Fortune: THE OTHER FORTUNE 500updated: Mon Mar 03 1997 00:01:00

Erase una vez, or once upon a time, the smart money looked to Latin America as the setting for the next burst of international prosperity. The year was 1950, postwar industries seemed unstoppable, ...

Fortune: Hertz and Avis Get a New Competitorupdated: Mon Nov 14 1994 00:01:00

Maybe Hertz can afford to stay above the fray, but No. 2 Avis already recognizes the threat posed by car co-ops like the one just started in Eugene, Oregon. After forking over $250 in membership fe...

Fortune: AUTOMAKER BOSSES ON THEIR FINAL STRETCHupdated: Mon Apr 20 1992 00:01:00

The mystery of who'll take over for Lee Iacocca as CEO of Chrysler is apparently solved (for more, see Autos). Little noticed in all the hubbub surrounding Chrysler's announcement is the fact that ...

Fortune: THE GERMANS SURVIVORS OF TUMULTUOUS TIMESupdated: Mon Oct 12 1987 00:01:00

The extraordinary talents required to build wealth of billions are the same in Germany as elsewhere. But preserving family money through decades of hyper- inflation, fascism, and defeat in two worl...

Fortune: THE BIGGEST BOSSES 18. CARL HAHN VOLKSWAGEN A SPEED DEMON HITS A SLIPPERY PATCHupdated: Mon Aug 03 1987 00:01:00

A trim 60-year-old, Chairman Carl Hahn loves to tear around the Volkswagen test track on the replica of an antique motorcycle his employees gave him on his last birthday. This summer he is looking ...

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