PHOTOS: Chrome wheels and customized rides at Puerto Rican Day Parade
The floats, fanfare, and music was amazing at the annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade, but, if you were there, you had to stop to admire the customized cars that cruised down Fifth Avenue during Sunday’s parade.
Film review: ‘Fast & Furious 6′ has a tank. Need we say more?
The sixth in the shape-shifting “Fast & Furious” series is almost as transcendently ridiculous as the glorious fifth. That’s partly because it has a tank.
Marco Andretti thinks winning Indianapolis 500 is a reality
Marco Andretti is ready for the Indy500; our sports editor is not.
‘Roadrunner’ going faster miles an hour to becoming the new state song of Massachusetts
Jonathan Richman’s driving song is on its way, thanks to Joyce Linehan.
Paralyzed, but still on the road
When Dillon Krapf, 28, who is paralyzed from the waist down, wanted to
install hand controls in his Subaru hatchback two years ago so that he
could drive, the South Philadelphia man had to travel to the far
Northeast suburbs.
Study: Crashes in states with cell ban not reduced
A ban on handheld cellphone use in the Bay State is one step closer to
law, even though studies have found similar bans in other states aren’t
reducing crashes.
Immobile: 500K stuck with no ride
More than half a million households in the 100 largest U.S. cities do
not have cars or any access to public transportation, according to a
study released on Thursday by the Brookings Institution.
Big pickups are big problem for dealers
Big pickup trucks are clogging many U.S. dealer lots, causing headaches
for General Motors and other automakers and raising concerns about price
wars and lower profits later in the year.
Chrysler repays auto bailout cash
Chrysler Group yesterday paid back $7.6 billion in U.S. and Canadian
government loans from its 2009 bailout.
Japan crisis puts 200,000 US auto sales up for grabs
Almost 200,000 U.S. customers looking to buy new vehicles are “up for
grabs” because of parts shortages caused by the March 11 earthquake and
tsunami in Japan.