In green car news, Ford's new 2013 C-MAX plug-in hybrid was rated the most fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid available in the US this week.
In other green car news, Nissan announced that the 2013 Nissan Leaf will be more efficient, come with more features and charge in half the time as earlier models.
That isn't the only green car news that broke this week -- with the Geneva Motor Show fast approaching, we've been keeping an ear to the ground for the latest from Switzerland.
In 2011, the car made news when it was involved in an accident, which turned out to have occurred when a human driver took over.
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The proliferation of glossy car magazines on news-stands suggests the emergence of a culture that worships the car in much the same way as in more developed markets.
The car is making news as it goes up on the block at RM Auctions during Pebble Beach in August.
Lee and Negrete didn't have a news radio in the car, so the only way they can get news updates is through Twitter on their cell phones, they said.
But government bailouts in the U.S. and a European recession have trumped the more positive news in car crazy nations like Brazil and China.
"We know that in five years the US dollar will be stronger than it is today, " the chief executive of a leading European car maker told BBC News.
As I said at the start, it's great news if car companies - and other manufacturers - are making and selling more in the UK. Their success can produce a lot of positive spin-offs for local economies, and for the country as a whole.
Good news: Your car insurance normally covers some business use of your car.
Witnesses told AP news agency the car had exploded at a security checkpoint between the Russian embassy and the Baath Party central headquarters.
Patrizia Rizzo ran down the main boulevard to the piazza with her two children as soon as she heard the news on the car radio.
One piece of good news for the car giants is that the United Auto Workers (UAW) said on December 3rd that it was prepared to make concessions to help them.
How I ended up at the King home on the night of April 4, 1968, began about an hour earlier when I first heard the terrible news on a car radio.
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The big carmakers likely have plenty of credits in the bank, having sold everything from neighborhood electric vehicles to General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people )' EV1 electric car and Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s electric RAV4.
Mrs Gower was asked about news reports of a car stopped on the M1 a week or so before the email was received.
Earlier this month, still more hybrid car buyers were hit with bad news: more than 100, 000 Priuses worldwide are being recalled because of a steering problem.
Anyone with a late-model car might be underwhelmed by this news, since for years now mechanics have been plugging into computers to assess the condition of automobile engines.
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But in a state where the news is dominated by car chases and weather reports, the voters have little choice but to learn their politics from campaign ads.
Rubin and a handful of other rich (or hopeful) entrepreneurs started electric car outfits after General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) gave up on its electric car in 1999 to fall into the profitable embrace of gargantuan SUVs.
See, this car is based on the great new Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) 350Z, a car we proclaimed the best sports car value on earth, a crown we don't expect to transfer to a successor vehicle for some time.
After signing on with Andretti Green Racing, Patrick has secured Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) as her chief car sponsor, backed up by XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Go Daddy.
News photographers briefly chased the car down the street after his testimony.
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"I've had people cry on me, " he says, when he's delivered the news that saving an old car will cost more than it's worth.
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Steve Forrest, from the Sarnia Car Club, said it was good news but there were still questions over how limited supplies would be and how much the fuel would cost.
Customer Sharon Kaye told the San Jose Mercury News the driver sideswiped her car as he made several runs around the parking lot before driving between poles at the entrance and crashing into the store.
For all the other car-insurance brands, the good news is that they generally are doing a better job of holding on to customers at a time when all their competitors are trying to claw them from their bosom.
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"It is the worst gas guzzler I have owned since a 1976 Ford Elite, " he lamented of the Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) car in an e-mail to the Bluewater Network, a San Francisco-based environmental advocacy group.
And bad news about job losses in the car or steel industries tends to dominate the headlines.
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