But now, another question has begun to percolate: do I need a car at all?
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We have created a society where, in most places at least, you need a car to get where you are going.
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Some apartment complexes in your area now offer rental cars on site, so you may find that you no longer need a car at all.
If you are in America, you might not need a car.
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And I mean if you have a family of four or five children, you need a car the size of a Durango to fit them in or a minivan or whatever.
The tiny Massachusetts island is compact enough so that visitors do not need a car and most arrive without one, yet it creates the illusion of being much bigger since so much is preserved as protected natural space.
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Flint boiled things down: you need a good car and someone to sell it.
But if you need a family car and run short of cash, the trustee could let your spouse buy a Mercedes.
How it stacks up depends as much on your family size, your motoring desires and what you actually need in a car versus what you might want.
What Avis can do is allow those people to have the same options Hertz does and offer more cars (since Avis has a fleet of its own), while upselling them conventional rentals when customers need a 2-day car for a weekend getaway.
The Mahindra E2O is a four-seater hatchback targeted at upper-middle-class families in need of a second car in congested cities like Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, where it expected to first go on sale.
"His complacent attitude will dismay families across Scotland who are day and daily struggling to reconcile their need to use a car with spiralling petrol prices, " he added.
So why do people need such a bespoke car?
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Not because of the company, make or model, but simply because we need such a big car in the first place: God willing, we will be a family of six come August.
There is zero need to own a sports car, except if you want to break the law.
To meet European emissions standards as a company, they need a small to medium car within the group.
Some roadside mechanics have also surfaced, sitting on their toolboxes, waiting for a car to need them.
The path would remove the need for visitors to use a car to access the internationally-renowned mountain biking facilities.
You simply enter the time and place of the trip, maybe adding extras like whether you need a hotel, a rental car or a dinner reservation.
Finally, car makers need a change in product strategy.
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With so much torque pushing a 565-kilogram car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
Because drivers frequently need to grapple with controls while keeping their eyes on the road, the fewer physical buttons a car has, the more they need to divert their gaze and attention in order to change the temperature or radio station.
Along the way, I texted friends, received a reminder about an upcoming ski trip and the need to refuel my car soon, considered an ad for a BBQ joint, got a notification about a traffic accident ahead and a recommendation on the speediest route around it, took stock of my stress level, and picked the closest and cheapest parking spot.
With so much torque pushing a 1, 250-pound car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
The FBI says that people need to be careful when buying a car independently.
In a much-need spot of car-making consolidation, Daewoo , the fourth-largest chaebol, said it was buying the debt-laden car unit of Ssangyong , another conglomerate, for an undisclosed sum.
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