For parents who can't afford a new car, the IIHS recommends buying a used car--midsize or larger--with as many modern safety features as possible.
Sacha Millstone, senior vice president at Raymond James, doesn't expect to see new car makers in the U.S. or Europe.
Now, not only is that bad in terms of people then not getting services and being less safe, or kids not -- having a larger class sizes or all those things, but obviously when those people lose their jobs they can't spend money buying a new car or buying clothes or buying the computer for their kids.
When he goes to pick up a car in New York, he can't just take a second car along with him.
The New York Times T Magazine featured car-inspired watches shown at the Baselworld watch and jewelry show in March.
But don't expect the mirror to come standard on new car models.
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You live in New York, you don't own a car, you ride the subway.
Putting new tyres on the car won't make it perform better if the engine hasn't been fixed.
Pauli says his chunk of money was enough to buy a new car, but it wasn't nearly what it might have been.
"There is a new generation of car buyers who don't want to settle for mass market radio, " said Rick Scheidt, vice president of Chevrolet Marketing.
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Folsom told KUSA he doesn't know why Zazi chose to drive the rental car to New York and fly back to Denver.
We hear of new Fords coming: a new Focus and a new Fiesta small car, but we don't hear of any Mercury versions.
All too many people who leave a dealership with a new car drive away in a car they don't want.
Mr. SETZER: (Singing) I don't need no movie car(ph), falling star, new, new guitar, the jukebox in a funky bar, and one more night with you.
And that's assuming these new technologies won't have higher maintenance costs over the life of the car itself.
This driver isn't alone in feeling blindsided by the promise of those big numbers on the new car sticker.
Readers who don't know the car-choked geography of that sprawling city may prefer the chapters on New York and London.
It is hard to miss that car sales have plummeted, not because people don't want to buy new cars but because they cannot get credit.
New-car prices are so low that used-car salesmen can't compete.
The display graphics and instrumentation aren't quite as evolved as those in the new Audis, but who buys a 430-hp car for graphics?
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In New York, traffic-enforcement cameras aren't just about money but about the anti-car agenda of Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
But I think it's more than that, and I didn't know what it was until one day I squinted at a new Beetle, and saw not a car but a plasma display.
In fact, Henry Ford's Model T a hundred years ago got 25 miles to the gallon, which is better fuel economy than the average new car today.
Consumers don't know that they're not going to be able to just go right in and take out a new car loan just, you know, in 10 minutes or a new department store charge account.
Among the future possibilities: bridges that won't buckle under severe seismic stress, a new generation of Frank Gehry-inspired forms of improbably twisted steel, car frames that can absorb the shock of head-on collisions and, yes, knives that may never need sharpening.
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