2005 Frankfurt Motor ShowMSN Autos brings you highlights from one

2005 Frankfurt Motor Show
MSN Autos brings you highlights from one of Europe's major shows.
Editors of MSN Autos

Cars: the bad and the ugly (Dallas Morning News)
Some cars are just born ugly and behave badly all their lives. But rather than dismiss them or try to forget them, Richard Porter celebrates them in a sense in his book Crap Cars , a collection of the 50 worst cars ever made (Bloomsbury, $14.95).

Hybrids Are Hot
Automakers that used to downplay the viability of gasoline-electric hybrids are now embracing them.
Ann Job

University students show off solar-powered homes (Knight Ridder via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON - Gray skies darkened spirits Tuesday in a little village of solar homes on the National Mall, erected by 18 college teams that are participating in the Department of Energy's "Solar Decathlon" challenge.

Red, white and cool By Lee Bonorden/Austin Daily Herald (Austin Daily Herald)
News Call or email the Newsroom at (507) 434-2230. What s red and white and irresistible? If you said the Tendermaid, you are correct. The Tendermaid Sandwich Shop at 217 4th Ave. NE is everybody s favorite.

Preview: 2006 Ford Fusion
Ford's most important sedan launch since the Taurus.
Perry Stern

Advocates cool to Tappan Zee Bridge options (Westchester County Business Journal)
The six options unveiled by the state and Metro-North Railroad for the future of the Tappan Zee Bridge have drawn a cool response from area transportation watchers, who say the choices are unlikely to help forge a strong regional mass transit system to go along with a new span across the Hudson.