Top Sport Utilities on MSN AutosThe most popular sport-utility vehicles

Top Sport Utilities on MSN Autos
The most popular sport-utility vehicles on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle research pages during the third quarter of 2005.
compiled by MSN Autos

Cities Question Cost of Hybrid Cars (AP via Yahoo! News)
The city just bought 20 new hybrid Ford Escapes to add to the six Toyota Priuses already in its 6,000-vehicle fleet. Muller, Philadelphia's fleet manager, said officials are doing it to improve air quality, but that the upfront costs definitely take a bigger hit on city coffers.

Days Gone By (Duluth News Tribune)
Work is being speeded on an electric battery system that would replace gasoline engines in powering some buses, trucks and cars. Battery-powered vehicles would ease the nation's air pollution problems, General Dynamics and Edison Electric Institute said in a joint statement announcing the project.

Electric carmaker saved again (Aftenposten)
Workers at the long-troubled "Think Nordic" electric vehicle plant won another reprieve, after its owner agreed to pump more capital into the venture.

Robertson, quietly, is motoring along (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
When Dewayne Robertson talks about the cars in his garage, he does it in the way a woman might describe the clothes in her closet.

Governments: Are Hybrid Cars Worth It? (Los Angeles Times)
PHILADELPHIA -- By gradually adding hybrids to this city's vehicle fleet, James Muller knows he's helping to save the environment. What he doesn't know is whether switching to the more expensive "green" vehicles will save taxpayers money.

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