The world's smallest film contest (CNN.com) ITHACA, New York (AP)

The world's smallest film contest (CNN.com)
ITHACA, New York (AP) -- Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big.

Film contest asks entrants to think small (The Plain Dealer)
Ithaca, N.Y.- Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast-food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big. An Ithaca College dean is encouraging students to think small instead. And she's offering a $5,000 prize to do it.

Lights! Phone! Action! Movie contest is born (Austin American-Statesman)
Call goes out for 30-second videos shot with cell phones. ITHACA, N.Y. Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at fast food joints. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big.

$5,000 winner needs to think small (Kansas City Star)
ITHACA, N.Y. Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast-food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. An Ithaca College dean is encouraging students to instead think small. And she is offering a $5,000 prize to do it.

Click and Clack Talk Cars (Independent Record)
Dear Tom and Ray: Please, please help! When my single daughter wanted to buy a car two years ago, I advised her to buy a manufacturer s certified used car, as she didn t know much about cars. She bought a 2003 Toyota RAV4 from a Toyota dealer in Maryland.

Lights! Phone! Action! Movie contest is born (Austin American-Statesman) Call

Lights! Phone! Action! Movie contest is born (Austin American-Statesman)
Call goes out for 30-second videos shot with cell phones. ITHACA, N.Y. Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at fast food joints. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big.

Preview: 2006 Porsche Cayman S
Porsche's new mid-engine coupe builds on the Boxster S, but kicks it up a notch in the performance department.
Mike Meredith

Flood Damage: Don't Get Soaked When Buying a Used Car
Carfax provides guidance and tips to help you spot vehicles with potential water damage.
Editors of MSN Autos

Opinion: XP faster than Linux? Not so fast! (Desktop Linux)
In a recent so-called Desktop Linux versus Windows XP shootout , writer George Ou declares that "Microsoft handily beat the open source platform." The basis for this judgment? "OS boot time and application load times" on two different PCs. Oh, dear. This isn't right at all.

How Will America's Big Two Automakers Survive?
After decades of market share losses, look for a leaner and more focused Big Two.
Ann Job

Kia Rio leads lists of cars that deflate fast (The Tucson Citizen)
LOS ANGELES - The Kia Optima is less than optimal on resale value, two used car valuation outfits say. So are the Chrysler Sebring, Jaguar X-type, Kia Rio and minivans.

Detroit's 'Big Three' Automakers Launch New Incentive Programs
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford announce new programs in efforts to boost slackening year-end sales.
Perry Stern

Cellphone film contest inspires small thinking, $5,000 for winner (Brandon Sun)
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In the United States, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big.

Just 1 minute (The Indianapolis Star)
Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast-food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big. But a dean at Ithaca College in New York is encouraging students to instead think small. And she's offering a $5,000 prize to do it.

Detroit's 'Big Three' Automakers Launch New Incentive ProgramsGeneral Motors, Chrysler

Detroit's 'Big Three' Automakers Launch New Incentive Programs
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford announce new programs in efforts to boost slackening year-end sales.
Perry Stern

A Magazine On The Move (Tampa Tribune)
LUTZ - Fast, exotic cars and beautiful, sexy women. That's the unapologetic, testosterone-driven content of Makes and Models magazine, published once-a-month from an office on North Florida Avenue.

Rev-up cars, crime lure gamers (BBC News)
Fast cars, high-speed chases and crime aim to lure fans in Need for Speed and True Crime spin-offs.

Test Drive: Project Gotham Racing 3
Editors at MSN Autos take Microsoft's latest driving game out for a spin.
Perry Stern

A cell phone film project inspires small works of art (Salt Lake Tribune)
ITHACA, N.Y. - Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big. An Ithaca College dean is encouraging students to instead think small. And she's offering a $5,000 prize to do it. The school has invited high school and college students across America to submit a 30-second movie shot entirely with a cell

Can I film you now? (The Burlington Free Press)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big. An Ithaca College dean is encouraging students to think small instead. And she's offering a $5,000 prize to do it.

2006 NAIAS Coverage
The Official Web Site of the North American International Auto Show.
Editors of MSN Autos

Cellphone film contest inspires small thinking, $5,000 for winner (Brandon Sun)
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In the United States, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big.

$5,000 winner needs to think small (Kansas City Star)
ITHACA, N.Y. Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast-food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. An Ithaca College dean is encouraging students to instead think small. And she is offering a $5,000 prize to do it.

The Truth About Fuel Economy Ratings
If your new car's actual fuel mileage does not match the fuel economy numbers on the window sticker, it's not necessarily your car's fault.
Ann Job

GMAC Bowl Fast Lane special edition pages (El Paso Times)

GMAC Bowl Fast Lane special edition pages (El Paso Times)
At right, click on PDF format to view the GMAC Bowl Fast Lane special edition pages. Copyright 2005 El Paso Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. Use of this site signifies that you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy .

Test Drive: Project Gotham Racing 3
Editors at MSN Autos take Microsoft's latest driving game out for a spin.
Perry Stern

Trooper Dave Martin: High-tech and high speed (South Whidbey Herald)
Trooper Dave Martin is the very model of a modern Washington State patrolman: committed, professional, caring, smart and tough. My only concern was, could he drive fast?

GMAC Bowl Fast Lane special edition pages (El Paso Times)

GMAC Bowl Fast Lane special edition pages (El Paso Times)
At right, click on PDF format to view the GMAC Bowl Fast Lane special edition pages. Copyright 2005 El Paso Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. Use of this site signifies that you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy .

Flood Damage: Don't Get Soaked When Buying a Used Car
Carfax provides guidance and tips to help you spot vehicles with potential water damage.
Editors of MSN Autos

Technology helps New York City weather strike (USA Today)
The last time New York City had a transit strike, in 1980, a fax machine was cutting-edge. Fast forward 25 years, and it is a world of wireless laptops and telecommuting. And that is a big reason the bus and subway strike has not caused the utter chaos that many people had expected.

The Truth About Fuel Economy Ratings
If your new car's actual fuel mileage does not match the fuel economy numbers on the window sticker, it's not necessarily your car's fault.
Ann Job

Top Luxury Cars on MSN Autos
The most popular luxury cars on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle pages during the third quarter of 2005.
compiled by MSN Autos

SEC: Trader bilked investors (Palm Beach Post)
A Highland Beach stock trader satiated his taste for fast cars and chartered jets by scamming investors, federal regulators said Wednesday.

Rev-up cars, crime lure gamers (BBC News)
Fast cars, high-speed chases and crime aim to lure fans in Need for Speed and True Crime spin-offs.

China's rise fraught with hope, fear (Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau) BEIJING

China's rise fraught with hope, fear (Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau)
BEIJING - If Japan's development was fast, and South Korea's was even faster, then China's rise is the fastest. China on Tuesday reported that its economy is much bigger when its share of the growing services sector is estimated more accurately.

Rev-up cars, crime lure gamers (BBC News) Fast cars, high-speed

Rev-up cars, crime lure gamers (BBC News)
Fast cars, high-speed chases and crime aim to lure fans in Need for Speed and True Crime spin-offs.

The Truth About Fuel Economy Ratings
If your new car's actual fuel mileage does not match the fuel economy numbers on the window sticker, it's not necessarily your car's fault.
Ann Job

Strangers Become Fast Friends on the Long March to Work (New York Times)
As the car pool replaced the subway car, New Yorkers put aside their fear and loathing of the stranger to share a ride.

Nissan invites Chinese dealers to sell Infiniti cars (The Auto Channel)
BEIJING December 20, 2005; Japan Today reported that Nissan Motor Co on Monday began inviting car dealers in China to sell cars under the Infiniti line in its first step to launch the luxury brand there, the company said.

ARCA - 51 Drivers in 42 Cars Test at Daytona

ARCA - 51 Drivers in 42 Cars Test at Daytona (Speed TV)
Bright sunshine and warm temperatures greeted ARCA RE/MAX Series teams at the annual December open test in preparation of February s Daytona ARCA 200, but good weather Friday and Saturday morning gave way to overcast and showers by 1 p.m. Saturday, canceling the remainder of Saturday s scheduled on-track activities.

Duffy Asks For Ferry Vote Delay (R News)
Rochester mayor-elect Bob Duffy asked city council members to postpone Tuesday's scheduled vote on an $11.5 million bonding plan to finance fast ferry operations next year.

20,000 evacuated, floods worsen (Asia News Network)
Floods in Perlis and Kedah, northern Malaysia worsened as almost 20,000 people were forced to leave their homes. Many spent the night in cars while others ignored pleas from authorities to move out in the worst floods to hit the two northern states in three decades.

Four killed when car jumps U.S. 41 median (The News-Press)
Horrified motorists had no time to react Monday evening as a Honda crashed over a median into busy northbound traffic on U.S. 41, smashing two cars before throwing three passengers onto the roadway, killing them.

Nissan invites Chinese dealers to sell Infiniti cars (The Auto Channel)
BEIJING December 20, 2005; Japan Today reported that Nissan Motor Co on Monday began inviting car dealers in China to sell cars under the Infiniti line in its first step to launch the luxury brand there, the company said.

Booster seat law interferes with school field trips (Norwalk Advocate)

Booster seat law interferes with school field trips (Norwalk Advocate)
A new state law that requires children of a certain age and weight to be secured in booster seats in cars is changing the way some elementary schools approach field trips.

Getting There: No parking in crosswalks -- even unmarked ones (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A Green Lake pedestrian finds out that it's illegal for cars to park in crosswalks at the three-way intersections along North 65th Street -- and how to report them to police.

Motor Trader - Hot News (Motor Trader)
No Banners found for this page! The Cars 21 group, an automotive competitiveness body headed by the European Union, has unveiled its 10-year roadmap for a competitive European car industry.

IIHS's Top 10 Safety Picks
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety picks the ten safest cars of the 2006 model year.
Perry Stern

Traffic calming devices do not harm cars (Hampton Roads Daily Press)
Dear Tom and Ray: The purpose of this letter is to gauge your opinion about the installation of traffic-calming devices such as speed humps, chicanes, traffic circles, raised crosswalks, etc. Speed humps, as you probably know, are the most ubiquitous traffic-calming devices. As an urban planner, I've had the opportunity to manage a traffic-calming program for a local municipality. While carrying

Detroit's 'Big Three' Automakers Launch New Incentive Programs
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford announce new programs in efforts to boost slackening year-end sales.
Perry Stern

The Truth About Fuel Economy Ratings
If your new car's actual fuel mileage does not match the fuel economy numbers on the window sticker, it's not necessarily your car's fault.
Ann Job

Fast and furious (The Times of India)
Ace rallyist and navigator Renuka Kirpalani tells us about her romance with cars and speed.

2006 Volkswagen Passat 3.6 (Forbes)
Fast, frisky and safe. But the sticker shock might be too much to bear.

Top Luxury Cars on MSN Autos
The most popular luxury cars on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle pages during the third quarter of 2005.
compiled by MSN Autos

Cell phone film contest inspires students to think small (Newsday.com)

Cell phone film contest inspires students to think small (Newsday.com)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big. At Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications, Dean Dianne Lynch is encouraging students to think small. Really small.

Cell phone film contest inspires students to think small (New York Newsday)
Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big.

Lane Ranger (Manassas Journal Messenger)
Dear Lane Ranger: Since you always achieve quick results and I would like to see a fast solution for this, please let us know why the Virginia Department of Transportation eliminated the left-turn-only lane at the intersection of Waterway and Northgate/Avon drives in Montclair.

IIHS's Top 10 Safety Picks
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety picks the ten safest cars of the 2006 model year.
Perry Stern

ARTS + BOOKS (Portland Oregonian) A monster called the

ARTS + BOOKS (Portland Oregonian)
A monster called the H5N1 virus A lbert Camus' existential novel "The Plague" and "The Diary of Anne Frank" are two books referenced in the opening paragraph of "The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu," Mike Davis' slender and fast-paced book about a likely avian flu pandemic.

Cell phone film contest inspires students to think small (Newsday.com)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger portions at the local fast food joint. In America, the guiding maxim is to think big. Really big. At Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications, Dean Dianne Lynch is encouraging students to think small. Really small.

Winter Driving Tips From the Experts
Winter conditions can be challenging for drivers of all skill levels. The editor of Sympatico / MSN Autos Canada offers sound advice from the Great White North.
Marc Lachapelle, with Gerry Malloy for Sympatico / MSN Autos Canada

Personal Phone Booths? More Drivers Gab In Cars (NBC 5

Personal Phone Booths? More Drivers Gab In Cars (NBC 5 Chicago)
More people than ever are turning their cars into personal phone booths.

Test Drive: Project Gotham Racing 3
Editors at MSN Autos take Microsoft's latest driving game out for a spin.
Perry Stern

SOME EDISTO STORIES: Fast times at the P.O. -- Holiday onslaught keeps crew hopping more than usual (Times and Democrat)
At 4 a.m. a 2-ton mail truck from Columbia arrives at the platform in back of the post office on Middleton Street. Four postal clerks and a supervisor are waiting to help the truck driver roll the 4x4x8 metal carts and dozens of sacks into the vast storing room.

CAR TALK | TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI: Proper traffic calming does not harm cars (The Charlotte Observer)
Q. Speed humps, as you probably know, are the most ubiquitous traffic-calming devices. As an urban planner, I've had the opportunity to manage a traffic-calming program for a local municipality. While carrying out the goals of this program, I noticed that any discussion of traffic calming and/or traffic management unleashed the most visceral feelings in the general public. Citizens either cry out

Govt to crackdown on noisy exhausts (TVNZ)
Noisy boy racer cars won't be given Warrants of Fitness under new laws the government hopes to introduce early next year. Nationwide more than 2,000 cars have been impounded since last year under new boy racer laws.

Bonilla Joins Andersen Walko Racing for Star Mazda (Speed TV)
Written by: Linda Mansfield Fairfield, N.J. 12/17/2005 Vacationers at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. from 1996-1998 can be excused if they thought their monorail driver was going pretty fast.