Winter Driving Tips From the ExpertsWinter conditions can be challenging

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

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

Hard-core shoppers back for bargains (The Morning Call)
'Twas the day after Christmas, and half-price beef sticks were selling like hot cakes, remote-controlled cars were flying off the shelves and a box of 100 mini lights was just 63 cents.

Hot club's quarrels with police boil over (Dallas Morning News)
In the lavish interior of the uber-hip downtown Dallas dance club Blue, the simple, typed black-and-white signs stick out.

DIRECTING TRAFFIC (New York Press)
At breakfast time outside Pastis, the Meatpacking District's perma-hot bistro, sunlight spreads through a cobblestone plaza. It should encourage goofy sprints or balletic dips. But then a stream of black cars, SUVs and zippy subcompacts threatens to shred your ankles.

Drivers hot for carpool decals (The Sacramento Bee)
They are popping up in carpool lanes from Los Angeles to Sacramento - high-mileage hybrid cars sporting jaunty yellow decals on their haunches.

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

Holocaust-era railcar arrives at Houston museum (Austin American-Statesman)
HOUSTON A World War II-era German railcar's arrival at a Texas museum brought back horrific memories for Al Marks, one of millions of Jewish people who were loaded onto similar cars and hauled to Nazi concentration camps.

Subcompact demand tips scales in Japan's favor (Miami Herald)
After piling into minivans, sport-utility vehicles and even pickup trucks, Japanese automakers are crowding into yet another corner of the U.S. market -- itty-bitty economy cars.