Planning, Common Sense Can Increase Fuel Mileage, According to Advance

Planning, Common Sense Can Increase Fuel Mileage, According to Advance Auto Parts (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
With the high cost of gas, drivers can use planning and common sense to squeeze a few more miles out of a gallon of gas, and reduce the flow of money going from their wallet to the gas pump.

New Jeep Concepts
Two concept vehicles, unveiled at Europe's largest auto show, provide a peek into the future of DaimlerChrysler's Jeep brand.
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Do-it-yourself auto salvage yard gives customers the pick of parts (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A self-serve automotive-salvage yard is still a relatively new idea in the Midwest. Pick-N-Pull, a chain of 30 stores in the U.S. and Canada and based in Sacramento, Calif., took over the 23 acres of U-Wrench-It in January, when it bought the smaller four-store chain.

Auto Racing Notebook: Cup teams creativity is crushed (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- In the wake of a ruling by NASCAR officials that will make the type of rear shock absorbers used this past week at Dover by Hendrick Motorsports illegal in the future, Roush Racing driver Greg Biffle says creativity within the teams is being quashed.

The Color of Money: Flood-damaged cars wash up in used-car lots (Miami Herald)
When the floodwaters finally recede on the Gulf Coast, no doubt there will be thousands of water-damaged cars that will flood the used car market.

US car theft rings probed for ties to Iraq bombings (Boston Globe)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering that some of the vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior government officials.