Child seat promises innovations (San Jose Mercury News) Automobiles have

Child seat promises innovations (San Jose Mercury News)
Automobiles have made tremendous safety advances over the past two decades, as features such as front and side air bags, anti-lock brakes, stability systems and more are available on most models.

Preview: 2006 Honda Civic
The 2006 Civics have a new platform, more expressive styling, more powerful engines and increased safety. The Civic Hybrid is more fuel-thrifty, too.
Ann Job

The good kind of inflation (The State)
Five years from now Robin Pearl is hoping we'll all look back and say, ``Remember when we used to put air in our tires?'' This month Pearl started rolling out PurigeN98 compressors, which inflate tires with virtually pure nitrogen. The company is working with four dealerships in Broward County and expects to open its first sites in Miami-Dade County in coming weeks. Nitrogen inflation has long

MSN Autos Shoppers' Top Ten
The most popular vehicles on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle research pages.
compiled by MSN Autos

Effort would limit use of state planes (AberdeenNews.com)
PIERRE, S.D. - A Sioux Falls man involved in a 2004 tax-repeal effort said he'll spearhead a ballot drive to limit the use of state-owned airplanes and vehicles.

Project restores fish corridor (Casper Star-Tribune)
CLARK FORK, Idaho (AP) -- Automobiles might play a role in the mating rituals of some humans, but for the better part of the last decade vehicles have also factored prominently in the spawning routines of Granite Creek's trout population.

Car manual provides instruction, memories (New River Current)
Unlike some of my neighbors, who on occasion might be found beneath shade trees in their yards repairing their temporarily disabled automobiles, I'm not much of a car repairman.

PRIMEDIA Continues West Coast Auto Guide Rollout with Launch of Inland Empire Auto Guide; Auto Guide Launches Third (The Auto Channel)
NEW YORK--Sept. 28, 2005--PRIMEDIA Consumer Guides, the country's leading publisher and distributor of apartment, new home and auto guides, today announced the launch of Inland Empire Auto Guide, a free, weekly color publication for consumers featuring comprehensive listings of used cars, SUVs and trucks for sale by auto dealerships throughout San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Green Car Journal Brings Advanced Vehicles to Environmental Journalists (The Auto Channel)
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 28 -- At the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists opening today in Austin, Texas, the mission is to network and learn how to improve the quality and accuracy of environmental reporting.