Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
By JERRY HIRSCH - Los Angeles TimesA move from transit-rich New York to car-crazy Los Angeles prompted Manuela White to spend more than $17,000 on a used Toyota Corolla sight unseen with just a click on her laptop.White, 25, purchased her car from Beepi, which along with start-ups that include Carvana, Shift, Vroom and others is creating a new digital business model selling and buying used cars. They provide a virtual showroom and handle the marketing and much of the legal paperwork online, guaranteeing minimum prices to sellers and full refunds to buyers if they regret their purchase within a...
We have probably seen at least one teenager in our lifetime, whether in real life, on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, who were super excited and ecstatic after finally passing their behind-the-wheel driving test. Who wouldn't be? It is a very rewarding feeling! But what is the next step? You may have guessed the obvious but yes, they need something to ride on and drive for themselves. Hence, they need their own car. Going off to college? Well, students would want a safer way of getting groceries, or possibly shopping for some new appliances, or just school materials in ge...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Takata Corp. President Shigehisa Takada made a public apology for the eight deaths and hundreds of injuries related to the company’s airbags dating back more than a decade.Takada, 49, bowed and apologized at a press briefing in Tokyo after the company’s annual shareholders meeting today. He said the safety components supplier is considering ways to help victims, including by setting up a fund to compensate them.“I apologize for not having been able to communicate directly earlier, and also apologize for people who died or were injured,” Takada said....
Americans are leasing a record number of new cars and trucks — more than 1 in 4 of the new vehicles rolling off dealer lots.Leasing is popular because it offers lower monthly payments than traditional auto loans. If you can't afford the payments on a loan, Anthony Giorgianni, Associate Finance Editor at Consumer Reports Money Adviser, says it's a good sign you can't afford that car or truck. "Leasing puts you in a cycle to get a new car every few years when the depreciation is greatest," Giorgianni says, "and you just have [monthly payments] indefinitely.&rdquo...
George Miller is relaunching Mad Max with the long-rumored, then long-delayed, and now imminent Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller needed about 25 years of development, including 12 agonizing years after announcing that a script had been written, to get this movie made. And while previous Max movies were filmed in the Australian outback, this one was shot in Namibia. Here are 10 of the vehicles featured in the film:Plymouth RockBuilt around the desiccated remains of what appears to be a 1937 Plymouth sedan, this metallic hyena’s mission is to scrounge the wasteland looking for carrion to c...