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| Top 10 Most Popular Hybrids |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| Women who are researching cars come to AskPatty for answers! We're always being asked "which is the best value... which car is the safest.... which is the most popular..." Well, last week NADAguides.com published its list of the most popular hybrids to receive hits on its Web site, so thanks to this information, we can now tell you the |
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| Los Angeles Wins 4 of 12 Worst Traffic Sports in the United States |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 5:55 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| Forbes Magazine recently posted its list of "America's 12 Worst Bottlenecks," and Los Angeles leads the pack with four of the twelve traffic traps (Woo hoo! We won a prize!), while Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix each tied with two hot spots apiece. The author, Robert Malone, ranked each location based on the value of the manhours wasted at each |
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| OnStar Helps to Locate Missing Children |
| Published: September 8, 2007, 4:39 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women, Products Accessories, Safety Child Safety |
| GM's pioneer and industry leader for in vehicle safety, security, and communication services takes another step to improve efforts with the National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenOnStar recently announced that its partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) will be expanded to provide |
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| Road Trip Survival Guide |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 12:24 pm |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| Summer might be over, but that doesn't mean we don't still have weekends to enjoy! Heck, Thanksgiving is practically around the corner, so whether you're loading your kids into the family minivan to visit grandma or packing your galpals into a convertible for a weekend getaway, America's roads offer plenty of opportunities to create treasured |
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| Rumor Mill: Apple and Volkswagen Team up to Produce the iCar |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 7:35 pm |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women, Products Accessories |
| According to Macrumors.com and cnnmoney.com, German magazine Capital (Google translation ) is reporting that Apple and Volkswagen are in an early stages of planning for an "iCar" that would incorporate techie products by the producer of the beloved iPod personal music player into in future versions of Volkswagen's compact |
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| Creative Teens Encourage Peers To Drive Safely - With Winning Videos |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 2:34 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 12, 2007) With a creative eye, a deft director's touch and a determination to save lives, hundreds of talented students entered creative and compelling traffic safety videos in the first ever Safety Scholars Video Contest. Today, Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC (BFNT) announced the winners. Sarah Wilson, |
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| AutoTrader Ranks Highest With Dealers on Lead Generation says J.D. Power and Associaties |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 2:34 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| USED-VEHICLE SERVICES IN J.D. POWER AND ASSOCIATES STUDYCompany receives awards for highest scores among new-vehicle leads and used-vehicle leads in the 2007 Dealer Satisfaction with Online Buying Services Study ATLANTA (September 12, 2007) AutoTrader.com, the ultimate automotive marketplace, ranks highest in satisfying dealers |
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| What are the 50 Worst Cars of All Time? |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 5:58 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| On the 50th anniversary of the Ford Edsel, Time Magazine and Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive critic and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, took a look at the 50 biggest lemons of the automotive industry. The result is a painfully honest, but clever, look at the vehicles we all love to hate. Presented chronologically, the |
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| Have You Seen This Amazing Truck Crash? |
| Published: September 15, 2007, 5:44 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| what? Reports at respected news site cnn.com and urban-legend busting snopes.com say "The Hurricane City Police department confirmed that these images 'are consistent with a single vehicle traffic accident that occurred on State Route 59 in Hurricane City' on 30 December 2006." So there you have it, folks. The photos are real. |
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| Buick, Pontiac, GMC Say Thank You To Military |
| Published: September 16, 2007, 8:07 pm |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| send directly to our men and women in uniform. The goal is to collect a million notes at collection points located in dealerships.Once collected, the notes will be distributed by "A Million Thanks," an organization founded by teenager Shauna Fleming. Since 2004, "A Million Thanks" has collected and distributed |
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| Dolly Parton Becomes Official Girl Scout |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 5:13 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| Dolly Parton has a new addition to her wardrobe: a Girl Scout uniform (photo courtesy Business Wire). Country music's most honored female singer and songwriter became a lifetime member of Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council at a recent event at Dollywood, her East Tennessee theme park.Parton was with more than a thousand Girl Scouts as she made the |
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| Frankfurt Auto Show Features Industry-First Woman's Lounge |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 10:39 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| a leading European women's magazine, to set up a lounge for women featuring the ironic slogan: "Why women can't park." The lounge featured celebrity guest speakers and editors from the German magazine leading a number of discussions, interviews, and readings with celebrity guests on topics involving women and cars. The ladies |
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| Blab About Your Car and Win Prizes! |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 10:03 am |
| Tags: Around The Auto World, Buy Lease Sell, Car Care, Car Truck Reviews, Expert Women Speak, Fuel Economy, Girls Their Cars Photos, Mainentance Repair, News Briefs For Women, Products Accessories, Safety Child Safety, Share Your Car Truck Stories, What Women Want, Women Sp |
| It's car reviews for women by women like you!What does your car mean to you? Is your car sexy? Do you love or hate your car? Is your car a fashion statement or a pile of junk? We want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly about your car.But before we even talk about what you can DO on CarBlabber, let's talk about what you can WIN! Ask |
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| Parking Meters Kick Out Cars to Go Green |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 10:59 am |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into PARK(ing) spaces: temporary public parks. Parking spaces scattered across US cities September 22, 2007 were occupied by |
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| Largest U.S. Outdoor Auto Show Opens the Season in Midland, Michigan |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 5:10 pm |
| Tags: News Briefs For Women |
| of AskPatty.com and Women's Automotive Association International; Don Reimondo of Affinia Group Inc.; Chip Perry, President and C.E.O. of AutoTrader.com and Darryl Jackson, V.P. of U.S. Sales for Chrysler. For more information about the 2007 Northwood University International Auto Show, visit http://www.northwood.edu/autoshow. About |
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