A New Jersey widow is heartbroken that a mourner at her husband's funeral turned out to be a process server sent by Chrysler to claim the body. The late Harold St. John of Cranbury, N.J. was suing Chrysler and Honeywell claiming the mesothelioma that ultimately took his life was the result of instal...

If you think building a bicycle involves opening a box, following poorly written assembly instructions and hoping the training wheels don't fall off, we suggest you check out the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. The fifth annual celebration of two-wheeled awesomeness proved something so simple ...

Chryslers emblazoned with roof lights and a police department logo make us nervous. When such a vehicle is parked outside a KGB office in Belarus and a Man in Black is glaring at us, our nervousness turns to panic. Minsk is the capital of what former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called "...

Los Angeles and countless other cities - Phoenix, Houston and Atlanta come to mind - are far more friendly to cars than people, having been built according to land use policies that all but put people behind the wheel. It's an unsustainable model, and it must change. That was the message transportat...

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has casually floated the idea increased registration fees gas guzzlers as one way to pay for repairs to the Commonwealth's crumbling roadways and unreliable public transit. The proposal quickly became known as "the Hummer tax." In other news, Gov. Patrick now has no ...

As bulldozers and backhoes start digging away at stimulus-funded road construction projects, one researcher is looking for ways to maximize the existing road infrastructure through computers and calculations. Randall Guensler, a professor at Georgia Tech's School of Civil and Environmental Engineeri...

Buried amongst the spam clogging our email was an unusual sales pitch from Indonesian shipbuilder PT Caputra Group, which is trying to unload an oil barge using a direct e-mail marketing campaign. Caputra's succinct e-mail carried the subject line "OIL BARGE FOR SALE" and it obviously was ...

Nissan and Japanese highway operator West NEXCO have collaborated on an expansive and expensive "IT-assisted road information system" to warn drivers when they are traveling too fast on an exit ramp or driving in the wrong direction on a highway. Apparently, Japanese roads don't feature large signs ...

As Toyota Corollas and Ford Focuses languish in dealerships awaiting factory incentives and buyers with good credit, the first Hurst/Viper to roll off the production line proved just how badass it is by smoking its tires all over previous Barrett-Jackson sales records. Sweet. The limited-edition Hur...

Automotive newcomer JJAD has announced plans to build the P1-E, an all-original $76,000 lightweight all-electric supercar that reaches 0-60 in less than 3 seconds with twin electric motors, has a top speed of 130 miles an hour, and can travel over 230 grin-inducing miles on one charge. Judging by th...