Water Can Seep Into Jeep Grand Cherokee Transmission (ClickOnDetroit)
DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group said Friday it would recall more than 100,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles.
Sales of gas-electric hybrid cars steadily climb (Winston-Salem Journal)
David Miller used to drive a Jeep. But when he recently replaced his four-wheel-drive Grand Cherokee, he chose a new kind of sport utility vehicle: the Ford Escape Hybrid.
New name for city car dealer (icWales)
CARDIFF Chrysler and Jeep dealer Paramount is changing its name to Stratstone Chrysler and Jeep. The new name is part of a national branding scheme by parent company Pendragon, the biggest motor retail group in the UK, to rename all of its UK Chrysler and Jeep dealerships Stratstone.
MITCH ALBOM: Car guys keep La. rescuer rolling (Detroit Free Press)
That Jeep escaped hell and high water. That Jeep survived when other cars died on the highway. That Jeep transported 14 desperate men, women and children out of the watery grip of Hurricane Katrina and for two days, they squeezed and shifted and lay atop each other inside it, for hundreds of miles, until they finally reached the safe ground of a strange city called Detroit, a place most of them
MITCH ALBOM: Car guys keep La. rescuer rolling (Detroit Free Press)
That Jeep escaped hell and high water. That Jeep survived when other cars died on the highway.
Motorists thrilled with falling gas prices (Star-Gazette)
Many wonder how fast, how far they'll go down. There's a popular adage that says, "What goes up must come down." But when the subject is the once-escalating gas prices that are now moving down, the question is just how far the prices will fall.
SUV Stolen From Katrina Victim In Detroit (WDIV ClickOnDetroit.com via Yahoo! News)
A victim of Hurricane Katrina staying in metro Detroit had his sport utility vehicle stolen on Tuesday, Local 4 reported.
Two killed in highway accidents (Salt Lake Tribune)
Two people were killed Wednesday in separate accidents on two Utah stretches of interstate highway. The first wreck, about 1:05 a.m., killed 19-year-old Christopher Cannon of Midvale. The crash occurred north of Spanish Fork in Utah County, where a 33-year-old Springville woman, who police suspect was drunk, was traveling south on Interstate 15 in a 2006 Ford Taurus.
Carmakers Offer More Gas-Electric Hybrid Choices To Meet Growing Demand (Environmental News Network)
New for 2006 are Mercury's first hybrid, the Mariner Hybrid SUV, and the first Toyota-branded SUV hybrid, the Highlander Hybrid. In addition, consumers will find a new-generation, 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid in showrooms that is restyled and has a better fuel economy rating than its predecessor -- 51 miles a gallon in both city and highway driving.
Moab, Utah, is a four-wheel haven (Baltimore Sun)
Off-road trails test vehicles and skills of their drivers It was the voice of the little girl in the back seat, looking for anything to grab onto as the Jeep teetered at an unnerving angle, that caused me pause.
