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Packing up the vehicle for a holiday weekend away? It might be one of the more pleasant times to be out on the crowded highways, relative to recent years.

Overall holiday traffic will likely be down a bit this year versus last. But based on research from the American Automobile Association (AAA) and IHS Global Insight, that’s likely to be less due to economic factors than simply when Labor Day weekend falls on the calendar. Labor Day this year falls on Monday the 7th of September, after most children have already gone back to school.

Last year, Labor Day weekend travel was at its highest this decade, despite surging auto fuel and air ticket...

The practical, fuel efficient Chevrolet Aveo can save you money both on the purchase price and the gasoline it sips in use. The four-door sedan seats four, and the hatchback offers easily accessible load space for canvas sacks stuffed with banknotes.

But if you're going to use it for a getaway, hang onto your car keys after you rob that bank.

Neglecting that handy hint landed a gang of four robbers in the clink in the town of Bear, Delaware, yesterday, after one of them locked the keys to his Chevrolet Aveo in the bank they had just robbed.

Three men wearing wigs, along with one woman, entered the Artisans Bank yesterday morning just after...

In case you haven't noticed, diesel and gasoline prices have now reversed their trends of the past several years. Now diesel is considerably cheaper than regular unleaded in most spots. Here on the West Coast, gasoline is averaging about $2.95 while diesel is at $2.70, according to the federal government, and even nationally (including some eastern and Gulf Coast states where diesel is still more expensive) the difference is up to about two pennies a gallon.

And over the past several years, the U.S. market has started to overcome many of its former reservations about diesel vehicles. The vast majority of them are smooth running and easy to...