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Do you avoid drinking out of clear plastic water bottles, using antiperspirants with aluminum, or cooking in non-stick pans? Use a water purifier and ionizer everywhere you go, always buy organic, mind your cold-water fish list, and have your tap water checked yearly?

If so, we've found either a new source of anxiety in your life or a handy tool to factor into your next car purchase.

HealthyStuff.org is a relatively new information portal for the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Ecology Center, which uses an X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) device to test interior components in vehicles for substances "with known toxicity, persistence, and tendency to...

It's no secret or surprise that men and women shop for vehicles in very different ways. A number of studies from market-research firms have shown that while women place the most emphasis on practical attributes when shopping for a vehicle, men tend more often to gravitate to vehicles because of their image.

A new survey done for the retail giant CarMax, looking into the reason for purchasing a car in the first place, suggests that women are highly motivated by life events.

The survey found that for 60 percent of women a career change (getting a new job or retirement) would be the most likely reason for purchasing a car. And for younger...

A Southern California couple who decided to trade in their 2001 Nissan Xterra under the Cash for Clunkers program in August later found the vehicle for sale in the same dealership's used lot.

Oops. It seems that the dealership, Volkswagen of Garden Grove, decided to forget about the CARS claim on the Xterra and tried to sell it themselves.

The environmentally minded couple says that they wouldn’t have traded the Xterra in the first place if they’d known it wasn’t going to be scrapped. They had intended to purchase a Jetta TDI and get the $4,500 CARS credit, but instead the dealership didn’t have any and they settled for a gasoline Jetta,...