Mercury News

Your reply to the lady buying a used, low-mileage vehicle included: "The vehicle may need routine tire and brake replacement." Tire replacement is a given and a no-brainer. What is your meaning as to routine brake replacement and especially the rotors? Q The past six GMC vehicles I've owned were low-mileage used vehicles.

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top automaker, said Friday its Sonata hybrid has received the "top satisfaction" award from a U.S.-based automotive research company.

As another school draws to a close, thousands of high school seniors around the country are preparing to head off to college.

Here's the beautiful 1948 Pontiac Torpedo of Richard Ouellette that was purchased by his dad in 1948.

Last year, the Monterey Motorsports Reunion announced that the Shelby Cobra would be the featured marque for 2012 in honor of the company's 50th anniversary.

Several years ago, there was a large reward posted for evidence that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker was not extinct as was previously thought.

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A Written by: Dave Sutton Four-dollar-per-gallon gasoline has become an accepted reality in the Washington DC metro area.

It's spring, when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. It's also spring when an older man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of cars.

Milan's chief prosecutor says the charismatic founder of an Italian party that had vowed to fight political greed is himself under investigation in a widening embezzlement scandal involving party funds.

A Brooklyn cabby who was allegedly drunk when he fatally mowed down a pedestrian told cops that he "didn't remember hitting a person." "I was driving and lost control when another car cut me off," Avedis Sayesh told the officers at a station house on Sunday morning when he was nabbed for allegedly striking 24-year-old Gabriel Hernandez with his ... (more)

To call Carroll Shelby merely a racing legend would be a disservice to the man who created one of the world's most lusted-after performance cars of all time.

This 2002 Mercury Marauder factory concept car is one of 600-plus collector cars that will be offered during the June 1-3 Auctions America by RM's Auburn Spring auction.

Alfa Romeo recently paid homage to the factories that build its cars in Milan and Turin by playing on both and ending up with the MiTo.

Six years and some 40,000 miles after purchasing her new 2006 Mercury Grand Marquis in Broward County's Pembroke Pines, Stephanie Masula noticed a round patch of paint peeling off the hood.

First Coast Gears: Annual Rev It Up for Wounded Warrior Car Show and Vette's in the Spring Car Show Held Saturday May 19, 8am-3pm: 10th Annual Car & Truck Show , Fla.

Al Gore bought a hybrid Mercury Mariner in 2007 to combat global warming. Hybrid sales didn't budge.

Read more: Local , National , News , Automotive , Ford , Ford Motor Company , Ford Freestar , Mercury , Mercury Monterey , Ford Investigation , Mercury Investigation , Rusted Wheel Wells , Ford Minivan Rusted Wheel Wells Federal safety regulators have expanded their investigation of Ford and Mercury minivans for rust in wheel wells that can become ... (more)

Complaints about Ford minivans haveA prompted federal safety regulators to announce an upgrade to their investigation into more than 82,000 automobiles.