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While the United States is still the largest car market on the planet, there are many examples of machines that Americans can't buy at their local dealers. Here are our choices for the 10 most significant rides at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show that won't be sold from sea to shining sea.

Like the price of sea bass on the restaurant menu, the cost of gas has become wildly unpredictable. As this comparison convoy of four family-size hybrids slipped past a station near our headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we noticed the posted price of regular had dropped to $1.78.

No worries, momma. Good thing nobody called on the ad to sell your Tahoe.

Hybrids get more compelling, of course, when gas z

Proposition: No vehicle offers a broader range of capabilities than a full-size pickup truck with four doors. Seating for five. Covered cargo space for stuff you want to keep locked up and dry. Open cargo space for really big stuff and stuff you dont want inside there with you, to wit: dead deer, live badgers, bags of organic fertilizer. Big load capacity. Big towing capability.

Okay, big carbon footprint, too. But unle

Motorists beware: In some communities, police are issuing tickets during these hard times at a rate higher than ever in what critics say is an attempt to raise revenue in order to offset budget shortfalls.

Take, for example, the metropolitan Detroit area, which has been reeling economically much longer than has the rest of the country. The number of moving violations issued has increased by a

There are many ways to view the Consumer Reports Ratings to find the highest-rated vehicle in a given category or price range. But we get many questions from journalists and our readers regarding the best current American-branded vehicles.

To answer that popular query, we sorted vehicles into 10 key categories. We found that General Motors captured seven of the 10 slots.

Gas prices are way down and incentives on gas guzzlers are way up. It's the perfect storm for right-thinking Americans who believe any vehicle weighing less than 5000 pounds is too sissified for consideration, because now the gas guzzlers are the cheap wheels. In your face, Prius lovers!

Of course, this glee could be short-lived. At this moment, gasoline prices in the U.S. are averaging $2.17 for a gallon of regular

When leasing a car first became popular in the '80s, it was a logical enough proposition with simple pluses and minuses. Just like renting anything else, leasing wasn't the most economical way to own something long-term. Factors such as restrictive mileage limitations (and hefty penalties thereafter) and carefully calculated residual values made b

In its early days, biodiesel was the sole domain of quirky environmentalists schlepping their vintage Mercedes-Benz sedans and Volkswagen vans from one fast-food restaurant to another to fill up on deep-fryer slop. You could often tell where thes