Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
A woman was killed and three others people were injured in a roll-over accident tonight in southeast Houston, authorities said. The driver of the vehicle a Dodge Neon was traveling west in the 8600 block of Cayton Street around 6:50 p.m. when he lost control of the car causing the vehicle to roll over into a ditch.
Green Cars: Videos and More! (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
User JACKBAUER on ECOMODDER.COM has been busy over in Ireland working on a home-built open source controller that will run a 13" forklift motor for his BMW conversion. This is the latest video of his. Also, notice that he is using the car's original throttle sensor as the input source to the controller, just like Tom G did on his AC Dodge Neon. In EV conversions, it's always nice to reuse as much...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
By Donita Naylor SWANSEA, Mass. -- A Fall River man was fatally injured in Swansea early Tuesday when the car he was driving rear-ended a dump truck that had stopped in the left lane of Route 6 to make a left turn onto Sears Road . Christopher Ouellette, 38, of Lafayette Place in Fall River was going west in a 2001 Dodge Neon at 6:41 a.m., Swansea police said. Officers and paramedics worked to resuscitate...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com Legal news for Kentucky automobile accident attorneys. A two-vehicle wreck injured one person and killed four others. Kentucky automobile accident lawyers alert- A head-on collision in Whitley County killed all four Dodge Neon occupants. Corbin, KYFour people tragically lost their lives in a head-on collision in Whitley County. The fatal front-end crash happened on...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
An Aurora man started his day Monday carjacking a woman on the Southwest Side , went downtown and robbed a woman of her purse, and finally carjacked a college student at gunpoint in the South Loop and forced him to withdraw cash from ATMs, authorities said today. Willie Clay, 39, of North Webster Street in Aurora, faces charges of aggravated vehicular hijacking, vehicular hijacking and robbery. A...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Acura , BMW , Chevrolet , Ford , Mazda , Porsche 2009 SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship finale at Laguna Seca - Click above for high-res gallery One of our favorite forms of racing just wrapped up another season with a typically exciting finale at California's Laguna Seca raceway. Although it doesn't get much press, we love Speed World Challenge because...
http://www.modifiedcars.com/rss.asp (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
New ride Dodge Neon SXtreme 2.0 sport 2004.
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Robert writes: My wife has a 2000 neon [not shown] that I bought used 4-5 years ago with 125k. It is just passing 172k and is slowly falling apart: * The AC no longer blows cold (just an AC flush?) * Trunk lock broke (We get into the trunk via the back seat now and only store limited/small [...]
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Jodi Hilton for The New York Times. Fernanda Tapia pumping gas for her Dodge Neon. There is discussion in many circles about the recent National Academy of Sciences/ Transportation Research Board report, Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions -- Special Report 298 , that has been interpreted by many sources (i.e., "...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
The 19th race in the history of the 24 Hours Of LeMons is over, and Mazda has tied Toyota for the title of Most LeMons Wins: five apiece! For Toyota, three Supras and two Corollas have taken an overall LeMons win, while last weekend's Mazda victor made it two RX-7s, two Miatas, and a Protege. After that, Honda/Acura and BMW have two wins apiece. The heat was a major factor, with brake failures and...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
To Ohio, where a desperate man is picking up a porn-star inspired sex toy in his purple Dodge Neon – driving his car through a branch of AdultMart in a ram raid.
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
(By Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, ckirkpatrick@charlotteobserver.com) The 19-year-old woman who reported being raped by a stranger early Tuesday told police she was walking down a major street when an assailant grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into his car, according to a police report. The victim told Charlotte-Mecklenburg police she was walking near the 4400 block of The Plaza near Shamrock...
Ecofriend (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Eco Factor: Zero-emission DIY car running on electricity. We recently featured the endeavor of a retired auto mechanic who designed a car to run on electricity for just $500, and now we have another similar development by a retired electrical...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
(By Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, ckirkpatrick@charlotteobserver.com) A 19-year-old woman walking down a Charlotte street was forced into a vehicle Monday and raped in an empty parking lot, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report. The victim reported she was walking along The Plaza at about 12:30 a.m. when a man she didn't know pulled up to her in a red four-door Dodge Neon, jumped out and...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
A woman was struck and killed Friday night in Charles Village when she stepped in front of a moving car, police said. The accident occurred about 9 p.m. in the 3100 block of N. Calvert St., where a 71-year-old woman operating a Dodge Neon struck the unidentified woman, according to Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Moses said the driver of the Neon was traveling north on Calvert and had a...
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