Playing good cop on L.A. freeways
Article Abstract:
Los Angles residents have voted twice since 1980 to increase the county sales tax to pay for transportation projects. Freeway Service Patrol mobilizes a rapid team of tow trucks and California Highway Patrol cruisers to scour the basin's freeways for crashed cars, stalled heaps, downed motorcycles, barrel-rolling refrigerators, somersaulting mattresses, and anything else that inspires drivers to hit the brakes and clot up traffic.
Publication Name: Car and Driver
Subject: Automobiles
ISSN: 0008-6002
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Slow evolution toward another revolution
Article Abstract:
The new launch 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR is a four-wheel-drive with new front and rear bumpers, aero tweaks, nattier seats, and higher alloy wheels, and 10-hp boost to 286 from a new-to-Evo variable-valve-timing system. The new car priced at $35,700 features a wheelbase of 103.3 inches, power 286bhp at 6500rpm and torque of 289lb-ft at 3500rpm.
Publication Name: Car and Driver
Subject: Automobiles
ISSN: 0008-6002
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Plainly good
Article Abstract:
The new Chevrolet Cobalt LS priced at $18,245 is equipped with an automatic trans, the Preferred Equipment Group, and a thumping Pioneer stereo. The 2.2-litre DOHC 16-valve inline four with twin balance shafts to dampen vibration offers 145 horsepower and 155 pound-feet of torque.
Publication Name: Car and Driver
Subject: Automobiles
ISSN: 0008-6002
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Charting the changes. part 2
- Abstracts: BMW M5 and M6 Bavarian brothers. Ampersand. Coming with an inch of disaster: A rookie drives Porsche's Cayenne Turbo up Pikes Peak
- Abstracts: Bugatti Veyron 16.4. Jaguar X-Type Sportwagon
- Abstracts: Spied: Surprising S-class. Mercedes-Benz C350 Sport: You've paid for Bordeaux but your friends think you got merlot
- Abstracts: Hyundai Tucson GLS. 2005 Saab 9-2X Aero: Sushi rolled in a Swedish pancake. BMW 750i: A muscular makeover