By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist You’ve probably heard about “paying it forward” and of course, we all know about paying it back. But what about paying it down? Debt, I mean. Sit in traffic and look around. Probably no more than 20 or 30 percent of the cars around you are paid-for. People routinely buy […]
2012 Kia Optima Hybrid Review
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Hybrid math is hard to calculate because the variables are still in flux and very subjective. Consider the 2012 Kia Optima hybrid. The base price of this car is $25,700 vs. $19,500 for the base non-hybrid Optima. That’s a difference of $6,200 – a very large difference, up front. But […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: February 29, 2012
February 29, 2012 • 0 Comments • DUI/DWI, Red-Light Cameras, Roadblocks, Speed Cameras, TheNewspaper
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Voter Initiative Appealed to Washington Supreme Court The private citizens in Longview, Washington who forced […]
Study Shows Minorities Hit With More Traffic Violations
A recent analysis of over 100,000 traffic stops in Connecticut in 2011, performed by the Hartford Courant’s Matthew Kauffman, found that minorities were ticketed far more often than white drivers when stopped for the same offense: The disparity was most striking among Hispanic motorists, who were more likely than both whites and blacks to be […]
The Ticking Time Bomb In Your Dashboard
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Air bags – driver and front seat passenger air bags – have been mandatory in cars since the mid 1990s. That means there are now millions of older cars on the road with air bags. These air bags are ticking time bombs, financially speaking (and otherwise; more on that below) […]
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