Politics

Unseasonably hot weather has prompted Germany to put speed limits on its famous Autobahns, while Paris is banning older cars from its city center.

Indian regulators accuse carmakers of overcharging for spare parts.

Building and maintaining roads, bridges and tunnels is an expensive proposition, and rising costs mean that municipal, county and state budgets often fall short. Raising tolls, or raising the taxes levied on gasoline are both ways to address revenue shortages, but neither are popular with drivers...

The United States Army and the National Guard, in the eyes of the Pentagon, are brands that requires ongoing promotion to raise public interest and awareness. One of the most cost-effective ways of doing this, in terms of media exposure and number of eyes-on, is via sponsorship of professional...

If you collect or restore cars as a hobby, you already know that the government isn’t always your friend. Each passing year seems to bring new regulations and restrictions, despite the fact that the car hobby pumps a significant amount of money into the economy, on a local, state and national...

A petition before the White House seeks to lower the age of vehicle exemption from 25 years to 15 years.

Due to public outcry and political pressure, OnStar has announced that it will retract proposed changes to its terms and conditions that would have permitted vehicle monitoring even without an OnStar subscription.

Google has been working on self-driving cars, doing testing in California. Now, a new law just passed in the neighboring Silver State will allow Google and others to test there.

The attack on military spending in motorsports, especially NASCAR, is once again strengthening. But is it really a boondoggle, or is it a value-conscious way to advertise the military's brands?

Ferrari's charismatic head, Luca di Montezemolo, may be considering a move into Italy's political scene. The quintessentially stylish, youthful-for-his-years Italian recently told press he'd like to be reborn as a politician. At a recent lunch, Montezemolo put forth what sounds an awful lot like a...

Between the shortened holiday weekend and the lingering afterglow of the Detroit Auto Show, we haven't had gobs of time (or energy) to follow up on most of the items in the Celebs And Cars inbox -- at least not in detail. And so, in flippant Friday fashion, we present a quick rundown of the major...

Urban mobility is a hot topic these days -- and rightly so. Roughly 50% of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and by 2030, that figure should hit 60%. As cities and megacities grow, navigating them swiftly and efficiently will become critical for economic, social, and safety reasons...

So you're keen on going green, but can't be seen in some rinky-dink sedan or quirky hybrid hatch? Porsche has your answer in the form of the 2011 Cayenne S Hybrid, today announced to qualify for a $1,800 tax credit from the federal government under its Alternative Motor Vehicle Tax Credit program...

[Ed. note: We haven't been able to install background music here at CelebsAndCars -- mostly because that crap is seriously annoying -- but if you could hum the tune of "Macho Man" while reading this, that would be just great.] The 2012 election cycle hasn't really geared up in America yet, but to...

Here is what we've learned today: A) Newt Gingrich is still alive. B) Someone at Esquire thinks he's still relevant. C) In the late 1990s, at the same time Gingrich was raking Bill Clinton over the coals for his cigar-themed indiscretions, lizard man was having his own adulterous smoke breaks with...