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All Yours For The Bidding Fact: Indy cars have a greater terminal velocity-a faster top speed-than the most exotic Formula One racers. Have you thought about what it's like to go flat-out, your backside inches from the asphalt? Here's a chance to experience it. As part of our annual auction that benefits those who are helped by the Championship Auto Racing Auxiliary, a win ... read more>>   Auto Parts Sales Ramp Up As Fewer New Cars Sold Motorists toughing out a weak economy are opting to fix their old cars instead of buying new ones, creating a boon for auto-parts sellers. Big auto-parts chains are thriving. Their stock valuations have seen dramatic increases. Shares of Advance Auto Parts, AutoZone and O'Reilly Automotive are near 52-week highs. The retailers are benefiting from ... read more>> Car Rental Rates To Hold Line Forecasts are mixed on ground transportation rates for 2011, though corporate car rental rates should vary little from this year's rates, analysts said. Carlson Wagonlit Travel projects corporate car rental rates will decrease between 1.5 percent and 2 percent from 2010 levels. The National Business Travel Association, meanwhile, estimated car ren ... read more>>   Cars Outsell Trucks In Rough Year Not only did sales fall off a cliff, but consumer preferences changed faster than automakers could predict or react to. Gas prices skyrocketed, causing consumers to flee SUVs and trucks for smaller cars. Then the financial crisis hit, ruining nearly everyone's appetite for any vehicle. The sales year "was like two different years, and it really wa ... read more>>

Best Auction Cars articles this edition... How Now, Brown Car How now, brown car? Brown cars. For the better part of three decades those two words elicited rolled eyes, conjured images of gas-guzzling boats, and spelled certain failure for any carmaker that dared go there. No more. "Brown is the new black," says Michelle Killen, head of external paint design at GM North America. This year, brown-coloured veh ... read more>> Nationwides Car Shopping App Zapped After 10 Months Nationwide Insurance is pulling the plug on its once-heavily promoted Cartopia car-shopping iPhone app because it did little to help sell auto insurance and people deleted it after buying a car. "Most people only shop for a car once every few years, so in many cases the relationship facilitated by the app seemed to stop when that process was compl ... read more>> Police Car Sales Chase Heats Up At last count, 31/2 car companies are preparing to duke it out in the police car business. The Detroit 3 and Indy 1/2 all want a big slice of the cop car pie. Next year's demise of the Ford Crown Victoria — the top choice of law enforcement for decades — opens up an opportunity for new players, meaning new models. At times, Ford captured about th ... read more>> Rental Car Insurance While on vacation, I rented a car from Avis using my Citi MasterCard. I declined Avis's collision insurance because the credit card has this coverage. I also added two companions as drivers on the contract. Guess what? One had an accident! To make matters worse, my card number was used fraudulently while I was away, and Citi issued me a new card wi ... read more>> Toyota Hopes History Making Pace Car Can Accelerate Hybrid Sales Denny Hamlin didn't break 110 mph Tuesday at Lowe's Motor Speedway, but he still was impressed with a car whose speed pales in comparison to that of his Sprint Cup ride. "I thought it wouldn't take off as well as a combustion engine," Hamlin said after about an hour making laps in a 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid that will pace the Coca-Cola 600 on May ... read more>> Used Car Future Tight Supplies, High Prices Tight supplies of used vehicles will keep auction volumes low and used-vehicle prices high, but used-vehicle sales are starting to recover, says the chief economist for the nation's largest auto auction association. Ira Silver of the National Auto Auction Association said auction volume will dip again this year to about 8.6 million vehicles, compa ... read more>>