The bike rotated clockwise slightly, and the truck struck Miller on the left side, crushing his left leg between the two vehicles. His helmet slammed into the truck.
Matt MillerMiller with Ford's Alan Mulally at the Dearborn Truck Plant. At that moment, Jake Cohen, a college freshman, was staring out the window of his parents’ nearby apartment. He watched the white pickup make an “erratic turn” and slam into Miller. “There was a very loud crashing noise,” he says.
Matt MillerMiller in the hospital, shortly after his accident.By Thursday night, Miller was in so much pain that he was writhing, begging the nurses for more morphine. Eventually, the swelling in Miller’s leg reduced enough to permit a second surgery. Miller would keep his leg.
A Knight’s Tale
Raised in Granville, Ohio, by a professor mother and lawyer stepfather, Miller dropped out of Granville High School in 11th grade, in 1991. It was the sixth school he’d tried since age 13. Despite being a gifted student, he hated being in the classroom.
His mother, Gill, a professor at Denison University, gave him an ultimatum: If he really wanted to drop out, he would have to go to three psychiatrists; she would pick one, he would pick one, and they would both pick the third. If all three said it was OK for Miller to quit, then he could.
“The irony is, when people get themselves insufficient insurance, they essentially make themselves judgment proof,” Maloney says.
Meanwhile, Miller went to physical therapy up to three times a week for four months. His treatment included cryotherapy, massages, muscle stimulation, moist heat, whirlpools, isometrics, stationary bike, treadmill, swimming, and elliptical. He meticulously dressed his gaping wound, spreading moisturizer over his skin graft.
“I need them for ankle support,” Miller said.
A former anchor of Rewind on Bloomberg TV, Miller covers business (and increasingly Bitcoin). He is also an automotive-industry reporter, a gig with serious perks. He is rarely without a luxury sedan or sports car - think Aston Martins, Bentleys, and Ferraris - provided by the automakers for his segments.
He proved to be a natural, and Bloomberg soon began to send him to report from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Eventually, they asked him to come to London to sub for a European correspondent who was on vacation.
On Nov. 5, 2003, his birthday, Bloomberg moved Miller to London and onto television full time.
Soon after, he got his first bike, a Vespa 125. “I was living in Chelsea and I was working in the city. It was this 45-minute commute on the Underground that would just suck the life out of anybody,” he says. “When I got my Vespa, it changed everything because I would wake up in the morning and I would be excited because I got to ride my scooter to work.”
“Nobody cared about cars in 2008 and 2009 - except to cover the bankruptcy, which was from a financial perspective,” Miller says. “For me, it started when I was able to shift people away from the Greek debt crisis for a moment to check out this hot new BMW. Or away from Christine Lagarde or Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a minute to look at this sexy new Porsche four-door.” As car companies rebounded and began to spend more money on advertising, Bloomberg’s relationship with them grew.
Later, Miller slips away without Marchionne noticing. Another reporter asks a question about the international potential of Alfa Romeo. “I lost my guy,” he says about Miller. “The one with the hormonal imbalance. What word did he use?”
“Lust,” says the crowd in unison.
“Oh, he’s gone,” Marchionne says, with a touch of self-pity. “I feel used!”
Matt MillerMiller with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino at a Victoria's Secret show in 2010.Now 15 years later, Miller’s accident appears to have interrupted a tailspin of malaise that had begun to affect his life and career. The lasting effects of his accident - psychologically and physically - are difficult to parse in a life filled with near misses, serendipitous happenings and audacious gambles that have always seemed to come out in his favor.
Despite these breakthroughs, the investigation stalled. Police contacted the younger Henriques, but he simply denied he had been behind the wheel. The traffic camera hadn’t been checked in time and the recording was taped over, Maloney says. Without proof, there could be no criminal liability.
The psychological effects may be more long-lasting. A certain penchant for risk-taking was evident to me when Miller and I first met years ago on Fire Island, where our parents owned adjacent summerhouses. Even as a 10-year-old, I was well aware of my 20-something neighbor’s boisterous personality and appreciation for bourbon and German beer.
Street Smart had been reassigned to Trish Regan and Adam Johnson in 2012, leaving Miller to focus on Rewind and his other segments. Miller’s bosses cancelled Rewind in 2013, replacing the show with Bloomberg West and Mark Crumpton’s Bottom Line. “I think they totally sensed I was overwhelmed,” Miller says.“The true basis of capitalism.”
Matt MillerMiller with friends at the Corps Burussia fraternity in Tübingen in 1999.While attending an economics course at Tübingen University in Germany during his junior year, Miller developed an interest in a bizarre and little-known facet of German cultural history - the fraternal institutions as Verbindungen. Private student groups that date to the 12th century, they are now viewed by many Germans as archaic institutions steeped in racism, sexism, and elitism.
“Yeah right, Mr. Twitter!” Curtis responds.
Off the record, Miller says. “I just want to know!”
Later that morning, Miller, waiting to interview Mulally, explains his accident to a cameraman. “I got hit by a truck, dude,” he says.
“Like one of these?” says the cameraman, pointing to the new F-150.
“Actually, it was an F-250.”
Mulally walks up to Miller, entering the circle of cameras and equipment with two directors' chairs in the center for the interview. “What’s happening?” the Ford CEO asks Miller with a smile, and then bows, reenacting the “I’m not worthy” shtick from the movie "Wayne’s World."
A couple of weeks later, Miller steps into his driveway wearing a Held motorcycle suit - similar to the one that saved his life - and a gleaming white helmet. “Daddy’s going for a ride, Steve,” he says to his undersize rottweiler smiling from behind a wrought-iron fence.
It was about 6:30 p.m., and he had a date that night with a new girlfriend, Mariu Tena, a pretty 22-year-old Spanish college student.
In the parking garage, Miller hopped on his Ducati and began his commute home, heading north on York Avenue. As he crested a slight hill before the 79th Street intersection, a cab made a left turn without signaling, and he swerved right to avoid it.
And I love Detroit, even though it’s fucking bombed out.” As downtown Detroit begins to stir, Miller explains the significance of the new truck, the future of Detroit, and what’s going to happen when he gets to the convention center (his producers are basically going to yell at him for a while).
Miller backs the bike cautiously out of his driveway and into the street. He rolls through the first stop sign because nobody is ever there, but stops completely at an intersection. On a ramp for the Sprain Brook Parkway, he leans forward, tucking in his elbows, and takes off.
Among their more controversial practices is an ancient tradition called Mensur, a form of fixed-stance ritual dueling with swords. Fighters, clad in full body armor, endeavor to lacerate their opponent’s face, while a doctor stands ready to administer first aid. A scar from such a match, called a Schmiss, is considered a badge of honor.
“I didn’t want him to be sitting on a shrink’s couch at age 40, blaming me for letting him drop out of school,” she says.
All three doctors told Miller that he should drop out of school. He got his GED and took the ACT and SAT. His SAT scores - in the 1500s - earned him a scholarship from the state of Ohio. Miller tore up the letter and, after a brief stint at Denison, declared he would never set foot in a school again.
Maloney discovered that Henriques lived with two adult children and a grandchild in Queens. One, a 35-year-old son with the same name had served nine years in prison for attempted murder and intimidating a witness, before being released in 2011. On Google Maps, Maloney saw a white Ford pickup parked in the younger Henriques’ driveway.
Later that morning, Miller, waiting to interview Mulally, explains his accident to a cameraman. “I got hit by a truck, dude,” he says.
“Like one of these?” says the cameraman, pointing to the new F-150.
“Actually, it was an F-250.”
Mulally walks up to Miller, entering the circle of cameras and equipment with two directors' chairs in the center for the interview. “What’s happening?” the Ford CEO asks Miller with a smile, and then bows, reenacting the “I’m not worthy” shtick from the movie "Wayne’s World."
The cameras roll. The interview goes well; it flows by, unforced, like a well-rehearsed dialogue, just a couple of gearheads shooting the breeze.
Mullaly wants to know what Miller thinks of the F-150. “What do you think?” he asks. “You know trucks.”
“I have to have an unbiased opinion as a journalist,” Miller says. “But I’ll say I’m incredibly impressed. Obviously 700 pounds of weight saving. And you have built-in motorcycle ramps, which is a huge bonus for me.”
“That’s what she said!” Miller shouts.
Once inside the show, Miller interviews Bill Ford Jr., an exclusive for Bloomberg, and the chairman seems impressed by his knowledge.
Miller spends the next hour inspecting the new Fords, opening car doors and checking out the ramps in the new pickups. He stands on a ramp. His height now significantly increased, he’s directly in the shot as CBS tries to interview Alan Mulally about 50 yards away. He waves at Ray Day, Mulally’s vice president of communications.“Crazy,” he muttered, limping back to the curb. The 40-year-old looked the part of a television personality: He wore a camel sport coat over a Brooks Brothers shirt, tennis racket cuff links, and Diesel jeans with an alligator belt. Only the hiking boots seemed off.
Street Smart had been reassigned to Trish Regan and Adam Johnson in 2012, leaving Miller to focus on Rewind and his other segments. Miller’s bosses cancelled Rewind in 2013, replacing the show with Bloomberg West and Mark Crumpton’s Bottom Line. “I think they totally sensed I was overwhelmed,” Miller says.
This week, he’s heading off to California to race Audi R8s against the U.S. CEO.
Given Miller’s predilection for high-speed hobbies, the disaster that befell him on May 29, 2013, when a white pickup t-boned his Ducati motorcycle in a Manhattan intersection, may seem unsurprising. About 6:30 pm, Miller was commuting home to Bronxville on his Ducati 1199 Panigale, when a white Ford F-250 pickup made an illegal U-turn and collided with his bike.
The Road Back
Dr. Dean Lorich, an orthopedic trauma specialist, operated on Miller’s leg the day after the accident. After the leg began to swell uncontrollably, he told Gill and Stewart that there was a 50% chance it would have to be amputated. Better not to mention that to Matt, they decided.
“The true basis of capitalism.”
Matt MillerMiller with friends at the Corps Burussia fraternity in Tübingen in 1999.While attending an economics course at Tübingen University in Germany during his junior year, Miller developed an interest in a bizarre and little-known facet of German cultural history - the fraternal institutions as Verbindungen. Private student groups that date to the 12th century, they are now viewed by many Germans as archaic institutions steeped in racism, sexism, and elitism.
Instead, the man squished it beneath his boot and said, “Was ist verloren, ist verloren” (“What’s lost is lost”).
Convinced he’d finally found his niche, Miller soon moved into the Borussia house and began dueling. During his second and last bout, he won by slitting his opponent across his entire forehead. The wound began spouting blood, and the fight was halted. “After, we had a beer and became friends,” Miller recalls.
“Unfortunately, I don’t believe the NYPD put the resources and time and effort into the matter,” he says. “And I think if they had, there might have been a different result.”
As for insurance liability, the most Maloney could get from the elder Henriques’ Geico policy was $50,000 - which Miller chose not to accept, opting to fight the insurance companies for more.
Miller backs the bike cautiously out of his driveway and into the street. He rolls through the first stop sign because nobody is ever there, but stops completely at an intersection. On a ramp for the Sprain Brook Parkway, he leans forward, tucking in his elbows, and takes off.
He proved to be a natural, and Bloomberg soon began to send him to report from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Eventually, they asked him to come to London to sub for a European correspondent who was on vacation.
On Nov. 5, 2003, his birthday, Bloomberg moved Miller to London and onto television full time.
Soon after, he got his first bike, a Vespa 125. “I was living in Chelsea and I was working in the city. It was this 45-minute commute on the Underground that would just suck the life out of anybody,” he says. “When I got my Vespa, it changed everything because I would wake up in the morning and I would be excited because I got to ride my scooter to work.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t believe the NYPD put the resources and time and effort into the matter,” he says. “And I think if they had, there might have been a different result.”
As for insurance liability, the most Maloney could get from the elder Henriques’ Geico policy was $50,000 - which Miller chose not to accept, opting to fight the insurance companies for more.
“The irony is, when people get themselves insufficient insurance, they essentially make themselves judgment proof,” Maloney says.
He would leave his house at 7 a.m. to be on air from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m., after Rewind. But these responsibilities soon began to overwhelm him. He had been battling depression for almost a year and was still suffering from recurring effects of Lyme disease he had contracted in November at a friend’s farmhouse in Connecticut.
When Gill moved to New York City, bringing Miller’s two younger stepbrothers with her, Miller followed. “He would go out all night,” she says. “He’d be getting in at 6 when I’d be waking up to work, and would get annoyed when I’d turn the light on.” Eventually, she says, she had no choice; she kicked him out, “with no money in his pockets.”
Miller drifted among friends, sold tickets to comedy shows, and worked as a door-to-door salesman. He eventually found a steady gig at a record store in Greenwich Village called Generation Records. Meanwhile, he fell into a social scene he feels lucky to have survived.The psychological effects may be more long-lasting. A certain penchant for risk-taking was evident to me when Miller and I first met years ago on Fire Island, where our parents owned adjacent summerhouses. Even as a 10-year-old, I was well aware of my 20-something neighbor’s boisterous personality and appreciation for bourbon and German beer.
He wears a blue suit with no tie and eye-searing red socks. He will be one of 5,212 journalists covering the event, more than the actual Super Bowl.
Matt MillerAt the auto show.Miller is most excited to see the reveal of the new Ford F-150. “We’re interviewing Bill fucking Ford today,” he says. “Last year it was the Corvette, now it’s all about the truck.”
At 5:23 a.m. Miller climbs into a 2013 F-150 Raptor, a loaner from Ford for his stay in Detroit, for the trip to the Cobo Center. “If you look at the accident as the worst thing that’s happened to me in the last year, this is the best,” he says. “I love these people.
The Vespa was Miller’s gateway drug. Soon, it led to a Ducati Monster 620 he picked up on eBay. The seller delivered the bike, gray with red wheels, to Miller’s office, and he drove it home, unlicensed, in his loafers. “It was terrifying at first,” he says. “But by the time I got home, I was a master.”
In 2006, Bloomberg brought Miller to New York to groom him as an anchor, giving him a two-hour midday slot anchoring a newsmagazine as a sub for Deirdre Bolton, who was out on maternity leave in 2007. He started covering the automotive beat as a side project.Matt MillerMiller in a favorite T-shirt.
The Road Back
Dr. Dean Lorich, an orthopedic trauma specialist, operated on Miller’s leg the day after the accident. After the leg began to swell uncontrollably, he told Gill and Stewart that there was a 50% chance it would have to be amputated. Better not to mention that to Matt, they decided.
He started at Bloomberg as a print reporter in Frankfurt in January 2000, going on to cover telecoms at the height of the internet bubble, when companies like Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone were making major acquisitions.
On Sept. 11, 2001, as the terrorist attacks reverberated around the world, Bloomberg decided to get a correspondent in every foreign bureau to report on live television. The headquarters in New York called the Frankfurt print bureau asking who wanted to go on TV, and nobody spoke up - except Miller.
“You aren’t that old,” Marchionne interrupts with a smile.
“When you came in and bought Chrysler,” Miller says. “I was so excited.”
He asks Marchionne when Alfa Romeos will be reintroduced in America.
“2014,” Marchionne says. “Then you can stop lusting after them, and redirect it for better uses.”
“He has no problem doing that,” one of his producers says.
It was about 6:30 p.m., and he had a date that night with a new girlfriend, Mariu Tena, a pretty 22-year-old Spanish college student.
In the parking garage, Miller hopped on his Ducati and began his commute home, heading north on York Avenue. As he crested a slight hill before the 79th Street intersection, a cab made a left turn without signaling, and he swerved right to avoid it.
At that moment, a white Ford F-250 pickup truck heading south made an illegal U-turn into the intersection. Miller caught the truck in his peripheral vision; he veered to the right and clutched his brakes, causing his front tire to lock up and his rear one to lift into the air.
His left leg was instantly crushed. The driver of the pickup fled the scene, and although authorities believe they may have a suspect, the investigation is ongoing. Miller spent almost a month in the hospital, much of it in unbearable pain. After skin grafts, three surgeries, and a grueling program of physical therapy, he is on his way to a full recovery.
The Bloomberg Way
After graduating, Miller interviewed at several banks in Frankfurt and tried for a trading position at Commerzbank. Then a Bloomberg reporter and old friend, Katherine Snyder, suggested he check out Bloomberg.
The Millers also began working with a lawyer, Andrew “Duke” Maloney III - a former criminal prosecutor and a motorcycle rider himself - to track down the driver of the white pickup. Maloney was critical of the lack of progress the NYPD had made. It took him just a few hours to run the plate on LexisNexis research database.
“I mean, I was skating on thin ice in a number of different ways.”
Matt MillerMiller on a BMW R1000 at home in Bronxville with his dog, Steve.Finally, by May, Miller had just begun putting his life back together. “It was like someone let me off my leash,” he says about losing Rewind. “That really improved my outlook at work.” He began to focus his energy on covering Detroit and building better relationships with auto executives like Alan Mulally, Bill Ford, and Mark Reuss of General Motors.
“I was in a dark, dark place,” he says. “A lot of partying, a lot of punk rock, a lot of death metal.” He had a tongue piercing until a Bloomberg producer recently made him remove it.
One Christmas, in 1994, after getting a raise from $8.40 an hour to $9 an hour, he asked Gill and his stepfather, Dixon, about trying out college after all, eventually winning a spot at Antioch in Yellow Springs, Ohio. “That’s where I got my first footing in Austrian economics,” Miller said.His left leg was instantly crushed. The driver of the pickup fled the scene, and although authorities believe they may have a suspect, the investigation is ongoing. Miller spent almost a month in the hospital, much of it in unbearable pain. After skin grafts, three surgeries, and a grueling program of physical therapy, he is on his way to a full recovery.
Matt MillerMiller with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino at a Victoria's Secret show in 2010.Now 15 years later, Miller’s accident appears to have interrupted a tailspin of malaise that had begun to affect his life and career. The lasting effects of his accident - psychologically and physically - are difficult to parse in a life filled with near misses, serendipitous happenings and audacious gambles that have always seemed to come out in his favor.
He stands confidently on both legs. If he didn’t eagerly tell you how he’d been hit by a truck, or proudly show you his 11-inch scar resembling, he says, a part of the female anatomy, you would have no idea that two titanium plates and 13 screws hold his left leg together.
“It’s all about you, Matt,” Mullaly says.
Later, Mulally sings the anchor’s praises to Business Insider. “He’s true north,” Mulally enthuses. “We love him because he knows and loves automobiles, and we like to make him smile.”
Miller’s producers give him an hour for lunch, begging him to be back at 11:30 and not to run off. Admitting he has a tendency to “get crazy and annoy people,” he asks if he’s doing OK. Assured that he’s doing fine, he rushes out for a pair of Detroit’s beloved Coney dogs.
At 1 p.m., Miller is sitting in the front row at the Fiat press conference, where CEO Sergio Marchionne will announce the finalization of the Chrysler acquisition. Reporters barrage Marchionne with big questions about the acquisition, where the headquarters will be, and international ramifications of the deal.
His wounds now closed, Miller began gradual physical therapy. Therapists used a Continuous Passive Motion machine to bend his leg. He had to practice climbing stairs; on his first attempt he froze in terror, sat, and slid down the steps.
On June 15, after almost three weeks in the hospital, Miller was discharged.
Back in Bronxville, he worked to regain his independence. Two nurses made sure the house was handicap-accessible, and determined that he didn’t need any additional help. His family catered to his every need.
His wounds now closed, Miller began gradual physical therapy. Therapists used a Continuous Passive Motion machine to bend his leg. He had to practice climbing stairs; on his first attempt he froze in terror, sat, and slid down the steps.
On June 15, after almost three weeks in the hospital, Miller was discharged.
Back in Bronxville, he worked to regain his independence. Two nurses made sure the house was handicap-accessible, and determined that he didn’t need any additional help. His family catered to his every need.
Miller’s brother, Stewart, soon arrived at the hospital and began making calls. First he called Mariu, Miller’s girlfriend, then his mother, Gill.
Meanwhile, as the drugs started kicking in, Miller began joking with the nurses. “You all deserve raises,” he told them, promising to do a story on what heroes they were.
“He was too big a risk-taker to become a trader,” Snyder says, mentioning the mock trades Commerzbank asked him to make as part of one interview.
He started at Bloomberg as a print reporter in Frankfurt in January 2000, going on to cover telecoms at the height of the internet bubble, when companies like Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone were making major acquisitions.
On Sept. 11, 2001, as the terrorist attacks reverberated around the world, Bloomberg decided to get a correspondent in every foreign bureau to report on live television. The headquarters in New York called the Frankfurt print bureau asking who wanted to go on TV, and nobody spoke up - except Miller.
And I love Detroit, even though it’s fucking bombed out.” As downtown Detroit begins to stir, Miller explains the significance of the new truck, the future of Detroit, and what’s going to happen when he gets to the convention center (his producers are basically going to yell at him for a while).
“As soon as he hit him, he stopped for a minute. He obviously recognized that he hit somebody. Then he took off in the opposite direction.”
People began to gather around Miller, who kept trying to stand up, all the while yelling obscenities at the fleeing pickup. Another witness recorded the license plate and described the driver to the police as a black male, bald, in his 30s or early 40s with a medium build and wearing a white shirt.
Meanwhile, Miller went to physical therapy up to three times a week for four months. His treatment included cryotherapy, massages, muscle stimulation, moist heat, whirlpools, isometrics, stationary bike, treadmill, swimming, and elliptical. He meticulously dressed his gaping wound, spreading moisturizer over his skin graft.
By the end of July, he could walk with crutches and had returned to work. His camera angles were set up to allow him to wear shorts on the air. By October, after months of recovery and rehab, he was finally able to walk without a cane.“I hope that you’re being completely honest with us,” he said before he left. “Because murder is the kind of crime that doesn’t go away. The investigation never stops.”
Courtesy of Jorge MancillasEsparza with her daughter, Arianna, who is now 4.For 17 years, that warning barely echoed in Patricia Esparza’s life. She graduated from Pomona with a double major in psychology and women’s studies. She went on to earn a Ph.D. at DePaul University in clinical psychology.
As a researcher, she focused on human resilience, studying how Latino and urban teenagers develop a sense of belonging and cope with loss and conflict. In 2007, she became a consultant on mental health to the World Health Organization in Geneva. By then Esparza had married Jorge Mancillas, a neurobiologist who had his own biomedical research lab at UCLA and taught at the medical school.
That’s consistent if you read about trauma. It’s been 18 years, and honestly this part is blurry, but as far as I know all that I thought was: ‘This man is on me and I need to get him off.'” As for what Esparza expected Van would do to Ramirez, last year she told the grand jury that she thought, "the worst that would happen is that he would rough him up."
She left the club with Van, in a car that followed Kody Tran, Gries, and Rojas, who were in the white van. When the van hit Ramirez’s truck, and the men got out and went after Ramirez, Esparza says she was taken completely by surprise. “Not in my wildest dreams did I expect that Gonzalo Ramirez was going to be pulled into a van," she said. Rojas got out of the van and drove Esparza away in the car, they both told the police.
Pressing Pause
By early 2013, Miller was anchoring two shows, Rewind and Street Smart, and producing his own segments in the field several times a week, from playing squash with hedge-fund managers to visiting tailors for new suits. On the air all day, he systematically covered the car industry in Detroit and the New York Stock Exchange from opening to closing bell.
On June 9, a plastic surgeon closed the final fasciotomy incision, which had grown to about three inches wide, with skin grafted from his upper left thigh; he expressed gratefulness that they didn’t take his tattoo of Skinny Puppy, the Canadian electro-industrial band, from his other thigh.
A Knight’s Tale
Raised in Granville, Ohio, by a professor mother and lawyer stepfather, Miller dropped out of Granville High School in 11th grade, in 1991. It was the sixth school he’d tried since age 13. Despite being a gifted student, he hated being in the classroom. His mother, Gill, a professor at Denison University, gave him an ultimatum: If he really wanted to drop out, he would have to go to three psychiatrists; she would pick one, he would pick one, and they would both pick the third.
The cameras roll. The interview goes well; it flows by, unforced, like a well-rehearsed dialogue, just a couple of gearheads shooting the breeze.
Mullaly wants to know what Miller thinks of the F-150. “What do you think?” he asks. “You know trucks.”
“I have to have an unbiased opinion as a journalist,” Miller says. “But I’ll say I’m incredibly impressed. Obviously 700 pounds of weight saving. And you have built-in motorcycle ramps, which is a huge bonus for me.”
The Vespa was Miller’s gateway drug. Soon, it led to a Ducati Monster 620 he picked up on eBay. The seller delivered the bike, gray with red wheels, to Miller’s office, and he drove it home, unlicensed, in his loafers. “It was terrifying at first,” he says. “But by the time I got home, I was a master.”
In 2006, Bloomberg brought Miller to New York to groom him as an anchor, giving him a two-hour midday slot anchoring a newsmagazine as a sub for Deirdre Bolton, who was out on maternity leave in 2007. He started covering the automotive beat as a side project.Matt MillerMiller in a favorite T-shirt.
The Bloomberg Way
After graduating, Miller interviewed at several banks in Frankfurt and tried for a trading position at Commerzbank. Then a Bloomberg reporter and old friend, Katherine Snyder, suggested he check out Bloomberg.
“He was too big a risk-taker to become a trader,” Snyder says, mentioning the mock trades Commerzbank asked him to make as part of one interview.
“It’s all about you, Matt,” Mullaly says.
Later, Mulally sings the anchor’s praises to Business Insider. “He’s true north,” Mulally enthuses. “We love him because he knows and loves automobiles, and we like to make him smile.”
Miller’s producers give him an hour for lunch, begging him to be back at 11:30 and not to run off. Admitting he has a tendency to “get crazy and annoy people,” he asks if he’s doing OK. Assured that he’s doing fine, he rushes out for a pair of Detroit’s beloved Coney dogs.
He felt better thanks to the help of antibiotics, a gluten-free diet, and a new psychiatrist who prescribed him an antidepressant. “Plus, it was summer,” he says. “I was loving riding the bike.”
On May 29, 2013, Miller changed into leather pants and a motorcycle jacket that hardens on impact and put on his boots. Helmet in hand, he walked through the space-age lobby of Bloomberg’s Lexington Avenue headquarters, past a gauntlet of eye-rolls at his excessive gear.The police identified the murder victim as 25-year-old Gonzalo Ramirez and soon linked him to another crime report they had received hours earlier. At about 12:30 a.m., Ramirez and a friend, Noel Reyes, had left a dance club, El Cortez, in Santa Ana, the city next to Irvine.
Ramirez had driven about a mile in his pickup truck when a white van rear-ended him at a red light. Ramirez pulled over to the curb and got out. From the truck, Reyes turned around and saw two men and a woman sitting in the van, he told the police. One of the men got out and started to punch Ramirez.
"That’s the fist sculpture from the movie '8 Mile,'" he says, pointing at the local landmark.
Bloomberg didn’t spring for parking passes this year, and finding a spot for the massive truck proves difficult. At one garage, an attendant shakes his head. “You too big,” he says.
Among their more controversial practices is an ancient tradition called Mensur, a form of fixed-stance ritual dueling with swords. Fighters, clad in full body armor, endeavor to lacerate their opponent’s face, while a doctor stands ready to administer first aid.
A scar from such a match, called a Schmiss, is considered a badge of honor.
After Miller and a friend began visiting the Corps Borussia fraternity as part of a research project, he saw his first duel. The doctor was the father of one of the participants. After the son’s ear was severed by his opponent, he asked his father to reattach it.
The vehicle’s owner was Osbourne Karl Henriques, 66. However, Henriques was in Federal custody in North Carolina at the time of Miller’s accident, awaiting a psych evaluation to stand trial for possessing with intent to distribute more than 200 kilos of marijuana.
Convinced he’d finally found his niche, Miller soon moved into the Borussia house and began dueling. During his second and last bout, he won by slitting his opponent across his entire forehead. The wound began spouting blood, and the fight was halted. “After, we had a beer and became friends,” Miller recalls.
“He still says, ‘Miller, every time I look in the mirror I think of you.’ It really builds character, because after that, you can pretty much face any kind of physical danger.” Miller says wistfully that nobody had ever cut him deep enough to give him a Schmiss of his own.
The police asked Esparza if Van had gotten upset. “Yes,” she said, according to the transcript of the interview Meza conducted, but “he was just there for me.” Had he done anything to suggest he might retaliate? Esparza said no.
“Is Gonzalo dead?” she asked Meza, saying she’d noticed that he was from the homicide unit. He said yes. And then Meza continued, “If you know who killed him, this is the time for us to talk about it, because we don’t want you getting into something that later on you might not be able to get out of.
Motor City
One Jan. 13, the sun has yet to rise as Miller stands in his hotel room, preparing to cover the first day of press week at the North American International Auto Show. He puts on a pair of business shoes for the first time since the accident eight months earlier - a small but telling symbol of a return to normalcy.
“Alden Cordovan loafers,” he says. “The Wall Street kind.” His hotel room is tidy, but stacks of car magazines - Truckin’, Motor Trend, Automobile, and Road & Track - litter nearly every surface. The Auto Show is his Super Bowl, he says with a smile, that’s why he can’t wear his hiking boots.
Esparza refused the plea bargain. Standing before TV cameras outside the Santa Ana courthouse in November, 4-year-old Arianna’s arms wrapped around her and Mancillas by her side, she said of the manslaughter proposal, “I cannot accept because it would essentially be a lie.” Esparza, 39, described herself entirely as a victim: “I was terrorized,” she said of the night Ramirez was murdered.
Matt MillerAt the auto show.Miller is most excited to see the reveal of the new Ford F-150. “We’re interviewing Bill fucking Ford today,” he says. “Last year it was the Corvette, now it’s all about the truck.”
At 5:23 a.m. Miller climbs into a 2013 F-150 Raptor, a loaner from Ford for his stay in Detroit, for the trip to the Cobo Center. “If you look at the accident as the worst thing that’s happened to me in the last year, this is the best,” he says. “I love these people.
That night, they both later told the police, Esparza finally told Van she’d been raped, and when he pressed her, she told him Ramirez’s first name.
3. "You Were a Victim"
On May 24, the day after seeing Ramirez’s phone bill with “Paty” scrawled on the back, investigator Ben Meza asked Ramirez’s roommate, Eloe Silva, if he knew who Paty was, the record shows. Silva said that a few weeks before the murder, toward the end of March, Ramirez had come home and told him that he’d been in the dorm room of a girl by that name.
Neither did a professor Esparza said she talked to about the rape, when she burst into tears as she tried to explain why she’d missed a deadline for class.
Esparza told one other person: Her ex-boyfriend Gianni Van. Esparza and Van had started dating the previous August. They met at the clothing store where Esparza was working for the summer when Van came in to pick up an order. He was the 25-year-old assistant manager of a shoe store in nearby Costa Mesa and had an interest in fashion design. He liked to surf and drove a sports car.This week, he’s heading off to California to race Audi R8s against the U.S. CEO.
Given Miller’s predilection for high-speed hobbies, the disaster that befell him on May 29, 2013, when a white pickup t-boned his Ducati motorcycle in a Manhattan intersection, may seem unsurprising. About 6:30 pm, Miller was commuting home to Bronxville on his Ducati 1199 Panigale, when a white Ford F-250 pickup made an illegal U-turn and collided with his bike.
“I really struggled a lot until I talked to a psychiatrist last summer. I was able to describe my emotions and he gave me perspective that made a lot of sense to me. When you’ve been abused for years by your father, it doesn’t take a lot for you to feel threatened.
Gianni was bullying me about the rape, and I wasn’t necessarily thinking about what would happen at any later point in time. The psychiatrist said when you’re in survival mode, your ability to foresee the next step, to think about consequences, stops working.
About an hour later, Rojas and Esparza say, Van summoned them to Accurate Transmission, an auto shop owned by Kody and Diane Tran. Esparza was taken upstairs, where she saw Ramirez hanging by chains from the ceiling, beaten and bloody. She told the police that he said to her in Spanish, “I don’t know you, little one.” Diane Tran was at the shop too, and when she also spoke to the police in 2012, she said she saw Ramirez, covered in blood, and heard him speak a few words in Spanish. Rojas, who says she stayed downstairs, told the police she heard Esparza scream, “crying that it wasn’t him.” Van and Kody Tran apparently didn’t believe her. According to Rojas and Esparza, they used the sight of Ramirez’s tortured body to warn the women against ratting them out: This is what will happen to you if you screw us.
Before long, paramedics arrived on the scene. They took off Miller’s helmet and jacket, then took out a pair of scissors to remove his boots and pants.
“No, no, no! These pants cost, like, 500 bucks!” Miller protested, to little effect.
As he was loaded into the ambulance, he fretted about his date, his career, and, finally, his leg.
Next thing he knew, he was in the trauma center at New York Presbyterian, his head and neck rigid in a brace that made him feel paralyzed, an IV drip in his arm.
Miller’s first coanchor, Carol Massar, recalls their easy chemistry. “Broadcast is a funny thing,” she said. “Some relationships you just can’t fake. He remembers things. He’s wicked smart. Matt can just wing it.” She adds that women often trigger his provocative nature and penchant for mischief.
“Ask me about the time he did a piece on Victoria’s Secret and brought me ‘presents’ on air.”
Sometimes Europeans are smarter than Americans. I don't like to admit it, but it's true. It turns out, some guy named Günter was using his symmetrical lift (not a Rotary Lift, mind you), when he realized that those last two lagers had pushed his belly past the point of no return. That's right, he was stuck in the car and couldn't get out. Since he had some time to sit and think, he did what most mechanics do with their free time; he tried to design a better lift so that he wouldn't have to lose his bought and paid for beer belly.
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By early 2013, Miller was anchoring two shows, Rewind and Street Smart, and producing his own segments in the field several times a week, from playing squash with hedge-fund managers to visiting tailors for new suits. On the air all day, he systematically covered the car industry in Detroit and the New York Stock Exchange from opening to closing bell.
Instead, he started pulling off her clothes and she wound up on the floor. “We were struggling and I seriously don’t know how I ended up there,” she said. After he wrestled her pants off, she stopped trying to fight. “I figured it will be better for me if I pretend that, um, I’m going along with it,” she told the police.
If all three said it was OK for Miller to quit, then he could. “I didn’t want him to be sitting on a shrink’s couch at age 40, blaming me for letting him drop out of school,” she says.
All three doctors told Miller that he should drop out of school. He got his GED and took the ACT and SAT. His SAT scores - in the 1500s - earned him a scholarship from the state of Ohio. Miller tore up the letter and, after a brief stint at Denison, declared he would never set foot in a school again.
Reyes rushed to help his friend, but the second man got out of the van and came toward him. Thinking he had a gun, Reyes turned and ran down the block for help. He found a security officer at a nearby Motel 6, but by the time they made it back to the intersection, Ramirez, the two men, and the van were gone.
4. The Night of the Murder
Esparza’s account of the events leading up to the murder helped lead to those indictments, and she came back to California repeatedly during the next year, for hearings and to testify about the murder before a grand jury. But cooperating did not set her free.
Last fall, after she again returned to California knowing that her bail could be revoked, prosecutors presented her with a stark choice-plead guilty to manslaughter and accept a three-year prison sentence, or stand trial for murder.Mike Nudelman/Business InsiderOn a clear day last October, Bloomberg TV anchor Matt Miller stood on the corner of York Avenue at 79th Street, staring across the stream of traffic at the spot where five months earlier he had nearly died.
Ramirez called the next morning and asked Esparza out to breakfast. She told him she could go if her sister, Juana, and her friend, Nancy Luna, came too. Afterward, Ramirez offered to drive Esparza and Luna the 25 miles back to Pomona, and they said yes. He dropped Luna off at her dorm and asked Esparza if she would show him around campus.
Bloomberg didn’t spring for parking passes this year, and finding a spot for the massive truck proves difficult. At one garage, an attendant shakes his head. “You too big,” he says.
“That’s what she said!” Miller shouts.
Once inside the show, Miller interviews Bill Ford Jr., an exclusive for Bloomberg, and the chairman seems impressed by his knowledge.
Miller spends the next hour inspecting the new Fords, opening car doors and checking out the ramps in the new pickups. He stands on a ramp. His height now significantly increased, he’s directly in the shot as CBS tries to interview Alan Mulally about 50 yards away.
“Nobody cared about cars in 2008 and 2009 - except to cover the bankruptcy, which was from a financial perspective,” Miller says. “For me, it started when I was able to shift people away from the Greek debt crisis for a moment to check out this hot new BMW.
“I was in a dark, dark place,” he says. “A lot of partying, a lot of punk rock, a lot of death metal.” He had a tongue piercing until a Bloomberg producer recently made him remove it.
One Christmas, in 1994, after getting a raise from $8.40 an hour to $9 an hour, he asked Gill and his stepfather, Dixon, about trying out college after all, eventually winning a spot at Antioch in Yellow Springs, Ohio. “That’s where I got my first footing in Austrian economics,” Miller said.
The Millers also began working with a lawyer, Andrew “Duke” Maloney III - a former criminal prosecutor and a motorcycle rider himself - to track down the driver of the white pickup. Maloney was critical of the lack of progress the NYPD had made. It took him just a few hours to run the plate on LexisNexis research database.
The vehicle’s owner was Osbourne Karl Henriques, 66. However, Henriques was in Federal custody in North Carolina at the time of Miller’s accident, awaiting a psych evaluation to stand trial for possessing with intent to distribute more than 200 kilos of marijuana.
He also wanted a drink of water. “I said, ‘Well, I have a lot of work, but sure,’” Esparza later told the police. “‘I have to drop my stuff off, so let’s just go up to my room.’”
Esparza had a single. Ramirez lay down on her bed and asked her to have sex. She said no. He insisted, saying she’d led him on. She told the police that she said to him, “You know, you have to leave, because I have to do my work.” Ramirez persuaded her to lie down next to him, and they talked for a bit, but when he tried to kiss her, she got up and asked him again to go.
“You aren’t that old,” Marchionne interrupts with a smile.
“When you came in and bought Chrysler,” Miller says. “I was so excited.”
He asks Marchionne when Alfa Romeos will be reintroduced in America.
“2014,” Marchionne says. “Then you can stop lusting after them, and redirect it for better uses.”
“He has no problem doing that,” one of his producers says.
Later, Miller slips away without Marchionne noticing. Another reporter asks a question about the international potential of Alfa Romeo. “I lost my guy,” he says about Miller. “The one with the hormonal imbalance. What word did he use?”
Esparza had never met Gries or Rojas before. She’d been briefly introduced to Tran and his wife, Diane, at their wedding reception (Van was Kody Tran’s best man). “I didn’t really know these people or what they were capable of,” she told me on the phone from prison.
According to Esparza and Rojas, Van and the other men wanted Esparza to show them the guy who had raped her, and when Ramirez walked by their table, she pointed him out.
Esparza says she felt threatened and intimidated by Van-and that she was particularly ill-equipped to deal with those feeling because for years, as she has said publicly since she was charged, she was sexually abused by her father. “For a very long time it was very difficult for me to travel back into that moment,” she told me about that night at El Cortez.
“I kind of just blanked out.”
Afterward, Esparza cried into her pillow. Ramirez asked if he could see her again. She said no, and he left. Esparza went the next day to see a college nurse and got a morning-after pill. She told the nurse she’d been “date raped,” but the nurse, according to what Esparza told investigators, didn’t suggest making a police report.
Weekends often find him test-driving these vehicles at the Monticello racetrack in New York and at Lime Rock in Connecticut. Last week, he raced Lamborghini Aventadors at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, and rode every model of Ducati motorcycle in the Catskills with the company’s head of North American sales.Yet at $2 per gallon, it would take more than 10 years to recoup the $3,720 price difference between a base model Toyota Camry hybrid and its four-cylinder gas-engine counterpart. But that's not always a fair comparison, said Stephanie Brinley, senior analyst for IHS Automotive.
Hybrids often come with more equipment and are comparable to better-equipped, pricier models, she said.
Esparza and Van went on dates to the beach and the movies, seeing each other a few times a month until February, when Esparza broke up with him. She felt that Van was getting too possessive and she wanted to concentrate on her studies, she says.
In April, though, Van called and asked if he could come to Pomona to see her. He visited two weeks after the rape. When she opened the door, there were tears in her eyes. Van asked what was wrong, and she said she just wanted him to be there and comfort her. They spent the day together.
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, file photo, a model poses next to Toyota's fourth-generation Prius hybrid car at the Auto Expo in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, India. It wasn¿t apparent on Super Bowl Sunday, but a Toyota television ad featuring a surprisingly quick Prius hybrid eluding police marked a turning point for the auto industry.
Automakers now say hybrid and electric vehicles perform better than gas-powered vehicles. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
The coming debuts of the Chevrolet Bolt and Tesla Model 3, which will have 200 miles of electric range, should make battery electric vehicles more appealing, even with cheap gas, Brauer said. A lack of charging stations, once thought to limit adoption of electrics, becomes almost moot because of the longer range, he said.
Automakers now say hybrid and electric vehicles perform better than gas-powered vehicles. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
This Monday, March 21, 2016, photo shows the battery compartment located under a white cover behind the driver's seat of the Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances.
Hybrids often come with more equipment and are comparable to better-equipped, pricier models, she said.
The coming debuts of the Chevrolet Bolt and Tesla Model 3, which will have 200 miles of electric range, should make battery electric vehicles more appealing, even with cheap gas, Brauer said. A lack of charging stations, once thought to limit adoption of electrics, becomes almost moot because of the longer range, he said.
The columns face each other.
Front arm length is the same as rear arm length.
The lift states "symmetrical".
You have a difficult time getting out of the car when you drive in.
You don't have a difficult time getting out of the truck when you drive in.
You have an account with a body shop to repair door dings.
Silva had been lying on his bed, and Ramirez grabbed the cuffs of his pants and yanked them off. “That’s the way I took the pants off the girl I had sex with,” Silva remembered him saying.Santa Ana Police DepartmentGonzalo Ramirez
The phone numbers Ramirez had written on his bill traced to Esparza’s Pomona College dorm room, and to her family’s house in Santa Ana. On June 8, Meza and another officer went to talk to Esparza. The police asked if she knew Ramirez, and she said yes. She told them about the rape and also that she had confided in Gianni Van, her ex-boyfriend.
The new Prius has an increased battery range.
The Prius hybrid, powered by both gas and electric motors, started the alternative fuel movement in the U.S. in 2000. Toyota deliberately made it look different than other cars, knowing that buyers wanted to make a statement about being environmentally friendly. Other companies set their green cars apart as well.
Columns are rotated 30 degrees from each other, facing the load center of the vehicle.
Front arms of the automotive lift are shorter than the rear arms.
You have a beer belly bigger than Gunter's and don't have a problem.
A Rotary Lift engineer tells you it's a True Asymmetric Lift.
Reduction in bill from the body shop allows for a bigger beer belly.
Some of these lifts are listed with the ALI and pass 3rd party testing. They can be constructed well and the sales people selling the concept really have their pitch down. Having seen the products used improperly in the shops and having serviced numerous "Versymmetric" lifts that have had failed bearings (slider blocks), our opinion isn't very positive.
What Gunter came up with seemed to be a pretty good design. By making the rear arms of the lift longer than the front arms, the vehicle would theoretically sit far enough back to allow him to open the doors. Not only that, since most of the cars being manufactured in Gunter's day were front wheel drive, the balance of the vehicle on the car lift would be better. (Gunter had never forgotten the time that he had pulled the engine out of a car, only to have the car flip backwards off the lift due to the newly created weight distribution imbalance). It would also help to reduce the number of times he had to have a customer's door fixed after dinging the door on the column.“I need them for ankle support,” Miller said.
A former anchor of Rewind on Bloomberg TV, Miller covers business (and increasingly Bitcoin). He is also an automotive-industry reporter, a gig with serious perks. He is rarely without a luxury sedan or sports car - think Aston Martins, Bentleys, and Ferraris - provided by the automakers for his segments.
Weekends often find him test-driving these vehicles at the Monticello racetrack in New York and at Lime Rock in Connecticut. Last week, he raced Lamborghini Aventadors at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, and rode every model of Ducati motorcycle in the Catskills with the company’s head of North American sales.
This Monday, March 21, 2016, photo shows the battery compartment located under a white cover behind the driver's seat of the Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances.
The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
HYUNDAI IONIQ: Here's a triple play: The Ioniq is designed to handle three methods for making it move - battery power, gas and electric hybrid, and a plug-in hybrid that can travel over 25 miles on battery alone. And it looks normal, not much different from the popular gas-powered midsize Sonata.
The hybrid versions have a 1.6-liter, 104-horsepower engine made specifically for hybrid use. Hyundai paired it with a 6-speed automatic transmission to give the car better acceleration and driving performance. The electric Ioniq can go up to 110 miles per charge. It's expected to be in showrooms in the fall.
Approximately 30 years ago, when cars were built out of steel, men were strong and women wore skirts.....The symmetrical lift was designed as an alternative to the hydraulic inground lift. The lift wasn't known as "symmetrical" right off the bat; it was called a surface lift because it bolted to the concrete floor, rather than being installed through the floor. At the time of its inception, the surface lift was being designed (often times poorly) to pick up rear wheel drive vehicles that had a pretty good front to rear balance. The cars were big and heavy and mechanics relatively skinny and strong.
All of this makes for a bad environment to roll out more hybrids and electrics. But automakers will press on, now trying to sell them on style, acceleration, handling and reliability.
"It looks better. It drives better. People can have more fun behind the wheel, but it still has new technologies and safety in it, and it also gets the benefits of a hybrid," Bill Fay, Toyota's U.S. general manager, said of the Prius.
Bill Fay, Toyota's U.S. general manager, says there will be more chapters in the Prius police chase ad series, including one for the new plug-in. "The early adopters understand the differences in the technology," he said. "But with the mainstream customers, we all still have a ways to go to explain the benefits."
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Thankfully, those smart engineers in the United States don't drink beer while they are trying to solve a problem. (Most of the time....) They had seen Gunter's design and saw the problem right away. They also realized that their solution would have an added benefit to the beer belly problem. Rotate the columns to face the new load center and you automatically get extended door-opening clearance. Ever wonder why American automotive lift engineers have big beer bellies? Because they CAN!
Very few manufacturers take the time to make this distinction on their auto lifts. The good majority of two-post auto lifts that are advertised as "asymmetric" are the exact same as the symmetric auto lift with different arm lengths. Does this concept work? Of course it will for a while. But remember what happened to Gunter and his buddies, you will experience severe wear on the bearings (or slider blocks) over time.
But even with cheap oil, Mick Roberts, a 46-year-old hydrogen engineer from Lowell, Indiana, bought a 2015 Chevrolet Volt hybrid in October when gas was $2.20. He got a good deal on an outgoing model, but Roberts says he likes the smooth-shifting, quiet motor and quick acceleration. "It would be tough to go back to gas," he said.
Even though sales grew as manufacturers added models, they never really caught on, partly because of the improved fuel economy of gas-powered vehicles. At their peak in 2013, with gas averaging $3.50 per gallon, Americans bought only 341,000 hybrids and electrics, about 2.2 percent of total U.S.
At the New York International Auto Show this week, Hyundai will join Toyota in showing off new electric and hybrid vehicles. Hyundai will unveil battery, gas-electric hybrid and plug-in versions of a new car called the Ioniq, while Toyota will show a plug-in Prius that can run on electricity alone, as well as both gas and electricity.Goes on sale this summer.
ACURA MDX: Acura's best-seller, the three-row MDX SUV, gets a new pentagonal grille and a chiseled hood, narrowed headlights and LED fog lights and twin tailpipes. The Sport Hybrid powertrain pairs a 3.0-liter V6 engine and three electric motors that power the front and rear wheels.
As a power source, electricity outpaces gasoline in just about every area, says Karl Brauer, senior auto analyst for Kelley Blue Book. Advancements have made batteries smaller, increased their storage capacity and brought prices down. Electric motors can take off faster than gas engines, and hybrids can power wheels with both electric and gas motors for better acceleration. Electrics also are far quieter.
Esparza said she had no more to offer. Meza kept pushing. Because of Ramirez’s wounds, he said, the killer “was somebody that would be very, very angry, and somebody that has a nice build like you, gets raped by this guy. … Don’t try and protect anybody.” A few minutes later, he continued, “Is there anybody you’re trying to protect?
’Cause don’t do that. ... You were a victim, like I said, so I want to keep it that way.”
Esparza gave no new information. “I just get a feeling about you that you know more than you want to tell us, and you may be protecting somebody,” Meza told her. He asked if she would take a polygraph test. Esparza agreed, and Meza said he’d call her to make the arrangements.
All of this makes for a bad environment to roll out more hybrids and electrics. But automakers will press on, now selling them on style, acceleration, handling and reliability.
Electric vehicles have few moving parts. "They require far less service," Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said Wednesday. "No oil changes, and they are extremely reliable."
As a power source, electricity outpaces gasoline in just about every area, says Karl Brauer, senior auto analyst for Kelley Blue Book. Advancements have made batteries smaller, increased their storage capacity and brought prices down. Electric motors can take off faster than gas engines, and hybrids can power wheels with both electric and gas motors for better acceleration. Electrics also are far quieter.
Maloney discovered that Henriques lived with two adult children and a grandchild in Queens. One, a 35-year-old son with the same name had served nine years in prison for attempted murder and intimidating a witness, before being released in 2011. On Google Maps, Maloney saw a white Ford pickup parked in the younger Henriques’ driveway.
But when the police interviewed the women, they turned up nothing suspicious. Then in the third week of May they got Ramirez’s phone bill and noticed another woman’s name written on the back: “Paty,” with two phone numbers, one marked “school” and the other marked “home.”
2. "I Thought He Was a Nice Guy"
Norma Patricia Esparza, a 20-year-old sophomore at Pomona College, was home in Santa Ana for the weekend when she met Ramirez. It was March 25, a Saturday night, three weeks before he was killed. Patricia had gone to El Cortez with her sister and a friend from school.
Bloomberg TVMiller on Bloomberg.Miller’s taking a ride along the Hudson Valley’s hairpin roads to Bear Mountain to take his bike to family-owned Rockwell Cycles in Fort Montgomery, New York, his favorite shop.
He punches in the code and his garage door opens. Pausing a moment, he admires his red-and-white Ducati Multistrada Pikes Peak edition standing in its wheel chock. “Isn’t she beautiful?” he says, throwing a leg over the bike. With the help of “Duke” Maloney, he’s still pursuing Osborne Henriques to pay his medical bills, but the legal case seems a distant concern as the engine starts with a high-pitched whine.
Ramirez was there and asked her to dance. At the end of the evening, he asked for her phone number, and she gave it to him, “because I thought he was a nice guy,” she would later tell investigators. Courtesy of Jorge MancillasPatricia Esparza in Barcelona, Spain, on a high-school program.
How did Patricia Esparza go from being a victim of rape to a murderer, in the eyes of prosecutors? The answer hinges on what happened the night Ramirez was killed. What Esparza didn’t tell the original investigators in 1995, but did recount in 2012, was that on the night of the murder, Van took her to El Cortez, on the chance of finding Ramirez there.
But even with cheap oil, Mick Roberts, a 46-year-old hydrogen engineer from Lowell, Indiana, bought a 2015 Chevrolet Volt hybrid in October when gas was $2.20. He got a good deal on an outgoing model, but Roberts says he likes the smooth-shifting, quiet motor and quick acceleration. "It would be tough to go back to gas," he said.
Brauer thinks electrics and hybrids will make up more than half of U.S. sales in the next 12 years as SUVs and trucks get the new systems. Hyundai's O'Brien thinks the shift will happen sooner.
Any spike in gas prices will only help. The International Energy Agency last month predicted that oil prices will more than double by 2020 because drillers are cutting investments due to current low prices, which will eventually reduce supply.The Democratic presidential contender came out against the trade agreement in the fall, driving a wedge between Obama and herself. As his secretary of state, she had advocated for the agreement dozens of times, calling it the "gold standard" of trade deals as it took shape.
“Alden Cordovan loafers,” he says. “The Wall Street kind.” His hotel room is tidy, but stacks of car magazines - Truckin’, Motor Trend, Automobile, and Road & Track - litter nearly every surface. The Auto Show is his Super Bowl, he says with a smile, that’s why he can’t wear his hiking boots.
He wears a blue suit with no tie and eye-searing red socks. He will be one of 5,212 journalists covering the event, more than the actual Super Bowl.
He felt better thanks to the help of antibiotics, a gluten-free diet, and a new psychiatrist who prescribed him an antidepressant. “Plus, it was summer,” he says. “I was loving riding the bike.”
On May 29, 2013, Miller changed into leather pants and a motorcycle jacket that hardens on impact and put on his boots. Helmet in hand, he walked through the space-age lobby of Bloomberg’s Lexington Avenue headquarters, past a gauntlet of eye-rolls at his excessive gear.
Bloomberg TVMiller on Bloomberg.Miller’s taking a ride along the Hudson Valley’s hairpin roads to Bear Mountain to take his bike to family-owned Rockwell Cycles in Fort Montgomery, New York, his favorite shop.
He punches in the code and his garage door opens. Pausing a moment, he admires his red-and-white Ducati Multistrada Pikes Peak edition standing in its wheel chock. “Isn’t she beautiful?” he says, throwing a leg over the bike. With the help of “Duke” Maloney, he’s still pursuing Osborne Henriques to pay his medical bills, but the legal case seems a distant concern as the engine starts with a high-pitched whine.
After a loss in Michigan last week, she is trying to boost support in Rust Belt states, where rival Bernie Sanders has shown strength. He's made opposition to trade agreements, which he argues hurt American workers, central in his campaign. Clinton promised her policies would usher in a "manufacturing renaissance."
"I know how to get things done," she told supporters - and a few protesters - at the raucous rally. "I know that if we bring back manufacturing we can have good jobs with rising incomes again."
However, some safety advocates have filed a petition asking the government to issue mandatory regulations. They say voluntary agreements aren't enforceable, and that since automatic braking is already available in some cars, issuing rules requiring the technology could be done faster than the six to eight years allowed under the agreement.
If you have been really doing your research, you will have probably heard the term "Versymmetric" thrown out there from a few manufacturers. The theory behind this term is that they have designed an automotive lift that is capable of being both symmetrical and asymmetric at the same time.
A trio of 2017 Hyundai Ioniq hybrid-electric vehicles are shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq electric vehicle is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq hybrid vehicle is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Self-driving cars, which would use electric motors that can be recharged without humans, also would boost sales.
Brauer thinks electrics and hybrids will make up more than half of U.S. sales in the next 12 years as SUVs and trucks get the new systems. Hyundai's O'Brien thinks the shift will happen sooner.
Any spike in gas prices will only help. The International Energy Agency last month predicted that oil prices will more than double by 2020 because drillers are cutting investments due to current low prices, which will eventually reduce supply.
Or away from Christine Lagarde or Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a minute to look at this sexy new Porsche four-door.” As car companies rebounded and began to spend more money on advertising, Bloomberg’s relationship with them grew.
Under the hood, the 3.8-liter V6 twin-turbocharged engine has been tweaked to deliver 565 horsepower, a 20-horsepower improvement over the 2016 GT-R. The car gets an improved six-speed dual-clutch transmission. The interior is simplified, with fewer switches and paddle shifters.
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, file photo, a model poses next to Toyota's fourth-generation Prius hybrid car at the Auto Expo in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, India. It wasn¿t apparent on Super Bowl Sunday, but a Toyota television ad featuring a surprisingly quick Prius hybrid eluding police marked a turning point for the auto industry.
By this point, she says, he was fluctuating between being kind and being angry-blaming her for the rape and saying that she must have wanted the sex to happen, she says. They went to the club with Kody Tran and Shannon Gries, friends of Van’s, along with Gries’ girlfriend, Julie Rojas, who also made a statement to the police in 2012.What follows then is assessment of the damage done to your car. The diagnosis may involve modern software, yet it relies on the inspections skills of the technician to derive an auto repair estimate. This document shows every part that will need replacement, or removal and installation, the cost involved, and time required.
While the repair job is on going, a reputable company such as Sterling AutoBody Shop may organise for you a rental car. Once the job has been completed, you should be shown the original parts that were replaced and the receipts of the parts and paints bought for your vehicle.
At that moment, a white Ford F-250 pickup truck heading south made an illegal U-turn into the intersection. Miller caught the truck in his peripheral vision; he veered to the right and clutched his brakes, causing his front tire to lock up and his rear one to lift into the air.
The bike rotated clockwise slightly, and the truck struck Miller on the left side, crushing his left leg between the two vehicles. His helmet slammed into the truck.
When Gill moved to New York City, bringing Miller’s two younger stepbrothers with her, Miller followed. “He would go out all night,” she says. “He’d be getting in at 6 when I’d be waking up to work, and would get annoyed when I’d turn the light on.” Eventually, she says, she had no choice; she kicked him out, “with no money in his pockets.”
Miller drifted among friends, sold tickets to comedy shows, and worked as a door-to-door salesman. He eventually found a steady gig at a record store in Greenwich Village called Generation Records. Meanwhile, he fell into a social scene he feels lucky to have survived.
7. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 186.916.
8. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 186.795.
9. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 186.557.
10. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 186.345.
11. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 185.687.
12. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 187.642.
13. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 187.495.
14. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 187.48.
15. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 187.232.
16. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 187.154.
Many companies spent millions developing the cars, taking losses to meet government fuel economy standards that gradually increase and require the new-car fleet to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
As gas prices fell below $2 per gallon, sales of hybrids and electrics dropped further. Last year, automakers had 16 hybrid and electric models on sale, but sales sank to just over 274,000.
People began to gather around Miller, who kept trying to stand up, all the while yelling obscenities at the fleeing pickup. Another witness recorded the license plate and described the driver to the police as a black male, bald, in his 30s or early 40s with a medium build and wearing a white shirt.
Ford and Fiat Chrysler posted their best March numbers in a decade.
Kelley Blue Book says sales should come in around 1.66 million cars and trucks for the month, which could be the biggest number for any month since July 2005.
Relatively low gas prices, sweet lease deals, low interest rates, easy-to-get loans and an aging fleet of cars are driving the increase.
But some analysts say there are troubling signs for automakers beneath the numbers. Last month had two more selling days than a year ago, and spending on discounts is on the rise.
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Miller credits his experience in Germany - holing up in a castle with the children of the country’s elite, having drinking competitions and sword duels and going on ice-climbing expeditions in the Alps - with straightening him out. “It was the beginning of my drive to be somebody,” he says.
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Matt MillerMiller in the hospital, shortly after his accident.By Thursday night, Miller was in so much pain that he was writhing, begging the nurses for more morphine. Eventually, the swelling in Miller’s leg reduced enough to permit a second surgery. Miller would keep his leg.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Automatic braking will be standard in most cars and light trucks within six years and on heavier SUVs and pickup trucks within eight years under an agreement that transportation officials and automakers announced on Thursday.
“No, no, no! These pants cost, like, 500 bucks!” Miller protested, to little effect.
As he was loaded into the ambulance, he fretted about his date, his career, and, finally, his leg.
Next thing he knew, he was in the trauma center at New York Presbyterian, his head and neck rigid in a brace that made him feel paralyzed, an IV drip in his arm.
Miller’s brother, Stewart, soon arrived at the hospital and began making calls. First he called Mariu, Miller’s girlfriend, then his mother, Gill.The Prius hybrid, powered by gas and electric motors, started the alternative fuel movement in the U.S. in 2000. Toyota deliberately made it look different than other cars, knowing that buyers wanted to make a statement about being environmentally friendly. Other companies set their green cars apart as well.
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One Jan. 13, the sun has yet to rise as Miller stands in his hotel room, preparing to cover the first day of press week at the North American International Auto Show. He puts on a pair of business shoes for the first time since the accident eight months earlier - a small but telling symbol of a return to normalcy.
The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Patrons watch as Mazda unveils the Mazda MX-5 RF Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Patrons watch as Mazda unveils the Mazda MX-5 RF Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Buick Global Vice President Duncan Aldred speaks during a media preview for the 2017 Buick Encore in New York, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, as part of the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Nissan sales were up 13 percent, hitting a record for any month in its history. At Fiat Chrysler and Ford, sales were up 8 percent, while they grew 0.9 percent at General Motors. Honda reported a 9 percent increase fueled largely by the all-new Civic compact.
Now, the tide is slowly turning. General Motors and Tesla will bring electric vehicles to market next year priced around $30,000, including a $7,500 federal tax credit. Battery range has improved significantly, experts expect gasoline prices to eventually climb higher, and the advent of autonomous vehicles favors motors powered by electricity over gas.
Toyota says the new car handles much better than the old Prius and can drive up to 84 miles per hour without leaving electric vehicle mode. The electric range meets the daily commuting distance of more than half of U.S. drivers, according to Toyota. Price wasn't announced.
And with fewer moving parts, they're more reliable, he said.
Yet at $2 per gallon, it would take more than 10 years to recoup the $3,720 price difference between a base model Toyota Camry hybrid and its four-cylinder gas-engine counterpart. But that's not always a fair comparison, said Stephanie Brinley, senior analyst for IHS Automotive.
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, a man walks past the Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances. The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers).
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Even though sales grew as manufacturers added models, they never really caught on, partly because of the improved fuel economy of gas-powered vehicles. At their peak in 2013, with gas averaging $3.50 per gallon, Americans bought only 341,000 hybrids and electrics, about 2.2 percent of total U.S.
car sales, according to Kelley Blue Book.
Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, automobiles could be imported tax-free into the U.S. even if most parts in those vehicles were made in countries that are not in the trade alliance.
That's drawn opposition from auto-state senators, such as Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, who say it would encourage manufacturers to use cheaper parts from China, which is not part of the agreement.
Despite her tougher line, Clinton did not specify what standard on domestic auto parts she would favor as she campaigned in advance of the Ohio presidential primaries Tuesday. The Pacific trade deal can only be accepted or rejected by Congress in full - not further negotiated - so her position underscores her opposition to the agreement.
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, Nissan electric vehicles sit on display at an auto dealership in Roswell, Ga. On Friday, April 1, 2016, major automakers report sales for March. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
But Toyota sales fell nearly 3 percent as rising SUV and truck sales couldn't overcome car sales that fell almost 10 percent. And Volkswagen, still mired in an emissions cheating scandal, saw its sales tumble 10.4 percent.
The Jaguar F-type SVR is pictured during the New York International Auto Show on March 23, 2016 ©Jewel Samad (AFP)
"It all takes literally minutes," said Jaguar spokesman Stuart Schorr. "By the time you're done, you've taken a test drive, but you've also got an asset that's shareable and fun."
The clever tactic is part of the 94-year-old brand's effort to boost its US sales as it broadens its offerings in 2016 with the introduction of new models, including the F-PACE, Jaguar's first sports utility vehicle.1. A Body by the Side of the Road
On the morning of April 16, 1995, a passerby reported a body, wrapped in strips of blue towel and lying by the side of the road, to the police in Irvine, Calif. It was a young man, dead. Bloody gashes covered his head, shoulders, back, and arms. His skull was cracked and two of his fingers hung from one hand, nearly severed.
FONTANA, California (AP) - Results Friday after qualifying in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Auto Club 400 race at Auto Club Speedway:
1. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 188.482 mph.
2. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 188.329.
3. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 187.637.
4. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 187.276.
5. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 187.222.
6. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 187.212.
"They've graduated out of the class of something that's a bit of an oddity to drive," says Mike O'Brien, vice president of product planning for Hyundai. "It's all about making these cars better."
The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Until now, hybrids and electrics have largely appealed to the environmentally-conscious crowd. The vehicles cost thousands of dollars extra, and although drivers eventually recouped their money in fuel savings, the vehicles lacked the power and handling of gas-powered rivals.
The increase comes mainly because automakers are having trouble selling cars as the U.S. market shifts to trucks and SUVs, according to J.D. Power and Associates. Discounted cars can push down used car values so buyers have less to trade in, said Thomas King, a J.D. Power vice president.
But all the automakers at this week's New York International Auto Show have the new generation in their sights.
"Generation Y will dictate who wins and who loses in the marketplace," said John Humphrey of JD Power's global automotive practice. "It is by far the biggest generation we've had in the US."
BMW, also eyeing millennials, has trained a cadre of some 1,000 showroom "geniuses" -- like the staff at an Apple Store "Genius Bar" -- to show drivers how they can customize the car's myriad gadgets and driving tools.
The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq electric vehicle is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, file photo, the Chevrolet Bolt EV debuts at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Automakers now say hybrid and electric vehicles perform better than gas-powered vehicles. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
He would leave his house at 7 a.m. to be on air from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m., after Rewind. But these responsibilities soon began to overwhelm him. He had been battling depression for almost a year and was still suffering from recurring effects of Lyme disease he had contracted in November at a friend’s farmhouse in Connecticut.
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"A commitment of this magnitude is unprecedented, and it will bring more safety to more Americans sooner," Rosekind said.
Deborah Hersman, president of the National Safety Council, said the agreement "has the potential to save more lives than almost anything else we can accomplish in the next six years."
There are about 1.7 million rear-end crashes a year in the U.S., killing more than 200 people, injuring 400,000 others and costing about $47 billion. More than half of those crashes could be avoided or mitigated by automatic braking or systems that warn drivers of an impending collision, NHTSA has estimated.
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It is a crucial point for luxury cars, which account for about half of the auto industry's profits. A long-term worry for auto companies is that with the surge of rideshare programs like Uber and optimism about self-driving cars, younger Americans will drive less than earlier generations.
After some serious investigative work (and several snaps of his suspenders), he noticed that there were metal shavings on the floor near the columns. It soon became apparent that when he had changed the load center of the lift by extending the rear arms, he had caused excessive wear on the load bearings that ride inside the column. Soon, all of Günter's beer drinking buddies (who had copied Gunter's idea) were shaking their heads and refusing to buy Gunter beer anymore. Gunter was not a happy man.Until now, hybrids and electrics have largely appealed to the environmentally-conscious crowd. The vehicles cost thousands of dollars extra, and although drivers eventually recouped their money in fuel savings, the vehicles lacked the power and handling of gas-powered rivals.
Electrics also suffered from driver concern that the battery could run out of juice on a trip.
The Fed, which ends its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday, has said it is on track to raise rates gradually in 2016, but doing so will hinge on the health of the economy. Recent data has shown above-forecast jobs creation but wage growth remains a concern.
The euro, which rose last week after ECB President Mario Draghi signaled further rate cuts were unlikely, fell 0.5 percent on Monday to $1.1098. The yen was flat against the greenback while sterling fell 0.6 percent to $1.4302. The dollar index rose 0.5 percent.
By the end of July, he could walk with crutches and had returned to work. His camera angles were set up to allow him to wear shorts on the air. By October, after months of recovery and rehab, he was finally able to walk without a cane.
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Compact and midsized cars accounted for the highest shares of the millennial market in 2015, with a combined 32.6 percent. Premium vehicles in total accounted for less than 10 percent, according to JD Power data.
For that reason, luxury automakers are taking the long-term view in their marketing campaigns.
Few of the 6,000 consumers who have participated in the Jaguar events have ordered one of their cars, Schorr said. But about 60 percent have shared their personal action videos on Facebook. That creates additional exposure and buzz, enhancing the brand's prospects.
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Durbin reported from Detroit.
The 2017 Audi R8 Spyder is shown Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Demi Lovato autographs the 2016 Honda Civic sedan that she designed during a news conference, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in New York, as part of the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas unveil the 2016 Honda Civic sedan designed by Demi Lovato during a news conference, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in New York, as part of the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Miller’s first coanchor, Carol Massar, recalls their easy chemistry. “Broadcast is a funny thing,” she said. “Some relationships you just can’t fake. He remembers things. He’s wicked smart. Matt can just wing it.” She adds that women often trigger his provocative nature and penchant for mischief.
“Ask me about the time he did a piece on Victoria’s Secret and brought me ‘presents’ on air.”
Still, the automakers know it will take a lot of marketing to get mass adoption.
Toyota's Fay says there will be more chapters in the Prius police chase ad series, including one for the new plug-in. "The early adopters understand the differences in the technology," he said. "But with the mainstream customers, we all still have a ways to go to explain the benefits."
They are distinct from the salesforce and are not supposed to seal deals, said Ludwig Willisch, president and chief executive of BMW North America.
Millennials "don't like sales pressure," Willisch told the JD Power auto forum Tuesday, as opposed to their parents, the baby boomers, who rely more on test drives and multiple visits before making a purchase.
With millennials, he said, "You only get one shot."
"If we get this right, and we will, we have the opportunity to create lifelong BMW drivers."
"We don't need to tinker with this agreement. We need to defeat it," Sanders said in a statement. "We need an entirely new trade policy that creates jobs in this country, not more low-wage jobs abroad."
Clinton, meanwhile, highlighted her support for the federal bailout of the auto industry - a vote that Sanders opposed.
"What was so sad is that my opponent voted for it before he voted against it," she said. "There are some folks supporting my opponent in the primary who just can't stand the facts."
26. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 186.095.
27. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 186.08.
28. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 185.696.
29. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 185.639.
30. (95) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 185.486.
31. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 185.099.
32. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 184.99.
33. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 184.611.
34. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 184.186.
Matt MillerMiller with Ford's Alan Mulally at the Dearborn Truck Plant. At that moment, Jake Cohen, a college freshman, was staring out the window of his parents’ nearby apartment. He watched the white pickup make an “erratic turn” and slam into Miller. “There was a very loud crashing noise,” he says.
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Americans' reluctance to open their wallets could hold back growth in the first three months of this year. Economists had hoped that solid hiring and lower gas prices would entice consumers to spend more, yet Americans seem to be pocketing much of the savings from cheaper gas.
At the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday, Hyundai and Toyota showed off new electric and hybrid vehicles, with presenters from both companies touting them as "fun to drive." Hyundai unveiled battery, gas-electric hybrid and plug-in versions of a new car called the Ioniq, while Toyota showed the plug-in Prius Prime, which can go 22 miles on electricity before the gas-electric power system kicks in. The electric range is double the old version.
DETROIT (AP) - Most major automakers reported big U.S.
sales gains in March as the auto industry appeared to be headed for its best month in more than a decade.
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Ford, Honda, Fiat Chrysler and Nissan all reported big sales increases, largely driven by SUVs and trucks. General Motors, which has been cutting back on sales to rental car companies, saw a slight sales increase and said its retail sales to individual buyers rose 6 percent.
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At Fiat Chrysler, car sales fell 34 percent for the month, but truck and SUV sales rose 23 percent. Sales of the top-selling car in the U.S., the Toyota Camry, fell 9 percent in March to just under 37,000.
He waves at Ray Day, Mulally’s vice president of communications. “Come on, Matt!” barks Dan Barbossa, a PR manager for Ford.
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Still, Shapiro noted that "dollar strength and weak growth in many important international markets are going to continue to weigh on U.S. producers, and we expect the recovery in the manufacturing sector in the months ahead to be a muted one."
The setback in employment meshed with the government jobs report released separately on Friday, which showed that manufacturers shed 29,000 workers in March and 18,000 in February, in an otherwise healthy job market anchored by improving demand for homes, health care, and meals at restaurants.Story: Related news: CEE POWER: An expected decline in power demand due to the weekend drove central and southeastern European power prices lower on Friday, despite an expected fall in renewable supplies, traders said. Story: Related news: ---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------ Index/Crown Currency Latest Prev Pct change Pct change close on day in 2016 vs Euro 27.02 27.028 0.03 -0.08 vs Dollar 24.003 23.931 -0.3 3.45 Czech Equities 914.85 914.85 1.84 -4.34 U.S.
The voluntary agreement with 20 car manufacturers means that the important safety technology will be available more quickly than if the government had gone through the lengthy process of issuing mandatory rules, said Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Speaking to a largely African-American group of campaign volunteers in St. Louis, Clinton called on voters to stand up to "this tide of bullying and bigotry and blustering that is going on in our political strategy."
The program with GM is part of a $500 million investment the auto giant made into San Francisco-based Lyft in January.
The partnership's larger focus, however, is to develop an on-demand network of self-driving cars, an area of research that tech companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google and Uber Technologies Inc and auto-makers including Ford Motor Co have devoted resources to in recent years.
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday as Iran dashed hopes of a coordinated production freeze, while the dollar rose ahead of a policy meeting at the U.S.
central bank.
A gauge of stocks across the globe ticked up, with Wall Street weighed by commodity shares as Europe rose partly on a positive view of the auto industry.
Attention switched this week to policy decisions from the Bank of Japan, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, among others. They follow last week's interest rate cut, asset-purchase program extension and new cheap loans for banks pledge at the European Central Bank.
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He, however, added that Latin America also continued to be a problem for FCA and its competitors, pointing to current political upheaval in Brazil. And while he welcomed the big changes being made by Argentina's new president, Mauricio Macri, he added that any gains in Argentina will not overcome weakness in Brazil, which is a much larger market.
(Reporting by Jo Winterbottom; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
Reyes told the police that he had no idea why the men in the van wanted to hurt Ramirez. He’d never seen them before, and he and Ramirez hadn’t had any trouble at El Cortez. The police spoke to Ramirez’s brothers, who told them he had three girlfriends, as well as a wife and two daughters in Mexico.
The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, a man sits in the driver's seat of a Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances. The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers).
Brent crude oil, whose rise has helped buoy stocks in recent weeks, fell below $40 a barrel, as U.S. crude stockpiles continue to mount and Iran maintained little interest in a global production freeze.
"We feel that the bulk of this stronger than expected 5-6 week price advance has been seen and that prices will be shifting into a near term consolidation phase," said Jim Ritterbusch of Chicago energy consultancy Ritterbusch & Associates.
The 2017 Honda Civic hatchback prototype appears on display during a news conference, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in New York, as part of the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime arrives at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, the headlamp of the 2017 Nissan GT-R is shown at the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The 2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The 2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid is shown at the New York International Auto Show, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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NISSAN GT-R: Godzilla, as it's known to fans, gets its first big makeover in a decade. The 2017 GT-R has a bigger grille for engine cooling, and the car has a higher line below the windows in the rear to make it look wider and more aggressive. Handling is improved.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at the Nelson-Mulligan Carpenters¿ Training Center in St. Louis, Saturday, March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
"It's one of the reasons I oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership," said Clinton, campaigning with Brown in Youngstown on Saturday night. "When I saw what was in it, it was clear to me there were too many loopholes, too many opportunities for folks to be taken advantage of."
Yet the overall sales increase, expected to be around 7 percent, showed that Americans are still buying in big numbers, despite predictions by some analysts and dealers that sales have peaked.
The sales figures, coupled with Friday's announcement that U.S. employers added 215,000 jobs in March, showed that the economy remained healthy despite stock market turmoil. Unemployment rose slightly to 5 percent, but that was because the number of Americans looking for work has increased.
The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency are also weighing potential criminal charges against the company and senior executives. The company also faces hundreds of class action lawsuits filed on behalf of angry customers.
A federal judge in California overseeing the raft of civil litigation has given the company until April 21 to come up with a recall and compensation plan covering the nearly 600,000 diesel cars sold in the U.S. containing the so-called "defeat devices" designed to game government emissions tests.
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The retail report provides the first indication each month of Americans' spending, which drives 70 percent of the economy. Yet retail sales account for only about one-third of all spending, with services such as haircuts and Internet access making up the other two-thirds.
In 2009, Esparza took a position on the faculty of Webster University in Geneva and gave birth to a daughter, Arianna. Mancillas started working at the Global Fund. They’d each been born in Mexico; now they were buying an apartment in a small French town near the Swiss border, installing a new kitchen, and settling down to raise their child.
The voluntary agreement with 20 car manufacturers means that the important safety technology will be available more quickly said Rosekind. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Automatic braking systems use cameras, radar and other sensors to see objects that are in the way and slow or stop a vehicle if the driver doesn't react. It's the most important safety technology currently available that's not already required in cars.
After Miller and a friend began visiting the Corps Borussia fraternity as part of a research project, he saw his first duel. The doctor was the father of one of the participants. After the son’s ear was severed by his opponent, he asked his father to reattach it. Instead, the man squished it beneath his boot and said, “Was ist verloren, ist verloren” (“What’s lost is lost”).
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As a result, economists and policy makers will be paying close attention to retail sales data and other measures of Americans' willingness to spend.
Other reports in the past few weeks have suggested that Americans are opening their wallets and pocketbooks. In January, total consumer spending rose by the most in eight months. Incomes rose by the most since June.The Institute for Supply Management said Friday that its manufacturing index rose to 51.8 last month from 49.5 in February. Any reading above 50 signals growth.
The increase suggests that U.S. factories are adapting to the turmoil abroad, where a stronger dollar and weakening economies in China, Japan and elsewhere have hurt sales. But the details of the survey-based report were somewhat uneven. New orders and production improved, but the measure of employment at manufacturers contracted in a sign that factories are letting workers go.
PRAGUE, March 21 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial markets on Monday.
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] ==========================EVENTS================================ PRAGUE - The Czech cabinet to hold a session website News conference to follow. Related news PRAGUE - Czech central bank to release Countercyclical capital buffer rate. Related news PRAGUE - Finance Ministry to publish detailed calendar for the issuance of domestic state bonds in April.
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"The great advantage of FCA as potential partner", said Marchionne, is that the company has a strong presence in Latin America where the market is weak at the moment, and in North America and Europe, but added, "we're much weaker than the others in China. That's something we are trying to ameliorate"
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On June 9, a plastic surgeon closed the final fasciotomy incision, which had grown to about three inches wide, with skin grafted from his upper left thigh; he expressed gratefulness that they didn’t take his tattoo of Skinny Puppy, the Canadian electro-industrial band, from his other thigh.
The motors help the SUV accelerate faster and drive more sharply around bends. Acura expects the MDX Sport Hybrid to get 26 miles per gallon in city and highway driving, or 7 mpg more than a non-hybrid MDX. MDX goes on sale this summer, with the Sport Hybrid version later this year.
The thing is, though, there was not much we could do about it. We gained nothing from our discussions but loss of sleep and loss of anything else that may have happened in the bedroom had we retired there each night on time and with some energy left.
A number of businesses registered declining sales in February, including moter vehicles and parts, down 0.2 percent; furniture 0.5 percent; grocery stores 0.3 percent and department stores 0.4 percent. Online sales dip 0.2 percent.
Stripping out auto and parts sales, retail sales were down 0.1 percent.
Consumers spent more at restaurants and bars, where sales rose 1.0 percent, and on sporting goods, music, clothing and building material and garden supplies.
Discount spending, while good for new-car buyers, cuts profits and hurts used car values. High incentive spending is one of the factors that led to the industry's financial troubles in 2008. The auto pricing site TrueCar.com said automakers averaged just over $3,000 in discounts per vehicle in March, up more than 10 percent from a year ago.
“I mean, I was skating on thin ice in a number of different ways.”
Matt MillerMiller on a BMW R1000 at home in Bronxville with his dog, Steve.Finally, by May, Miller had just begun putting his life back together. “It was like someone let me off my leash,” he says about losing Rewind. “That really improved my outlook at work.” He began to focus his energy on covering Detroit and building better relationships with auto executives like Alan Mulally, Bill Ford, and Mark Reuss of General Motors.
SUBARU IMPREZA: Subaru debuts two Imprezas: the four-door sedan and a five-door hatchback. Both are slightly longer and wider than outgoing models, which gives them more interior space. They also sit lower to improve aerodynamics. The Impreza is built on a new, stiffer platform for improved handling and better crash resistance.
Inside, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are now standard. One new safety option is reverse automatic braking, which can halt the car if it's about to back into something. Goes on sale later this year.The 5.2-liter, 540 horsepower engine can take the car to nearly 200 miles per hour, even with an open top. "I think this is quite cool," said Dietmar Voggenreiter, board member for sales and marketing. Since the R8 was launched in 2008, the brand's U.S. sales have gone from 80,000 per year to more than 200,000.
The pair first married in 2010 and divorced in 2012. They re-married 18 months later.
Riley sat in the front row at September's unveiling of the Tesla's Model X sport utility vehicle. Musk is scheduled to unveil the newest version of Tesla's electric car, the lower-cost Model 3, at an event later this month.
Musk and Riley do not have any children together, although he has five sons from a previous marriage.
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AP Auto Writer Dee-Ann Durbin contributed to this report.
First, did something out of the ordinary happen that may have caused him not to love you; did you cheat on him or in some way attack him emotionally? These things take much more work and a longer period of time to get over, but even that is possible.
By Joseph Menn
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Reuters) - A California computer scientist who has studied the economics of cybercrime and pushed the auto industry to address hacking threats to vehicles will be awarded one of the world's top computing prizes on Wednesday, underscoring the central role that cybersecurity plays in business and government.
"We would like to express our gratitude and recognise Tun Dr Mahathir's role as the creator of the national car company," Proton said in a separate statement issued after the announcement.
Mahathir also announced his resignation as chancellor of Petronas Technology University and as adviser to two development authorities.
The announcement comes two weeks after Mahathir ceased to be an adviser to national oil and gas firm Petronas.
Earlier in Missouri, Clinton denounced the heated rhetoric of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, saying she found the unrest at his Friday night rally in Chicago "deeply disturbing." Trump canceled the event after heightened tensions between supporters and protesters in the auditorium.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. retail sales slipped last month, pulled down by sharply lower gas prices, and Americans spent much less in January than previously estimated.
The figures suggest that consumers remain cautious about spending despite steady hiring.
Retail sales fell 0.1 percent in February, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. Excluding the volatile gas and auto categories, sales rose 0.3 percent. Overall sales were revised sharply lower in January, from a 0.2 percent gain to a drop of 0.4 percent.
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All V6 models will come with stop-start technology, which automatically turns off the engine at a stop light. The Highlander goes on sale in the fall.
MAZDA MX-5 RF: If you want to ride with the wind, Mazda has a car for you. The RF stands for "retractable fastback," a new version of the Miata sports car with smooth mechanics that fold the roof panel above the seating area into a spot behind the passenger compartment.
Gunter's design worked for about two years. He still dinged a door occasionally, but he was able to continue growing his belly and was always able to get out of the vehicle. One day however, Gunter raised a car with his vehicle lift and heard a horrendous squealing noise, metal on metal. He also noticed that the arms of his lift were shaking and rocking and he stopped to make sure that the vehicle didn't bounce off the lifting pads.
It's due out in late fall.
TOYOTA HIGHLANDER: Toyota's three-row SUV gets some upgrades for 2017. Base models still have a four-cylinder engine and six-speed transmission, but drivers can upgrade to a new 3.5-liter V6 with a new eight-speed transmission. Toyota says the new combination has more power and is more fuel efficient.
"The whole subtext is to reintroduce the Jaguar brand to a younger group of customers, and that's an investment you look to pay off over a number of years," he said.
BMW, also eyeing millennials, has trained a cadre of some 1,000 showroom "geniuses" -- like the staff at an Apple Store "Genius Bar" -- to show drivers how they can customize the car's myriad gadgets and driving tools ©Jewel Samad (AFP)
The Porsche 718 Boxster is pictured during the New York International Auto Show on March 23, 2016 ©Jewel Samad (AFP)
This is a framegrab from a Volkswagen commercial for a vehicle with their TDI Clean Diesel engine. A federal consumer watchdog sued Volkswagen Tuesday, March 29, 2016, charging the company made false claims in commercials promoting its "Clean Diesel" vehicles as environmentally friendly.
However, the standards for how effective the brakes must be are set so low under the agreement that few if any lives will be saved, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety.
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** As the dust settled from Tuesday's devastating 50 percent selloff in Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc's shares, analysts scrambled to reassess the prospects for the company's stock going forward. And if they were divided before, they are even more so now. website
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Riley filed to divorce Musk on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Musk filed for divorce on New Year's Eve in 2014 but withdrew the petition seven months later.
The divorce is amicable, and the pair agreed that Riley would file the petition to end their latest marriage after roughly 2½ years. According to the statement, the Musk and Riley have been living separately for the past six months and plan to remain friends.
"This six- to nine-year lead time is all about the auto companies saving money," she said.
The agreement requires that automatic braking be standard in most cars and light trucks with weighing up to 8,500 pounds no later than Sept. 1, 2022. The braking would have to be standard on nearly SUVs and pickup trucks with weighing between 8,501 and 10,000 pounds beginning no later than Sept.
The Martin County Sheriff's Office tells news outlets in a statement that 36-year-old Nicholas Jackson was arrested Friday and charged with grand theft auto.
Deputies say Jackson was turned away at the Pompano Beach auto dealership after trying to buy the $60,000 car using his EBT card and a credit card.
"Every government agency that is even remotely impacted by this situation will sue to recoup what they consider damages to the agency's constituents," said Rebecca Lindland, senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book. There's really no end in sight to this situation and all VW can do is continue to cooperate and work on a fix."
Alan Brown, general manager of a VW dealer in Lewisville, Texas, and chairman of the company's National Dealer Advisory Council, said dealers are eager to get the scandal behind them. He said diesel-powered VWs previously accounted for 25 percent to 40 percent of sales for many U.S. dealerships.
Volkswagen Group of America spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan said Tuesday the company is reviewing the latest lawsuit and "continues to cooperate with all relevant U.S. regulators."
"Our most important priority is to find a solution to the diesel emissions matter and earn back the trust of our customers and dealers as we build a better company," Ginivan said.
With scores of unsold diesels collecting dust on the lots of VW's dealers, legal and auto industry analysts predicted the company's woes will continue to deepen.
car sales, according to Kelley Blue Book.
Companies spent millions developing the cars, taking losses to meet government fuel economy standards that gradually increase and require the new-car fleet to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index, which had climbed 2.7 percent on Friday, ended up 0.67 percent with an index of auto and autoparts shares up 1.56 percent. MSCI's gauge of stocks across major markets ticked up 0.1 percent. Nikkei futures rose 0.4 percent.
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, file photo, Rick Ring, left, and Corinne Schmitt-Bries attach a panel to a John Deere 1050K Crawler Dozer at John Deere Dubuque Works in Dubuque, Iowa. On Friday, April 1, 2016, the Institute for Supply Management reports on U.S.
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"Manufacturing activity is stabilizing," said Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at the forecaster, MFR.
HONDA CIVIC HATCHBACK: Honda says the hatch is making a comeback in small U.S. cars. The automaker shows off a five-door Civic hatchback, and Senior Vice President Jeff Conrad says it will cater mainly to Generation Y (ages 21-35), which likes hatchback utility and sporty performance.
The hot hatch gets a 174-horsepower turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine. It's the first U.S. Civic hatch since 1995. Price wasn't announced, but it's due out in the fall.
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** The former CEO of a Canadian firm that specialized in the treatment of contaminated soil was convicted on Wednesday of conspiring to pay kickbacks and committing major fraud against the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice said. website
Marchionne, who has long-touted the need for further consolidation in the traditional auto sector, reiterated reasons for not linking up with French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen , which has said it is open to strategic opportunities.
"We ... realized that even though there was a certain advantage in an association with PSA, it was an advantage that was too little and that in effect would limit the choices open to FCA going forward," he said on Wednesday.
Despite these breakthroughs, the investigation stalled. Police contacted the younger Henriques, but he simply denied he had been behind the wheel. The traffic camera hadn’t been checked in time and the recording was taped over, Maloney says. Without proof, there could be no criminal liability.
Falling demand from overseas customers has roiled the manufacturing sector, as the stronger dollar had made American products pricier in foreign markets.
The ISM, a trade group of purchasing managers, surveys about 200 U.S. companies each month.
Brown said he didn't think the latest lawsuit will hurt sales any further because it raises issues that have been aired previously.
"I think at this stage of the game, nothing really shocks any of us," he said of the FTC lawsuit. "The dealers just want the distractions to go away. There's nothing worse than the public wanting your product and you can't sell it."
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Associated Press auto writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this report.
By Heather Somerville
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 (Reuters) - Drivers for ride-hailing app Lyft will no longer face the imperative of owning a car under a rental program launched on Monday with General Motors Co .
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** The federal government has brought in advisers, including an American investment bank, to help analyze the feasibility of a $1 billion aid package to aerospace giant Bombardier Inc . websiteOne step was already standard in the largest SUVs in the United States.
The massive new Lincoln Navigator, unveiled Wednesday, has three to help you aboard. And gull wings to boot.
The concept for Ford's next generation of Lincoln luxury sport utility vehicles was introduced at the New York auto show and makes access easy. The steps come down as the single side doors swing up high, allowing unfettered access to both forward and rear seats.
The growing use of computing power in vehicles is providing technology companies and automakers with new business opportunities - and increasingly making them rivals.
"We have parallel conversations with many players who are outside the auto sector at the moment," Marchionne said at an impromptu press conference after an industry event here.
"We can't go into these discussions with a precise idea of what FCA wants. We're learning, just as they are learning," he said. "And the solution will be a shared solution and developed together with them, not developed by us alone."
"I now have that personal experience to be able to deal with it and see how we can push," he said. "It is a source of information that probably typically is not available to an administrator facing something like this."
Rosekind said he's not getting special treatment, though, and the car is going to be fixed at the "appropriate time."
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No level of lead in the human body is considered safe, especially in children. The river water also may have been a source of Legionnaires' disease, which killed at least nine people in the region.
Snyder, whose administration repeatedly downplayed the lead threat, now calls it a "disaster."
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Fiat Chrysler's sales were 213,187, an eight percent rise, but also below the 13.4 percent gain expected by Edmunds.
US car sales hit a record in 2015, as low interest rates and gasoline prices boosted consumer purchases, with especially strong sales of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.
Company sales reports Friday pointed to continued strong sales for many of these products, such as the Ford F-series trucks and Fiat Chrysler's Ram trucks. Sedan models with strong gains included GM's Chevrolet Malibu.
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On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was weighed by declines in basic materials and energy shares as commodity prices fell. As they also wait on the release of economic data, including U.S. retail sales, investors continued to interpret the ECB's move.
Health care continued to add jobs at a solid pace, with new jobs at doctor's offices, hospitals and home health care services.
Among the sectors that shed jobs were manufacturing and mining. Manufacturing has been hit by slower growth overseas, lost 29,000 jobs in March. Mining, which includes the oil and gas drilling sector, lost more than 12,000 jobs. Low oil prices have cost that industry 185,000 jobs since September 2014.
When he turned to car safety in 2010, Savage discovered a method for hacking millions of autos but could not identify anyone at the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration who understood the problem.
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DEMI LOVATO CIVIC: Singers Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas will headline the Civic concert tour this year, and keeping with tradition, Lovato got a chance to design and autograph her own Civic sedan exterior. Jonas, meanwhile, did the same with a Honda Grom motorcycle.
Fans can enter a sweepstakes to win both vehicles.
TOYOTA PRIUS PRIME: The cult car for the environmentally-conscious got a makeover last year. Now, live from New York, it's the Prius Prime, a plug-in electric version that can go 22 miles on battery power alone, about double the previous plug-in model.Car technology has become a prime area of interest for Silicon Valley companies including Alphabet Inc's Google, which has built a prototype self-driving car, and Apple Inc, which Marchionne said earlier this month should collaborate with carmakers to make a vehicle rather than trying to go it alone.
However, deputies say the suspect returned the next night and stole the car along with keys from 60 other vehicles.
Deputies say they later found Jackson with the car and the keys after he ran out of gas because he didn't have money to fill the tank.
It isn't immediately clear if he has an attorney.
It all means that auto sales will continue to lead economic growth, said Mustafa Mohatarem, GM's chief economist. "We expect historically low interest rates, strong employment, rising wages and stable fuel prices to continue for the foreseeable future," he said.
FILE - In this March 2, 2014 file photo, Talulah Riley, left, and Elon Musk attend the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, in West Hollywood, Calif. Riley has filed to end her second marriage to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Riley¿s filing Monday, March 21, 2016, in Los Angeles Superior Court is the second attempt to end the pair¿s second marriage.
Musk filed for divorce on New Year¿s Eve in 2014 but withdrew the petition seven months later. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Of the 18 industries in the ISM report, a dozen reported growth. Factories in primary metals, food, electronics and plastics and rubber products, among others, viewed conditions as improving.
Other manufacturing indicators have created a hazy outlook for the sector.
U.S. manufacturing output rose 0.5 percent in January, as auto, furniture and food production advanced, the Federal Reserve reported earlier this month. But the Commerce Department found in a separate report a stiff 2.8 percent decline during February in orders for long-lasting, durable goods.
No price was given for the new version, which goes on sale in the late summer.
BUICK ENCORE: After three years of surprisingly strong sales, General Motors' Buick brand is protecting its franchise by freshening the Encore tiny SUV. It gets a new front end and interior. With 66,000 sales last year, the Encore is Buick's top seller. SUVs are now almost two-thirds of Buick's sales.
Buyers can opt for a new 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine that has 14 more horsepower than the base model. Available in the fall.
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In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, a man walks past the Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances. The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers).
The new 2017 Buick Encore is displayed during a media preview in New York, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, as part of the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The new 2017 Buick Encore is displayed during a media preview in New York, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, as part of the New York International Auto Show. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, the 2017 Nissan GT-R is shown at the New York International Auto Show. The "Blaze Metallic¿ orange color is new for 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Though Diffie and Hellman's core achievements came four decades ago, the importance of their work has grown in tandem with the world's Internet connections. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc to hack into an iPhone used in the San Bernardino shootings, but many in government and law enforcement still believe they need a way to crack encryption.
"They are trying to repeal end-to-end encryption. They are trying to repeal math," Hellman said in a joint interview with Diffie. "I don't think they can do that."
The initiative is the first to come out of a two-month-old partnership between the automotive giant and ride service upstart, and is Lyft's latest move to get more drivers on its app as it continues to trail ride-hailing behemoth Uber.
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With the third row, it can carry seven or eight passengers, powered by a 400-plus horsepower V6 Ecoboost engine. All the newest safety features are built in, like pedestrian and collision detection.
The Lincoln Navigator concept car is unveiled during the New York International Auto Show on March 23, 2016 ©Jewel Samad (AFP)
Alas the gull-wing doors -- first introduced in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL in the 1950s and most recently seen on the new Tesla Model X crossover -- will not be on final versions, to be released to the market next year, the 20th anniversary of the Navigator.
The weak data could make it more likely that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising the short-term interest rate it controls. Most economists have reduced their forecasts for rate hikes this year from four to two. Fed policymakers are meeting Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Earlier this month, the association also gave its top prize - the A.M. Turing award - to two cryptographers, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. They were recognized for developing public-key cryptography and digital signatures in the 1970s, which laid the groundwork for much of what protects Internet communication.
"A lot of the important work in computing has something to do with security," ACM Chief Executive Robert Schnabel told Reuters ahead of the newest announcement. "This used to be what happened in the computing rooms in back offices, and now it is in our cars, and the devices implanted in our bodies."
January's sales were revised to a 0.4 percent decline from a 0.2 percent gain.
Us retail sales and food service sales slipped 0.1 percent in February month-over-month, mainly dragged lower by a 4.4 percent drop in gasoline sales, according to the data which is not adjusted for price changes ©Scott Olson (Getty/AFP/File)
The back-to-back monthly decline in retail sales pointed to some weakness in consumer spending, the main driver of the US economy that accounts for two thirds of activity.
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Savage and his team published a paper without naming the manufacturer of the vulnerable vehicles - recently revealed to have been General Motors - in order to give them time to get up speed and fix the issues. (Reporting by Joseph Menn; Editor by Jonathan Weber and Bernard Orr)
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The cushions were sold under the Auto-XS brand name between Dec. 20, 2015, and Feb. 10.
Aldi said there have been five reports of the product overheating, but no injuries have been reported. Customers can take the cushions in to Aldi USA for a full refund.
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The columns face each other, rather than the load center of the car.
The front arms of the vehicle lift are shorter than the rear arms.
The lift squeals, shakes and whines when lifting a load.
You have metal shavings on the floor near the column.
You bought the lift so you wouldn't bang the door on the column, but continue to bang the door on the column.
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"March car sales remain strong, but automakers are being forced to pull additional levers to sustain those sales, like selling more cars to fleets, enriching incentives and using leasing and extended-term loans to keep monthly payments within consumers' budgets," said Autotrader.com senior analyst Michelle Krebs.
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Seeking to tap into younger customers' desire for a few moments of cinematic glory, Jaguar films the prospective customers behind the wheel as they navigate the vehicle through several precarious driving challenges, channeling their inner speed demon.
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HAWTHORNE, California, March 31 (Reuters) - Tesla Motors gave a sneak preview Thursday of its $35,000 electric car that is critical to the Silicon Valley auto maker's growth plans and soaring stock value.
While early cryptographers including Diffie and Hellman tangled with the political establishment over their efforts to extend privacy to the masses, Savage has ventured even further from the Ivory Tower, enmeshing himself in the worlds of pharmaceutical spammers, auto industry executives and highway safety regulators.
Fort Wayne police spokesman John Chambers said state troopers and city officers found the armed man about 9:30 p.m. Sunday outside an Auto Zone store.
The gunman ran away and opened fire on the officers, Chambers said. The officers returned fire, shooting the man to death. The man, whose name wasn't immediately released, was pronounced dead at the scene in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis.
“Come on, Matt!” barks Dan Barbossa, a PR manager for Ford.
Later, Steven Curtis, who does PR for Toyota, strikes up a conversation with Miller. They talk in hushed tones about the new sports car that will be revealed today. The FT-1 will be a throwback to the Supra, connecting Toyota with its sporty heritage. “Is it gonna steal the show?” Miller asks.
Brent last traded at $39.61, down 1.9 percent. U.S. crude fell 3 percent to $37.34 per barrel.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose 4/32 in price to yield 1.9627 percent from 1.977 percent on Friday.
Spot gold fell 1.1 percent, last trading at $1,234. Copper dropped 0.3 percent. (Additional reporting by Laila Kearney, Dion Rabouin, Barani Krishnan and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Meredith Mazzilli)
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief Mark Rosekind said Wednesday that a car normally driven by his wife was recalled to fix an air bag inflator. When she checked the vehicle identification number in a recall database, she found there were no replacement inflators available, Rosekind said after an autonomous-car conference in Dearborn, Michigan.
Trade is likely to be a concern in the primary contests Tuesday in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. Despite the auto bailout during the recession, many communities in the manufacturing belt have struggled with the shift of factory jobs to Mexico and Asia.
The Pacific trade deal, yet to be given legislative approval in the U.S., would erase most tariffs and other trade barriers among a dozen nations that account for nearly 40 percent of global economic output. They are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the U.S. Most of the auto dealers provide large amount of money in case of auto loans, so it is always better to buy auto finance from your local dealer.
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Loans:
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DETROIT (AP) - A family car owned by the nation's top auto safety regulator's family has been recalled to fix a faulty Takata air bag, but like millions of others, he's waiting for parts to make the repair.
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Of the 194 most popular vehicle models already on the market, 17 come with automatic braking as standard equipment. It is available as part of an options package in 71 other models.
The reason automakers don't want to be required to put automatic braking into vehicles sooner than the six to eight years promised in the voluntary agreement is that they don't want to have to redesign vehicles and change production schedules sooner than planned, said safety advocate Joan Claybrook, a former NHTSA administrator.
** Canada's exporters appear to be finally delivering the goods. Not only are the country's manufacturers revving up sales volume, but they are doing it in record numbers, according to the latest numbers for January - with food products, vehicles and auto parts driving much of the gain. website (Compiled by Bhanu Pratap in Bengaluru)
35. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 183.052.
36. (98) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 182.348.
37. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 181.951.
38. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 180.61.
39. (32) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 180.415.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted the recall on its website. The heated car seat cushion stops working or overheats. It could potentially cause a fire, according to the recall notice.
About 41,412 cushions are being recalled. They were sold at Aldi USA, which issued a recall on Feb. 11.
In order to balance these behemoths six feet up in the air, the columns were placed across from each other and the arms were all of equal length. Some lifts were connected from side-to-side overhead; a base plate connected others down below. One thing was certain about these lifts; if you were a mechanic with a beer belly trying to get out of the car after it had been driven into place, you were going to have a tough time. Since the lift was balancing the vehicle between front and back, the column needed to be located somewhat close to the center of the vehicle. What else is in the center of the vehicle? We all know the answer to that! The doors! What happens when doors meet columns? Door dings!"They've graduated out of the class of something that's a bit of an oddity to drive," says Mike O'Brien, vice president of product planning for Hyundai. "It's all about making these cars better."
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, file photo, the Chevrolet Bolt EV debuts at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Automakers now say hybrid and electric vehicles perform better than gas-powered vehicles. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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Riley's filing cites irreconcilable differences and makes no mention of a prenuptial agreement. She is seeking spousal support from Musk.
Musk co-founded Paypal and has gone on to help start the electric car company Tesla Motors and the private space firm SpaceX. He is also a champion of building a hyperloop that would transport people and cargo at the speed of sound. Riley appeared in "Pride & Prejudice" and "Inception" and wrote and directed her first feature film, "Scottish Mussel," in 2014.
"We're coming up on the end of the current cycle," said Humphrey, who warned that the industry could slip back towards overcapacity and a reliance on rebates and cheap prices to move inventory.
Those practices are less a problem for brands like Jaguar and BMW, which cater to a more select group of buyers less influenced by price, Humphrey said.
But luxury brands face other difficulties with millennials, a generation renowned for carrying hefty student loans and without the means to spend $50,000 or $60,000 on a car.
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"If you play with matches, you're going to start a fire you can't control," she said.
Before speaking at a campaign event Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks with Joseph Rainwater, left, as she tours the pumps and motor section of the Nelson-Mulligan Carpenters¿ Training Center in St. Louis, Saturday, March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Christie Merrill, right, cheers for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a campaign event at the Nelson-Mulligan Carpenters¿ Training Center in St. Louis, Saturday, March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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NHTSA estimates that the agreement will make automatic braking standard on new cars three years faster than could be achieved through the formal regulatory process. During those three years, according to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates, the technology will prevent 28,000 more crashes and 12,000 more injuries than without the agreement.
Shoppers did spend more in some areas: Sales at home supply, clothing, and sporting goods stores all rose. And people are still eating out. Sales at restaurants and bars jumped 1 percent.
Healthy consumer spending is a key component of growth this year. It is expected to offset drags from slower growth overseas and a strong dollar, which are cutting into exports and corporate profits.
"To me, it's one of those days were the (stock) market is doing its best to digest some of those factors and to see what's next," said Steven Baffico, chief executive officer at Four Wood Capital Partners in New York.
Equity volume on U.S. exchanges was the lightest so far this year.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 15.82 points, or 0.09 percent, to 17,229.13, the S&P 500 lost 2.55 points, or 0.13 percent, to 2,019.64 and the Nasdaq Composite added 1.81 points, or 0.04 percent, to 4,750.28.
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Takata inflators can explode with too much force and spew shrapnel at drivers and passengers. They're responsible for at least 10 deaths worldwide and more than 100 injuries. So far 14 automakers have recalled 24 million U.S. vehicles with Takata inflators in what is now the largest auto recall in the country's history.
Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion and fill the air bags in a crash. But tests have shown that the chemical can deteriorate over time when exposed to high temperatures and humidity.
The recall has helped him know what people are going through trying to get the cars fixed and facing potential danger from the inflators, Rosekind said. The family has been working with a dealership that it has used with for a long time and is seeking a loaner car, he said.
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One of the most uncomfortable and painful situations you can find yourself in is a relationship where you ask "will he ever love me again". There are always ups and downs in any relationship, but when you feel the love fade you need to get serious and take action.
** After a lengthy regulatory process, a final decision on Pacific NorthWest LNG's proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal on British Columbia's coast looks set to be referred to the federal cabinet because of its impact on Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. website
The German automaker hastily pulled the ads following last year's admission it had installed illegal software on its diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests. U.S. regulators say Volkswagen's engines spewed up to 40 times the allowed levels of air pollutants in real-world driving conditions.
(Volkswagen/Youtube via AP)
"Hybrids? They're so last year," Volkswagen proclaimed in a mailer to customers promoting its 2009 Jetta TDI. "Now going green doesn't have to feel like you're going green."
The FTC's action is the latest blow to Volkswagen, which also faces more than $20 billion in potential fines for violating U.S. clean air regulations.
"For years Volkswagen's ads touted the company's 'Clean Diesel' cars even though it now appears Volkswagen rigged the cars with devices designed to defeat emissions tests," said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. "Our lawsuit seeks compensation for the consumers who bought affected cars based on Volkswagen's deceptive and unfair practices."
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Chief Executive Elon Musk said the model 3, with a minimum range of 215 miles per charge, would go into production in 2017. Musk said 115,000 pre-orders had already been taken for the car. (Reporting by Alexandria Sage, Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
But can you see how she was setting up a situation where I would do just about anything to AVOID talking to her, or spending time together in any way? I knew what we would end up talking about and I had no interest - because it just was not productive.
And Fort Wayne resident Milton Seals said his 17-year-old daughter called him from inside the restaurant after the shooting and ask him to come pick her up. Seals told The Journal Gazette that the shooting had left them both shaken and scared.
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Incentive spending last month rose toward recession-era levels as car discounts grew to 12.3 percent of the manufacturer's sticker price, but truck and SUV discounts stayed stable at 8.2 percent, King said. This means consumers looking for cars are likely to find good deals for the rest of the year, but trucks and SUV buyers won't see big discounts.
At 1 p.m., Miller is sitting in the front row at the Fiat press conference, where CEO Sergio Marchionne will announce the finalization of the Chrysler acquisition. Reporters barrage Marchionne with big questions about the acquisition, where the headquarters will be, and international ramifications of the deal.
The show officially opens to the public on Friday. About 1,000 vehicles will be on display:
Here are some of the buzz-worthy new cars and trucks at the show.
AUDI R8 SPYDER: Audi added the open-top R8 to its supercar lineup Wednesday, pulling a tarp off a yellow version of the car at the New York auto show. The Spyder has the same V10 engine as the R8 Coupe, but its hardtop folds mechanically behind the seats.
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17. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 187.028.
18. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 186.528.
19. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 186.297.
20. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 186.268.
21. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 186.176.
22. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 186.075.
23. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 185.773.
24. (14) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet, 185.581.
25. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 186.398.
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CHICAGO, March 30 (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is talking with many players outside the car sector about possible collaboration, Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said, and is keeping an open mind on what the possibilities might be.
Retail sales and food service sales slipped 0.1 percent in February month-over-month, mainly dragged lower by a 4.4 percent drop in gasoline sales, according to the data which is not adjusted for price changes.
General Motors, the largest US automaker, notched a 0.9 percent rise in sales compared with the year-ago period at 252,128 vehicles, below the 1.8 percent gain projected by Edmunds.com.
At Ford, US auto sales came in at 254,711 in March, up eight percent from March 2015, but lower than the 9.1 percent increase expected.
Leading automakers reported another month of higher US car sales in March ©Stan Honda (AFP/File)For years, automakers pushed fuel efficiency to sell hybrid and electric vehicles. Now, in an era of cheap gasoline, the message is: These cars are faster and quieter than their gas-powered counterparts. And, yes, you still save on fuel.
"It's the combination of a market that overextended in the opposite direction because of Draghi's 'no more rate cut' comment and just some corrective natural price action into the risk of (a Fed meeting) that could be a little bit more hawkish," said Richard Scalone, co-head of foreign exchange at TJM Brokerage in Chicago.
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For many women wondering will he ever love me again, they themselves are part to blame for their guys love fading or disappearing altogether. You see, it is possible that you could have sabotaged your relationship without knowing it.
After getting approval from nervous University of California bureaucrats to buy counterfeit drugs, Savage worked with Visa , MasterCard and others, and eventually figured out that three banks were handling 95% of the payments from spam and could be pressured to stop by public exposure, customer complaints and government regulators.
Back In The Saddle
A couple of weeks later, Miller steps into his driveway wearing a Held motorcycle suit - similar to the one that saved his life - and a gleaming white helmet. “Daddy’s going for a ride, Steve,” he says to his undersize rottweiler smiling from behind a wrought-iron fence.
He stands confidently on both legs. If he didn’t eagerly tell you how he’d been hit by a truck, or proudly show you his 11-inch scar resembling, he says, a part of the female anatomy, you would have no idea that two titanium plates and 13 screws hold his left leg together.
Sanders frequently criticizes Clinton's past support for trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and one normalizing trade relations with China. Both were signed by President Bill Clinton while she was first lady.
Sanders tweeted Friday night that as president, he would not send the Pacific agreement to Congress and he'll "continue to fight efforts to pass it," urging Clinton to join him in that cause. Clinton has not said whether she would back a renegotiated version of the deal.
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The Federal Trade Commission alleges that Volkswagen deceived customers during a seven-year period by selling its diesel cars based on fraudulent claims made through its marketing campaigns. That campaign included Super Bowl ads, online social media campaigns and print advertising targeted to "environmentally conscious" consumers.
To kick off the program, GM will provide a fleet of 125 Chevrolet Equinox cars to drivers in Chicago by the end of the month, the companies said.
"We have now made car ownership optional on both sides of the market," said Lyft President and co-founder John Zimmer. Passengers don't need to own a car if they use Lyft, he said, and now drivers do not need to own a car to work for it.
Lyft had more than 150,000 applicants from the four cities who were not approved to drive because their cars did not meet requirements such as having four doors.
Zimmer said there is no revenue sharing between the companies, but declined to offer more details about the program's financial structure.
Lyft has tried car rentals before, in October rolling out a program through Hertz. Uber also offers car leasing and rental programs.AP Photo/Esteban FelixIn this Oct 17, 2012 photo, Wilfredo Yanes, reflected on a mirror of his motorcycle, shows pictures of his late son Ebed Jaasiel Yanes, 15, at the site where he was shot dead allegedly by soldiers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Flint, with a population of about 100,000, had switched from Detroit's water system to the Flint River as a way to save money until a new pipeline to Lake Huron was ready. But during those 18 months, the corrosive water leached lead from the city's old plumbing because certain treatments weren't added to the water.
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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the slump was most noticeable in London and the East of England, although firms in Scotland and Northern Ireland were the least confident.
Uncertainty about the strength of the UK and global economy was blamed for the fall in confidence, although pensions auto-enrolment and next month's national living wage were also causing concerns.
"Delivering on tax simplification measures will be vital - as will be pressing ahead with new investment in much-needed infrastructure. Taken together, these measures should help to boost confidence and help small firms to grow and succeed."
The report was published ahead of the FSB's national conference in Glasgow, due to be addressed by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson.
Sales were generally weak across the board: Auto dealers, electronics and appliance stores, grocery stores and department stores all reported lower sales. Gas station sales plunged 4.4 percent.
Americans cut back in a category that includes catalog and online sales, which slipped 0.2 percent. That was its worst showing in 13 months.
Construction-to-media conglomerate Bouygues (BOUY.PA) said on Friday its board had been unanimous in deciding to end talks with state-controlled rival Orange (ORAN.PA) over the takeover of its telecoms unit.
"In a market where the possibility of consolidation is now ruled out for the long term, Bouygues Telecom will continue its standalone strategy," the group said in a statement.
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Dust off your dancing shoes, if you both used to enjoy that, just make sure you reserve time for idle chat where you can get to know each other again. Maybe a walk along the river or lake if your area has one.
State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz said Monday that it's not known which officer fired the shots that struck the gunman.
The gunman had earlier shot at a man inside the Auto Zone store who was taken to a hospital in serious condition, police said.
WANE-TV reports that a witness to the shooting said they heard 18 to 20 gunshots as they were sitting in the drive-thru at a nearby Lee's Famous Recipe restaurant.
You need to carve out time to spend with your man; time when you have some energy and a goal of making the time useful for your relationship. That means you do NOT talk about work, the house (problems), the kids or the in-laws.
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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2016, file photo, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator Mark Rosekind listens to a question at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Automatic braking will be standard in most cars and light trucks within six years and on heavier SUVs and pickup trucks within eight years under an agreement that transportation officials and automakers announced on March 17.With gradual development of science and technology, the auto parts industry has witnessed tremendous growth in the past few years. As there has been an increase in number of automobiles, passenger and commercial vehicles manufactured worldwide, the auto parts manufacturing industry has emerged as an ancillary industry and auto parts manufacturers have come a big way. Today, auto parts manufacturers manage to increase their sales and contribute towards stabilization of the economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Retail, construction and health care went on a hiring spree last month.
The three sectors combined accounted for almost two-thirds of total U.S. job gains in March.
Retailers added about 48,000 jobs, thanks to openings at general merchandise stores, health and personal care outlets and auto dealerships.
Hiring at construction companies was also strong, expanding by 37,000 jobs. The jump was fueled by home construction companies and firms involved in heavy and civil engineering projects.
AP Photo/Arizona Department of CorrectionsThis undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Ryan Giroux.
A rampage Wednesday, March 18, 2015, included a motel shooting, a carjacking and a home invasion and ended with his arrest at a nearby apartment in suburban Phoenix.
But for those people who do have few conditions that are for sure extraordinary that make it really very complicated for all those to obtain auto insurance or if they require extra ordinary service and also coverage then also they might be enhanced off having a talk with an auto insurance broker or an auto insurance agent for an auto insurance quote or even policy that would be best for their exceptional situations. But if a person has a personal computer and also an Internet connection then shopping for an auto insurance policy is absolutely a trouble free way and also is a very high-speed way to obtain what the person is in need of. Almost each and every site of the auto insurance company on the Internet would provide quotes for free.
Confidence among small businesses has dropped "significantly", the FSB said
Sandra Dexter, FSB vice-chairman, said: "Small business confidence has clearly faltered, which is why the welcome small business focus in the Budget is so important. We need a renewed push for growth and productivity - with policy makers delivering a sustained package of support for ambitious small firms.
"The Budget included a number of important measures to help smaller businesses, particularly changes to business rates, which will see many small businesses taken out of paying rates altogether.
The concept of Michigan auto insurance policy holds its roots around the fact that residents in Michigan have personal and commercial needs. In many companies a person will face a major problem while getting the adequate insurance policy. The problem arises especially when a teenager is involved. Such problems do not occur in the case of Michigan auto insurance policy. A person can obtain all the information regarding various quotes by many firms online. This enables the person to easily select the most suitable auto insurance policy. The person can compare the various quotes that are offered by different firms online.
In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, a man sits in the driver's seat of a Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances. The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers).
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this Monday, March 21, 2016, photo, the Nissan Micro Mobility Concept vehicle is displayed at the New York International Auto Show. The electric vehicle is designed to transport two people over short distances. The batteries can be recharged in four hours and the range is up to 62 miles (100 kilometers).
“He still says, ‘Miller, every time I look in the mirror I think of you.’ It really builds character, because after that, you can pretty much face any kind of physical danger.” Miller says wistfully that nobody had ever cut him deep enough to give him a Schmiss of his own.
Miller credits his experience in Germany - holing up in a castle with the children of the country’s elite, having drinking competitions and sword duels and going on ice-climbing expeditions in the Alps - with straightening him out. “It was the beginning of my drive to be somebody,” he says.
These auto insurance companies know the importance of getting the auto insurance policy for a driver. The basic information that you have to provide to these auto insurance companies is your name, your location, your age and your driving experience. The biggest advantage of having auto insurance policy online is that you can compare the different auto insurance quotes offered by different auto insurance companies in order to get the cheapest auto insurance policy.
Wear and tear of vehicles is very common. Many people are very attached to their cars or any other vehicle they own. In case your car meets with an accident, it is very important that you immediately send it for repairs. It is not easy to send the car for repairs to any dealer at random. You need to seek help from a genuine autobody shop provider. It is essential that you maintain the car well. There are many random car repair shops that not just repair the parts but also offer proper maintenance and care of the vehicle. It is important that you send the car for timely maintenance. Everyone is aware about the act that you must take good care of the car. You are unaware about the fact that when it will break out. In case you are driving the car and suddenly there is some issue with it. It becomes very difficult to contact a car repair service provider.Policies contain some typical coverage that one can not go beyond but some allow adding. The policy one opts for will decide the sum one needs to pay per six months or per month. One can choose between mortar companies, online auto insurance companies. An interesting fact that one need to know that online auto insurance companies do not bear any fixed cost of a physical office or rent a commercial real state and because of this reason they offer one greater discounts comparing than the mortar companies and brick.
About 7.1 million inflators have been replaced, and NHTSA has said the recalls almost certainly will grow larger.
Rosekind wouldn't identify the type of car, but he said the family is fortunate to have another vehicle for his wife to drive in California, where she lives. The agency has taken over management of the recalls and is sending replacement parts to older vehicles and to those in high-humidity areas along the Gulf Coast.
Both companies say the rental car program is the first step toward building a network of autonomous vehicles because it will establish the infrastructure to house, maintain and organize a large fleet of cars. (Editing by Stephen R. Trousdale and Richard Pullin)
It is however always advised to the consumer to carefully go through the reviews and advices of the experts. The experts are know what is best for the consumers. At the same time it is the expert who can always provide the consumer with the most desirable deal. Moreover it is very important for the person to realize the fact that the auto vehicle insurance policy has now been made a mandatory requisite in many parts of the world. It is hence to be noted that the decision of buying the auto vehicle insurance policy is as important as the buying of the auto vehicle.
Actually auto insurance is something that ensures that one is complete safe from paying damages and the like. That’s why a number of people want the right and appropriate auto insurance for their vehicle. And all one is required to do to get best deal is to go for online auto insurance comparison.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 (Reuters) - Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad has resigned as chairman of national carmaker Proton Holdings, effective March 30, his office said in a statement on Thursday.
The first one is that you check your credit reports for any errors, each from the three main credit bureaus which are Trans Union, Experian and Equifax (accessible at bureau’s website, one free annual report from each one by law). A person current score and credit history have an extreme impact on the insurance premiums, thus by clearing up the inaccuracies and misinformation on them; there are good chances to receive lesser auto insurance quotes from the latent insurers. Maintaining up on the credit and paying the bills on time will assist to guarantee low rates on insurance and loans in the future.
Japan's Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, said US sales in March slipped 2.7 percent to 219,842 as many of its best-known brands, including the Corolla, Camry and hybrid Prius, all suffered declines.
But Toyota's Japanese rival Honda posted a 9.4 percent rise in year-over-year sales at 138,221 vehicles, with gains in the flagship Civic and Accord sedans complementing higher truck sales.
Nissan sales leaped 12.7 percent to 163,559 vehicles.
Sales at scandal-plagued German auto giant Volkswagen slumped 10.4 percent to 26,914, as many of its diesel models remain off the market due to an emissions-cheating scandal.
Authorities say Patterson was driving 74 mph in a 25 mph zone when his car went over a curb and hit 17-year-old Bryan Rodriguez and 16-year-old Noel Herrera on a sidewalk in North Bergen. Another teen was injured in the crash.
Patterson said at a court appearance Monday that he plans to hire an attorney.
nTo add further, you will be able to get money in case some robbers steal your auto. Auto dealers of high reputation makes the process of obtaining auto insurance is very simple, they does various things for you, and thus saves both time and money
Rich Baird, the governor's transformation manager, said the state is negotiating with two "major auto suppliers" about bringing jobs to the city. He told committee members that a non-disclosure agreement meant that he couldn't name the companies.
Baird also said that his team and Michigan Works! are working to identify 500 "workforce development jobs" that he said are designed to provide good-paying positions and remove obstacles in employment, such as not having access to transportation or child care.
Here are some tips, which can be used to find the best auto insurance for your black boomer.
1. To locate best auto insurance, you are requested to make a search on your own. First of all go to local auto insurance providers. Compare auto insurance quotes provided by them. Most of auto insurance providers have their websites, you can go there and request for car insurance quotes online, if you own a car.