With January’s flight sales marking a bright start to the new year, there’s no better time to be thinking about your travel plans for 2010. It’s worth bearing in mind that long-haul flights are set to offer the best bang for your buck this year, so let your imagination run wild and think far and [...]
If you’ve ever wasted hours of your life cramped up on rigid plastic airport benches, eyeing up a motionless departures board, and longing for nothing more than to just… get … home… there is good news in store. In the future you’ll be entitled to compensation for your airline delays. And when we say compensation, [...]
MUNICH — Saab today released details of its new 9-5 flagship, a car crucial to the brand’s success as an independent automaker under new ownership. Earlier this month, General Motors Co. reached a deal to sell Saab to Koenigsegg Group AB, a consortium of private investors that includes Koenigsegg Automotive AB, a tiny Swedish maker [...]
General Motors has just announced a deal that will see it’s European Opel brand sold off to Canadian autoparts supplier Magna International. The deal has yet to be finalized, but this morning GM announced Magna was the preferred bidder. The sale will see Magna and Russian backer Sberbank take a 55 percent stake in both [...]
If it seems like you’ve heard it before, it’s because you have: BMW has taken the wraps off of its most fuel-efficient 3-Series ever, the 320d Efficient Dynamics. Capable of 68.9 mpg in the European combined cycle (about 57.4 mpg U.S.), the 320d features a turbocharged 2.0-liter diesel engine and will qualify for significant tax [...]
Tips for finding cheap airfares1. Airlines usually reload their computers at midnight, so as soon after that as possible is a good time to shop online for low cost seats that folks might have reserved but not paid for. 2. For international flights between major cities, it’s hard to beat the price of flying courier [...]