It is a new green world: the popular vehicle on the O’Regan’s Toyota Halifax lot is the redesigned Prius for 2010. It’s all in the small details: the new Prius has new styling, outstanding fuel efficiency, more horsepower, more standard features and a lower sticker price than the previous model, starting at $27,500. Silver: Hillcrest […]
Automobiles
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Best Mechanic Shop
Even though Tapley has a fairly narrow range of automobiles he works on, Coast readers have recognized his specialized gift. “I’m strictly European cars,” he says, working on mostly BMWs, though he does service a few Ferraris. He’s been in Bedford for five years, but he started his career as a mechanic at a Volkswagen […]
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Imagine a car-free Halifax
Cars are the number-one killer of people under 35 in this part of the world. A couple of thousand pounds of high-speed steel and glass may have seemed like a good idea at one time, but cars have made simple acts like walking risky business. Urban sprawl increases that risk. Abundant research shows a strong […]
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Idle cars, idle dollars
Dear Metro Transit, As I write, there is an HRM vehicle (car, not bus) sitting outside my office window that has been idling for 10 minutes. Inside which there is a uniformed Metro Transit employee eating his lunch. Quoting your own Policies & Guidelines: “As it currently stands, after three minutes, Metro Transit operators are […]
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Provincial insurance farce
To the editor, I enjoyed Bruce Wark’s “Auto correction” (Upfront column, Mar. 12), on auto insurance in this province. As consumers who purchase car insurance in this province know, especially in Halifax, there are no “real” resources to help you when there are major issues. The government did nothing for insurance buyers except let rates go up. There are […]
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The need for public auto insurance
If the NDP wins the provincial election expected this spring, Nova Scotians may finally get something they badly need—public auto insurance. Let’s hope so because the present privately run system is the shits. Nova Scotians pay among the highest insurance rates in the country, but get the lowest accident benefits. And as car crash victims […]