Los Angeles

Metro traffic nearly cost Pia her Miss U crown

LOS ANGELES—A week before the Miss Universe coronation night, fashion designer Albert Andrada battled Metro Manila’s notorious traffic, made even worse by Typhoon “Nona” (international name: Melor). “I sat in the car for five hours. It was…

Waze stirs ‘conflict’ between motorists, residents

LOS ANGELES — When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were…

Mercedes launches new Maybach luxury chariot

Mercedes-Benz is using the Maybach name once again, but instead of on a stand-alone sedan, it is appending the name to its own, thus the new Mercedes-Maybach S 600. The car is a variant of the S-Class…

Hydrogen-eration: fuel of the future

Cars that run on hydrogen and exhaust only water vapor are emerging to challenge electric vehicles as the world’s transportation of the future.…

Honda Accord wins green car prize at LA Auto show

The Honda Accord was named Green Car of the Year at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Thursday, beating shortlisted rivals from Audi, BMW, Mazda and Toyota.…