It’s a little hard to describe the business that Mark Dimond and Bill Deacon started in north Scottsdale.

An Ahwatukee Foothills man scored the original 19-foot-long black, bubble-topped car used in the 1960s “Batman” TV show for $4.2 million Saturday night at the Barrett-Jackson car auction at WestWorld in Scottsdale.

With a population more than one million, the city of Phoenix needed creative ways to gather input from citizens. That is why in the early '80s the Phoenix Urban Village concept was formed to give each unique community within the city a chance to speak its mind.

With a population more than one million, the city of Phoenix needed creative ways to gather input from citizens. That is why in the early '80s the Phoenix Urban Village concept was formed to give each unique community within the city a chance to speak its mind.

Clint Goldwater had one of the best seats Saturday at the 37th annual Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale. The freelance cameraman from Austin, Texas, operated a 40-foot-long camera crane that stretched over classic and rare automobiles worth millions of dollars.

If you’ve ever wondered where the first modern-era, North American sub-compact car originated, or what it was called, you would have to go on a 50-year trip back in time to find out.

Drastic times called for drastic measures, at least as it pertained to an automobile industry mired in the Great Depression of the 1930s.

On The Road visits Horne Hyundai of A.J. and Honda Superstition Springs as they celebrate their success, and anticipate the arrival of exciting 2006 models.

Auto shows are a fun and profitable way for dealers, car auctioneers, collectors, and those who just want to see, to come out and look at the affordable and not-so-affordable vehicles.

Wal-Mart said it will open up to 400 health clinics in its stores over the next three years and the number could grow to 2,000 in five to seven years.

Keeping up with (or, more accurately, staying ahead of) the Joneses has always been taxing: Their house, their automobiles, but now . . . their Christmas cards?

The two-story home with the white siding and matching picket fence in sleepy Ellis, Kan., still stands, a monument to a man who’s better known by his name than his face. Tours are still given on weekdays and for four hours on Sundays. For a few dollars you can see the barn where the 18-year-old boy, first hired as a sweeper at the Kansas Pacific Railroad, made his own steam locomotive, and where the 22-year-old man left to make a fortune, one that was worth US $37 billion to German automaker Mercedes-Benz less than 10 years ago.

It was an off-hand comment, of course, but Ettore Bugatti never took it that way. How could he?

 NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow, meet the Car of Yesterday.

Chrysler’s jet-powered car lived to see the streets, but this grand experiment was plagued with negatives that always seemed to outweigh the positives. This fleet of exotic test vehicles, however, propelled the company’s reputation as a leader in automotive engineering and design.

So your boyfriend just gave you a decorative license plate for the front of your car with your names painted inside a heart.

So your boyfriend just gave you a decorative license plate for the front of your car with your names painted inside a heart.

Our View: Most of the state-owned highway rest areas will close next week as the Arizona Department of Transportation seeks to erase a $100 million funding shortfall, Capitol Media Services has reported. State highway transportation planners probably expect such closures to be temporary, and the rest areas will open again once the economy rebounds.

The most ambitious urban design concepts rarely make the leap from disk and paper to brick and mortar.

Big Two Toyota Scion of Chandler broke ground on what will soon be a very unique car dealership. And don't forget the Barrett-Jackson auto auction which runs until January 22nd.

It’s a "great rush" for some, a simple family outing for others. Either way, there are plenty of places in Arizona to use a personal watercraft — and more and more people are doing it.

It’s November in the East Valley. Summer temperatures are finally gone and once again its time for Saturday afternoon college football, high school Friday night football, winter lawns, and also time for the grand entrance of the 2006 model vehicles.

Microchip Technology, a major force in the market for mass-produced relatively simple microcontroller chips, is expanding its presence in the market for more complex chips.

Microchip Technology, a major force in the market for mass-produced relatively simple microcontroller chips, is expanding its presence in the market for more complex chips.