(November 18, 2017) ORLANDO, Fla. — AAA projects 50.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving, a 3.3 percent increase over last year. The 2017 holiday weekend will see the highest Thanksgiving travel volume since 2005 with 1.6 million more people taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways compared with last year.

AAA and INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, predict travel times in the most congested cities in the U.S. during the holiday week could be as much as three times longer than the optimal trip.

By Jim Meachen
MotorwayAmerica.com editor

(November 15, 2017) We needed a car for a road trip to the North Carolina mountains to join the hordes of visitors on the Blue Ridge Parkway and other high-altitude locales to view the colors of fall. There were several choices available, but in the end we decided on the monstrous 2017 Mustang GT350 Shelby Cobra.

(November 14, 2017) At $2.56, the national gas price average has increased nine cents inside of 13 days. Strong fall consumer gasoline demand has continued into November and is chipping away at national gasoline inventory. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports total gasoline inventories dropped by 3.3 million barrels in their latest report, according to the weekly report by AAA.

(November 14, 2017) SANTA MONICA, Calif. — It's been a long-held belief among car buyers and sellers that once a vehicle passes the 100,000-mile mark, its value begins to decline dramatically and its best days are behind it. However, the Q3 Edmunds Used Vehicle Market Report reveals that's now largely a myth.