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Jay Leno and others celebrate traveling 10,000 miles on electricity

Jay Leno has driven his Chevrolet Volt to and from his job as host of "The Tonight Show" daily since taking delivery of his Volt in December. To date, he has traveled more than 10,000 miles using only grid energy and is still on the same tank of gas that was in the car when he brought it

An elderly woman in Austin, Texas got a scare when she accidentally drove her Dodge Neon into a swimming pool during what was supposed to be a routine trip to the grocery store. Security cameras caught 86-year-old Mary Lee Fine as she barreled through a fence, hit some patio furniture and splashed down. Fortunately, a steel lawn chair wedged itself beneath the rear of the vehicle, keeping Fine above water long enough for a caregiver at her living facility to wade into the water and pull her from the partially-submerged Mopar.

Details on how the fiasco occurred are murky, though Fine said that she had to get into her vehicle from the passenger side because someone had parked too closely to the driver's door. Fine said that in climbing over to the driver's seat, she either accidentally hit the key or the gear shift, causing the Neon to bounce off of a Toyota Celica before driving into the pool.

NEW YORK -- Chrysler Group's Jeep Brand is taking its launch of a new limited-edition Wrangler to a whole other world -- the virtual world.

The automaker today breaks an estimated $10 million ad campaign for its 2012 Wrangler Call of Duty: MW3 Special Edition vehicle, coinciding with the midnight launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the…

November 2, 2011 , Auburn Hills, Mich. - Consumers Digest announced its annual automotive "Best Buys," and vehicles from Chrysler Group LLC received eight of them, more than doubling the number of "Best Buys" Chrysler Group vehicles received in 2010 and 2011. In the past year and a half, the Chrysler Group has introduced 16 all-new or significantly refreshed models, and many awards have been rolling in ever since.

The Chrysler Group vehicles that received Consumers Digest…