What do most Americans have in common? We are fat and we have gas problems. Whoa! Slow down. Not that kind of gas problem, a fuel problem if I am to be specific. Well what would be the perfect situation to arise out of our rotund, fuel starved existence? Using fat for fuel. Yup. Apparently [...]
If you are looking for another indication of how bad the car market is hurting, and in turn, how bad the banking industry is still hurting please consider the following. It seems that lending companies have started to take drastic steps to get back revenue lost in seizures. Companies have actually started suing people who have had their cars repossessed. The [...]
If you are looking for more incentive to buy a new car and have that car shipped to you rather then rent, here is some information for you. It seems that car rental companies are raising rates across the board in an effort to remain profitable. On top of that these companies are also slashing [...]
What is worse then shooting yourself in the leg, and getting more or less kicked off the best team in football because of your own stupidity? Wrecking your uninsured $140,000 Mercedes, that’s what. This is the dilemma that New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress finds himself in these days. You may remember that Plaxico [...]
Things aren’t looking too Christmas-like in Russia these days. The country is actually in the midst of large scale riots because, of all things:cars. It seems that the Russian government has taken it upon themselves to raise tariffs on used imported autos. The major target of these tariffs are Japanese autos. According to the AFP Russian president Putin sees [...]
More signs of the European connection to the failing US auto market. The International Herald Tribune is reporting that car sales are way down all over the globe and that there is a direct link to the failing US market:
Sales slumped 39 percent at GM and 56 percent at Chrysler after they told the U.S. [...]
In another bit of good news for the auto industry, top executives of foreign car interests have started voicing some major concerns over the fate of the big three. According the the New York Times the ramifications would be global if Ford, GM, and Chrysler were to collapse:
Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, director of the Center for Automotive [...]
It seems that the spawn of Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards were involved in a car accident in early December. According to eonline.com both children escaped the accident without major harm:
Sam, 4, and Lola, 3, were being driven around by their nanny in a Mercedes SUV when the driver of a Honda made a sudden [...]
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Hello all. My name is Hariesh Manaadiar, and I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa. [...]
I recently came across an article by U.S. Rep Mike Michaud where be bemoans the tariff put in place by foreign countries. Writing for the freepress Michaud writes:
Unfair foreign trade and economic practices are not “just a different way of doing business,” but are conscious policies intended to distort markets and give foreign firms a [...]
