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If you do decide to buy a new automobile, I hope it's a decision that you have thought about for a while. Just as you may want to think about how short amount of time a few months would be to custom order it direct from the factory. For one thing, you'll save around $1,000.oo alone for not paying the advertising fees,
a car
on the car lot will have attached to it. And Oprah never gave way 250 cars; General Motors did. Those Pesky Germans Oct. 21,'08: I found this thread over at CR4, a place where engineers hang out. I have to say I agree with these guys for the most part. The interesting thing about it is that it clears up a lot of mis-conceptions about the Hydrogen Car. They know of the problems associated with it. Like one thing I didn't realize is the thay tend to leak out
the hysrogen. So the storage tank may not stay as full as you left it for one thing. And another thing is that the energy needed to make the hydrogen, can end up polluting more than a car driven on Natural Gas. By the way, I read today Oct. 21 in the WSJ that people in Thailand are scarffing up car that run on natural gas. (Brazil and Pakistan are right behind.) Funny thing about all this is even though Honda offers a natural gas Civic in the US, they only manage to sell a few thousand of then each year. But no way; OPEC is just going to cut production to make it go back up. And for those who think we should become independent upon oil from other counties. You don't know what you are talking about, because I did the math. If the US used only US oil, the US would run out of oil in less than three years. So I say buy it up from other countries, as much as we can get at no matter what the price, because in a long run, who ever has oil in the end wins. We
shouldn't even be burning petroleum in are vehicles and we should be saving the oil for plastics and rubber.
Sept. '08?: Ford and Roush are being sued over rarity of Mustangs. Basicly
the two
companies came up with the idea of selling a customized version of the Mustang. They told the buyers that they were only going to build 100 of the Roush Stage 3 BlackJack editions when they put them on sale in 2007 for $58,846.25; but then they turned
around and built another 100 to sell in 2008. A buyers such as Drew Connor of Bardonia NY who bought the one with the #2 identity plate, have filed a class action suit against the two companies claiming the second hundred that Roush modified and Ford sold at their dealerships, drasticly reduced the value of the first 100 sold. Hybrid tax credit shock Have you bought a The truth be told, they can sell you a lemon and treat it as if they leased it to you for $.25 per mile and they will drag the whole process out until the last few days before it goes to a court, (at which they would have to label it as a lemon unless they take it to a state where there is no lemon law.)
And when they finally buy it back (before the court hearing,) they won't even have to label it as a lemon when they put it back on the same car lot you bought it from. I guess I should post another segment from my book about how that game plays out. It's as if the auto makers had their hands in on the legislation written into the lemon laws. Still, the $15.00 it cost to register the van for the lemon law was the best $15.00 I ever spent. The top ten Hybrid cars
January 4, 2008: I rans across some stuff on Yahoo/Forbes: which
I think is a bunch of hog wash. It's about the five most over priced cars. All it talks about is inscentives, and to me, it feels like a ploy just to get a person to go out there thinking they have some advantge car shopping from reading it. You may be wondering what I think of all this. Well I never thought Daimler should have been buying Chrysler in the first place. Chrysler was a company which had more employees that Daimler and Chrysler was making more profit per employee. Therefore Chrysler was the bigger of the two and some how the CEO sold out the company (with $700 million in severance pay.) And any changein the industry can only be considered good, because what it has been, is bad. The thing is, I should have been involved in the industry a long time ago and not being able to do my own thing only proves how corrupt the industry is.
Funny how a company that builds Tonka Toys can pull ahead of GM. Even when Bush helps GM by creating a demand for Hum V's by blowing them up.
This link to a video will be eventually moved to a new page under Mad Sience or something to do with engineers, but take a look at some of their high quality craftsmanship. It's sick, I only wish I had one of these bolted in my little red wagon. Video Quality gets better with the second engine
Check this video out. It's a mini Ferrari.
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April 11th '07 Belinda Stronach announced that she would assume the position of Executive Vice-Chair of Magna International Inc. effective immediately, and simultaneously, she will not stand for re-election as a Member of Parliament in the next federal election. Magna was one of the companies who were considering making a bid for Chysler. Apparently they have the Canadian auto worker's union backing the would be buy-out. Magna makes-. seats, trim parts as well as suspension and engine components for virtually every Chrysler vehicle manufactured in North America generates about $3.6bn for Magna, or about 15 per cent of its annual revenues. In Austria, Magna actually builds entire cars for Daimler Chrysler. All I can say is that I may not know much about her except that she ruffled up bunch of the old guy's feathers within the Canadian government. I think she seems pretty impressive and she looks good too. The Magna company is pretty much ran by politicains though. That can be both good or bad It looks as though Diamler unloaded 80.1% of Chrysler for $7.4 Billion. It went to Cerberus Capital Management with a debit of $18 billion in pension benefits. That totals about $1,500 per car. That's like 25.4 billion dollar overhead. Heck
I don't see why anyone would have even wanted it. I guess venture capitalist might consider a brand name worth the risk.
My old 75 Ford F-250 had a 360 V-8 which was a good boat anchor because the 390's at least had a four barrel that actually got better mileage and had a lot more torque. The 4 speed got old real quick. The twin I-beam front suspension was great if you were a farmer and you need to off road the thing, but the tracked like hell down the paved road. Another thing I should mention: My buddy who installs windshields for a living told me, that for the first two years of a model, they have to buy the windshields from the dealers who mark them up an arm and a leg. I'm sure the insurance companies know that and it's probably another good reason to buy used. Plus a new auto depreciates 24% the first week you own it. Kinna screws you right there. April 11th, '07: Ford put together a commercial promoting their F-450. Stating that they made the springs 8 inches longer so that it could handle more weight. Then the lower something that looks heavy into the tin can on back. They make a clicking noise to make it sound like something giggled the truck. The funny thing is the truck doesn't sit any lower afterward. Like who's fooling who? Hell they even build the F-550 with coil spring front suspensions now days. Give them three years and the bushings inside the links will loosen up and there goes the handling. The steering geometry will change when you put the brakes on. You should see how the front axial twists under my truck when hold the brakes and go from forward to reverse. It's junk folks. Feb.'07: It's on my yahoo e-mail and the cake is on TV, but the funny part about it is that it looks like pie in the face.(Update: Funny how they pulled that one real fast.) Jan 5th: At Backs beach I saw a guy sitting outside his polished-up new Lexus crossover vehical. I think the whole design thing is about making a car uggly as possible, so that people will notice it when everyone hasn't gotten one yet. Between the ones on the street and the hundreds of times we are forced to look at them on our TV set. The public grows tired of them fast and just wants to look at something new. It doesn't matter if it's ugly or not, just as long as it's something they haven't seen a zillion times. Can you image that you are about to witness $100,000,000.00 launch of the new Toyota Tundra. We're going to have their dam commercials coming out of our ears. I get
a kick out of that commercial of the two idiots driving one of the ugly
Avalanches down a dirt road. They think that switching the piece of rattle box
junk to an open truck is a good idea. But they don’t show all the dust that
swirls around the back and into the cab as they drive off at the end of the
commercial. I had to laugh when Ford came out with SUV commercial where the little girl asks her mother if the piece of junk goes potty. Boy, how stupid do they think we are? Comments @ Blog.MyStupidRules
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