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The Penske Plan and Free Trade Part Deux
How the times have changed. In the last thirty years free trade and U.S. Government regulations along with a few other factors have put the U.S. auto industry, once one of the largest employers of Americans, on the ropes. Chrysler has been swallowed up by Fiat. GM is in the process of being cut up into smaller pieces through bankruptcy proceedings. If GM happens to survive, it will be a much smaller company compared to the big mega corporation it...
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California's a mess. A bankrupt fiasco. A state that has regulated and spent itself into a well of debt so deep it makes the economic situation in the other 49 states seem not half-bad.  But instead of putting a chokehold on California's run-amok bureaucrats, the federal government just gave them the go ahead to impose California-specific...
Small is in. Small - and inexpensive, especially. Throw in cute - and you've got something that might actually sell in a market that's as flatlined as Michael Jackson's pulse. Cue the 2010 Kia Soul. WHAT IT ISThe Soul is a boxy little five-door hatchback runabout similar in theme to the got-there-first Scion xB but com...
It is here - finally. After an almost eight-year absence, the Chevy Camaro has returned - just in time for GM's bankruptcy party, too. Is it the light at the end of the tunnel? Or the light they say you see right about the time you go toes up? In six months' time, I predict, we will know the answer. WHAT IT ISEveryone knows Cama...
There's an optimistic lull right now characterized by cautious happy talk about "green shoots" and "signs of recovery." Don't believe a word. Two trillion dollars' worth (more or less, depending on whose numbers you use) of people's net wealth has just - poof! - disappeared since the whole seedy debt-financed, over-leveraged house of cards collapse...
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People are cutting back on everything that's not absolutely essential - and that includes car insurance. North Carolina, for example, estimates that the number of uninsured motorists might be as high ...
Why does the "I don't know anything about cars" guy who is now running GM (along with a 31-year-old "car czar" who also knows nothing about cars) think GM can accelerate out of bankruptcy wh...
Ever wonder why most speed limits in this country correlate with the average travel speed of most of the traffic on the road? Isn't that odd? Shouldn't a speed limit be the highest...
It just happened that I road-tested two Nissans back to back - a new Versa 1.6 (at just under $10k to start, one of the least expensive new cars you can buy) and a new Sentra (formerly Nissan's "...

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Magical Thinking in California

California's a mess. A bankrupt fiasco. A state that has regulated and spent itself into a well of debt so deep it makes the economic situation in the other 49 states seem not half-bad.  But instead of putting a chokehold on California's run-amok bureaucrats, the federal government just gave them the go ahead to impose California-specific fuel economy and emissions control requirements on new cars sold there, beginning with the 2016 model year. California has long wanted to demand that new cars achieve 40 mpg, on average - 5 mph higher than the "49 state" requirement recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama.  Now there will be two sets of differing requirements for the flatlined auto industry to cope with: One for cars sold in CA, one for cars sold everywhere else. Maybe several different requirements, since a number of states have expressed interest in either following CA...

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