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    • … an automotive obstacle course because 20 cars and 3 big rigs and a metro bus couldn’t make it up a small hill. Me, driving our Subaru Outback AWD with 17 inch tires, along with 2 SUVs in front of me, maneouvered through the pile of cars and managed to get through ok. That was thursday morning, around 6:30am …

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    • … for the loans will be taken from the $700 billion “TARP” fund which was originally designed as a fail-safe to rescue struggling financial institutions. While it was done as a “last resort” sort of move, the funding nonetheless was desperately needed to keep the automotive industry in this country …

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    • … on January 20.” The picture appears to be even gloomier after the news by several press agencies reporting all sorts of problems, ranging from the bankruptcy of the automotive industry as a result of the crisis, up to the natural disasters, including the increasing cost of foodstuffs, starvation, war …

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    • … battery packs and the problems inherent in hand-building prototypes. But a great deal more has to do with social engineering trumping good automotive design. The problem of energy density and range is being addressed but while the price of advanced batteries is plummeting, the price point is still …

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    • … that employs people. It’s times like this that I think of news stories I read about how in the Midwest and the South there are routinely 10 to 50 people applying for every job opening. (When Kia opened its car plant in Georgia a few years back, I believe they had 40 people applying for every opening …

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    • … opinions below. Even if you disagree! My next automotive news post I have received a lot of e-mails asking me to get back on track with both my electric car conversion project as well as my water 4 gas experiment. In my part of the country gas prices are starting to head back up and so is my …

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    • … plans were in motion but not in place. I was shook!! It was crazy watching peoples reactions as they got the news. Some people laughed, some people just sat there and stared, thinking about what they were going to tell their wives. Some of the layoff’s were deserving and long overdue and one or two …

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    • … and risking an automotive accident like the ones I keep seeing on the news… .:. On a lighter note… check out this list of 2008’s best quotes from Poplicks. “It is the best summary of his presidency, which is: everything looks perfect from his point of view.” - MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, remarking …

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    • Originally published at Car News Articles. Please leave any comments there. The AMC Matador is a particular favorite of mine–I have both sung its praises and defended its honor from those who would impugn it. After the most recent Matador post, reader Gary Thoreson dropped me an e-mail describing …

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    • The Detroit Free Press will only deliver to homes on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays starting in March, the newspaper announced this week. The crosstown paper, the Detroit News, will only deliver on Fridays and Saturdays. The announcement comes as both newspapers, published by the Detroit Media …




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