Archive for the ‘Is There A Lesson Here?’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Car companies from all around the world are rethinking their plans for greener vehicles in the light of the ongoing collapse of new vehicle sales. Without the cash from those sales, they can't afford to research and develop more fuel-efficient technology.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Various changes in the world cause one couple to consider and reject the big vehicle they had planned to buy, and now they're reconsidering their entire way of life.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
A young writer who is too familiar with the misconceptions her fellow Americans have about Detroit-based cars writes to set the record straight.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Taking old cars, repairing them and giving them to needy families is a fairly straightforward idea, and it has immediate affects on their lives and the local economy.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
It's depressing enough that anyone would think of stealing money from ladies in their 90s, but it's extra sad to hear that it's a younger woman doing it through force and intimidation.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
That mad Brit auto writer, Jeremy Clarkson, is back with details on what many people have suspected about men and over-powered cars for a long time.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
GM's OnStar system has sent emergency service personnel to the precise location of over 100,000 crashes in the last 12 years, often when the vehicle's occupants were unable to call themselves or to places where there was no cell service. For the serious safety seeker, OnStar remains the creme de ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Four female thieves in South Africa use upscale appearance to lull people running open houses into trusting them too much.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The purpose of this story is mostly to convince everyone that GM, Ford and Chrysler are worth saving, but by reading the truth behind the myths the smart consumer will learn that they may be giving the foreign car brands too much credit and paying too much as a result.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
How can a brand show the world how successful and rich you are if so many other people own them? That is the essential problem for the German car company as it adds cheaper models to what used to be a pretty exclusive mix. Now every real estate agent and ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
There's been an astonishing amount of crap in the media about the current problems of the US car companies (particularly in the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal by non-auto journalists), but long-time auto writer Warren Brown explains the situation correctly. As kind as he is to the efforts ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
A scary experience for a woman who thought she knew how to protect herself at all times.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
When it comes to the big traffic tickets -- reckless driving, DUI, seatbelt violations, failure to yield and speeding -- men are much worse than women. On top of that, women are more likely to be found innocent of blame in a crash.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Safety experts everywhere will tell you that what this Australian woman did was wrong, wrong, wrong and they'd be right, right, right, but it's still a "bonzer" story.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
More proof that there's more to vehicle safety than a flotilla of airbags and a five-star crash rating.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
It's almost certainly not true that you have to pay more to extend your new car warranty even if someone calls you on the phone to tell you different. But that doesn't stop different firms from trying to get money from you, or thousands of people from falling for it.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A Florida law requiring vision tests of people over 80 has reduced the highway fatality rate for that age group, but no one seems to understand why or if it will work in other jurisdictions.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
A self-described "Confused Citizen" poses some interesting questions about how we can help the car companies, the planet and even the consumers.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Perhaps as many as 3,000 unborn children die in car crashes every year, yet it's pretty easy to reduce those numbers if the mothers are willing.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
This little contretemps near Seattle provides big advice for people wondering about the relative safety of different cars. Consider the position and condition of the two small cars in relation to the trucks, and take special note that the drivers of both small cars were hurt and the truck drivers ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Responding to a growing demand for ways to go green, more European cities put communal bicycles on their old streets using the newest technology.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
This should entertain all those guys who think the only thing stopping them from a career in NASCAR or F1 is sponsorship support.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
In an effort to stop consumers paying for more on service work than they have to, General Motors has outlined some "auto care myths" to bear in mind. You have to think that any company that offers advice has an agenda that involves gain for them, but it's hard to ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
If you own a Prius and you're willing to spend a lot of cash for a battery that lets it run short distances without using gasoline but not actually save any money, there are people willing to help you.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Normally car companies love the exposure that comes from being in big-budget movies, but having one of their luxury models amongst scenes of squalor in the Mumbai slums were too much for Germany's Mercedes-Benz brand. Their cars will probably still be in Slumdog Millionaire, but only in selected scenes.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw
No matter how many airbags they put in cars from now on, there'll be no gigantic advance in auto safety until the car companies figure out a way to build cars that are smart enough to not run into each other.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
The rapist reached out from underneath the car to grab the women, pulled her to the ground and raped her -- in a large, well-used parking lot in broad daylight.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
At least in part, a man's time spent playing Grand Theft Auto is held to be responsible for him attacking women on the street. The drugs may also have had something to do with it, but authorities in the UK believe the game was key.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Partly because it's the right thing to do and partly because it's a good way of increasing revenues for the local coffers, police forces across America are taking a harder line with first-time speeders and the like, with penalties (try $1,000 plus jail time) that can really hurt. And apparently ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Even when a recall notice from the manufacturer sounds mundane, the little problem can sometimes be the tiny spark that ignites a huge blaze, and we mean that literally as well as figuratively.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This is one of those stories that should remind us that you're often in greater danger when you're with your family and friends than you are when you're with strangers.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw
An extremely pleasant note from my insurance agent advising me it was time to renew my auto coverage sent me to the web for a comparison shop, to see if the admonition to look around for a better deal still makes sense.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
A reporter for the LA Times goes from New York to The Coast in a 10-year-old Chevrolet Venture and gets a lot better fuel economy than the official statistics say he should. Plus he gets to take his wife, dog and a bunch of stuff along with him, which small ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Hybrids have never really made much economic sense for the average buyer because it was hard to recover the cost of their extra cost by small amount you save for gasoline, but with various government incentives drying up and the cost of gasoline falling their financial value is getting worse.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This story reiterates the major things you've heard before about women and the car business -- they prefer green vehicles, safety's important, dealers treat them with disdain, etc. -- but it's worth repeating, and it's good to know they're particularly excited about the coming of the Volt plug-in hybrid.
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