Archive for the ‘Our View’ Category
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
In an effort to extend its incredible success with marketing a fuel-saving car that doesn't save its owners any money, Toyota has announced a program to push slow-moving second-hand Prius hybrids off of dealer lots. The candy is an examination of some battery-related equipment that is supposed to make you ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
By Alex Law
Many people are talking about the need to "buy American" the next time they shop for a new car, and my informed opinion (25 years of covering the auto industry) is that purchasing a vehicle from Ford or GM is a sound economic decision for the consumer as ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
By Susan Winlaw
In the process of creating new models, car companies regularly "clinic" them with groups of average buyers, and this process often involves showing them with different brand badges.
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw
Here are 10 reasons why you should ignore those over-ripe stories about the "Top Safety Picks" from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) you can find on the internet, and one reason why you should pay attention.
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
By Alex Law
Crystal Windham's recent appointment was pretty much lost in the flood of coverage given to the ongoing financial crises at the three US-owned car companies.
That's unfortunate, because GM's decision to make an African-American woman the director of design for the company's North American passenger car products is a ...
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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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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw: GM and its OnStar safety and security network recently debuted a service in that allows the police to slow down a stolen car so they can recover it and capture the people who took it.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
With more people turning to used cars as a way of saving on transportation costs, it's probably a good idea to revisit your opinion of Carfax and similar companies offering vehicle title information.
Those car history reports are simply not anywhere near as thorough or useful as people think they are, ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
As you read this, just about every car company that sells cars on this continent has teams of first-class geeks working around the clock to re-invent the automobile in the next couple of years, at least in terms of how good it is at not using gasoline.
So the variation ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
According to a privately-operated website dedicated to fanning public interest in GM's upcoming Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid/EV, the average amount people are willing to pay for this wonder car is $31,171.
For a car that can actually run forever without using gasoline and reduce a person's energy costs to a ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
Right now the collapse of the new car market looks like a problem for the auto companies, and the people who are going to buy small, inexpensive cars from now on don't have anything to worry about.
This is not the case. It's not the loss of sales that has ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
Because they're taking a huge financial hit over the sudden collapse in the resale prices of SUVs and pickup trucks today, GM, Ford and Chrysler hope to avoid the same thing happening again in 2011 and beyond by transferring the risk to you, the consumer.
In a nutshell, that's why ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen
The good news for anyone leasing a large vehicle right now is that you don't have to worry about what's happened to the resale value of your SUV or pickup or whatever because the leasing company has to take it back and you can just walk away.
The great news ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
For the smart consumer, there are two important things to be learned from the current situation in which many car dealers are refusing to take large SUVs and pickup trucks as trade-ins:
There are no guarantees when it comes to resale value, and
Consider leasing if you don't want to be ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
Whenever you drive along looking for something, you are wasting gas as well as time.
You may not be so worried about wasting time, but you've probably recently developed a large concern with the notion of wasting gas. So it may be worth a little investment to keep those driving-around-lost ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
By Caradviceforwomen.com
"Honda aims to rule as the eco-friendliest," the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, declared recently, which of course is exactly the kind of reaction the Japanese firm was looking for when it announced some future hybrid cars and gave away some fuel cell-powered cars to some B-list Hollywood types. Getting ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
As societal traditions go, the one about getting your child a car as soon as she or he is eligible to get a driver's license is absolutely one of the strangest imaginable
For 16 years a parent's primary purpose in life is the safe rearing of her child, and then ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
In an effort to gain media attention, some auto-related companies like to conduct surveys of drivers on some pressing issue or ask experts to explain some aspect of the car universe. These things give auto writers an easy piece of copy to feed the shark that is the internet ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
If your travel plans ever involve getting into one of those extra-large vans that car rental firms and other businesses favor for the transport of their customers, be aware that your safety is at particular risk during those short rides.
The same danger applies if you venture out in one ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
by the caradviceforwomen.com team
No matter what kind of new car you buy today in North America, you can expect it to present you with about one thing to complain about over the first three months. The actual number is 1.18 problems per new car. The best you can expect is ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Honda has garnered a lot of positive buzz for telling the world it will be bringing out a hybrid version of its Fit subcompact with only a modest premium on the sticker price for the fuel-saving technology, which of course was the company's plan. Honda's intent with this announcement is ...
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