Monthly Archives: July 2007
Chrysler Announces Lifetime Powertrain Warranty
By Chris Haak07.26.2007Chrysler announced today that it is expanding its existing 3 year/36,000 mile basic limited warranty to a lifetime limited warranty on powertrain components...
Nobody Wants to Buy Chrysler’s Debt
By Chris Haak07.25.2007Chrysler Group, which has been acquired by Cerberus Capital Management, is trying to tap debt markets for $20 billion to fund the new company's automotive...
Black Ink for Maserati After 17 Years
By Chris Haak07.24.2007Today, Maserati announced that it has earned an operating profit for the second quarter of 2007 (before one-time items) of approximately €1 million. This...
Germany’s Road Sign Deforestation
By Chris Haak07.24.2007Germans tend to feel more comfortable when they are given precise, unambiguous rules. To that end, their roads are absolutely covered in road signs - to...
Driving in Manhattan Won’t Be Free Much Longer
In 2003, London instituted a £8, or about $16, "congestion charge" on any cars that entered central London. The aim was to clear some of the traffic and clutter from the center...
2008 CTS Pricing Released
It's good news, unless you check all the option boxes.By Chris Haak07.19.2007Yesterday afternoon, a member at Cadillacforums.com posted official 2008 CTS pricing, and today, now...
Ford sales up 122 percent…
...in Russia.By Chris Haak07.18.2007For all the tears shed, hands wrung, and red ink spilled about Ford's problems in the US market for the past year or two (namely a $12.6...
OK, but if they go any higher, THEN we’ll cut back…
By Chris Haak07.18.2007A Reuters/Zogby poll released today concluded that 40% of Americans would curb their driving habits if gas reached $3.50 per gallon. Somehow, I do not...
Child Seat Heads-Up and Plea
By Chris Haak07.17.2007Please think twice before putting a baby in the front seat.In the past month, I've had three conversations with parents or grandparents of young children...
Diesel Invasion
By Chris Haak07.17.2007In the next few years, we'll see more diesels offered in the US than probably at any time in history. Why? Higher corporate fuel economy standards are...
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