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Dear Dub, Where have you been? Are you OK? Donger Harris Well I wasn't on sabbatical, that's for sure!..

I'm willing to bet that if you look up the etymology of the idiom, "cut off one's nose to spite one's face", you'll find references to the UAW. Is it just me, or are we in challenging economic times, particularly in the auto industry? On October 13, Ford and the UAW reached a tentative agreement on a contract...

Here's why you don't want the government's fingers in the day to day business pie. The government has sunk $50 billion into GM and $14 billion into Chrysler. Rattner has long maintained that the money the Bush administration gave the automakers -- roughly $20 billion for GM and $4 billion for Chrysler -- would have to be written off because it wasn't tied to restructuring...

Just in from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The shockingly poor financial management of General Motors and Chrysler weakened their case for a government bailout, but officials feared letting the automakers collapse would severely harm the U.S. economy, the former head of the Obama administration's auto task force says... "We were shocked, even beyond our low expectations, by the poor state of both GM and Chrysler...

 AR Index     613.08  +1.46  (+0.24%) Stocks of individual interest Toyota  80.31  +1.38 GM        0.65    -0.05 Ford      7.57   -0.05 Dow 10092.19  +206.39   (+2.09%) According to freep.com, Ford might show a 3rd quarter profit, if analysts at JP Morgan are correct. They say Ford is benefitting from an increase in Ford F-150 pickup sales, reduced incentive spending and a surge in sales sparked by the federal government's cash-for-clunkers program. So while this seems to be good news, I think we have to wait for the Cash For Clunkers effect to wear off before we'll get a truer picture of how things are

An experienced pickup truck driver is a person who's wrecked one. An inexperienced pickup truck driver is a person who's about to wreck one. A very inexperienced pickup truck driver doesn't even own a pickup but will probably be mistaken for a wild antelope by people jack-lighting pronghorns in somebody else's pickup truck...

Now-a-days people are stepping ahead for car donation instead selling of their car at cheap price. After using your car, you might find your car useless or unattractive and you decide to sell it off. This decision leads you to the many hassling process such as finding agent, newspaper ads and much more...

From Gasgoo.com: Following a robust September when China's auto sales soared 78 percent from a year earlier, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) now forecasts that auto sales in the country would surpass 12 million for the full year of 2009. Many global automakers are getting by in this economic crisis partly because of the continued sales boost the auto industry is experiencing in China. However, analysts fear that this interest may end as early as next year...

Commercial World (Singapore) Singapore Used Car Exporter Christmas Promotion Welcome to COMMERCIAL WORLD (Singapore) Commercial World is the largest commercial and used vehicle exporter in Singapore. We also deal in Singapore cars regardless if they are used car or new car, to be exported to other locations worldwide. We have been in the market since 2003 and have acquired many years of valuable experience in our field...

I live in an area that actually has winters, pretty much every year. And there's snow in the forecast coming up in the next couple of days. Now understand that I'm coming off an experience yesterday of dealing with what had to be the world's stupidest appliance installation guy, (Dub may deal with that this weekend)  so my tolerance for stupidity is at zero at the moment, but I'm going to make this wish list anyway...