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“Buy American” resonates strongly among car shoppers today, though not all brands are considered equally, according to a new survey by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. About 80 percent of respondents who are in the market to buy a new car are likely to consider a model from a domestic brand. This compares with less than 50 percent each who are considering Asian or European brands...

Woo hoo! It's auto show time! Here from the Frankfurt Auto Show is the Weissman Roadster MF5...

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., the biggest seller of hybrid cars, is sticking with nickel as the preferred battery material for most of the vehicles after three years of secretly testing Prius hatchbacks with lithium-ion packs. The tests appear to be among the most thorough done by companies planning to introduce the batteries, said Menahem Anderman, president of consulting firm Advanced Automotive Batteries in Oregon House, California...

Dub, I want to tell you about my web site (scam website deleted), that the big oil companies don't want you to know about. Just a simple modification that can be done to any car and you can double your mileage using water! They're keeping this idea suppressed because of what it would do to oil profits, but they can't keep a lid on it forever because something like this just has to be ...

In what has to be good news for the cast and crew of Operation Repo, marketing research firm Experian Automotive tells us that auto loans that are 60 days past due rose by 21.2 percent in the second quarter from year-earlier levels. I wonder how many of the Cash For Clunker deals will wind up as reality TV fodder when folks who had a perfectly adequate ride and no car payment traded in because they fell for the promise of "free money". Read the full article at The Detroit News

How about some news about a company that didn't take a bailout for a change? Ford has unveiled a new diesel engine for its Super Duty pickups that it has been quietly developing for the past two years. The new 6.7-liter Power Stroke V8 engine, code-named Scorpion, weighs about 160 pounds less than the outgoing model...

 Our Dayton 2010 Chrysler Town & Country review - provided by your greater Dayton Dodge dealer Jeff Wyler Springfield OH Dodge.  When it comes to family friendly mini-vans, the Town & Country is where it all started, and Chrysler continues to deliver with outstanding quality, safety, comfort, and performance. Seating configurations are incredibly important to minivan owners, and the 2010 Chrysler Town & Country's stow and go seats are simple to operate, and provide flexible solutions for carrying passengers or cargo...

If you didn't see this one coming you must have been born yesterday. The federal government is unlikely to recoup all of the billions of dollars that it has invested in General Motors and Chrysler, according to a new congressional oversight report assessing the automakers' rescue. The report said that a $5.4 billion portion of the $10.5 billion owed by Chrysler is "highly unlikely" to be repaid, while full recovery of the $50 billion sunk into GM would require the company's stock to reach unprecedented heights...

In 1990, Chevrolet came out with the most amazing Corvette, the ZR-1. Early in the era of ever increasing horsepower, this four valve per cylinder, 350 cubic inch beauty, was rated at just under 400-horse power. It also had a top speed close to 200 mph...

AR Index     620.92  -12.01  (-1.90%) Stocks of individual interest Toyota  83.90  -1.29 GM        0.79    -0.01 Ford      7.43    -0.17 Dow 9441.27  -55.01   (-0.58%) Just looking at positive/negative weeks for the Index in 2009 so far. Not a horrible looking chart even though it would be nice to see everything above the zero line, but as they say, you can't have everything... where would you keep it all??