Posts Tagged ‘finance’

In the San Mateo Garage: 2006 Crown Victoria Police Cruiser [w/DUMMY]

Monday, July 28th, 2008
There are few things more jarring than when you're doing 80 on the freeway and spot a well-concealed police cruiser. You immediately begin to sweat, get your story strait, perform a mental check-list of license and registration, then watch the rearview mirror like a hawk to see if he pulls out. If y......

Das Boot: One man’s crusade against injustice

Friday, June 20th, 2008
It's time for another installment of Carsumer Advocacy. We won't go into the nitty gritty details of this one, as it's spread across a 61-page forum post on VW Vortex. The basic gist is that a guy moved into a house in a nice neighborhood. Said neighborhood then started a Home Owners Association wit......

How about a smaller nav screen? Magna develops in-mirror display

Friday, June 13th, 2008
While Ford's giving the Fusion an LCD large enough to watch feature films, Magna has joined up with Swiss firm u-blox and Germany's Paragon to develop a navigation system that puts the map display in your rearview mirror. The system is called MirrorPilot, and it does look like a slick way to add fac......

Ford to offer new blind spot and hazard detection in 2009

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
We've all done it; you're halfway through a lane change and suddenly a horn sounds and snaps you to reality. Whether you failed to check your blind spot adequately, or just plain oblivious, Ford's introducing a two features to help you out. The Blind Spot Mirror and Cross Traffic Alert with Blind Sp......

Wagoner gets a raise to what he made in 2003

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
After an abysmal 2005 where GM lost over $10 billion, CEO Rick Wagoner received a sizable pay cut from $2.2M to $1.28M. Yeah, we know, cry him freakin' river. The General's relative success of late, however, has convinced the board that Wagoner deserves to have his annual pay restored to the $2.2M h......

Ford makes Fiesta more attractive

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Ford India introduces the Fiesta Pace Petrol series for 2008, the new series line-up that will offer customers tremendous performance and driving dynamics on their cars, available in three variants – the 1.4 EXI, 1.6 ZXI and 1.6 SXI .The new top end SXI variants in both Fiesta’s Petrol and Diese......

Nissan expects sales skid to end in Q4

Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Dominique Thormann, Nissan's veep of administration and finance, maintains that Nissan's current sales doldrums will be remedied by new products on the horizon.Nissan NA has seen a 2.7 percent slump in sales during August 2006, compared to the same month last year, much of which is attributable to a......

Way Forward 2.0 today?

Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Now that Ford's got a new captain at the helm, it's full steam ahead for the "Way Forward." According to Reuters, Ford's board of directors will be instituting the second stage of its plan and is expected to release an overview of the strategy later today. Some of the proposals to be announced inclu......

Bad credit? No credit? Ford doesn’t care with new 0-72 loans

Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Facing the ignominy of huge dealer inventory and falling behind Toyota for 2nd place in July sales, Ford has decided to let anybody with a pulse finance one of its cars. Well, you do have to have some credit, but Ford is lowering the bar in this new incentive drive to include buyers with sub-prime c......

Legislate me: drivers favor ban on distractions

Monday, July 3rd, 2006
A recent study by Response Insurance, a national car insurer, says that cell phones aren't the only driver distractions people want banned. Reading, grooming, and even listening to MP3 players or iPods were on the list with significant support.A few interesting results of the survey is that more Bla......