Posts Tagged ‘money’
click above to view more high-res shots of the Euro-FocusNews flash: small cars like the Ford Focus are selling beyond expectations (ours anyway) while trucks and SUVs are sitting on dealer lots much longer than auto manufacturers would like. For this reason, Ford is moving as quickly as possible to......
Mechanic arrested for not giving up vehicle to angry customer
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Remember last week when we told you about a tuner shop in Florida that got stuck holding a $16,000 bill after customizing some broke guy's Toyota Celica? That shop is resolving its dispute through the courts and will likely end up selling the car to make its money back, but a mechanic in the U.K. na......
Woodward 2008: A license (plate) to thrill
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of vanity plates seen on Woodward Ave.After spending all that money restoring, customizing or just outright buying your ride for the Woodward Dream Cruise, you can't just screw on a license plate that says XBC 1764. No, you have to get a vanity plate that expresses y......
Woodward 2008: Not all replicas are created equal
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
As long as people have been willing to pay insane amounts of money for classic cars, there have been entrepreneurs and hobbyists creating reproductions of those cars. Unfortunately, the desire to reproduce a classic and the skill to do so in a faithful manner often do not go hand in hand. Such is th......
2009 Jeep Patriot with new interior already on dealer lots
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Click above to view a gallery of the Patriot's new accoutrementsAll you used to need to know about the Jeep Patriot is that it looks Jeepy; drives super-solidly (even when making forays above 80 mph); and comes with a nasty interior that will shred your knuckles on that excess flash all over every p......
Talon Performance creates a quad only a mother could love
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Talon Performance is where "Innovation meets the street." That combination apparently yields results like the Talon Street Quad, a body-kitted 4-wheeler based on the Kawasaki KFX700. We think it looks like the innovation and the street got in a big argument, attacked a manatee with bats, and then th......
Gilded Shame: gold-trimmed Camry spotted in Dubai
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Click above for gallery of the gold-trimmed Camry
Taste: some have it, some don't. Case in point this Toyota Camry spotted in Dubai where the burgeoning middle class apparently wants to roll just like their oil-funded upper class but lack the money to secure a Rolls-Royce or Bentley. While we've rel......
ROUSH and Ford sued for making too many Blackjack Mustangs
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Click to enlargeFord partnered with ROUSH on the Stage3 Blackjack Mustang back in 2006, and in 2007, Ford said it would make 100 of them. New Yorker Drew Conner bought Blackjack number two, spending almost $59,000 for his slice of limited edition Mustang pie. Only the glossy black 'Stang wasn't so l......
Chrysler Financial scores $24B line of credit
Monday, August 4th, 2008
It's up and down, but nowhere near out for Chrysler, LLC. The Big Three's smallest sibling says that it's ahead of internal estimates and has posted earnings in excess of one billion for the first half of '08. True, the company also posted a $510 million loss in Q1 according to minority shareholder ......
Chrysler cutting 1,000 white collar workers
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Chrysler is losing money by the truck-load, and its vehicles aren't selling, so common sense dictates that team Pentastar was going to start making cuts soon. That time is now, when Chrysler notified workers that it would be cutting 1,000 white collar workers. Chrysler spokesman David Elshoff told e......