| Ford, GM Try to Clear Year-End Inventory | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:46:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | General Motors and Ford are trying to stimulate sales as the year's end approaches, using discounts, rebates and no-interest loans. GM General Motors will try to unload cars and trucks sitting on dealer lots starting this weekend with a year-end "Red Tag Sale" that will last until January 2. Everything goes on sale except the good stuff. Cadillac, Hummer, Chevrolet Corvette and Pontiac Solstice are not included. GM has just over 1 million 2006 and 2007 vehicles in its inventory but 80 percent are 2007 models. The company has set aside roughly $250 million to cover the cost of the year end "Red Tag Sale" incentives. The company will offer up to $2,000 in discounts on many vehicles but is leaving the exact amount of any incentive up to individual dealers.... | |
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| | | 1978 AMC Pacer D/L from North America | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:45:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Maybe you need to get some glasses or something, because today's cars certainly look nothing like the Pacer. Fix the spelling and grammar of this comment Request deletion of this comment 18th Feb 2006, 18:47 "This car is the MOST unique vehicle you will see on the road; bar none." - Dear Sir or Madam: I don't know any other way of telling you this, but I think that you are insane. Fix the spelling and grammar of this comment Request deletion of this comment 14th Mar 2006, 18:17 It is a shame that most of the people writing posts on this particular subject are the same dyed in the wool, follow the herd, I'd rather push a ford than drive a chevy, and vice versa, mopar or no par bunch of people that have been bashing AMC products for years.... | |
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| | | Sunrise & Sunset | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:46:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's Friday afternoon in the Chattahoochee Valley, and everybody's thirsty for something. Refreshment. Solace. Or maybe adventure. On this day, the start of the last weekend in September, many will turn to alcohol to quench their thirst. It's a natural choice, legal for ages 21 and older. It's everywhere -- in grocery stores and gas stations, and in television ads that make us laugh. People will be drinking it in their homes and out on the town, with their meals and with their music, before the opera and during the dirt track race. This time last year, we were writing stories about methamphetamine, a drug made in secret that hurts users' bodies, brains and teeth -- and the ones they love. Sure, alcohol is different.... | |
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| | | Centenarian retains joy for life | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 2:46:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | In 1906, the United States found itself in the midst of the Industrial Age, with many monumental events on the horizon. Henry Ford's Model T automobile would hit the market a year later, the Titanic would sink in five more and, by 1917, U.S. troops would fight in the first World War. Although 1906 is remembered by many historians as the year San Francisco experienced a devastating earthquake and subsequent fire that killed hundreds, it holds a different meaning for Wausau resident Orten Enstad: It's the year of his birth. One hundred years later, Enstad doesn't act his age. He doesn't need a wheelchair, cane or a walker to get around; his legs move as fluidly as a young man's. His vision is near perfect; he only needs reading glasses. And when he talks, he comes off even younger, displaying the infectious smile of a newborn child.... | |
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| | | Purdue University President Comments at Energy Security Summit | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:46:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The comments below were made today (Tuesday, Aug. 29) at the Sen. Richard G. Lugar - Purdue University Summit on Energy Security. The summit drew more than 600 leaders to the Purdue campus in West Lafayette, Ind. to discuss national energy issues and policy. A goal of the summit is to discuss ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil and to develop new strategies for alternative fuels. Among those joining Sen. Lugar, R-Ind. for the daylong event include Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Purdue President Martin C. Jischke and U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind. The summit also includes a panel discussion, "Implementing Strategies to Reduce Foreign Oil Dependence." Panelists include Sue Cischke, Ford Motor Co. vice president; Carol Battershell, vice president for alternative energy for BP Inc.; and Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S.... | |
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| | | What a gas motorists show up for repairs | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 10:46:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | More than 50 vehicles had sputtered into O'Daniel Ford-Mitsubishi in New Haven by 2 p.m. Wednesday, tainted with a mix of diesel/unleaded gasoline. Others were towed to the shop. Perhaps elated to see gas prices dropping, some drivers who filled up at the Kroger at 821 Lincoln Highway W. between 11 a.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday were potentially paying for the wrong gas. Diesel was mistakenly pumped into the regular and mid-grade unleaded pipes and vice-versa. Kroger apologized for the error and is covering the damage costs. Premium-grade unleaded was not affected, and the gas tanks have since been drained and corrected. Meghan Glynn, Kroger spokeswoman, said more than 100 people have called the company indicating they pumped the hybrid gas into their tanks. The company is investigating how the snafu occurred, saying it will take the necessary steps to prevent it from happening again, Glynn said.... | |
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| | | Way Forward redirects automaker's product plans | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 12:45:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | Ford has talked for years about offering a range of vehicles smaller than the Focus. In European auto jargon, such vehicles are commonly known as B-segment vehicles. Supplier and industry sources say three vehicles are likely for the 2010 and 2011 model years. They probably will be based on Mazda's B2E vehicle platform and likely sold under the Ford brand. The first, code-named B409, would be a small sedan. The second vehicle is likely to be a five-door crossover model code-named B474. Both are penciled in for the 2010 model year. A third vehicle, code-named B475, is expected to be a small minivan, debuting for the 2011 model year. All three models would be assembled in Ford's Cuautitlan, Mexico, plant. Total annual volume for the three is estimated at 170,000 units.... | |
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| | | Driving Across Montana, From Old West to New | | Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:45:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | SWEET GRASS COUNTY, Mont. -- Speedometer nudging 90 on a freshly paved two-lane, my rental Ford swooped past swells of deep-green prairie grass. To the west a searing afternoon sun was laying into the Crazy Mountains, still pimpled with snow despite triple-digit temperatures down here on the plain. It had been a five-hour drive, angling southwest across Montana from the dwindling town of Malta to the vital city of Bozeman. I crossed the Missouri River, not far from where a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition wrote that there were so many beasts, they had to be clubbed out of a traveler's way. .... | |
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| | | Ford Motor Needs a Partner as Much or More Than GM | | Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:46:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | July 13 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. stands at center stage as it wrestles with a proposal from one of its major shareholders to hook up with two European carmakers. Guess what? Ford Motor Co., Detroit's other big carmaker, needs a partner just as much and for many of the same reasons: falling market share, a product mix tilted toward gas-hungry vehicles, a junk credit rating, soaring employee and retiree costs and weakened finances. Unfortunately for most shareholders, Ford is an unlikely candidate for a broad collaboration similar to the one GM is contemplating with Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. The reason: the Ford family's controlling interest in the No. 2 U.S. automaker. Ford Motor's unusual capital structure has insulated the Ford family from the checks and balances on management found at GM and most other publicly traded companies.... | |
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| | | Hail hammers Seacoast towns | | Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:46:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | High-speed storms pummeled southeastern New Hampshire yesterday, unloading golf ball-sized hail onto cars and rooftops and knocking out power to hundreds of homes and businesses. "In 21 years I’ve been here, this is the worst storm I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen hail that big in my life," said Exeter Lt. Steve Dockery. Five police cruisers were heavily damaged in the storm. Hail dented close to 275 cars parked outside Exeter Hospital, breaking windshields and sunroofs. "It looked like a ball-peen hammer went over my car," said Ron Goodspeed, the hospital’s director of community relations. The hospital lost power several times during the course of the day and had to operate on a backup generator. Employees at Foss Motors, too, watched as hail fell on more than 100 cars on their lot.... | |
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