Before you go out and buy an 8 MPG Hummer on the recent price decline of crude, you may want to ask yourself a question: Will I be lucky again?
Dear Chrysler, Now that you are in your post-Daimler era, I’m glad that you have come to my humble blog for advice on who to partner up with next. I’m positive that it was because of my deft post yesterday that you chose Nissan as your new global partner with for a new generation of [...]
Ok, I will admit – I am not a huge fan of electric cars. My personal opinion is fuel cell is the way to go, but I am not adverse to any auto manufacturer willing to put their money where their accelerator pedal is.
I remember my first car loan. In 1980, I bought a 1978 Chevy Monza fastback for $2,800. Because it was a ‘Carter Era’ loan, it cost me $120 month for 36 months. (Thank you Dad for co-signing!) It got me to and fro for the next few years and I paid it off. It only [...]
Quite the contrary…I DO like Mondays. It’s the start of the week and a challenge to do great things for the week. It may be a little rainy and overcast in Northern NJ right now, but I am anticipating this week. The Boomtown Rats may have sung that Brenda Ann Spencer didn’t like Mondays – [...]
The charismatic car man and uber-mensch, Lee Iacocca, said in his last pitch before leaving the once-troubled Chrysler Corporation: “lead, follow or get out of the way.” Iacocca took Chrysler’s helm in the late 1970′s as the company was headed for the auto-maker graveyard. In a controversial move, the US Government guarantees loans to Chrysler [...]
I read two articles today that made me think of a shift in the automotive industry – of sorts. In the local paper, The Record, staff writer Kevin G. DeMarrais reports that if you want to purchase a hybrid, there are no deals (read:list price) and the wait may be long. Hey, what’s an environmentally [...]
I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal‘s ‘Eyes on the Road’ column by Joseph B. White titled “Relearning How to Drive 55“. I was astonished with what I read and was compelled to ask myself a question: ‘Is this article really in the Wall Street Journal??” I thought for a second…maybe we [...]
Will Doing the Double Nickel Save Drivers Some Change? Some people – probably not Sammy Hagar – are pining for the 1970′s again, saying the 55MPH speed limit will save us at the pump. I got my driver’s license in 1976. Americans had suffered with a Federally-mandated 55MPH speed limit for two years. The first [...]
(With apologies to ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat) If I remember my Bible story correctly, back in the day, Pharaoh and those crazy Egyptians were basking in the Mediterranean sun, having a grand old time. Only problem, Pharaoh was having some sleep issues and Ambien wasn’t invented yet. He had some crazy dreams [...]
