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Poll: Swedes in favour of Volvo nationalization - Local
The Swedish people want the state to bail out troubled car-maker and national icon Volvo Cars, a new poll shows. Sweden could give Saab story a happy ending (27 Nov 08) Volvo Group willing to help troubled Volvo Cars (27 Nov 08) GM considers ditching

Annoying habits - Star-Banner
I once knew a fellow back in my Army days who had a most annoying habit. He was given to speaking in dysphemisms. In other words, he would intentionally use harsh words where more polite ones were readily available. I always wondered whatever

IOWA CITY — A University of Iowa study could be worth cash to some eastern Iowa motorists, but the results of the study could leave a financial mark on all Iowa drivers. The federal government is funding the $16.5 million study conducted by the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Somewhere between birth and what is now the possible demise of the domestic automobile industry, “American” became a bad word. There is little doubt that the industry had much to do with this transformation. It has a way of snatching mediocrity from FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The Internal Revenue Service has tweaked standard mileage deductions for 2009. Rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, medical or moving purposes are slightly lower than rates for the second half of 2008 FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Browse over 20,000 used car listings. I pity Detroit. It doesn’t get it. It doesn’t understand that Washington takes Hollywood seriously. It doesn’t know that the nation’s capital places more stock in symbolism — the grand gesture — than it does in FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Break-ins target cars of Turkey Trot runners - Buffalo News
While more than 10,000 people were running in the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning, at least one thief was taking the chance to break into several cars parked near the race’s starting line in North Buffalo. Buffalo police fielded at least four

Watermain break in Kearny causing traffic - Bridgeton News
According to Kearny Police, there is a watermain break on Central Avenue near the off ramp of Route 1&9 that is causing traffic. Two squad cars are directing traffic and having cars detour either back onto the 1&9 southbound or up to 2nd Avenue

Romanian government drafted decree lifting tax on new cars as of - Focus Infomation
Bucharest. Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu confirmed Friday that the government plans to put off by two weeks, until Dec 15, the date when the car tax exemption on new cars becomes effective, adding the date could be moved up if the European

The Prestigious Design of Ferrari’s Factory - Star News Online
MARANELLO, Italy — To walk through the back gate of the Ferrari automotive works here and stroll down Viale Enzo Ferrari is to enter a museum of architecture. To the left is a wind tunnel designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, a soaring

A Blue Christmas at China’s Own North Pole - Time
At about six o’clock Thursday evening, around what used to be quitting time for the day shift at the He Jun toy factory in Dongguan, China, 40-year-old Wei Dong Li made his way to the factory’s front entrance, his three-year-old son Qian Jie tugging

Renault to halt production at Russian plant - Seattle Times
French carmaker Renault said Friday it will halt production at its Moscow plant for more than two weeks in December as the global financial crisis crimps demand for cars. “It was the only reasonable decision,” said company spokeswoman Olga Sergeyeva

CARS FOR THE CROWDED GLOBE AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM - 24 Hour Museum
Exhibition Review - Japan Car: Designs for the Crowded Globe at the Science Museum from November 29 2008 – April 19 2009. When I found out I was being sent to Japan Car: Designs for the Crowded Globe at the Science Museum, I thought there had been

A reality check on electric car dreams - Oregonian
Gov. Ted Kulongoski is certainly enthusiastic about the potential for electric cars in Oregon, and in D.C. there’s much talk that any bailout of the automotive industry ought to go toward greening the car companies. Sounds great, but this cautionary

AAA: Thanksgiving travel to decline slightly - Business Courier
The American Automobile Association (AAA) expects Thanksgiving travel to drop slightly this year, but there will still be millions of travelers on the roads and crowding into airports. The AAA said it expects 41 million Americans will travel 50 miles

Federal judge blocks automakers from challenging stricter RI tailpipe - Newsday
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Automakers cannot sue to block Rhode Island from enforcing tighter standards on tailpipe emissions first adopted by California because the industry has already lost similar lawsuits elsewhere, a federal judge has ruled. U.S

WATSON: Sales tax can fund national health care system - Rocky Mountain News
Of the industrialized Western societies we pay the most for medical care, yet still have 45 million of our citizens outside our for-profit medical care system. I am a capitalist and strongly believe in business making a profit. However, it is not

Kings Dominion Adding New Stuff For 2009 - Jaunted.com
Apparently, Cedar Fair didn’t get the memo that theme parks are cutting back this off-season. The park operator recently announced some plans for Kings Dominion , just outside of Richmond, Virginia. With an eye on, unfortunately, the family

GM Ends Endorsement Deal with Tiger Woods - Industry Week
Nov. 25, 2008 — General Motors, facing desperate times in a troubled economy, has ended its endorsement deal with 14-time major golf champion Tiger Woods, the firm announced on Nov. 24. The sponsorship contract, believed to pay Woods $7 million a

COAST HOLIDAY TRAVEL - Biloxi Sun Herald
GULFPORT — Falling fuel prices and cheaper fares have once again made Thanksgiving the busiest travel holiday of the year, at least in South Mississippi. About 8,000 passengers flew through the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport between Friday

Govt imposes curbs on import of more steel items - Business Standard
Import in case of these products would now be limited to actual user industries who are now required to secure a licence from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade. By implication, these items cannot be imported for trading purposes. The move is

Transporter 3 - Review - Cinema Blend
The Transporter series has always lived in a world constructed from the most ludicrous of contrivances. The stories never make much sense and the action is usually so over the top that it is, more often than not, laughable. Transporter 2 made this

Judge: Automakers cannot block RI emission rules - Seattle Times
Automakers cannot sue to block Rhode Island from enforcing tighter standards on tailpipe emissions first adopted by California because the industry has already lost similar lawsuits elsewhere, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Ernest

SKOWHEGAN - A dozen or more automobile accidents were reported early this morning as the region got its first taste of winter-like weather. Reports first starting coming into the Somerset County communications center in Skowhegan just after 4 a.m FirstChoiceAutoFinder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve threw a massive life-line to consumers on Tuesday with two new programs aimed at making it easier for them to obtain loans for homes, cars and on credit cards. Under the new mortgage program, the Fed will FirstChoiceAutoFinder

IN THE game of cat and mouse between the Chinese Government’s censors and China’s increasingly outspoken bloggers, the score has suddenly turned in the bloggers’ favour. Tens of millions of mice over-ran China’s internet trap this year, swamping it FirstChoiceAutoFinder

As we prepare for the annual Thanksgiving slog over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house, we’re compiling a playlist to keep us from falling into a tryptophan-induced stupor on the long drive home. After all, British researchers FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Nassau is auctioning off 43 vehicles that police have seized, nearly half from DWI offenders, the county’s district attorney announced Tuesday. The auction will be held Dec. 3 at the Eighth Precinct in Levittown. Twenty-one vehicles were seized from FirstChoiceAutoFinder

DETROIT (AP) — After being skewered by Congress, the CEOs of Detroit’s three automakers may end up making their return trip to Washington by car as they seek a federal bailout. The Detroit area’s auto industry, whose livelihood depends on the health FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Your Minneapolis and St. Paul resource to buy and research new cars, used cars, trucks, SUVs and vans sold by auto dealers and private sellers, plus get a dealer quote, find a dealer, get auto coupons, read vehicle reviews and sell your car FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Washington —- Dozens of new cars and trucks, led by Ford Motor Co. and its Volvo subsidiary, made the insurance industry’s annual list of the safest vehicles, helped by the growing adoption of anti-rollover technology. For the 2009 model year FirstChoiceAutoFinder

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Automakers cannot sue to block Rhode Island from enforcing tighter standards on tailpipe emissions first adopted by California because the industry has already lost similar lawsuits elsewhere, a federal judge has ruled. U.S FirstChoiceAutoFinder

GULFPORT — Falling fuel prices and cheaper fares have once again made Thanksgiving the busiest travel holiday of the year, at least in South Mississippi. About 8,000 passengers flew through the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport between Friday FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Of the industrialized Western societies we pay the most for medical care, yet still have 45 million of our citizens outside our for-profit medical care system. I am a capitalist and strongly believe in business making a profit. However, it is not FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Automakers cannot sue to block Rhode Island from enforcing tighter standards on tailpipe emissions first adopted by California because the industry has already lost similar lawsuits elsewhere, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Ernest FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Q You were correct that oils are backward compatible, but at the same time you were wrong that they provide just as good if not better protection for older engines (Motormouth, Oct. 5). Newer oils don’t contain enough zinc to properly protect older FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Richard Gauthier, middle, President and CEO of the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association, speaks during a press conference along with Huw Williams, left, Director of Public Affairs, and Michael Hatch, Chief Economist, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Metro Hyundai Mitsubishi in Jackson closed Thursday under a crush of financial problems and accusations of mismanagement. “We had a bad business partner, a partner gone bad,” said John Taylor, general manager of the dealership. “I haven’t decided FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Mumbai - Despite a slowing car market, German luxury car maker Daimler, which owns the Mercedes badge, will launch six models from the AMG class in India before the end of this month. The models will carry a price tag of Rs 1.25 crore to Rs 3 crore FirstChoiceAutoFinder

TOKYO — Honda Motor Corp. said Friday it will cut production in Japan and Europe by 61,000 vehicles, as it continues to grapple with slowing global demand. The latest cut means Japan’s second-largest automaker will reduce annual production by more FirstChoiceAutoFinder

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) _ Lebanese soldiers clashed with gunmen in a northern port city on Friday, killing one and wounding others, the army said. The latest violence to hit the city of Tripoli began when three gunmen in a car sped through a military FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Friday, November 21, 2008 The Palo Alto-based company Better Place says its network of electric-vehicle charging stations will cover the Bay Area by 2012. In exchange for the investment from Better Place, the mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The Kia Soul is premiered at the Los Angeles Auto show. Small, fuel-efficient cars that would once have been regarded with scorn in the US are now seen as a rare bright spot amid the industry gloom LOS ANGELES: A grim cloud of despair may be FirstChoiceAutoFinder

LIMA (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Friday it expects sales in China to be flat for the next nine months, as the worldwide economic crisis hits the company in its largest market outside of the United States. The U.S.-based automotive maker FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Mayors in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday announced a series of initiatives aimed at making the region the electric vehicle capital of the U.S. by 2012. The cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland will partner with Palo-Alto based FirstChoiceAutoFinder

LOS ANGELES (AP) - With the United States all but certainly in a recession and many skittish consumers hesitant to buy even a cheap compact, it would seem the last thing anyone would need is a $400,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom. But sales of many high-end FirstChoiceAutoFinder

( AOL Autos ) — You don’t have to look too far into the past to find a time when automakers didn’t see car safety as a “selling point.” But over the last 30 years, car safety has become a prime factor in the minds of car buyers. The NHTSA ranks the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Police believe speed and driver inexperience were factors that left two cars carrying four teenagers in a pond in West Windsor. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

SINGAPORE: The COE price for small cars, 1,600cc and below, dived by S$10,453 to a historic low of S$2 in the latest bidding exercise. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Police believe speed and driver inexperience were factors that left two cars carrying four teenagers in a pond in West Windsor. READ MORE >> FirstChoiceAutoFinder

All seems to be set for the staging of a national conference on automobile marketing that is being organised to empower auto dealers in the country. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

With the economy bad and getting worse the latest question is whether we should or shouldn’t bail out the automobile industry. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

An annual projection of US used car prices has shown Honda and Toyota cars have best resale value. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

As car sales continue to plummet across the nation, boatloads of new cars are piling up at the Port of Long Beach. The country’s second largest port is turning into a parking lot. As John Schwada reports thousands of imported cars are sitting idle with no place to call home. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

THE 2009 ACURA TL sedan has so many electronic features, it makes some other luxury cars seem old-fashioned. The new TL can provide Doppler radar maps on an interior display to show where rain and snow showers are, so there’s no need to check weather maps on television. No need to scour travel books to find popular scenic drives, unless you want the details. It can come with a list of scenic … FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Under state law, the cars are classified as “neighborhood electric vehicles,” limited to 25 mph and banned from roads with speed limits over 35 mph. But the Canadian-built hatchbacks are hardly golf carts. FirstChoiceAutoFinder