automakers

Ah, the irony and/or hypocrisy (take your pick)... Obama's 850-mile pizza run http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gqW0jeBmxn9ncFJTUwcQ_6duivTAD97FQ5I80

looks like SAIC will buy assets from GM and Chrysler. good or bad?:wrench:

A greener version of the sleek Lamborghini Gallardo and a European debut for Nissan's luxury Infiniti brand were bright spots amid the gloom as automakers faced a slowing market at the Geneva auto show on Tuesday. More...

You can put all the whiz bang you want in the car, but if the car sucks, it still sucks. And every option that adds cost to the car makes the car less attractive.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/20/news/companies/suit_automakers.reut/index.htm?postversion=2006092013 So my question is, who's suing California and it's cities for the poor planning that caused their dependance on cars in the first place. :crazy:

They just make their customers look like dipshits (which may be true in many cases...but still). First there were the annoying On Star ads for GM products: Customer: "Hi, I've looked myself inside the car and I don't know what to do" On Star: "Calm down, mam, I can help..."...

especially those German and Scandinavian automakers. They seem to make some of the nicest, classiest cars on the road. My last trip to Europe, I swear every car I saw just seemed so well made (quite unlike our lovely american counterparts GM, Ford, etc...). Maybe it's because I don't see them...

Automakers to give diagnostic codes to repair shops Tom Ford Star Tribune Washington Bureau Correspondent Published Sep 27, 2002 CAR27 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Dale Feste, owner of an independent automobile repair shop in Hopkins, said that two or three times each month he couldn't fix a...