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Ken Livingstone is Mayor of London no more! {Autoblog}
May 3rd 2008 10:43AM "If you pay off the CC each month, it's little more than a way to get points for purchases." - youfacethetick
Unfortunately, most folks don't have that kind of discipline. Sort of like flossing every day. If you have them (credit cards or teeth), it's what you should be doing, but most people don't.
Still - good news that Red Ken is out of office. Too bad for Americans that so many of his spiritual brethren hold public office here in the U.S.
In the ABG Garage: 2008 Chevy Tahoe Two-Mode Hybrid {Autoblog}
Apr 5th 2008 1:05AM So everyone else driving next to you on the highway knows how "green" you are. Either that, or to try and keep ELF terrorists from torching them on the dealer lots.
Chrysler cancels life insurance for non-union, white-collar retirees {Autoblog}
Apr 2nd 2008 9:30AM I agree. I am not retired, and the company-paid life insurance my employer offers would be important to my family should something happen to me. By the time I am retired in 30 years or so, not so much.
The post doesn't mention, but I will guess the insurance is a term policy that does not accumulate cash value, because the premiums are much lower. You can't use that for anything but the death benefits (i.e. collateral for a loan, etc). I rather doubt that there are a large number of white-collar retirees from Chrysler with a critical need for a free $50,000.00 term-life policy. I'd rather have the pension increase - especially since I, like most CURRENT white-collar workers, won't get a defined-benefit pension. Save the extra 4k. If you live 12 more years (and if you retire at 65 after 2003, you probably will), it will amount to more than $50,000.00 by then.
Microsoft ready to expand beyond Ford SYNC {Autoblog}
Feb 20th 2008 11:05PM If SYNC updates while you are driving, will the car slow down to a crawl, then force you to pull over and restart after the download installs?
PSA: Evenflo recalls 1,000,000 Discovery car seats {Autoblog}
Feb 8th 2008 11:22PM I assume the roadways are equally crazy for the parents & children in the cars as they are for the buses. So, the potentially busted car-seats are equivalent to the presumably fully functional school buses? Is that a valid comparison?
New "Ease of Use" child seat rating system unveiled by feds {Autoblog}
Feb 2nd 2008 2:39PM They probably know, but don't care.
Cesare - I am not ruling out the possibility that the car-seat manufacturers are behind the more ridiculous car-seat laws - in fact, they are probably loving life right now. Don't forget the Safety-Nazis, the nanny-state busybodies, and the "child-advocacy" nutjobs who have squawked and squalled until the know-nothing criminals in the various legislatures inflict these laws on us "for the children."
In case you're wondering, I just finished (just a few minutes ago, really), installing ANOTHER of the latest nightmare from Evenflo for the 18 month-old, because the 'gubmint' says I can't take the older kid out of her seat until she is 5. At least they are throwing us a bone by warning us about which ones are hard to install, and which are really hard to install, and which are are REALLY REALLY hard to install.
Ford to invest $209m in South Africa for new Ranger pickup {Autoblog}
Feb 1st 2008 12:08AM I have commented several times on this board that I own a '93 Ranger. Good, solid truck, used to be my daily driver, still does does what I need it to do. I would love to be able to replace it with a shiny new Ranger one of these days, but Ford keeps sticking out that same tired
re-hash of a truck that was last updated almost 10 years ago. Practically the only change since 2000 has been a succession of uglier and uglier freshenings of the grille. That's no way to reward brand loyalty.
Ford sold more than 300,000 Rangers in 2000. Think they could sell somewhere close to that if they brought over this truck with the 3.0L turbodiesel and decent brakes? With gas at $3.00/gallon? I guess next time I will have to look at Nissan - that's the only compact truck left that has any appeal for me.
FPV F6X launches in Australia {Autoblog}
Jan 31st 2008 1:23AM If our Freestyle had the good stuff that the FPV has, my wife wouldn't get a chance to drive it. "C'mon, kids! Daddy wants to take you to school! I don't care if it's Saturday! Get in the car! And put on your helmets!"
It's a shame Ford got so many things right on the Freestyle - room, excellent driving position, capable handling - and just completely screwed the pooch on the engine and drivetrain. Now we get to look at the FPV and see that at least in Australia, they can get it right when they want.
Whoops, eh? - Canadian Ford ad spurs backlash {Autoblog}
Jan 21st 2008 10:35AM Not to mention the booming zeppelin-based air travel business. :-)
Whoops, eh? - Canadian Ford ad spurs backlash {Autoblog}
Jan 21st 2008 10:02AM 'Too far. I thank god every day I don't live in the states.' - namegoeshere
If I can presume to answer for the rest of my countrymen, so do we, pal.
