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Wow! The new car inventory at the local (Bremerton) Toyota, Nissan, and Honda dealerships has been decimated. Down maybe 70% to 80%. Three weeks ago their lots were maxed out. Now there are empty expanses of asphalt where new cars used to be parked.…
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Markor wrote: Smart choice. A typical fed gov't job probably beats the majority of private sector jobs, when the pension and health care is factored in. . It's all relative to the times. During the '80's thru early '90's I've been told that …
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David, I am debt free. As I work for the federal government, I have been contributing to a "mandatory" pension plan. I have a very boring investment portfolio, almost guaranteed zero loss with minimal return. I will not ever own a million dollar…
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. Twenty four more bank failures during the month of July. . Tracking the Nations Bank failures .
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FreedomLover wrote: ......So in addition to $50K monster truck, a person should own a tiny little Smart-car for picking up bread. Better yet a scooter to satisfy you..... The only choices are monster truck, Smart-Car, or a scooter? Hmmmm.
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. The Killer App for Clunkers Breathes Fresh Life Into 'Liquid Glass'
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WestSideBilly wrote: ...The F-series has been the number 1 seller for roughly 25 years, continuous, Chevy/GMC's equivalent has been #2. Work trucks, ranch/farm trucks, tow vehicles, etc account for a lot of the volume of vehicles sold. Many are …
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S-Crow, I totally agree that the sales spike with new cars right now is short term. Like you imply, it's due to the "I better get it before it's all gone" mentality that is being stoked by dealers. It's remarkably similar to the "I better buy a h…
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I just showed this thread to the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) consideration in my household. She told me that she doesn't appreciate some of the comments because they don't agree with her opinions. . What is with that independent thinking thing an…
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. We like our '93 Explorer too much to treat it with such disrespect...... . WHERE DID ALL THE CLUNKERS GO? . VIDEO . FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) – Car dealers say the federal "cash for clunkers" program is a huge success, but wha…
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A couple of MotorTrend articles are linked below. They provide details on July 2009 vehicle sales and other related info. It appears Ford is back in the black for now (Go Ford!). Hidden in the obfuscated percentage quotations and despite the CARS P…
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The program will be very tempting to those families that have an older second or third vehicle that qualifies. . FWIW, I just read that the best selling vehicle in the U.S. for the month of July 2009 was the F-Series Ford pick-up, which is hardly …
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Mish and Edmunds.com have a point. My personal situation is that we don't need or even really want a new car, right now. The reason I was drawn to investigate the program was because of the "free money". Who am I to criticize the government if it wa…
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. KIRO 7 News Video: . Cash for Clunkers Running on Empty . I like the the suggestion to do "Cash for Cluckers". A chicken in every pot type thing (watch the video)..... .
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. "Cash for Clunkers" Suspended for now? . The government plans to suspend its popular "cash for clunkers" program amid concerns it could quickly use up the $1 billion in rebates for new car purchases, congressional officials said Thursday. . T…
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We checked out the Escape. There were like a total of four customers on the lot when we were there and we were two of the four. They had one, a grand total of one single solitary Escape on the lot, and of course they could not sell it to me for $13K…
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Markor wrote: Doesn't this CARS program apply to Toyotas too? I'm renting a Camry now. Superb vehicle for the price. . The CARS program does apply to Toyotas also. . We are going to look at a new 2009 Ford Escape today. The dealer is adver…
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. In an attempt to steer this thread back to something vaguely related to the "Economy" and the original topic.......... . A CBS news broadcast video is linked below. It's about the difficulty of qualifying for the "Cash for Clunkers" program. .…
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. Yes, this thread does tend to wander way off topic, in an effort to rectify this : . People, the picture of the car linked below will not qualify for the "Cash for Clunkers" program; . Porsche Long Tail Coupe . The thing about aerodynamical…
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deejayoh wrote: Did anyone else see this on Paul Kedrosky's blog - Honda Accord, then and now? DJO- . Thanks for posting those graphs. I had an '85 Accord hatchback. It was fun to drive and the most practical / economical car I have ever …
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I think I read someplace that the Boeing 747 has 4 or 5 redundant hydraulic systems, routed differently thruout the airplane. The hydraulic systems are critical for control of the aircraft and the consequences of failure of control could be catastro…
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. Wikipedia definition of Overengineering The average thickness of the pavement in the American freeway system is 11 inches. According to various sources, the German autobahn is constructed with a thickness of 27 inches. It is a lot more expensi…
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softwarengineer wrote: ......aren't we giving out American debt to sustain Japan instead of just our own country? Wake up and smell the coffee, the Japanese would tell us...LOL That's not the whole story. Honda has 3 assembly plants in t…
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WestSideBilly, Good analysis and I am pretty much in agreement. Manual crank windows do malfunction. I had a '69 Karman Ghia where the mechanism jammed up because the window became misaligned and I actually partially stripped the splines on th…
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. I don't agree with Michele Singletary very often, but I think she's got this one mostly right. . Cash for Clunkers' Is a Clunker of a Law . If you have a clunker that's also a gas guzzler, the federal government wants you to trade in the car …
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. Anyway........ . We made the mistake of telling a few car sales-people that we may be interested in taking advantage of the cash-for-clunkers program. We don't answer the phone anymore. It seems that we had better put a deposit down on the car …
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: First, thank you WestSideBilly for another voice of reason. Second... WestSideBilly wrote: First - power windows are actually a bit cheaper and also lighter than hand cranks. That wasn't true 10 years ago, but it…
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PublicEnemy#1 wrote: .....It would be my fault for being on the freeway when an idiot like yourself was text messaging. If I wasn't on the freeway, I wouldn't have been sideswiped by you. How can it possibly be your fault that I was on the fre…
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I'm a mechanical engineer by profession and the "old school" mandate with respect to new projects was the KISS principle. KISS meaning "Keep It Simple Stupid". The thinking was that with each additional increment of complexity you sacrificed some re…
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RCC and The Tim, I understand what you are saying. I get it. Those who were already acting responsibly with respect to non-renewable resources / environmental concerns, can't take advantage of the program, even if they wanted to. .