In an odd turn of events, a David Brooks column that I almost completely agree with : There are many experts who think that the whole restructuring strategy is misbegotten. These experts think that costs are not the real problem. The real problem is the product. The cars are not good enough. The management is insular. The reputation is fatally damaged. But if you are in the restructuring business, you can’t let these stray thoughts get in the way of your restructuring. After all, rest

The U.S. government is making certain that Toyotawill be the No.1 car company in America

President Barack Obama wants to know what he has to do to put more Americans in a new car.

Over the past two and a half years, this crusade has been able to reach tens of thousands of people. I was recently reflecting on the top things that I see most commonly lacking in folks’ financial plans. So here are the top five things I see lacking. Part Two A plan to get out of debt How much money do you send to lenders every single month? Think about that for a minute. Add up the payments. The house payment. The student loan payment. The car payment. The other car payment.

Obama hopes incentives for consumers will help keep GM and Chrysler alive The federal government wants to put the auto industry back on the road and consumers in the driver’s seat — and now is even willing to make sure you keep that new car running, as long as you buy American.

Not too long ago I wrote a post asking whether PF blog readers were looking for perfection or honesty? Just from the few comments I received it seems readers say they value honesty more than perfection. Which is good news for us bloggers because it’s a lot easier to be honest than perfect. We got to see this same question answered on a larger scale when Trent @ The Simple Dollar wrote about buying a new car, a 2009 Prius . And while quite a few comments admired Trent’s honesty it loo

Welcome to the March edition of The Family Life Blog Carnival- Part 2 (you can find Part 1 here ). As stated in Part 1, there are well over 100 again, so we decided to publish the March edition in installments. Because the majority of the submissions were about Finance & Money , we’ve decided to put those at the end of this post. Most of the articles mentioned in our blog carnivals provide useful and/or entertaining information but occasionally there might be an article where a certain d

and see part of the problem with gm’s problems. and it’s not necessarily about the cars. from march 2, 2007 - salon.com back at the dawn of the automobile era, banks generally refused to loan money for such things as buying a car. it wasn’t considered prudent. this was frustrating to companies such as general motors, which naturally wanted as many people as possible to have the wherewithal to purchase cadillacs and oldsmobiles and pontiacs and chevrolets. so gm decided to solve the problem by

So, it seems, the Obama Administration is going into “Good Cop/Bad Cop” mode, under a dangling light bulb, whacking General Motors and Chrysler with telephone books, while lounging around with, giving coffee and smokes, to the Fat Cat Greed Heads on Wall Street. They sent a Clemenza-like character to Detroit and the word back from the trip is “Oh, Rick Wagoner , you won’t see him no more,” And the Fat Cat Greed Heads of Wall Street are probably thumbing through their Blackb

Car cloning is simply id theft on a vehicle. Thieves use it to fool you and the DMV that a car is legitimate, until the DMV figures it out. Then you’re out your car and your money.