We actually saw that in a dealership. A girl who bought a new car under new terms for a new color. Her ‘old car’ was a year old…and the same exact model…lol.

Anyway, if you are the type of person who tires of cars I am sure resale value is of importance. We don’t buy our cars with resale in mind. Mostly because not having a car payment is just so much fun.

Maybe….just…maybe…you can grasp freedom of choice.

I would rather have my Hemi give me almost the same gas mileage than that ‘economical’ Honda.

My car looks better, performs better, can store more items in the back. It is all around more functional than that Honda….but you suggest that is what wrong with America?

Snap out of it…lol

Oh and just for good measure…..I haven’t seen any 40 year old Hondas increase their value like a 40 year old Chevy does.

about says it all… you are simply blinded by Hate for The One. Give into the Hate… let it consume you…

Obama wants to let GE build the turbines (big profit) and have the taxpayer pay for the grid. The taxpayer, of course, gets none of the eventual PROFIT from this grid we will build - GE gets it. Its a win-win for GE, and likely was in the works and the sweet deal promised to GE long before the primaries.

Until March of 2008, I watched MSNBC almost exclusively - then for my own sanity and those around me, I had to stop! Russert was on “Morning Joe” every morning. He was on “HardBall” and “Countdown”. He was on Andrea Mitchell and Nora O’Donald’s programs daily. He always had that big smile and very positive. While he didn’t say much negative about Hillary and the others, he said nothing about them. He only talked about and gave BO accolades.

Like Chris Matthews he had a 20-21 year old son that was very wrapped up in the 2008 election and no doubt very proud his Dad had such a huge role. Just hours before Tim’s death, it was reported on MSNBC that the son had called his Dad and asked, “Where are ‘we’ with electoral votes.” Perhaps I am reading into it more than I should, but I would bet money that the son was not asking about Hillary’s electoral vote potential or McCain’s.

Along with hiring and working closely with Andrea Mitchell and Nora O’Donald, Russert also hired Chuck Todd, the political director for NBC, MSNBC. Chuck followed Tim’s lead with daily, hourly appearances plus wrote the FIRST READ Blog, updating it all day long but with numbers to back up his always glowing reports for BO. Once the young AA anchor woman, Tamera said to Todd, my Mom and family live for your reports. To his credit, he said, “that’s scarey.”

When Tim died and during the weekend memorial, Chuck Todd and the election night guy with NBC who has called the winners in every election for years had a conversation about how Russert had predicted the 2000 electoral tie and he was again predicting a tie of 269 to 269 for 2008. Todd said to the election night guy, “now you remember this because we are counting on you to make this happen” - whatever that meant.

Bill O’Reilly said more than a year ago that NBC/MSNBC/GE were simply trying to be the liberal left network competing with right-leaning FoxNews. Even though their ratings have plummeted, they remain on the air. Who knows? Yes, money was burned through like it was $1 bills instead of $million checks for the Obama campaign. We would probably go march in the streets and throw granades if we knew everything that went on. For whatever reason, Tim Russert had one goal in mind for 2008 - nominate and elect BO!

If their only incentive was money, why are they STILL doing it, post election?

My transmission is a Mercedes part and they paid to have the programmer fly over to America and kneecap it. Can’t have those American cars beating the Germans on their Autobahn….I guess.

So I wonder. Is this yet another European kneecapping….forcing Fiat on Chrysler?

Chrysler is like an ugly daughter: if you don’t want to keep feeding her until you die, you might consider sending her off to Welding School. Welders wear those masks, doncha know.

Daimler essential PAID Cerberus to take that loser off their hands.

Do you know who is on this so-called Auto Task Force?

There are about 20 members and except for two, NONE have ever run a company. They are all career government advisors, cabinet secretaries, and academic economists.

The only two “corporate” people are Ron Bloom and Steve Rattner. Rattner is a billionaire investment banker ( and heavy contributor to Obama) and Bloom is United Steel Workers Union advisor.

There is not a single person out of these 20 that has a shred of automotive industry experience and, as I said, like Obama nearly all have never run company or a department of a company.

Anyone who has had business relationships in Eastern Europe will recognize this model because it was last used in the U.S.S.R. where companies were run by managers selected by government bureaucrats based on their political loyalty.

While I’m all for free market capitalism and the private management of private business, maybe a line needs to be drawn when it comes to hijacking. That happened with AIG and the Wall Street banks, and it looks like the same deal at GM. There’s an obvious pattern of high-level management becoming enormously enriched while the companies they manage are simultaneously reduced to total ruin. Is that supposed to be part of free market capitalism?

There are always cleverly contrived, pre-existing escape plans in place. Wagoner, for example, will be denied severance pay under the provisions of the previous bailout. But he’s got a contractual retirement plan with GM that will pay him another $20 million on his way out the door.

How is the government supposed to respond to the wreckage these people are leaving in their wake? Should Wagoner have been allowed to remain in charge, when a couple of million jobs are at risk?

BEWARE!