As many luxury and performance cars get older their prices drop as their warranties disappear and they become increasingly expensive to maintain. Many times these vehicles seem like unbelievable deals until you begin to take into account how much money you will end up paying for the parts and labor to maintain and…
2009 Barrett-Jackson Auction Scottsdale: Eight Highest-Priced Cars…
The big Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale's going on right now and we're already into the fourth day of hot gavel action
Maybe Same-Sex Couples Won't Notice The Subaru Tribeca's Face!
Back before Subaru revised the Tribeca's grille for the '08 model year
Report: Imperial to Be New Chrysler Flagship, For Real
A couple of months ago, we heard from Wards that the Imperial was to be the bellwether in Chrysler's dramatic march upmarket. All seemed lost when the company split from the Daimler bunch. But now, according to Autocar, the project is still a go, despite that Chrysler will soon be of the three-headed devil dog…
Oh, What A Feeling — Of Toyota Making Almost $14 Billion In 2006!
Just to give you an idea of how much money we're talking about here (in case you can't wrap your mind around ¥1.64 trillion — $13.7 billion — in profits off of ¥23.94 trillion — $199.5 billion — in net revenues ) when I used to work for the State of Michigan, I remember the state's general fund operating budget was…
Breaking! GM Finally Releases 2006 Financial Results Showing Profits…
Oooh, look, the General's finally decided to tell us whether they made any money last year, dropping their restated earnings out in the wee light of this March morning. Let's find out if they...hmm...ok...looks like they made $2.2 billion in 2006 on revenues of $207 billion. Good for them. It's not what I'd call the…
FoMoCo FUBAR! Ford Earnings Call Live-Blog!
Well, the gang's all here for a FoMoCo earnings conference call this morning that I expect to be lossgastic. We're expecting to hear from Alan "New Guy" Mulally, the man-with-a-plan hired in September to captain this plane with an engine fireFrench Puff Pastry…
Breaking The Bank! Ford Leaks Money Like A Sieve In 2006, Reports Net…
The big press conference call isn't until 9:00 AM, so you're just going to have to suck it up and take what we know from the press release we've got in hand straight out of the glass house in Dearborn. What we know is FoMoCo is reporting a fourth-quarter loss of $5.8 billion dollars, pegging the 2006 full-year net loss …
American Suzuki is 23% More Better in 2006
We see a lot of press releases around here saying Company X's sales are up or down 3% this past year. But rarely do we read about double digit jumps. And even when we do, they are not this high. ASMC (American Suzuki Motors Corporation) just announced that they sold 23% more rides in 2006 than they did in 2005. In…
