27 vehicles make Top Safety Picks list
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has come out with its annual list of Top Safety Picks. Eight SUVs and 19 cars have been given Top Safety Pick awards for 2010. People who want to make sure they’re getting the safest cars before filling [...]
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 by
Elizabeth Fairchild
Car Buying in a Recession
If consumers are in the need of a car, this may be the right time to use credit cards to do it. Most dealerships have huge inventories and no way to get rid of them. The recession has put auto dealers in difficult positions, since most [...]
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 by
Tito Ioane
United Auto Workers vote on changes
Unionized workers at Ford voted on changes to their contract, including cutting cost-of-living increases, reducing benefits and eliminating cash bonuses.
The company says the move will help it to stay competitive. According to the UAW, 59 percent of production workers and 58 percent of skilled-trades workers voted [...]
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 by
Elizabeth Fairchild
Ford still doesn’t need Obama’s payday loans
Payday loans of the gargantuan sort may or may not be enough to fix the trouble that America’s automobile industry is facing. It is no stretch of the truth to say that the automakers are responsible for the mess they’ve made, and most have [...]
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 by
Steven Tarlow
Ford tough, but for how long?
Your payday loan source admires the spirit Ford is showing.
In the aftermath of the recent automobile industry bailout, Nick Bunkley of the New York Times reports that Ford suffered their worst sales year ever in 2008. They lost $14.6 billion, yet they did not take [...]
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 by
Steven Tarlow
In a late vote Wednesday night, the United States House of Representatives approved a $14 billion bailout for the Big 3 auto makers. Even large corporations have a way to get payday loans, even if it is from the government. The Big 3 American auto makers, Chrysler, General Motors, and [...]
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 by
Niki Hansberry
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Let Our Voices Be Heard!
As Americans, it is our fundamental right to have our voices heard; this includes what we have to say about the auto bailout and our access to payday loans. Americans care about the auto bailout because it has everything to do with our tax money. Budgets [...]
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 by
Niki Hansberry