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Not only do Henry Paulson and his buddies have a big TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), but it appears they may be getting less and less selective about exactly what kind of companies can seek shelter under it. I recently caught word that insurers FirstChoiceAutoFinder

VINTON, La. — Doug Guidry gave up drag racing and boating last summer when gasoline prices shot up. Billy Castaneda put off trips to Houston to see his grandchildren. Randal Shul stopped playing paintball with his buddies to save gas. Now, with FirstChoiceAutoFinder

TAMPA | Tampa’s Ernie Haire Ford was ordered to pay at least $6.9-million to resolve a long-standing class-action lawsuit for charging thousands of customers to etch a car’s vehicle identification number on windshields. Founded in 1956, the family FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — In the third quarter of 2007, Volvo AB booked 41,970 European orders for new trucks. Guess how many prospective purchases Volvo, the world’s second-biggest maker of heavy rigs, received in the third quarter of this year? Here’s FirstChoiceAutoFinder

NASA’s new prototype for a future moon truck is proving to be the ultimate lunar RV, allowing astronauts to take extended road trips without the constant drag of bulky spacesuits. A terrestrial version of the Small Pressurized Rover , which can go FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Beijing, Oct 29, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co. plans to recall 83,406 cars starting Monday due to defects in transmission systems, the Chinese government said Wednesday. China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision FirstChoiceAutoFinder

IF your shattered share portfolio has left you a little dispirited, here’s an investment opportunity almost guaranteed to produce solid returns in the bleak months ahead - beer. A 30-year study of Australian beer sales tracked against the Westpac FirstChoiceAutoFinder

This is the first of two articles on the intersection of public transit, urbanism and architecture on next week’s ballot. There is a pedestrian path — maintained, if that is not too generous a word, by the city of Los Angeles — near my house in FirstChoiceAutoFinder

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota state chemist whose name was drawn from a hat has pressed a button today to demolish the old Liberty Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River. The span was the first to carry cars across the Missouri. It was built in FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Independent stations offered petrol happy hour Joined forces to fight retail giants Nationwide : Find cheap petrol where you live Special feature : Fuelwatch around the country THE battle against major oil companies has spread, with independent FirstChoiceAutoFinder

If you have a spare $250,000 or even $2 million, think automobile. The ultra-luxury marques (at those prices the word is marque, not “brand”) are expanding. Marques that once built only exotic coupes and roadsters, such as Aston Martin, Lamborghini FirstChoiceAutoFinder

TOKYO/DETROIT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) has not asked Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) for help in turning around its business, a source FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Lisa Edwards, special to The Oregonian Century High School students (from left) Ryan Andrews, Miranda Matthews, Jessica Naranjo, Sami Hodge and Alexis Chan decorated Matthews’ car before the Oct. 17 homecoming football game between Century and FirstChoiceAutoFinder

A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is making a $230 million investment in a Chinese battery company that’s developing environmentally-friendly cars to be sold around the world. In a news release , Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy FirstChoiceAutoFinder

NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of rental car companies remained mixed on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut the fed funds rate by a half point, as many investors had expected. The troubled economy has taken a toll on rental car companies, which have FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Campaigns abandon bumper stickers - Detroit News
It used to be that nothing helped build a campaign from the grassroots like a bumper sticker. The plastic-coated adhesive decal was the single most cost effective form of political advertising and expression available across the country. Like the

Opinion: The Land of Eco-Opportunity - CNN Money
( gigaom.com ) — How America can revamp its energy infrastructure, recharge its economy and reshape its future by embracing three major green initiatives. The financial meltdown has rattled the U.S. banking system to its core. The unprecedented

Loan move for European carmakers - Financial Times
European carmakers could get up to €40bn ($52bn, £31bn) in “soft loans” from the European Investment Bank to the industry to help develop more fuel-efficient technologies, a top EU official said on Wednesday. Günter Verheugen, industry

BEIJING, Oct. 28 — Porsche SE, maker of the 911 sports car, plans to raise its holding in Volkswagen AG to 75 percent next year and outlined steps for reaching that goal in a way meant to reduce the stock’s volatility in the past two months. Porsche FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Railroads and trucking companies told very different stories in their third-quarter earnings reports, as rails continued fetch higher prices and truckers dealt with weak pricing and slumping demand. But both were helped by a drop-off in the price of FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Your Minneapolis and St. Paul resource to buy and research new cars, used cars, trucks, SUVs and vans sold by auto dealers and private sellers, plus get a dealer quote, find a dealer, get auto coupons, read vehicle reviews and sell your car FirstChoiceAutoFinder

CLEARWATER — For the first time, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is coming to Clearwater. And when it arrives Wednesday afternoon, it’ll be accompanied through the Tampa Bay area by a motorcade of 500 motorcycles. The Vietnam Traveling FirstChoiceAutoFinder

GROVE CITY, Ohio (AP) — Trash is being turned into gas near a landfill outside Columbus, where officials hope the cheap fuel — made from the methane that’s naturally given off by rotting garbage — will eventually be used in local buses and FirstChoiceAutoFinder

People in tiny Strathmere were busy stacking 50-pound sandbags on the perimeter of their multi-million-dollar properties as township officials scrambled to reinforce 1,000 feet of seawall with boulders the size of Mini Cooper cars FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Cadillac has been the limousine of choice for several American presidential terms now. The incumbent, new in 2006, is a sinister high-top monster based on an SUV chassis by armoured vehicle specialist Centigon (owned at the time by British Aerospace FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Strange things are happening in Japan’s domestic auto market. Despite a glut of models and Japan’s economic recovery, regular car sales are still slumping—down 6.2% in October, the sixteenth consecutive year-on-year monthly decline. But perhaps FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Traffic congestion on Delhi’s roads continued on Sunday thanks to the pre-Diwali rush. As people went around distributing gifts and visiting markets, traffic flow remained torturously slow in many parts of the Capital. “The traffic was very slow FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Carl Edwards passed Denny Hamlin on a late restart, then held on to win Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway to keep his championship hopes alive. But his seventh win of the season barely dented Jimmie Johnson’s points lead. Johnson had a rough start to FirstChoiceAutoFinder

If John McCain wins next month’s election, the United States will have its first president who began life in the Panama Canal Zone. But is there anyone else born outside the 50 states who’s risen to the nation’s highest office? A reader’s curiosity FirstChoiceAutoFinder

MANTECA, Calif. — As the classified ads put it, everything must go. Socks. Christmas ornaments. Microwave ovens. Three-year-old Marita Duarte’s tricycle was sold by her mother, Beatriz, to a stranger for $3 even as her daughter was riding it FirstChoiceAutoFinder

What to do when wanting to make a right turn at a stoplight with a red arrow pointing to the right? My thought was that a red arrow is pretty self-explanatory and that I couldn’t make a turn, even if the coast was clear. This proved to be an FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Things went well for Denny Hamlin at Martinsville. He’s hoping that continues into Atlanta and on to Texas. It felt good to get back to Martinsville last weekend and run well. Earlier in the season, Martinsville helped get us pointed in the right FirstChoiceAutoFinder

SURFERS PARADISE, Australia — Will Power won his third straight Indy 300 pole position Saturday, overtaking Scott Dixon with seconds left in qualifying. The Team Australia driver had a time of 1 minute, 34.9451 on his final lap on the 2.8-mile, 14 FirstChoiceAutoFinder

In the beginning, the TV picture was small and fuzzy and black-and-white. Looking good was not the medium’s main concern — to be seen at all was the point. The production values of “The Honeymooners,” one of the funniest shows television has ever FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Which new cars and trucks are the best? - CNW Group
AJAC DECLARES THE BEST FOR 2009 IN 14 CATEGORIES NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON, Oct. 24 /CNW/ - After five days of intense testing, the 2009 “Best New” AJAC award winners in 14 different vehicle categories were announced today, October 24, 2008, by the

Volvo, Scania Miss Profit Estimates, Curtail Truck Production - Bloomberg
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Volvo AB , the world’s second-largest maker of heavy trucks, and Scania AB reported lower-than- anticipated earnings and said they’ll cut production after industrywide European sales fell for a fifth straight month. Volvo

Toyota sees rare drop in quarterly sales - Financial Times
Toyota has suffered its first quarterly sales decline since the months after the September, 2001 terrorist attacks, underscoring Japanese carmakers’ growing vulnerability to the worldwide motor industry slump. The rare drop for Japan’s top

WRAPUP 3-Swedish truck makers hit as Europe slams on brakes - Forbes
STOCKHOLM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Sweden’s two top-flight truck makers Volvo and Scania posted lower-than-expected third-quarter pretax earnings on Friday and painted a bleak picture of truck markets hit by the global financial crisis. Order intake at

New Catalogue “Engine Cooling Passenger Cars And Light Trucks 2008/09 - The Auto Chanel
SCHWABISH HALL – October 24, 2008: The new catalogue from Behr Hella Service, which will be launched in November 2008, contains information on more than 1,800 products for passenger-car and light-truck engine cooling. Its 576 pages include

Ford called most reliable of U.S.-brand cars, trucks - Detroit Free Press
Ford Motor Co. builds the most reliable American-brand cars and trucks. So said Consumer Reports, in its respected Annual Car Reliability Survey, which was released Thursday during an Automotive Press Association luncheon in downtown Detroit. “Ford

Volvo, Scania Miss Profit Estimates, Cut Truck Output (Update1) - Bloomberg
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Volvo AB , the second-largest maker of heavy trucks, and Scania AB reported lower-than- anticipated earnings and said they’ll cut production after industrywide European sales fell for a fifth straight month. Volvo and Scania

Volvo trucks reports profit slump, issues warning - Hindustan Times
Swedish truck maker Volvo reported a 36.5-per cent net profit slump in the third quarter on Friday, and cut market growth forecasts for this year, saying that orders had fallen 55 per cent for two quarters running. The company said demand for heavy

Steve McQueen won’t be the only Hollywood bad boy whose stuff is being sold at an auction Saturday in Los Angeles. Add Bruce Willis to the list of spotlight sellers, and he’s bringing a lineup of cars sure to make enthusiasts drool. Four of the cars FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Toyota Motor Co.’s Scion brand tops the list of most reliable cars in Consumer Reports’ annual vehicle reliability study, as Asian automakers continue to fill the top of the magazine’s rankings. Ford Motor Co. ’s reliability increased this year and FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The Assets Forfeiture Unit is seizing assets worth R47-million from three people who allegedly stole money meant for a medical scheme, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Friday. The assets included properties and luxury vehicles such as FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Ford Motor Co. builds the most reliable American-brand cars and trucks. So said Consumer Reports, in its respected Annual Car Reliability Survey, which was released Thursday during an Automotive Press Association luncheon in downtown Detroit. “Ford FirstChoiceAutoFinder

AJAC DECLARES THE BEST FOR 2009 IN 14 CATEGORIES NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON, Oct. 24 /CNW/ - After five days of intense testing, the 2009 “Best New” AJAC award winners in 14 different vehicle categories were announced today, October 24, 2008, by the FirstChoiceAutoFinder