Ponderings

Volkswagen to beat Toyota? Not in this life

Wendelin Wiedeking, that’s King Porsche in case you didn’t know, whose company owns a little more than 27% of Volkswagen, is a bit delusional. He recently made a statement saying that he sees Volkswagen taking on Toyota – yes, he actually said that statement. Since Mr. Wiedeking didn’t elaborate much, let’s dig a little deeper [...]

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Chrysler on the rocks?

For quite some time, the focus of Detroit’s troubled present and future has been on Ford and GM – and rightfully so. They’re the 2 largest domestic automakers, and besides – Chrysler was taken over by merged with Daimler-Benz, so they have a German sugar daddy to take care of them. All along, I’ve been [...]

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Teenage boy killed by angry SUV driver

A 14 year boy was shot and killed by an as-yet unidentified SUV driver.  The boy was standing on the side of the road with a few friends, throwing eggs at passing cars.  After an SUV was hit, the driver stopped and fired at the boy, fatally wounding him.  He then fled the scene in [...]

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Why do you need three rows?

More and more often, we keep seeing midsize and event ‘compact’ SUV’s cram in a third row. When Ford added a third row to the Explorer, I asked why? They had the Expedition for large families. But ok, no big deal. Then Nissan added a standard third row to the Pathfinder. I questioned this big [...]

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2007 Tundra – A hit?

A post over at Cars! Cars! Cars! caught my attention – it’s about the new 2007 Toyota Tundra. Toyota is hoping to move 200k of these hulking beasts this year – an optimistic number, considering they managed to move just 126k Tundras in 05, and 100k so far this year. The author over there doesn’t [...]

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Is Honda the true juggernaut in the auto world?

All we’ve been hearing for years is Toyota this, Toyota that. Toyota will beat out GM as the world’s #1 automaker, then they’ll probably take over the world. Quite frankly, I’m sick of hearing about Toyota. Toyota has had numerous quality problems as of late, and if they continue, they could permanently harm Toyota’s “bulletproof” [...]

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