Car Czar Consulting says: The video below captures it all. May God Bless America. Spread the Word: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Buzz This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post
Car Czar Consulting says: Due to the phenomenal growth and success the Xtreme Fighting Championships has experienced in the US, XFC President John Prisco is taking three XFC title holders to Port Cratos at Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus to deliver one of the most exciting mixed martial arts fight cards ever for a global audience on Oct. 9. “We are ecstatic to build our brand in Cyprus and the surrounding area and plan on delivering a quality show there like...
Car Czar Consulting says: Who would buy such a vehicle? The feel-good economies of eco-friendliness aside, “where’s the beef?” This is why, given a choice, we think we’ll like the Nissan Leaf (below). Spread the Word: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Buzz This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post
Car Czar Consulting says: Dealers need easy to understand and employ solutions to ramp up sales of new, used and fixed ops. We were pleased Jim Lawrence, President, DealerTimeOff.com could make some time this week to demo EmailFX’s exciting new and easy to employ email template solution. Jim can be reached at jim@dealertimeoff.com or 503-318-3621. To learn more, go to http://www.emailfx.com/dealer-efx-home.html or view the video below at the page bottom. DETAILS In a matter of moments it can expand...
Car Czar Consulting says: Deficits prompts a US tax “scavenger” hunt. Guess who and what’s being hunted? $1.4 trillion US federal deficit prompts “scavenger hunt” 04/23/2010, JT Young, With a $1.4 trillion federal deficit last year, the scavenger hunt for new revenue is on in earnest. Budget pressures will only increase and the people who should be most worried are not the people already paying the most, but those representing new revenues to reap. The budget situation is projected...
Car Czar Consulting says: Oh please, the GM Bailout was a failure, and no, the Taxpayer hasn’t made money Apr. 22, 2010, BusinessInsider, GM repaid $6.7 billion in US loans and another $1.4 billion in Canadian government loans. So where does that leave GM? Let’s take a look. Please consider Gas in the tank: GM repays $8.1B in gov’t loans: Fallen giant General Motors Co. accelerated toward recovery Wednesday, announcing the repayment of $8.1 billion in U.S. and Canadian...
Car Czar Consulting says: The Tea Party has picked up where Reagan left off. Opposing views welcomed. America’s Constitutional Revolt April 22, 2010, Larry Kudlow So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. We know that this is a decentralized grassroots movement, with many different voices hailing from many different towns across the country. But the tea-party message comes...
Car Czar Consulting says: Wayne Carroll opines again below. Opposing views welcomed. Peace in our time? (Noel Chamberlain of the British Labor Party, 1939)…I know that “Bibi” Netenyahu and Israel knows better than Chamberlain that you can’t appease a bunch of psychotics; malignant with their world view of death and dark hatreds, whether they are National Socialists or Radical Islamists. They are one in the same. Further, I don’t believe that this American President has any such notion or understanding of these things. Too...
Car Czar Consulting says: How the times have changed. Social media is key! Wikipedia, Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues. They support the democratization of knowledge and information and transform people from content consumers to content producers. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as “a group of Internet-based applications that...
Car Czar Consulting says: A Tale of Two Cities 2010 Low-Tax Texas Beats Big-Government California Michale Barone, April 9, 2010, “Stop messing with Texas!” That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas’ anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well as Texas politics and addressed to Democratic politicians as well...
Car Czar Consulting says: This does not sound good. Beware of a Value Added Tax 04/09/2010, Mtt Hadro, White House economic adviser Paul Volcker’s suggestion that Congress enact a “value added tax” (VAT) has spurred outrage from conservatives, led the White House to distance itself from his comments, and furthered speculation that a VAT may well be in the cards as soon as this fall. The Heritage Foundation describes the VAT, already used in the European Union, as “similar...
Car Czar Consulting says: Buyer and Dealer Beware! N.Y. car dealer ordered to pay restitution POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has obtained a judgment against the former owner of a Poughkeepsie car dealership who sold consumers vehicles that had allegedly been used as rental cars. Raymond M. Wilkinson III, the former owner of Pougkeepsie Chevrolet is required by the judgment to pay $225,269.47 in restitution to consumers who were sold previously used rental...
Car Czar Consulting says: This apple continues to grow profitably by providing consumer features. Apple iPhone to soon get long-sought multitasking; Apple will update iPhones, iPads to run more than 1 program at once; feature long sought CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices will soon be able to run more than one program at a time, an ability that phones from Apple’s rivals already offer and that iPhone owners have long sought. The changes, coming...
Car Czar Consulting says: “So sorry,” Saga Continues, Part Deux. Europeans warned of Toyota pedals well before US April 2, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before Toyota told U.S. regulators about sticking accelerator pedals, the Japanese automaker warned its distributors throughout Europe about similar problems, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. Concerns about sticking gas pedals and complaints from Toyota owners in the U.S. were rising at the end of 2009. The documents show that weeks earlier, on...
Car Czar Consulting says: “…Renault and Nissan will each take on a 1.55 percent stake in Daimler, which in turn will take a 3.1 percent stake in each of the other two. The move will add to Renault and Nissan’s existing 11-year-old alliance, that has made it the world’s fourth largest automotive group with sales of 6.1 million vehicles last year…” Renault-Nissan, Daimler in small-car alliance BRUSSELS (AP) — Carmakers Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co. and Daimler AG unveiled...
Hyundai Dealers Must Cater to Customers to Sell the 2011 Equus April 2 2010, Automobile Check Dealer Pricing On a New Hyundai Hyundai’s new 2011 Equus sedan certainly packs a lot of luxury into an affordable package, but in order to sway luxury buyers — especially those faithful to traditional luxury brands — the company’s dealerships are going to have to go out of their way to cater to customers. Expect dealers who sign up to handle the Equus...
Car Czar Consulting says: Consumers are now conditioned to wait for strong incentives to buy or lease. Toyota sales surge 41% fueled by incentives Freep, April 1, 2010, FToyota learned that incentives work as the automaker reported a 41% increase in its U.S. sales in March reversing year-over-year declines in January and February in the wake of highly-publicized recalls. Even its Prius hybrid, which was the subject of two recent incidents of alleged unintended acceleration, experienced a 27% jump...
Retail Stores Closing Doors First Quarter Roundup 2010 Announcements continue to roll in from retailers that have decided to close stores, slow expansion plans or cease operations altogether. From Ann Taylor to Waldenbooks, we update our ongoing roundup with the latest news from the first quarter of 2010. Read on to see which retailers are closing (at least some) of their doors. Are any of these your favorites? ANN TAYLOR Announced: March 12, 2010 In a March 2010 press...
The Car Czar Says: What are you waiting for? Run out and get yours’ now! 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day April 4, 2010, HuffingtonPost, In a report to clients issued Saturday night, Munster’s estimated that by midnight Sunday, Apple will have sold 600,000 to 700,000 iPads, including pre-orders — more than double his relatively conservative pre-launch estimate of 200,000 to 300,000. (Other analysts had published estimates of 300,000 to 400,000.) By comparison, Apple reportedly took 74 days to...
Czar Consulting says: Temporary Census jobs and other Government jobs made up the bulk of the increase. “…Yet, the positive news reported by the government was tempered by some sobering statistics. For instance, many of the 162,000 new jobs went to temporary Census workers. And more than 40 percent of those without jobs have been unemployed for more than six months. Since the recession began in December 2007, some 8.4 million have lost their jobs…That’s a staggering sum, Obama...
