http://carczarconsulting.com The Secrets of Profitable Automotive Retail Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:49:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://carczarconsulting.com/04/23/9001/ http://carczarconsulting.com/04/23/9001/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:47:30 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=9001  Powered by Max Banner Ads  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. 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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 [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/04/16/boiling-in-a-vat/feed/ 0 http://carczarconsulting.com/04/10/toyota-warned-europe-distributors-about-car-pedal-issues-well-before-telling-us-government/ http://carczarconsulting.com/04/10/toyota-warned-europe-distributors-about-car-pedal-issues-well-before-telling-us-government/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:17:20 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=8088 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. [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/04/10/toyota-warned-europe-distributors-about-car-pedal-issues-well-before-telling-us-government/feed/ 0 http://carczarconsulting.com/04/10/renault-nissan-and-daimler-agree-to-work-together-on-small-fuel-efficient-vehicles/ http://carczarconsulting.com/04/10/renault-nissan-and-daimler-agree-to-work-together-on-small-fuel-efficient-vehicles/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:09:00 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=8085 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 [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/04/10/renault-nissan-and-daimler-agree-to-work-together-on-small-fuel-efficient-vehicles/feed/ 0 http://carczarconsulting.com/04/09/hyundai-dealers-challeneged-to-be-customer-centric-to-sell-the-2011-equus/ http://carczarconsulting.com/04/09/hyundai-dealers-challeneged-to-be-customer-centric-to-sell-the-2011-equus/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:58:05 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=8080 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 [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/04/09/hyundai-dealers-challeneged-to-be-customer-centric-to-sell-the-2011-equus/feed/ 0 http://carczarconsulting.com/04/09/toyota-sales-up-40-year-over-year-on-consumer-incentives/ http://carczarconsulting.com/04/09/toyota-sales-up-40-year-over-year-on-consumer-incentives/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:03:12 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=8083 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 [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/04/09/toyota-sales-up-40-year-over-year-on-consumer-incentives/feed/ 0 http://carczarconsulting.com/04/05/applemania-part-deux-600000-700000-ipads-sold-on-launch-day/ http://carczarconsulting.com/04/05/applemania-part-deux-600000-700000-ipads-sold-on-launch-day/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:39:46 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=8065 The Car Czar Says: What are you waiting for? 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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 [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/04/02/obama-positive-jobs-report-more-work-remains/feed/ 0 http://carczarconsulting.com/03/30/8-ways-to-increase-your-chance-of-getting-major-media-to-care-about-your-idea/ http://carczarconsulting.com/03/30/8-ways-to-increase-your-chance-of-getting-major-media-to-care-about-your-idea/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:38:53 +0000 Car Czar Consulting http://carczarconsulting.com/?p=7989 Car Czar Consulting says: Getting people to care about your idea takes effort. 8 things that helped me increase our chances of getting major media to care that I think can help you too Unreasonable Institute, March 29, 2010, When I was recently asked what I did to get bloggers of some major publications to write [...]]]> http://carczarconsulting.com/03/30/8-ways-to-increase-your-chance-of-getting-major-media-to-care-about-your-idea/feed/ 0