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Rattner blasts Obama Administration in new Car Czar book

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Rattner blasts Obama Administration in new Car Czar book

Car Czar Consulting says: From: Instapundit: HuffPo has a leaked copy of former “car czar” Steven Rattner’s new book Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry which bears the dubious honor of being the first “kiss-and-tell” book to emerge from the Obama administration.  The book evidently glosses over Rattner’s own troubles with the SEC that created just enough heat to send him back to the comfort of “private life.”  Instead Rattner focuses on dishing...

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GM’s Tries To Jumpstart An Overpriced Plug & Play Volt

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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

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Dealer EmailFX helps Car Dealers Accelerate Sales via easy-to-use custom email templates

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Dealer EmailFX helps Car Dealers Accelerate Sales via easy-to-use custom email templates

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...

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GM Bailout Repayment May Have Employed Accounting Rouse

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GM Bailout Repayment May Have Employed Accounting Rouse

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...

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Toyota warned Europe distributors about car pedal issues well before telling US government

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Toyota warned Europe distributors about car pedal issues well before telling US government

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...

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Renault-Nissan and Daimler to work together on small, fuel efficient vehicles

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Renault-Nissan and Daimler to work together on small, fuel efficient vehicles

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...

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Toyota sales up 40% Year-Over-Year on consumer incentives

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Toyota sales up 40% Year-Over-Year on consumer incentives

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...

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Applemania Part Deux: 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day

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Applemania Part Deux: 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day

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...

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Obama: Positive jobs report; More work remains

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Obama: Positive jobs report; More work remains

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...

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New Media Works: ways to increase your chance of getting major media to care about your idea

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New Media Works: ways to increase your chance of getting major media to care about your idea

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 about the Unreasonable Institute I said what any good entrepreneur would say, “I don’t know…I just did it.” After some reflection, I realized...

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