Word: auto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obvious thing, whatever that happens to be at the moment. Once it's obvious, it's too late. You will lose money. Should you buy oil stocks, because oil prices are "obviously" headed up? Or short the auto companies? Oil stocks are already up dramatically over the past couple of years (and auto stocks are down), and you and I are not the first ones to think of these things. Better to do something less obvious, like buying an apartment in New York City. The only reason I can think of to do it, at some fire-sale price...
...Invest in personal energy conservation: an auto tune-up, home insulation and, when you need new ones, the most efficient appliances and vehicles...
...consistently blown the doors off their rivals. Now Honda is taking its racing technology to the streets with a new mid-engine sports car called the Acura NSX. The $60,000 two-seater, which arrives at West Coast dealerships this week, is the most expensive Japanese car yet. The auto has been so eagerly anticipated that more than 1,500 of the first year's U.S. shipment of 3,000 cars are already spoken...
...Detroit rising oil prices could worsen the skid that the U.S. auto industry has suffered since the start of the year. The price increases threaten sales of profitable but fuel-thirsty vans, pickup trucks and full- size cars, including the Chevrolet Caprice and the Lincoln Town Car. That would mean further woes for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which temporarily shuttered 45 of their 62 U.S. and Canadian plants and fired or laid off 38,000 workers during the first half of the year...
Higher gas prices could boost Japan's share of the U.S. auto market, which now stands at about 26%. While the Big Three have substantially improved their fuel economy in the past 10 years, they still lag behind the Japanese. GM raised the average efficiency of its fleet from 19.1 m.p.g. in 1979 to 26.9 m.p.g. last year, while Chrysler boosted its fuel economy from 20.5 m.p.g. to 27.7 m.p.g. At the same time, Toyota raised the average economy of its models from 24 m.p.g. to 31.7 m.p.g., and Nissan from 26.8 m.p.g. to 30.2 m.p.g...