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Shares of car parts supply retailer, AutoZone (AZO), are trading at a 52 week high at $158.00. The company has a market cap of $8.7 billion. GM's market cap is only a little over $1 billion, even though its revenues are 25 times greater than AutoZone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Buy a New Car When You Can Build One? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...billion in loan guarantees offered by the British government in January, for instance, should boost struggling carmakers' access to much-needed credit to fund areas like research and development. In London on March 11, British carmakers and banks gathered to kick-start the distribution of the loan guarantees. With car registrations forecast to slide 20% in Britain this year, the government will be hoping that it can still save its auto factories, and the jobs that go along with them, from the scrap heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Auto-Woes Fix: Scrap That Clunker! | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...unusual for the typical American car owner to have a 5-year-old vehicle with 100,000 miles on it. At this point the car will not have a warranty and generally it is owned outright by the driver. Car owners are waiting much longer before trading their old autos in for new ones. A generation ago, it was not unusual for middle class Americans to buy a new model every two or three years. That is no longer an option even with car prices and incentives as attractive as they have ever been. The American consumer is frankly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Buy a New Car When You Can Build One? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...car owner who has a 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis probably paid about $30,000 for it. The car is probably worth $5,000 now. A person with modest experience and skills with auto repairs can rebuild that car for about $5,000. The car will need new breaks. It will cost $500.00 to replace the breaks with all the parts. Approximately $800 will be required to replace most of the moving parts in the air conditioning system. Another $200 will get the owner a new exhaust system. It is likely that the alternator will also need to be replaced after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Buy a New Car When You Can Build One? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...total cost of upgrading the car so that it will run another 2 years, of course, assumes that the owner has about $3000 worth of tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Buy a New Car When You Can Build One? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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