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...statement about the extended holiday shutdown, Chrysler said the lack of financing for car loans contributed to the move. "Due to the continued lack of consumer credit for the American car buyer and the resulting dramatic impact it has had on overall industry sales in the United States," the action was needed, the company said. At a recent meeting between Chrysler management and dealers at Chrysler's headquarters, the dealers asserted that they have willing buyers for Jeep and Dodge vehicles but are unable to close the deals due to lack of financing. "The dealers have stated that they have...
Last week General Motors also announced deep cuts in production. The company will close all of its passenger-car plants for the month of January and reduce the company's production of new cars and trucks 30% during the first quarter. Chrysler and GM have asked the U.S. government for $14 billion in bridge loans to weather the current credit crunch. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Iran as well. He was furious that the al-Maliki government is fabulously corrupt and incompetent. How else can you explain the $100 billion of development money that disappeared down the rat holes in Washington and Baghdad? Or how the electricity and water shortages continue, as do the car bombs in Shi'a neighborhoods? And he is furious that the U.S. intends to abandon Iraq in three years, leaving a mess behind...
...ears missing: their abductors send them to relatives to frighten them into delivering ransom more quickly. "We cannot live under this pressure," says one upper-middle-class Saltillo woman who has seen several family members kidnapped in recent years. "All the time we are looking over our shoulder, the car windows always up, ringing the children on the cell at all times, having special passwords and codes in case, God forbid, of 'trouble.' This is not a life." (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
...cops have almost always been involved (as they often are in narco-related crime as well). Federal police officers who allegedly form a kidnapping gang called La Banda de la Flor (the Flower Gang) were recently arrested in the case of Marti, whose decomposed body was found in a car trunk last summer. He had been kidnapped two months before when the armored car he was riding in was stopped at a federal police checkpoint...