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After hours of driving one day, we stopped on a bridge over the Tigris for a car wash, where masked youths, looking like bandits, had drawn water out of the cloudy current by hose. They seemed friendly enough, but as our stationary convoy began attracting curious eyes, our bodyguards said it was time to move. "We are in the war," Sami reminded us, his grin a mix of humor and utter seriousness in the rearview mirror. In a second, we were off again, dust flying, as the muffled voice of the lead driver came in over the radios...
...average 60-month new-car loan is priced at 7.10%, not much different from in the spring, according to HSH Associates, Financial Publishers. Those 0%-financing deals still exist too, from automakers desperate to move the metal. But you're not going to get that rate (or maybe any) unless your credit score is north of 700; a year ago, 620 might have gotten you wheels. Even people with good credit are starting to see trouble. The dealer network AutoNation reports that approval rates for that group have dropped to roughly 60% from 90% a year...
Some of the shine has come off Arapahoe since the days in the 1960s when a brand-new ranch house with a one-car garage was all a suburbanite could hope for. The more affluent left it behind over the years for wealthier counties like Douglas, which is where Eng's Republican opponent has set up his headquarters. To get to Mike Coffman's office in Highlands Ranch, you have to drive past mile after mile of McMansion developments with names like Berkshire Residences and soon-to-be-opened box stores that still have the plastic wrap...
Picking out car accessories, it turns out, is exactly as boring as shopping for women's clothes. But I acted very interested in rims, which I learned to call shoes and not hubcaps. I suggested that his Bentley would look a lot friendlier if he lined the back window with a row of small stuffed animals. It turns out it is above the pay grade of a posse member to suggest such things. After the rims were put on the Bentley, we spent about an hour outside, posse-gathering. Then Flo decided to get someone to drive his Escalade over...
...into a pistol and then says: "Just like in California, who's poor, who's hungry they come and take what they want now. It's becoming wild." His nephew Tariq Aziz, who helps out in the shop. says the government needs to improve security. "They should check every car coming through," he says, pointing down the road towards a barrier that slows cars but does not require them to stop. "This city is too unsafe...