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Is Ford the Best and the Brightest? Blue Oval Asks for $9-Billion Credit Line
MotorTrend MagazineDETROIT - First, the groveling. "As a company and as an industry, we readily admit that we have made our share of mistakes and miscalculations in the past. We would ask Congress to recognize, however, that Ford did not wait until the current crisis to... -
Momentum grows for automakers' share in federal bailout
Momentum is building in Washington to aid wounded U.S. automakers with cash to help their finance arms and possibly even money to help seal a deal for General Motors Corp. to acquire Chrysler Llc. The White House said yesterday that the financing arms of...Tags: The White House, Barack Obama, Bankruptcy, General Motors Corp., Sales
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Toyota's 0 percent offer shows credit is available
AP Auto WriterToyota Motor Corp.'s unprecedented offer of zero-percent financing on nearly a dozen models is trying to make the point that tight credit is no excuse for buyers _ in fact, it's literally giving credit away for free. But after the top Japanese...Tags: Sales, General Motors Corp., Toyota, Automotive Equipment, Chrysler
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How Wall Street's Woes Affect Car Shoppers
KickingTiresUnless you have Bill Gates??? credit history ??? or you are Bill Gates ??? you may have trouble getting a loan to buy a car these days, dealers say. It isn???t the price of gas that???s keeping people from buying......Tags: Bill Gates, Bankruptcy, General Motors Corp., Sales, Jeep
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Ford to delay new F-Series pickups, citing the rising cost of gasoline
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHenry Ford II was famous for saying "Big cars, big profits. Small cars, small profits." Now a better mantra for the country's second-largest carmaker might be "Big cars, no profits." Faced with crashing sales of big sport utility vehicles and...Tags: Los Angeles, Mercury, Honda Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Sales
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Auto investor Kerkorian takes big stake in Ford
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKirk Kerkorian is getting into the car business. Again. The billionaire investor disclosed Monday that he had acquired a 4.7% stake in Ford Motor Co. and launched a tender offer to acquire even more shares, raising questions about his intentions for...Tags: Nissan, General Motors Corp., Sales, Moody's Corporation, Chrysler
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All charged up
Staff WriterThad Baltimore's role in a legal battle against one of the world's largest corporations began quietly enough in January of 1999 when he walked into a Toyota dealership not far from his home in the Bronx, hoping to buy a car. Settling on a new Camry,...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Eliot Spitzer, General Motors Corp., Manhattan (New York City), Consumers
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U.S. Charges 3 in Massive ID Fraud
The Associated PressFederal authorities on Monday charged three men, including one who worked for a Long Island company, with orchestrating the largest identity theft in U.S. history, allegedly stealing credit information from more than 30,000 people, draining their bank...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Frankfort, Ohio, Indiana, Crimes
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Feds Bust ID Theft Ring
Staff WriterUsing stolen passwords and a laptop computer, federal investigators say, a former employee of a Bay Shore software company led an identity-theft ring that stole the credit files of 30,000 people, resulting in losses that total millions of dollars. The...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Manhattan (New York City), Interior Policy, Crimes, Automotive Equipment
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