donner_froh commented on Ford Sales Drop 32%, Market Share Rises 0.7%!

"@Hart88: A few year end, rock bottom, move the iron now fleet sales. Kind of a buy one, get one free for the car services."

donner_froh commented on Ford Sales Drop 32%, Market Share Rises 0.7%!

"@maximum-sienna: Sales are flat, the customer based has flat-lined."

donner_froh commented on Madoff May Make the Crazy Bernie Defense

"@ifstone: Since there was no independent custodian for the securities he claimed to have bought, sold and held and since the audits were done by an accounting firm that didn't have the staff to do a complicated Form 1040, he might not have traded one share or option ever. Probably not the case but it would be possible."

donner_froh commented on Madoff May Make the Crazy Bernie Defense

"@forwardmotion: Cornfield. Bernie Cornfeld"

donner_froh commented on Ten Cars And The Type Of Women They Attract

"I have recently acquired the car guaranteed to attract just about any woman. [jalopnik.com]"

donner_froh commented on Caption This: Corvette ZR1 Braving Snowy Detroit Freeways

"Not a caption-- I saw a black Vette on Woodward in Royal Oak today during the latest round of freezing rain and snow."

donner_froh commented on Bush Flack in Snit Over Times Housing-Bubble Blame

"This article was is only one in a very long string of very long articles which tries to makes sense of how the economy has collapsed and which people/institutions have some culpability for it."

donner_froh commented on Sad Consumerists Haggle, Miss Point

"The deflationary collapse continues--this is going to be a great time to have a job or some type of secure income with retailers flogging formerly high (or at least higher) end merchandise at whatever price will move it out the door, car companies pleading with potential customers to take as much of a rebate as they want, interest rates shrinking to zero and plenty of good houses on the market. But as the downward spiral intensifies, the false dawn of consumerism will be replaced by the daily grind of hand to hand combat over scraps of stale bread."

donner_froh commented on Toyota To Post Operating Loss Of $1.7 Billion For 2008

"Whatever this may say about Toyota, two basic facts remain: Senator Shelby is an irredeemable doofus even though he will unfortunately turn out to be right in this case; GM is toast."

donner_froh commented on Hawaiian Chevy Dealer Attempts To Crush Honda With Suburban, Fails

"The first non-Big 3 car I ever purchased--damned near the first one I ever drove--was a 1989 Honda Accord EX."