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Flashback to the Fiesta Movement: Finally, the Fiesta is Here!

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I thought I would do a brief post of my Fiesta Movement application that I did. I didn’t win. It was my first video and press releases sent during judging confirmed another reason why I would never win: I am OLD. This is a young people’s car that will be paid for by…ahem…us parents.

This week I will get to… [[Continue reading]]

RoundAbout Show #19: The ‘NAIAS Postmortem’ Episode

Well, the North American International Auto Show–otherwise known as the Detroit Auto Show–has made all the news it’s going to make for this year. It was a rocky year for the Motor City, and in a way, it really showed at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The digs might have been better than last year (Chrysler was a series of unadorned cars on… [[Continue reading]]

Mustang Fever: The Car That Won’t Go Away (Hopefully)

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For full disclosure, I have to confess to having a lot of history with the Ford Mustang in my driving life. Yep. That is me on the right with my best friend and the Mustang that started my long love for the pony car.

My parents had a 1967 yellow Mustang that I drove quite a lot! It carried Heidi… [[Continue reading]]

15 and Ready To Drive: Prepping Your Teens’ Driving Training

Today is a very special day. I was woken by my daughter before 6 AM so that I could get dressed and get out of the house with her to walk to her high school with enough time to stop by our closest independent purveyor of fine organic coffees . On a normal day I wouldn’t get my coffee until after I have left her at the gates of… [[Continue reading]]

Ford is Becoming a Big PZEV Dispenser

It is always interesting to hear different manufacturer representatives talk about their green efforts which are sometimes major advances, occasionally gestures of good intentions and every so often admitting that they would like to jump on the green bandwagon are making changes as fast as their corporate machinery will allow. The economy and the recent erratic fuel prices have hit all of them creating an unpredictable future for all sales… [[Continue reading]]

Greening of Car Manufacturing and more About PZEV

So you have a cell phone plan and you go over minutes every month for years but the phone company never charges you…sounds like a dream come true, right?

Well, that will never happen and that kind of monitoring has a reason! It costs them (mostly man hours) to maintain their systems. The way the government is monitoring the environment is kind of the same way.

Car manufacturing… [[Continue reading]]