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• GM offers employee prices to spur slow sales

  Posted Aug 20 2008, 03:00 PM by Ryan MacClanathan
  Filed under: Saving, Consumer Affairs, Transportation

  This post comes from Joe Benton at partner blog ConsumerAffairs.com.

  With sales down 18 percent so far this year, General Motors is offering automotive consumers deep price cuts in a late summer effort to unload its remaining 2008 inventory.

  The automaker will offer prices usually reserved for company employees along with cash discounts of as much as $4,000 on most 2008 and some 2009 models.   Read More...

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• Report: Millions of fire-prone Fords still on the roads

  Posted Aug 12 2008, 03:30 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Spending, Saving, Consumer Affairs, Transportation

  This post comes from Joe Benton at partner blog ConsumerAffairs.com.

  The owners of millions of Ford cars and trucks could be driving vehicles still equipped with a faulty cruise-control switch that can start a fire under the hood even when the vehicle is parked and the ignition is turned off.

  As of July 31, in its most recent report to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford Motor Co. said about 4.8 million of the more than 10 million recalled vehicles are now repaired. Some vehicles were included in more than one recall, making it hard to calculate precise numbers.   Read More...

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• Prius drives like a wheelbarrow, Corolla rocks

  Posted Jul 17 2008, 01:58 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Travel, Saving, Consumer Affairs, Transportation
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  This post comes from James R. Hood at partner blog ConsumerAffairs.com.

  Almost exactly two years ago, with gas well under $3, we had the opportunity to test drive a Toyota Prius and a Camry. Toyota turned aside our request for a Corolla, insisting that the Camry was the car most comparable to the Prius.

  Well, maybe so. But we've always thought that many families who need to save big bucks on their transportation costs -- as opposed to those who just want to be the first on their block to drive around on top of a battery -- should take a close look at the Corolla and similar cars before plopping down big bucks on the Prius.   Read More...

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