GM asks parts supplier to lobby for bailout, supplier tears industry a new asshole: Gregory Knox, president of Knox Machinery, responds to GM’s plea for parts suppliers to lobby for the bailout: The dream is over! The dream that we can ignore the consumer for years while management myopically focu...

This certainly puts things into perspective: As reported by the AP, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell to 6,763.29 yesterday, its lowest level since April 25, 1997. That weekend, Volcano topped the box office, Princess Diana was still 4 months from her tragic death, and Barry Bonds was ski...

When it comes to battery packs for plug-in hybrids, smaller is better, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University. Led by engineering professor Jeremy Michalek, the study authors found that plug-ins with battery packs large enough for only about seven miles of all-electric range can s...

Filed under: Etc., Chrysler, LLC., GM, Earnings/Financials Back in November, a New York Times columnist thought it would be a good idea for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to come to the auto industry's rescue. Jobs is worshiped by many in the tech world, and many feel that he pretty much saved Apple in the 19...

Well, our revival of The Garlic's Weekly Poll was met with news that, well, let's just say it wasn't a rounding endorsement for taking a seat on Obama's new Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry; Auto team drives imports ...Fed task force has few new U.S. cars The vehicles owned by the Obama ...

| | This is one of the greatest responses to the requests for bailout money I have seen thus far. As a supplier for the Big 3 this man received a letter from the President of GM North America requesting support for the bail out program. His response is classic, and has to make you proud of a local g...

Oh, this one is just pure fun. With the Republicans in meltdown, not knowing whether to piss, or wind their watches, it will be, for the next few years, such a joy to see the dwarfs, finks, phonies and frauds over there on Faux News, sitting there, their heads exploding from the build-up of methane ...

Well, in case you skipped over the previous post this evening , you can see we have revived The Garlic Weekly Poll. And, why not come in, with our sleeves rolled up, at the ready to pitch in and do our part. It hasn't been especially easy for President Obama to fill his cabinet . Additionally, there...

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time… but eventually market forces will rise up and bite you in the butt. As predicted, both General Motors and Chrysler are back, hat in hand, asking for more money. This time, taxpayers are not bamboozled by ...

Not surprisingly, the reaction to the twin requests by General Motors and Chrysler for billions more in taxpayer dollars money that we don’t have that will have to be repaid by future generations has not been all that positive. Over at The Truth About Cars, for example, Ken Elias points out th...