Chrysler LLC unveiled its full 2009 Dodge Challenger model lineup at the New York Auto Show. Pricing will start in the low $20s. The all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger merges the best American muscle-car characteristics — unmistakable design, world-class handling, powerful engines and technology — to delight driving enthusiasts across several generations.

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More info: www.metacog.com This video is from the early 1990’s. It provides rock solid info on electronic ignition systems. It’s a great teaching aid for automotive students and DIY’ers.

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The truth is that the chief executives of the Big Three automakers could have hitchhiked to Washington to beg for alms and they still would have been raked over the coals. But the fact that they came in their corporate jets was a bit much. What, they couldn’t have piled into a tricked-out Malibu and taken turns at the wheel? Richard Wagoner of General Motors, Robert Nardelli of Chrysler and Alan Mulally of Ford should begin the inevitable cost-cutting by firing their public relations consultants. They left Capitol Hill empty-handed, but they’re bound to get some kind of federal help, however grudging. In the end, I don’t think either George W. Bush or Barack Obama wants to be remembered as the president who lost the auto industry. Strings will be attached, solemn promises extracted, oaths signed in blood. At some point — I’m an eternal optimist — the wizards of Detroit might even come up with a car or two that Americans want to buy. If not, well, the Big Three execs can always come back to town — by more modest means of transportation, one hopes. If there’s anything beneficial in this predictable melodrama, it’s that contemplating a taxpayer-funded rescue of the auto industry might make Americans realize the extent to which their government already puts its big, fat thumb on the scales of free enterprise. The idea that the US economy is based on unfettered free markets is, and has long been, a cruel joke. It’s more of a joke now, arguably, than at any time since the …

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“The problem is that the cars that Detroit has been building are not really vehicles that are appropriate for the 21st century. We have a finite amount of oil under the earth, and we have a huge global warming problem that’s caused in part by these automobiles. So we have to be rethinking this. We have to be building different kinds of cars for the 21st century and we have to go to mass transportation.” — Michael Moore on Larry King Live, Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Rethinking it all every day at www.michaelmoore.com

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