Archive for July, 2009



My First Car (Wise County Messenger)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 12:07 pm

Leisa Gage - Manager, Messenger Office Supply, Decatur High School graduate 1976 My first car was an orange, four-speed Volkswagen “Fastback” with white interior. It didn’t have air conditioning or an FM radio, but I do remember it cost about $5 to fill it up. Because it was so small, many of the football players (including husband Robert) loved to mess with it. After school I would come outside …

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Zipcar Launches First All-Electric Car-Share Pod (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 12:07 pm

Zipcar, Inc., the world’s largest car sharing service, today announced its first Electric Vehicle Pod, including an all-electric vehicle Citroen c1 and a plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius.

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Zipcar Launches First All-Electric Car-Share Pod (The Auto Channel)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 11:07 am

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 7, 2009; Zipcar, Inc., the world’s largest car sharing service, today announced its first Electric Vehicle Pod, including an all-electric vehicle (EV) Citroen c1 and a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Toyota Prius.

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Hundreds of mourners farewell Invercargil car crash victims (TVNZ)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 11:07 am

Hundreds of mourners have turned out at the first two funerals for the teenagers who died in a horror car crash in Invercargill last week

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Prius tops Japan’s car sale chart (BBC News)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 11:07 am

Toyota’s Prius has become the first hybrid car to outsell all other vehicles in Japan, latest industry figures show.

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Peugeot Citroen First-Half Unit Sales Fall 14% to 1.587 Million (Bloomberg)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 10:07 am

July 7 (Bloomberg) — PSA Peugeot Citroen SA, France’s largest car maker, said first-half unit sales tumbled 14 percent, hurt by the global economic slump.

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Peugeot First-Half Sales Decline 14% on Europe, Latin America (Bloomberg)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 9:07 am

July 7 (Bloomberg) — PSA Peugeot Citroen , France’s biggest automaker, said first-half car and light-truck sales dropped 14 percent as the global auto-market slump took hold in Europe and Latin America.

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McDonald’s to offer car recharge while you eat (Geek.com)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 9:07 am

If you thought gas stations would be the first places to get recharge points for electric vehicles, think again. McDonald’s restaurants look set to be the destination to visit if you need a bite to eat and your car needs a charge. Working with NovaCharge, McDonald’s restaurants in the south eastern states will have ChargePoint Networked [...]

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Confused.com Announce an Industry First With Car Depreciation Insurance (The Auto Channel)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 9:07 am

AUTO CENTRAL – July 7, 2009: Unless you’ve visited a car sales garage recently, you’ve probably never heard of Gap Insurance (Guaranteed Asset Protection).

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FORD FIESTA 1.1L IDEAL FIRST CAR FOR SALE £500 (Jersey Insight)

Tuesday 7 July 2009 @ 8:07 am

i’m selling a Ford Fiesta mk3 1.1L from 1992. BODY WORK IN EXCELLENT CONDITION done over 52.000miles but it’s in excellent condition.good little runner. VERY GOOD ON PETROL and the insurance is also LOW. excellent first car. It has a pretty decent radio.

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