Insurance Companies Close Track Day and Training Loopholes
I’m willing to wager that a fair percentage of TTAC’s Best and Brightest take their cherished whip to the race track every now and then to drive the car as God and his engineers intended. If so, be...
View ArticleHigher Insurance Costs Whack Small Car, Hybrid Buyers
Buying a small car or hybrid to save money at the pump? Be warned, Big Insurance might get your cash instead of Big Oil. Today’s Wall Street Journal chronicles the tales of woe being told by recent...
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GM To Sell Suzuki Stake, Pay A Week Worth Of Bills
The Associated Press is reporting that General Motors now plans to sell back its 3.02 percent in Suzuki for $230m. Buckingham Research Group's Joseph C Amaturo gets credit for pointing out that "while...
View ArticleBig Brother Eyes Pay-Per-Mile
Electronic monitoring of motorists is gaining legitimacy, as the federal government explores a pay-per-mile road tax and California mulls pay-per-mile insurance. But will the possibility of improved...
View ArticleToyota: New State Farm Disclosures Trigger Accusations Of Lackadaisical NHTSA
Akio Toyoda is spending the weekend in Japan, being prepped for his appearance in front of the modern day version of the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition, better known as a Congressional Hearing....
View ArticleState Farm: Don’t Get Any Ideas
If news about recalls can’t bring Toyota sales in China to their knees, maybe insurance premiums will. The Nikkei [sub] reports from China that insurance premiums on Toyotas have recently risen by as...
View ArticleJust Like A Good Neighbor: State Farm Joins Toyota Shake-Down
More and more Americans have recently detected that they have a rich uncle in Japan. The uncle’s name is Toyota. From LaHood to a bevy of lawyers, all have a yen for Toyota’s money. Latest (but surely...
View ArticleWant To Save Big On Car Insurance? Get An Obnoxious Nanny
In what “could herald a new era in auto insurance” (if the Wall Street Journal is right), Progressive “introduced a new type of car insurance that offers a discount to policyholders based on real-time...
View ArticleThe Most And Least Died-In Vehicles Of 2006-2009
Forget crash test results, star ratings, or the number of acronym-laden electronic nanny systems that a vehicle has. If you’re a play-it-by-the-numbers kind of person and want to know safe a car is,...
View ArticleFree Snoopy With Purchase Of GM Car (Limitations Apply)
At GM, Joel Ewanick and Chris Perry need to repeat the miracles for which they became famous at Hyundai. So what do you do in that case? “Let’s just do the same thing again.” If GM would do a repeat...
View ArticleGM’s Bad Driver Appreciation Program
We didn’t want to mention it when we wrote about GM’s buy a car, get free insurance deal. If we would have said it, it would have been the nasty B-word all over again. The rest of the media showed less...
View ArticleCheat Until The Cows Come Home: Luxury Cars Insured As Farm Vehicles
So let’s say you don’t live in Washington or Oregon, and you don’t want to buy a GM vehicle, what do you do to save on car insurance? Easy: You say you drive it on your farm. Auto insurers offer...
View ArticleThis Gizmo Will Rat On You, And People Love It
Privacy is highly valued – until we can sell it for a small discount. Hundreds of thousands of auto insurance customers allowed an electronic ankle bracelet fitted to their car in exchange for a...
View ArticleThe High Cost Of Gender Equality
Two things happen today, December 21: The world is coming to an end. And in Europe, insurance companies are no longer allowed to vary premiums according to a policyholder’s sex. The first thought that...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Studying Computer Networked Electronic License Plates
South Carolina’s WSPA TV is reporting that the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles is considering doing away with stamped metal plates and replacing them with new, electronic tags that would be...
View ArticlePaging Dr. Ferraristein: Wrecked exotic goes up for salvage auction in...
It’s amazing what having a ton of cash can buy you these days. For example, if you have a tween daughter with big dreams to be on stage singing about her favorite Asian foods, up to $4,000 can buy her...
View ArticlePeer-to-peer car sharing services found lacking in substantial liability...
In cities where owning a car can be a pain (New York, Boston, Seattle), drivers are opting instead to share vehicles with other drivers, with companies such as ZipCar, Car2Go, RelayRides et al offering...
View ArticleLexus No. 1 in Reliability, Ford Near Bottom
If reliability is the No. 1 trait your next car must have, you may then opt to visit your nearest Lexus dealership before considering anything from the Ford dealership across the street as far as...
View ArticleWalmart Unveils Online One-Stop Auto Insurance Venture
Walmart is the home of low prices on many, many things, from clothes and groceries, to televisions and tires. The retailer also offers a number of financial services, such as prepaid debit cards and...
View ArticleFeinberg Plan To Be Funded Out-Of-Pocket By GM
Kenneth Feinberg’s victim compensation plan for those severely affected by the ignition switch linked to 13 fatalities, 54 accidents and a recall of 2.6 million vehicles will not be funded by liability...
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