It isn’t really fair to call the Wichita 2010 Ford Edge an SUV, but that’s what it is. It looks more like a truncated SUV or a large station wagon, maybe somewhere in between the latter and an SUV. But let’s call it an SUV. It comes in 7 trim levels and each one has [...]

Vote May Occur As Early As Monday, May 17 Issue The Senate financial regulation bill (S. 3217) would create a Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP), which would have new and extremely broad authority to regulate most financial products, including dealer-assisted financing. The auto finance model is sound, based on due diligence, and decreases the [...]

In a positive development, your intense grassroots efforts in support of the Brownback Amendment have caused the vote on the amendment to be postponed to next week. It appears that (Obama’s) Treasury Department, who opposes this amendment, believes dealers now have the votes to enact the measure. Late yesterday, it was agreed that the amendment [...]