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| 2009-02-23 |
| The vehicles owned by the Obama administration's auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit's Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars. Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department's special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three. The Detroit News reviewed public records to discover what many of the task force and staff members drove, but information was not available on all of the officials, and records for some states were not complete. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #10 better cookie |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-23 23:12 |
| #9 cookie |
| Posted by: OldSPook 2009-02-23 23:11 |
| #8 A font of information as always, Frank. Thanks! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-23 22:54 |
| #7 Industrial, yes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-02-23 22:12 |
| #6 What's interesting is how many of the vehicles currently owned by the Auto Team are not new or nearly new. Very few of the team members or staff are doing their bit to support the auto industry... or they appreciate cars that can go the distance. I assume an F-450 is some sort of truck, yes? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-23 21:24 |
| #5 I don't drive US vehicles either -- I like cars that actually work. But a Peugeot??? C'mon! |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-02-23 21:15 |
| #4 I wonder if the unions know this, not that it would really matter. |
| Posted by: Whineper Prince aka Broadhead6 2009-02-23 21:15 |
| #3 Just try to pry my half-ton from my cold dead hands. |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-02-23 20:43 |
| #2 these are unserious people and poor connoisseurs of the fine melding of art, science, and muscle. Ladies and gentlemen, not a one of them owns a ....F-150!!1!! /drink up, yewse! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-02-23 20:39 |
| #1 The necessity of an F-450 duly out on the ranch or a Suburban for the soccer team surely escapes them all. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia122 2009-02-23 19:43 |