New foreign cars pile up at port (San Diego Union-Tribune)

19 Nov 2008 at 5:10am  LONG BEACH ? Gleaming new Mercedes-Benzes roll one by one out of a huge container ship and onto a pier. Ordinarily, the cars would be loaded on trucks within hours, destined for dealerships around the country. But these are not ordinary times.

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Maruti to Make Fewer Cars Than Target as Demand Slows (Update1) (Bloomberg)

19 Nov 2008 at 4:59am  Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. , the nation's biggest carmaker, expects to produce fewer cars than it had targeted as higher loan rates and a slowing economy sap demand for automobiles.

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COE for small cars drops to historic low of S$2 (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! ...

19 Nov 2008 at 4:00am  SINGAPORE: The COE price for small cars, 1,600cc and below, fell by S$10,453 to a historic low of S$2 in the latest bidding exercise.

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Joe Soucheray: Motor City may be broken down, but we still need its cars (Pio...

19 Nov 2008 at 12:23am  There are a couple of important things that we don't know. We don't know, for example, if we are not buying American-made automobiles because we believe them to be inferior to foreign-made cars, or if we are not buying cars because we are circling the financial wagons.

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Unsold Foreign Cars Hogging Space at a California Port (New York Times)

18 Nov 2008 at 11:26pm  Unwelcome by dealers and buyers, thousands of cars are being warehoused on crowded port property, creating a vivid picture of a paralyzed auto business.

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