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		<title>Hammer Time: Finding A Good Home for a 1988 Saab 900 Turbo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The old Saab was virtually perfect. 1988 900 model. Turbo. Convertible. It was as if the vehicle had been taken through a 21 year time warp right to my lot. The prior owner had become tired of frequent $85/hr fixes and now needed a four door instead of two (in Orwellian speak). He traded it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Bumming A Ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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I always tell folks that when I retire from my work as an auto auctioneer, I&#8217;ll be walking. They think I&#8217;m joking. Fat chance. I currently waste anywhere from ten to fifteen hours a week on the open road. Now given I&#8217;m not stuck in an office building or bathed underneath florescent lights. But all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: The Misguided Dream?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I keep on having this one strange dream. I open my front door. The driveway is completely gone. The street is gone. In fact, there isn&#8217;t a single piece of asphalt anywhere. What was once the road is now just grass with a few basketball and tennis courts on the far side. There&#8217;s a softball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Dead Brand Pool 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I don&#8217;t know how they did it. Nobody&#8217;s crazy about a Mercury. Suzuki is still a one niche car company, and most Mitsubishis look like Chryslers that were drawn by stoned orangutans. Does anyone want a Volvo? No, you can&#8217;t have one made before 1995. How about a Dodge? A Ram? A Tonka? Oh, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Chrysler&#8217;s Retro Halo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s heartbreaking. To see a major company that literally carried a healthy portion of America&#8217;s heartland go up in Euro-flames. I remember the beauty of it. The 1990&#8217;s minivans that completely obliterated their competition. LH sedans that were state of the art for their time. Cloud cars that had more power and road feel than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: An Enduring Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I used a 15-year-old Ranger to pick up some AMG wheels this evening. The ride was . . . pleasant. Light jazz on the radio. Engine and stick shift in good working order. Intermittent wipers and ABS for the rain. Alloy wheels for show. Did I mention this thing is 15 years old? Anyhow, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Barnacle Bitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I hate my *^%%! Mercedes. A year-and-a-half ago , I bought a 2002 S500 for $12,600 at a public auction. $300 of a/c work and a detail later, it looked like a million dollars. But it drove like a big fat Camry with a big fat engine. My mechanic swooned at all the gizmoids. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Fetid Distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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What&#8217;s the first thing you notice when you step inside a car? Some folks look at the seats. Others will set their eyes on the carpet or the far side of the dashboard. For me&#8230; it&#8217;s smell. I swear at times I can actually tell what auction a car came from given the smell on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Ever have someone test drive your car and then seriously piss you off? Lowballers. Nickelshitters. Liars and scum aplenty who think they have the right to NASCAR your car? Phony little fruitcakes who drive to your place in a complete POS-mobile and then whine about a loose cupholder? Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve seen it all in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Suburban Expeditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Why do so many folks hate SUVs? Is it angst driven? Environmental? Ideological? Or maybe a fear of domestication? I honestly don&#8217;t know and rarely did I give two flips about it until late August 2005. Once Katrina hit, the car market in the United States forever changed and so did yours truly&#8217;s viewpoint on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Protectionism Uber Alles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I love stability. Give me a world where folks can put forth a solid effort in their work and not worry about their future, and I&#8217;ll gladly join it with membership in hand. But then with too much stability also comes mediocrity. In times of yore, a lot of folks could simply get by with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Maine Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Retirement. We all dream of that day when we can take our cell phones and chuck them in the ocean&#8230; forever. Some folks dream of painting Tahitian nudes after that beautiful moment. Others simply want to live in a planned community with everything but kids and &#8217;stuff&#8217;. As for me? I just want solitude. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: ACD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I saw the strangest thing yesterday. Driving down a country highway there appeared to be a tattered old Toyota pickup and a 1990&#8217;s Chrysler LHS spread amongst five foot tall weeds. Further peering in resulted in an Escort Wagon, 3 Oldsmobile Cutlass Convertibles and 2 Sebrings. I wondered&#8230; had Monsanto finally invented some special car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Retail Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m sitting inside one of the largest auto retailers in the world. Khakis. Shorts. Blue shirts are wandering. Aimlessly. Finally a family of &#8216;fish&#8217; enter this pond of corporate hookery. They look at the displays. And then a nice middle-aged female lady comes to make her greeting. And the fun begins&#8230;

Is this the way car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Hybrid vs. Beater</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Most folks believe that hybrids are frugal. If only it were so. Hybrids carry a price premium worth their weight in cadmium. Despite over a million sold, it&#8217;s damn hard to find a good deal on one. In five years of searching I&#8217;ve only found three solitary steals. Conventional gassers though can be as cheap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: I&#8217;m Gonna Git You Clunka‏</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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The nearby junkyard has over 450 Clunkers, with a couple hundred more to go. Explorers, Suburbans, Town Cars, Durangos, Rodeos, and Expeditions are literally growing like kudzu. You want parts? Forget the dealership. In fact, you can even forget the parts store and mail order companies at this point. The gravy train of cheap has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: You Bought a What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Who here would have been willing to spend $15,000 on a Dodge Dynasty? Oh c&#8217;mon now. Those trombone case red interiors were quite luxurious in the Imperial days of the Reagan era. But okay then. How about a few more Franklins for a zonker yellow Suzuki X-90? No? Maybe a Daihatsu Charade? Perhaps a Honda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Honor, Duty, Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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No car is perfect. Regardless of the myth of brands, a Toyota can get engine sludge. A Honda transmission can go south for eternity. Even the vault that is an old Mercedes will need to be lined with the insulation of greenbacks from time to tomb. There are definitely tendencies when it comes to cars. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: The Toyonda Premium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Go to any auto auction. Chances are you&#8217;ll see 2001 Accords and Camrys go for higher prices than 2003 Tauruses and Grand Prixs. Is that premium justified? Well, I&#8217;ll put it to you this way.

Buy here-pay here lots are rapidly becoming the strongest segment at the auctions. A lot of you may think, &#8220;Oh, well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Free Falling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
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Guess what happens to the car market between Labor Day and Thanksgiving? Nothing. Nobody buys cars unless they absolutely need to during this time. You have no shopping holidays. No &#8216;tax season&#8217; with refunds aplenty. Not even a hint of any government windfall or pork barrel rolling down Capitol Hill. This is the time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time (Eagles Edition): My Maserati Does Thirty-Four Five</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-eagles-edition-my-maserati-does-thirty-four-five/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-eagles-edition-my-maserati-does-thirty-four-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammer Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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A 2005 Maserati Quattroporte to be exact. 35,000 showing on the odometer and no warranty whatsoever. The auctioneer drew down the bid in freefall fashion from $40K to $32K in the hopes that somebody&#8212;anybody&#8212;would bid on the garage queen. Finally, a dealer went for broke at $30K. Another joined in. The two duked it out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Castrating the Cooters</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-castrating-the-cooters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-castrating-the-cooters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammer Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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I&#8217;m neither Republican nor Democrat. To paraphrase the late Frank Zappa, I realize that stupidity is indeed the building block of the political universe. Thanks to a long line of political careerists at all levels of our fair land, we now have speed limits laws that encourage a lack of respect for the law and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Road Warriors</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-road-warriors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-road-warriors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammer Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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600 to 1500 miles a week.  Some of you may consider this travel excessive, or, perhaps, bordering on  the psychotic. In the auto remarketing business it&#8217;s a way of life.  Wholesalers, auctioneers, ringmen, and managers of varying stripes all  have to spend their time on the road. Auctions are often separated [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Avalon</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-avalon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-avalon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammer Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Now that cash for clunkers has gone the way of GWB, used car values are plummeting in earnest. Last Monday, I visited three auctions in the metro-Atlanta area. Sale number one was without their two heavy hitters and prices were down a solid 10% across the board. 2008 Land Rover Discovery HSE with TV&#8217;s and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hammer Time: Fix or Sell?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-fix-or-sell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/hammer-time-fix-or-sell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammer Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Youthful turns to Faithful, which eventually turns to Old Faithful, with the oil leaks to show. You&#8217;ve loved Old Faithful. But all around there are hotties and hussies that tempt you. Some are fun. Others are Chryslers. But the moment has come. It&#8217;s time to either fix or sell. What to do?

The economist within our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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