The Japanese tsunami impacts everything, from cars to toilet paper. Most Japanese car makers were closed since after the catastrophe and will remain closed at least until mid April. Many paper mills are in the affected area, and all paper, from glossy stock to the softer kind, is in short supply. Publishers of Japanese illustrated pulp fiction have canceled the printed version and direct their readers to the Internet instead. Tokyo corporations battle a wave of toilet rolls vanishing from their restrooms, from where they find a way to the toire at home. While these may be temporary outages, the lack of stable electrical power emerges more and more as the biggest impediment to the recovery of the Japanese industry. It will affect you and your car, in one way or the other. (Read More…)
Recent Comments
highdesertcat - doctor olds, I respect your point of view but I just can’t find a way in my own beliefs to share that same point of view. You know, there actually is a...
MrWhopee - Hi Marcello! No, I haven’t driven it. It’s being marketed quite aggressively here (with shows in lots of malls and other...
thelaine - Taxpayers lose $15 billion in loss carry forwards (sweetheart tax benefits they are not entitled to because they went bankrupt), $11.5 billion in the bailout of GMAC,...
Moparman426W - Being the owner of 2 70′s mopars myself, I can tell you that pretty much all normal wear items such as starters, fuel pumps, brake parts, tuneup parts, you...
thelaine - Agreed. It is a nightmare.
-Nate - _NOT_ . The whole point of importing it is to drive it and you’ll never get tags & title on one imported as parts . BT ,...
Marcelo de Vasconcellos - true nowadays. That however doesn’t mean they can’t. Over different moments in time the Pallo family, the...
-Nate - I’m so pleased to see I’m not the only one who saw the similarity to the Chevrolet Citation X Car and who also thinks those could have been...
PonchoIndian - I have done it. Whuffo, Oil and lube every 4K miles Spark plugs every 30K and that has been it, other than that it has been dead reliable. 74 Firebird, was a...
Marcelo de Vasconcellos - good morning. Yes I remember that report and i believe it was written due to the fact the brazilian fox was cutting off...