Lusting After BMW

I’m not talking about exploring your driving passions on a meandering S-curve road with a new BMW motorcycle, rather I’m talking about a come-clean Eliot Spitzer “moment” from Germany’s wealthiest woman. 
It’s a script right out of a movie — a tale of how lovers filmed their hotel trysts and one of the parties demanded millions [...]

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A Rolling Contradiction

This motorcycle has a fuel-injected 1202cc motor, one of the best tach’s, 43mm Showa inverted or “upside-down” cartridge front forks, Nissin 4-opposed-piston caliper brakes, and Harley-Davidsons first cast-alloy swing arm for rear-wheel movement. 
But it weighs more than most Euro cruisers and “shakes so badly at idle that you can’t read street signs!”
That was the opinion [...]

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Detroit’s Bailout Genius

Ford Motor reported last week a $3 billion quarterly loss while burning through $6.3 billion in cash and cutting another 2,600 hourly workers.
Ford’s press release said something about…blah, blah, blah…cut salaries…blah, blah, blah…reducing bonuses…who believes any of this now days?  At the same time executive management was meeting with Congress to push their double-down request on [...]

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