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• Morning News: Minivan Maker Goes Bankrupt

  If you build a better mousetrap, the saying goes, the world will beat a path to your door. If you invent the minivan, though, you eventually end up in bankruptcy, apparently. Chrysler LLC, after narrowly avoiding bankruptcy in the last deep recession in 1980 and paying back the government loan that saved them three years later, filed for Chapter 11 yesterday. Look, I’m from Detroit and thus incapable of driving a foreign car, and would only drive a Chrysler if even a Toyota were not available. They’re not so good, although Jeep retains a good reputation and the Chrysler 300 was a nice ride. But when you can invent the vehicle that has become shorthand for boring sexless parenting and still be on the brink of going out of business? Something’s messed up. Thinking about following Chrysler into bankruptcy court? Forget about getting foreclosure relief that way, after a bill to.... Read More... Posted May 01 2009, 09:00 AM by Amy Kuras with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: pork, minivan, recession, Chrysler, Egypt, pigs, bankruptcy, joe biden, morning news, credit cards, swine flu, Chapter 11, mortgage relief

• Carpool Pimpin': Hello Kitty Rims That Prove You're As Cool As You Really Are

  We hear it all the time: How can a styley, self-preserving parent haul their kids and all their kids' crap around with out going over to the dark side of the dual-sliding door mini-van? These rat-packy kids and car manufacturers must be conspiring to make it tough for us to find a way to maintain our practicality and punch without having fourteen cup-holders, two DVD players and a glove box bigger than my bathroom. To some, the SUV is the solution. To others, the defiantly couture station wagon answers the dilemma. Maybe, just maybe, the answer isn't in the car. Maybe it's in the rims. Read More... Posted Oct 04 2007, 06:02 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with no comments Filed under: minivan, carpool, family ride