Cross border Car Savings Safe for Now.
Thanks to Canadian consumer groups, thousands of consumer petitions to the government, and an intense pro-consumer cross-border shopping campaign, we beat back Canadian automakers' attempt to use Transport Canada regulations to stop Canadians from shopping for their new and used cars in the States, thereby saving up to $15,000 per vehicle.
Visit the following links where the blow-by-blow fight is detailed:
1)http://www.carswithoutborders.com/
2)Redflagdeals.com import thread

GM Canada is on the run.
It will soon follow Ford’s lead and drop its 6-year/100,000 km secret warranty covering engine intake manifold gasket failures on 1996-2003 model vehicles. more

2006 Flops and Firings
This year, Detroit’s Feeble Three will continue their sales decline and loss of market share. GM will sell GMAC, and its interest in Isuzu, Saab, Subaru. and Saab, while Ford jettisons Jaguar, DaimlerChrysler’s Jeep Commander is also living on borrowed time. more

New car PDI and freight fees will top $1,500. more

Fuel Consumption Fantasies
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and Transport Canada will do some ‘restating’ of their own by year’s end. more

GM, Ford and Chrysler will embrace Canada-style healthcare. Pummeled by billions of dollars for employee health care payments, automakers will endorse a single-payer health system in stages. more

The full fearless forecasts text as well as the 10 Biggest Auto Myths can be found here.

Answers to the following questions can be found on the "Ask Lemonaid" page.
Can I fight GM over my intake manifold gasket repair?
Will fuel prices hit $1.25 a litre?
What about hybrids, diesel and ethanol?
Does Liberty Mutual owe you a repair refund?
Who did the Supreme Court call Canada’s insurer "from hell?"

CTV’s popular Corner Gas TV show featured the Lemon-Aid guide in its Road Worthy segment which aired last March. In that show, Lacey seeks Brent’s ‘guy knowledge’ to help her buy a car.

NHTSA Defect “Cleansing”
In researching Toyota’s Sienna safety-related problems for the 2006-07 Lemon-Aid Used Car and Minivan guide, due out in May, 2006, we discovered that the NHTSA is no longer listing all of the safety-related complaints on vehicles a few years old as it has done in the past. more

Diesel Future Sputtering
Lemon-Aid doesn’t recommend diesel cars and new information supports our contention that they are a risky buy. Within a year, diesel fuel will be reformulated to burn more cleanly, as is the case with diesel fuel sold in Europe. more

Ford Engine Intake Manifold Refunds
Ford of Canada has extended to Canadian owners free engine intake manifold repairs and an extended warranty following a protest lodged last December by Car Help Canada and Lemon-Aid.
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Hybrid Hype
We don’t recommend electric and gasoline engine hybrids because their fuel economy can be 40 percent worse than the automakers report, their long-term reliability is unknown, battery replacement cost is estimated to run as high as $8,000 (U.S.)
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