{"id":3637,"date":"2008-11-13T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2008-11-13T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T10:17:25","slug":"why-triumph-aston-martin-and-leyland-are-so-powerful-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"Why Triumph, Aston Martin and Leyland Are So Powerful These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dems push for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081112\/ap_on_go_co\/auto_bailout\">the fed gobbling up a stake in the Big Three automakers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressional Democrats are pushing legislation to send $25 billion in emergency loans to the beleaguered auto industry in exchange for a government ownership stake in the Big Three car companies.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1226531436_0\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/span>, D-Calif., and <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1226531436_1\">Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid<\/span>, D-Nev., hope for quick passage of the auto bailout during a postelection session that begins Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the British auto industry went through a similar (in many respects) process starting around 40-odd years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note the British auto industry&#8217;s powerful position in the world car market &#8211; and the fearsome reputation they had for quality during their nationalized years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dems push for the fed gobbling up a stake in the Big Three automakers: Congressional Democrats are pushing legislation to send $25 billion in emergency loans to the beleaguered auto industry in exchange for a government ownership stake in the Big Three car companies. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}