{"id":897,"date":"2009-01-16T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/16\/2009-1-16-this-amazing-year-buy-a-jeep-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:17","slug":"2009-1-16-this-amazing-year-buy-a-jeep-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/2009-1-16-this-amazing-year-buy-a-jeep-html\/","title":{"rendered":"This Amazing Year! &#8211; Buy A Jeep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_371.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_371.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A lovely left-aligned picture of the mighty Jeepster Commando...\" \/><\/a>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Um, oh Chrysler. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/bailout-watch-355-chrysler-extends-shutdowns-at-5-factories\/\" target=\"_blank\">not doing so well<\/a> despite Bob &#8220;Orange Apron&#8221; Nardelli&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoextremist.com\/current\/2009\/1\/14\/the-autoextremist.html\" target=\"_blank\">protestations<\/a> (scroll down) at the Detroit Auto Show otherwise. They&#8217;ve got too much inventory built up, plants are idled until, well, cars are sold to bring the inventory count down a touch, and dealers are freaking out about all the excess inventory.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, we taxpayers have given Chrysler a few billion bucks so it seems nice that they&#8217;d offer some discounts. Some? How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeep.com\/dma\/803\/index.html?zip=92549&#038;family=wrangler&#038;year=2009&#038;zip=92549#family=wrangler&#038;zip=92549\" target=\"_blank\">quite a lot of discounts<\/a>? Here&#8217;s your last chance to buy a Wrangler before Jeep is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gwI2qI0j6btDYv5zAcA2yqPO8qSg\" target=\"_blank\"> bought by Renault<\/a> again. You remember what happened <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Motors#Financial_developments.2C_Renault_involvement\" target=\"_blank\">last time<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Um, oh Chrysler. They&#8217;re not doing so well despite Bob &#8220;Orange Apron&#8221; Nardelli&#8217;s protestations (scroll down) at the Detroit Auto Show otherwise. They&#8217;ve got too much inventory built up, plants are idled until, well, cars are sold to bring the inventory count down a touch, and dealers are freaking out about all the excess &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/2009-1-16-this-amazing-year-buy-a-jeep-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Amazing Year! &#8211; Buy A Jeep!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-amazing-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}