Why No Posting

Sorry for the long delay in posting to my blog.

Several things have happened.

First Honda's legal department has notified me that I was in trademark violation by using www.accordmania.com as my web site name. They also did not like the picture of a Honda Accord on the home page.

While I don't agree with them about a possible trademark violation, I'm a little guy and I can't afford to go to court to resolve the issue.

So I basically parked the web site and began work on a couple of others.

I now have wwww.autogrillcraft.com which sells Grillcraft grills, and bull bars among other things.

I am working on www.v2powerintakes.com which will sell only AEM performance parts. This includes their complete line of air intakes and related products along with all of their electronic performance gear.

Speaking of performance parts, I've just started, but not yet loaded any products, for a company named Nology. They make parts that also are performance oriented, such as special spark plugs, spark plug wires and different devices to tune you car to the max.

Lastly, I started a new blog. It's at www.v2powerintakes.blogspot.com.

Please drop by and make a comment or two.

Thanks for visiting.

Dennis

No Sales Tax

Sorry for the lack of blogs in the past few months. My wife and I have been very busy in getting our house in San Diego ready for sale/showing it/ and at last selling same.

Then we moved up to Coos Bay, Oregon and lived in a motel for a few days and then moved into a rental house. Living out of boxes.

Spent just a little time looking around and found a home to purchase. Today escrow closed and we will be moving in next week.

One important fact is that I will no longer be charging sales tax to California residents on purchases. Why? Simple, Oregon does not have a sales tax. I have lost some business to my competition because they could sell the same product at 9% cheaper than I could to California residents. Now we are even.

More details later.

J. D. Power and Associates Automotive Ratings

In today's business section of the San Diego Union-Tribune was the J.D. Power and Associates rating of long-term dependability. Their results are based on a survey of 52,000 owners of 2007 model year vehicles.

So of course my first impression is ok, but what about newer cars? I guess I will have to wait until 2013 to find out the ratings for the 2010 models. Not picking on the survey, just a thought that came to mind.

Anyway, what were the results?

Overall the problems per 100 dropped from 167 last year to 155 for these. That's a great step in the right direction. For individual brands and models here are some of findings:

From 9th last year Porsche came in as number one.

Toyota fell two spots from its former third place finish. This of course is before all of the current problems. Looks like something is happening at this company for the past few years. American cars have been moving up while Buick and Jaguar fell along with the Toyota.

So how did our favorite brand Honda do? Well not as good as would have liked to see, but they were first in three different categories.

Honda's Fit was number one in Subcompacts, the Honda CR-V in Compact SUV's and the Ridgeline in Mid-Size pickups. The Accord did not win this time around.

The good news for me of course was the showing of the Honda Fit. I'm still in the process of trying to purchase one when I move to Oregon. More info on the next blog.

Thanks for visiting.

www.autogrillcraft.com


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