By Makiko Kitamura and Tetsuya Komatsu | Bloomberg
March 4 (Bloomberg) — Honda Motor Co., suffering from a 38 percent plunge in U.S. auto sales in February, may ask to borrow money from Japan’s government to lend to U.S. car buyers.
The amount of the loans and timing of the request to the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation haven’t yet been determined, spokeswoman Akemi Ando said by phone today. Mazda Motor Corp. is also considering a request for government loans, spokesman Toyota Tanaka said today.
Honda and Mazda would follow Toyota Motor Corp., Japan’s biggest carmaker, in seeking loans from the government as the global recession hammers auto demand. U.S. auto sales in February slid to the lowest rate since December 1981, led by a 53 percent plunge for General Motors Corp.
“Things look pretty grim at present,” said Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research Corp. in Tokyo, which manages $3.1 billion. “By the end of the year, the year-on-year figures should start improving unless the world economy gets much worse.”
My turn to say what everybody says in these situations.
Why is the most responsible journalism — you know, with fact checking and such — coming from Comedy Central?
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Aqualad08
Honey, I swear, I probably got it when I was playing beer pong at Joey’s the other night…put down the knife, please! Seriously, the was a report on FOX news about it…why would I lie? Why would THEY lie?
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Zifnab
Keep this segment in mind whenever you see any reporting on Fox News:
Man, I wish it was just Fox. The entire news media went into a feeding frenzy on this. Fox’n’Friends just managed to win the title of Biggest Asshat in the Asshat Parade.
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Tsulagi
Now the RSSF battle plan makes sense. They’re counting on their balls bacteria covertly taking out the targets. That’s the hidden genius.
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R. Porrofatto
Official test for "BPH": a Pabst smear.
(Well that’s what Fox just told me.)
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Svensker
Shouldn’t we be able to work in a teabagging reference here?
Beer Pong seems to require a very elaborate setup for a drinking game.
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned Quarters?
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Brain Hertz
The real message that Fox should have been promoting would be to make sure that the beer is IPA. It has more hops in it, which kills the bacteria on the ball.
T Paine
Bacteria balls. Mmmmmm….
Throwin Stones
That is frakkin funny.
dmsilev
Bacteria on the ball? This isn’t another Limbaugh post, is it?
-dms
kid bitzer
there’s also the minor detail that herpes is a virus, and so not a bacteria at all.
but that won’t bother fox news.
El Cid
Unrelated: I expect imminent apologies from the League of Traitorous Republican Southern Senators to U.S. auto companies and the UAW:
Free market! Damn UAW! $70/hr! Inefficient! Welfare! Socialism!
Cris
My turn to say what everybody says in these situations.
Why is the most responsible journalism — you know, with fact checking and such — coming from Comedy Central?
Aqualad08
Honey, I swear, I probably got it when I was playing beer pong at Joey’s the other night…put down the knife, please! Seriously, the was a report on FOX news about it…why would I lie? Why would THEY lie?
Zifnab
Man, I wish it was just Fox. The entire news media went into a feeding frenzy on this. Fox’n’Friends just managed to win the title of Biggest Asshat in the Asshat Parade.
Tsulagi
Now the RSSF battle plan makes sense. They’re counting on their balls bacteria covertly taking out the targets. That’s the hidden genius.
R. Porrofatto
Official test for "BPH": a Pabst smear.
(Well that’s what Fox just told me.)
Svensker
Shouldn’t we be able to work in a teabagging reference here?
Incertus
I just loved that herpes got turned into Doocys at some point in that segment.
Apsaras
Welcome to Fox News, where we hire a busty doctor to tell people not to eat stuff that hit the floor.
Why are these people so opposed to the quote unquote nanny state? They really look like they could benefit from it.
TenguPhule
Because reality has surpassed parody.
Stannate
I like the Tay Zonday reference at the end.
JGabriel
Beer Pong seems to require a very elaborate setup for a drinking game.
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned Quarters?
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Brain Hertz
The real message that Fox should have been promoting would be to make sure that the beer is IPA. It has more hops in it, which kills the bacteria on the ball.
Oh, yes, almost forgot. What the f!ck?
Royston Vasey
Now don’t confuse this sexually transmitted disease with herpes simplex 1. Herpes simplex 1 are facial cold sores!!
The strain of herpes complex type 2 (HVP) is a sexually transmitted disease of the genitals, and is transmitted by direct skin contact.
Hmmm, I thought this was common knowledge. Obviously not.
RV
jane
awww shit, chocolate rain!