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Ford enlists James Franco, Rob Riggle for pre-Super Bowl ad

The wizards of Dearborn have decided to forego purchasing time during the Super Bowl and instead are running a 90-second Ford Fusion Hybrid spot between the coin toss and the kickoff, according to our colleagues at Automotive News. Polymath James Franco stars as Rob Riggle in the above teaser. There is a tiger.

Car dealers are buying again

Used car sales in the UK (and just about everywhere else, for that matter) have been in the doldrums, to say the least, for many months. The inexorable decline in car values has left many dealers nursing painful losses on stock cars, and has led to the strange situation where, however desperate a dealer was to sell you a new car, he wouldn’t (or couldn’t) offer you a part-ex price. Car dealers are buying stock again But according to the used car value Gurus at Glasses Guide, things are starting to look up – a little.

AUTO SALES: GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota drag industry to 36% decline

General Motors, Ford Motor Co., American Honda and Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. all reported sales declines of more than 31 percent in December as the U.S. auto industry capped its worst year since 1992.