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Tom's Foreign Auto Parts Speaks With eBay at the IT Show

admin@tomsforeign.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:06:08 +0100

PDF Presentation slides featuring the Tom's case study PDF Presentation

First I'd like to say thanks to all that were involved in this years IT show at Chuck and Eddies in Southington CT. It was a great time for everyone involved. We were involved in a lot of the Internet things being shown. Frooition presented and mentioned us a few times in the presentation. Hotlines released their E-Commerce platform at the show that we had a hand in developing with them (itRead More...

Understanding Auto Insurance

admin@tomsforeign.com — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:25:09 +0100

The growth of auto insurance companies is directly linked to growth of the auto industry in India. The booming car industry from the last decade resulted in increased volume of car insurance business. Hence many private insurance companies also have entered the fray and are offering services. According to Indian law, vehicles have to be compulsorily insured before they venture on to the road. A auto insurance term is one year after which it has to be renewed for another year.

Buying a insuranRead More...

Apple iPhone: Fan or Hater?

sales@tomsforeign.com — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:01:27 +0100

So I want to talk about the Apple iPhone today and to see what you think about it and to give you my own personal thoughts on the phone. I personally couldn’t live without it. Also I want to know what you think about it and the phones you personally like and why.

I have oRead More...

Fiat Bids For GM Operations

admin@tomsforeign.com — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:28:16 +0100

Fiat is gunning for General Motors after almost taking over Chrysler. Fiat is ready to take on the Opel brand of cars currently owned by GM, which will enhance the Italian company’s profile as a world leader. It could also take over GM’s traditional rivals the Japanese and Korean car manufacturers.

Till the year 2003, Fiat was incurring loses continuously, but in a major turnaround after that it was posting profits every year. In a surprise move, the Italian car manufacturerRead More...

Small cars get bad marks on crash tests.

sales@tomsforeign.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The insurance industry has tested smaller cars in head on crashes with bigger cars to test how "extreme" crashes effect drivers in the smaller cars. The cars tested were the Smart Fortwo, Toyota Yaris, and Honda Fit. The cars were pitted against bigger cars in the series to see how they faired in an "extreme" crash. Well as we can all assume the high speed head on crashes were not good for the smaller cars.

The first of the three is the Smart fortwo, against the MerRead More...

Jimmy and Tommy Love their bacon

admin@tomsforeign.com — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

They like bacon so much, they made their own song about it.

Check it out here Jimmy and Tommy's Bacon Video

People prefer angry faced cars >:O

sales@tomsforeign.com — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

A new study states that people prefer angry faced cars. The study used a rating called a "power scale." The BMW 5 series rated high on the power scale where the cute and cuddly Toyota Prius rated low on the power scale. It seems that a study of 20 men and 20 woman rating 38 passenger car models see faces in the cars that were studied as do I, I have seen plenty of cars that have a distinguished face in the front end, and i'm sure most of you have too! The study was done on pasRead More...

Hybrid price war between Prius and Insight

sales@tomsforeign.com — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Toyota release the new price cut for its popular Toyota Prius to match the Honda Insight. With the current Insight model starting at $19,800 in the u.s. Akihiko Otsuka Toyota's chief engineer was testing the Prius and said it is really fun to drive and handled the curvy course very well. He claims that the prius will start 2,000 to 4,000 less than the 22,000 starting price Prius. Which if true when the new model comes out will be less/at the same price as the already popular Honda IRead More...

Tom's Foreign joins 1877endoflifevehicles.com

admin@tomsforeign.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

We've been part of 1877 End Of Life Vehicles.com for a while now. We serve a nice region of CT. Their site and service is really starting to take off nation wide so I wanted to take some time to explain what they do and how we work with them.

1877 End Of Life Vehicles.com is a nationwide site for Junk and unwanted vehicle removal. Basically when you've got a car to get rid of, you fill out the form and a company like us will pick it up the vehicle for free and either pay you moneRead More...

Tom's Foreign Auto Parts - New Website

admin@tomsforeign.com — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Welcome to our newly launched website. At the time of writing (3-23-09) We're sill putting the finishing touches on the site. It'll be a few weeks before the site is 100% done and functional.

So this post is just an introduction to give you an idea of who we are and what we're doing. Feel free to move around the site also and get a feel for it. We hope you like what you see!

So we're Tom's Foreign Auto Parts. We're located in down town Waterbury CT. We're an automotiveRead More...