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Hot Wheels to recall over 90% of models

For Hot Wheels, strong sales during the festive season should have marked an end to the bleak outlook for investors during the downturn. However, there were rumours at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show earlier this month that disgruntled employees were set to lift the lid on some dark secrets that had been brewing behind closed doors.

Then, yesterday afternoon, a whistle blowing employee dropped the bombshell that there are allegedly steering defects in nine out of ten models to leave the production line. This has still to be confirmed, but the saftety implications have already rocked consumer confidence, with those who acquired a Hot Wheels auto-mobile within the last few months demanding answers from the embattled Mattel subsidiary.

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Challenging everything

If you know me well enough, you’ll know I like to give myself challenges. These can range from something ultimately trivial – such as collecting wrist bands, to something exceptionally trivial – such as not listening to Bohemian Rhapsody for a year.

Sometimes they can have important health benefits, like doing more cycling or switching to soya milk. Other times they can be to help me learn something, like my abandoned places photography challenge which is both ongoing and designed to help me get better at taking pictures. Much of the time they’re just for fun, but if I can mix it up and improve myself in some way, so much the better.

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The post a week challenge

After not really posting much  content on here for the last couple of years, I’ve decided to take on the WordPress Post a Week Challenge to try and increase my output for 2011.

I’d slipped more into  the style of posting less frequent, larger articles and fell into the trap of feeling a bit daunted at the  thought of writing a big piece of content, which in turn would lead me to put off posting anything at all. It was a bit of a vicious circle, so I’m hoping this challenge will get me back in the habit.

So, I can’t guarantee the content will be any good, but I’m going to try and post something at least once every seven days for the duration of 2011. The fact that this is the first one is a bit of a cop-out, but the way I see it the quality can only improve from now on. 😉

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