1.   Browsed the classified ads for used automobiles for sale.

2.   First Merchants, which finances purchases of used automobiles by customers who have weak credit records, also blamed flat loan volume.

3.   Two years ago, post office mail cars rumbling from Vladivostok were filled with used Japanese automobiles that drivers had bought there and literally had mailed elsewhere within Russia.

4.   Police said they are now investigating whether used automobiles from Europe have also been tampered with.