Newsweek has a piece up on the non-scandal that McCain’s family owns 13 cars (four of which are imports) while Senator Obama owns one (American made).

Team Obama even felt the need to a have conference call on car-gate today:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama’s backers Sunday branded Republican John McCain as out of touch and guilty of betraying US workers after it was reported his family owns 13 cars, including several foreign models.
The Republican presidential hopeful and his family have already faced ridicule and criticism from Democrats over a property portfolio which includes seven homes.
The United Auto Workers union (UAW) accused the Arizona senator in a conference call organized by Democrats of not telling the truth about always buying American cars, as the family fleet reportedly includes a Honda and a Volkswagen.

Talking about cars, the NY Times had a piece on the taxpayer-financed cars of House members, including Democrat Greg Meeks, who drives a taxpayer-funded Lexus, Democrat Maurice Hinchey, who drives a taxpayer-funded BMW, and Democrat Alcee Hastings, who drives a taxpayer-funded Infiniti. Charles Rangel, who enjoys the use of several rent-controlled apartments in New York City, drives a Cadillac at taxpayers’ expense.

But back to the Obamaweek scoop. Obama only started driving the Ford Hybrid listed in the Newsweek article in July of this year. Before the Ford, Obama was driving, according to Businesweek, a Canadian-built Chrysler 300C:

And Senator Barack Obama drives a Canadian-built Chrysler 300C sedan, which gets 20 mpg, hardly a green choice. His campaign has a flex-fuel GMC Yukon. It’s U.S. and UAW-built, but gets 17 mpg on gas and even less using e85. Environmentalists may scowl. But it can’t hurt to have a car that uses ethanol in Iowa.

So the candidate of change began with changing his car for the campaign.