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Friday, June 12, 1998

A Better Way: Five Star Dealers Redefine Automotive Retailing At Chrysler Corporation

A Better Way: Five Star Dealers Redefine Automotive Retailing At Chrysler Corporation

Beginning in 1998, Chrysler Corporation and its franchised dealers -- Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge, Dodge Truck, and Jeep(R) -- took a giant leap into the future by redefining the way cars are sold and serviced. ... Continue reading

AMA: 500 Foot Hill to Challenge Riders, Thrill Spectators

AMA: 500 Foot Hill to Challenge Riders, Thrill Spectators

AMA: 500 Foot Hill to Challenge Riders, Thrill Spectators ... Continue reading

AMA Dirt Trackers Return to Thunder in the Hills

AMA Dirt Trackers Return to Thunder in the Hills

AMA Dirt Trackers Return to Thunder in the Hills ... Continue reading

APS Holding Corporation Announces Overhaul of its Business Operations

APS Holding Corporation Announces Overhaul of its Business Operations

APS Holding Corporation announced today that it is undertaking a restructuring of its business operations. Included is closure of underperforming stores. ... Continue reading

Autocam Honored as 1997 GM Supplier of the Year

Autocam Honored as 1997 GM Supplier of the Year

Kentwood, Michigan-based Autocam Corporation announced that it will receive General Motors' 1997 Supplier of the Year Award in a ceremony at its Kentwood headquarters on June 16. ... Continue reading

Autoliv Doubles Steering Wheel Sales and Forms New Division

Autoliv Doubles Steering Wheel Sales and Forms New Division

Autoliv Inc., a worldwide leader in automotive safety, has decided to strengthen its organization for steering wheels by creating a new division, Autoliv Steering Wheels , to coordinate its rapidly expanding global steering wheel business. ... Continue reading

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 24

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 24

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 24 ... Continue reading

CART: Driver Standings Through June 12

CART: Driver Standings Through June 12

CART: Driver Standings Through June 12 ... Continue reading

Cooper Industries Disagrees With Decision in AlliedSignal Case

Cooper Industries Disagrees With Decision in AlliedSignal Case

Cooper Industries, Inc. said that it disagrees with the verdict in a case involving spark plug manufacturing processes. The jury's verdict was announced this morning in the Wilmington, Delaware, court where the case was heard. ... Continue reading

Decoma Announces Fiscal Results and Strategic Update

Decoma Announces Fiscal Results and Strategic Update

Decoma International Inc. (TSE:DEC.A;NASDAQ:DECAF) today announced its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended April 30, 1998. ... Continue reading

Dura Automotive Systems, Inc. Completes Offering

Dura Automotive Systems, Inc. Completes Offering

Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., announced it has completed an offering of 4,413,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $32.75. Of the total shares offered, 3,100,000 were sold by the company and 1,313,000 were sold by selling stockholders. ... Continue reading

EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Mitsubishi is Settled

EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Mitsubishi is Settled

UAW representatives today issued the following statement on the settlement of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's sexual harassment lawsuit against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America. ... Continue reading

Fitch IBCA To Rate Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust

Fitch IBCA To Rate Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust

Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust's 1998-C $258,000,000 5.588% class A-1 money market asset-backed notes are expected to be rated 'F1+' by Fitch IBCA. ... Continue reading

GNB's Top Selling Trailblazer(R) Gets Tougher

GNB's Top Selling Trailblazer(R) Gets Tougher

The newly-designed Trailblazer features an advanced venting system available, reconfigured side terminals to allow the battery to fit more SUVs, a new handle for easier installation, and new label and case designs mirroring the global image of new vehicle styling. ... Continue reading

IROC: Road to Indy Heads through Michigan for IROC Drivers

IROC: Road to Indy Heads through Michigan for IROC Drivers

IROC: Road to Indy Heads through Michigan for IROC Drivers ... Continue reading

Magna Announces Class A Subordinate Voting Share Offering

Magna Announces Class A Subordinate Voting Share Offering

Magna International Inc. announced that it has filed with each securities commission in Canada and in the US a preliminary short form prospectus and a registration statement under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System for the issue of 3.5 million Class A Subordinate Voting Shares. ... Continue reading

Michigan Unemployment Agency Waives Work Registration for GM Workers

Michigan Unemployment Agency Waives Work Registration for GM Workers

General Motors workers displaced by the parts shortage created by the labor dispute in Flint will not have to register for work when they apply for unemployment benefits. ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Driver Standings Through June 12

NASCAR BGN: Driver Standings Through June 12

NASCAR BGN: Driver Standings Through June 12 ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Kenseth Sets Top Speed in Lycos.com Qualifying

NASCAR BGN: Kenseth Sets Top Speed in Lycos.com Qualifying

NASCAR BGN: Kenseth Sets Top Speed in Lycos.com Qualifying ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Driver Standings Through June 12

NASCAR Trucks: Driver Standings Through June 12

NASCAR Trucks: Driver Standings Through June 12 ... Continue reading

NASCAR: Ward Burton Grabs Miller Lite 400 Pole

NASCAR: Ward Burton Grabs Miller Lite 400 Pole

NASCAR: Ward Burton Grabs Miller Lite 400 Pole ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Driver Standings Through June 12

NASCAR WCUP: Driver Standings Through June 12

NASCAR WCUP: Driver Standings Through June 12 ... Continue reading

NHRA: Driver Standings Through June 12

NHRA: Driver Standings Through June 12

NHRA: Driver Standings Through June 12 ... Continue reading

Nordstrom Samson Associates Receives ISO 9001 Certification

Nordstrom Samson Associates Receives ISO 9001 Certification

Nordstrom Samson Ass. has successfully completed their ISO 9001 registration. In achieving this prestigious recognition, NSA becomes one of only a handful of full service architectural & engineering firms in the nation to achieve this accomplishment. ... Continue reading

Nostalgia Motorcars Inc. to Enter Into Importation and Sales of Automobiles

Nostalgia Motorcars Inc. to Enter Into Importation and Sales of Automobiles

Nostalgia Motorcars Inc. formerly Arnexan, Inc., intends to import and certify new Volkswagen classic Beetles for sale and rental in the North American marketplace. ... Continue reading

Official Starting Grid, Michigan ARCA 200

Official Starting Grid, Michigan ARCA 200

Official Starting Grid, Michigan ARCA 200 ... Continue reading

Pep Boys IRL Teams Eager for Information During Dover Open Test

Pep Boys IRL Teams Eager for Information During Dover Open Test

Pep Boys IRL Teams Eager for Information During Dover Open Test ... Continue reading

Practice Times from Mid Ohio, NTB Trans-Am Series

Practice Times from Mid Ohio, NTB Trans-Am Series

Practice Times from Mid Ohio, NTB Trans-Am Series ... Continue reading

S&P Affirms Nissan Motor Ratings; Off CreditWatch

S&P Affirms Nissan Motor Ratings; Off CreditWatch

Standard & Poor's today affirmed its triple-'B'-minus long-term ratings and 'A-3' short-term ratings of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and related entities. At the same time, the ratings were removed from CreditWatch, where they were placed May 21, 1998. ... Continue reading

TRANS-AM: BFGoodrich Trans-Am, Mid-Ohio Preview

TRANS-AM: BFGoodrich Trans-Am, Mid-Ohio Preview

TRANS-AM: BFGoodrich Trans-Am, Mid-Ohio Preview ... Continue reading

Transcom To Receive A$5.6 Million To Commercialize Technology

Transcom To Receive A$5.6 Million To Commercialize Technology

Transcom International Limited today announced it will receive A$5.6 million to accelerate its commercialization programs for the Company's proprietary automotive and communications technologies. ... Continue reading

UAW Strikes at Delphi East in Flint, Michigan

UAW Strikes at Delphi East in Flint, Michigan

UAW Local 651 members at the Delphi East plant in Flint, Michigan went on strike at 7 p.m. this evening over unresolved health and safety, subcontracting and production standards issues. ... Continue reading

US Road Racing Classic at Mid-Ohio: USRRC Entry List

US Road Racing Classic at Mid-Ohio: USRRC Entry List

Official entry list for the US Road Racing Championship event at Mid-Ohio. June 14, 1998, U.S. Road Racing Classic Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. ... Continue reading

USRRC: Practice Times from Mid Ohio, Can-Am/GT Championship

USRRC: Practice Times from Mid Ohio, Can-Am/GT Championship

USRRC: Practice Times from Mid Ohio, Can-Am/GT Championship ... Continue reading

USRRC: Visteon Panoz Racing Team Practice Notes and Quotes

USRRC: Visteon Panoz Racing Team Practice Notes and Quotes

USRRC: Visteon Panoz Racing Team Notes and Quotes ... Continue reading

Ward's Reports Estimated Production

Ward's Reports Estimated Production

Vehicle production in the U.S., Canada and Mexico is expected to hit an estimated 310,962 units this week, a decrease of 8.5 percent from the 339,784 cars and trucks built a week ago, according to Ward's Automotive Reports. ... Continue reading

Weight Watchers & Buick Regal Announce Member-Of-The-Year Winner

Weight Watchers & Buick Regal Announce Member-Of-The-Year Winner

Weight Watchers and Buick have selected Mary Ellen Fernandez, of Dearborn, Mich., as their "Member of the Year." For her effort, she was awarded a two-year lease on a special-edition 25th Anniversary Buick Regal. ... Continue reading

Winston Cup Teams to Test at Road Atlanta

Winston Cup Teams to Test at Road Atlanta

Winston Cup Teams to Test at Road Atlanta ... Continue reading

WoO: Outlaws Rained Out at Bloomington Speedway

WoO: Outlaws Rained Out at Bloomington Speedway

WoO: Outlaws Rained Out at Bloomington Speedway ... Continue reading

Work Stoppages At Delphi Automotive Systems Discussed

Work Stoppages At Delphi Automotive Systems Discussed

The work stoppage at the GM Flint Metal Center is in its seventh day today with the main issue being non-competitive work practices in the engine cradle area. ... Continue reading

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