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Friday, September 11, 1998

ARCA: Steele Withdraws from Salem, Texas Races

ARCA: Steele Withdraws from Salem, Texas Races

ARCA: Steele Withdraws from Salem, Texas Races ... Continue reading

Autoliv Strengthens Position in South Africa

Autoliv Strengthens Position in South Africa

Autoliv Inc., a worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, has made its joint venture Autoflug S.A. in South Africa a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Group by acquiring the remaining 51% of the shares from the other partner. ... Continue reading

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 37

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 37

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 37 ... Continue reading

BMW Launches Integrated Campaign Showcasing

BMW Launches Integrated Campaign Showcasing

As BMW introduces a completely new generation of the benchmark 3 Series, a new integrated marketing campaign dramatizes how the world's quintessential sports sedan has gotten even better. ... Continue reading

Carrier North American Operations Announces Key Business Initiative

Carrier North American Operations Announces Key Business Initiative

Carrier Corporation has recently completed two transactions in support of a key North American business initiative to respond to the changing market environment more efficiently. ... Continue reading

CART: Drivers Continue the Tradition of Mercedes

CART: Drivers Continue the Tradition of Mercedes

CART: Drivers Continue the Tradition of Mercedes ... Continue reading

Chrysler Reports Assembly Plants Schedule For Week of 9/14/98

Chrysler Reports Assembly Plants Schedule For Week of 9/14/98

Chrysler Corporation reports all nine U.S. assembly plants and all three Canadian assembly plants will operate the week of September 14, 1998. ... Continue reading

College Students Across America Begin Evaluation of New Daewoo

College Students Across America Begin Evaluation of New Daewoo

Thousands of college students across America will start tooling around their 400-plus respective campuses in a new car manufactured by Daewoo Motor. ... Continue reading

Consolidation Forces Auto Battery Market to Refocus

Consolidation Forces Auto Battery Market to Refocus

According to strategic new research conducted by Frost & Sullivan, U.S. Automotive Battery Aftermarket, growth is stable but slow. Approximately 59.9 million batteries were sold in 1997, and revenues amounted to nearly $1.9 billion. ... Continue reading

Crew Chief Club at the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400

Crew Chief Club at the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400

Crew Chief Club at the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 ... Continue reading

Daewoo Motor America Partnering With debis for Retail Financing

Daewoo Motor America Partnering With debis for Retail Financing

Daewoo Motor America Inc. announced that it has signed a long- term agreement with debis Financial Services Inc., an arm of Daimler-Benz InterServices AG. ... Continue reading

DCR Rates Paragon Auto Receivables Owner Trust 1998-B

DCR Rates Paragon Auto Receivables Owner Trust 1998-B

Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. has assigned ratings issued by Paragon Auto Receivables Owner Trust 1998-B. ... Continue reading

F1: Stewart-Ford Preview for the Italian Grand Prix

F1: Stewart-Ford Preview for the Italian Grand Prix

F1: Stewart-Ford Preview for the Italian Grand Prix ... Continue reading

Ford Executive Biographies

Ford Executive Biographies

Ford Motor Company released the bios of Alex Trotman, William Clay Ford, Jr., and Jacques A. Nasser: ... Continue reading

Ford's Alex Trotman to Retire Jan. 1, 1999

Ford's Alex Trotman to Retire Jan. 1, 1999

Alex Trotman, Ford Motor Company chairman, president and chief executive officer, has announced that he will retire on Jan. 1, 1999, after 43 years with the company. ... Continue reading

Ford Withdraws From Auction for Kia and Asia Motors

Ford Withdraws From Auction for Kia and Asia Motors

Ford Motor Company is withdrawing from the auction for Kia Motors and Asia Motors of South Korea, Ford Vice Chairman Wayne Booker announced. ... Continue reading

Frost and Sullivan Executive Summary: U.S. Automotive Battery Aftermarket

Frost and Sullivan Executive Summary: U.S. Automotive Battery Aftermarket

This report focuses on the aftermarket for lead acid batteries for passenger cars and light trucks. Replacement demand generated by all vehicles--cars, pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, vans, and minivans--with a gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000 pounds or less is included. ... Continue reading

GenCorp Board Declares Dividend

GenCorp Board Declares Dividend

The Board of Directors of GenCorp Inc. declared a quarterly cash dividend of fifteen cents per share on the issued and outstanding 10c par value common stock of the company payable November 30, 1998 to shareholders of record on November 2,1998. ... Continue reading

INDYLIGHTS: Dorricott Racing Looking for Back-to-Back Successes

INDYLIGHTS: Dorricott Racing Looking for Back-to-Back Successes

INDYLIGHTS: Dorricott Racing Looking for Back-to-Back Successes ... Continue reading

IRL: Lone Star 500 Fast Facts

IRL: Lone Star 500 Fast Facts

IRL: Lone Star 500 Fast Facts ... Continue reading

IRL: Robbie and Robby Looking Forward to Lone Star 500

IRL: Robbie and Robby Looking Forward to Lone Star 500

IRL: Robbie and Robby Looking Forward to Lone Star 500 ... Continue reading

Japan's Auto Manufacturers Stay on Clean Air Track

Japan's Auto Manufacturers Stay on Clean Air Track

Japan's automobile industry is looking beyond its immediate economic situation by facing the global environmental challenge. ... Continue reading

Monaco Finance Announces Strategic Initiatives

Monaco Finance Announces Strategic Initiatives

Monaco Finance, Inc., a sub-prime automobile lender, announced strategic initiatives intended to bolster the Company's expansion. ... Continue reading

NASCAR-WCUP: Goodyear Tire Notes for the NASCAR Events at Richmond International Raceway

NASCAR-WCUP: Goodyear Tire Notes for the NASCAR Events at Richmond International Raceway

NASCAR-WCUP: Goodyear Tire Notes for the NASCAR Events at Richmond International Raceway ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: LJ Racing Number 91 Chevy Picks up Sponsorship

NASCAR WCUP: LJ Racing Number 91 Chevy Picks up Sponsorship

NASCAR WCUP: LJ Racing Number 91 Chevy Picks up Sponsorship ... Continue reading

Navistar Formally Announces Distribution of International Trucks

Navistar Formally Announces Distribution of International Trucks

Navistar International Corporation, formally announces the start of its distribution of International(R) brand medium and heavy trucks to customers in Brazil. ... Continue reading

NHRA: Team Pennzoil has Strong Ties to Reading Track

NHRA: Team Pennzoil has Strong Ties to Reading Track

NHRA: Team Pennzoil has Strong Ties to Reading Track ... Continue reading

NOSTALGIA-OWNING BRITISH CARS LONG AGO

NOSTALGIA-OWNING BRITISH CARS LONG AGO

NOSTALGIA-OWNING BRITISH CARS LONG AGO ... Continue reading

Rouge Industries, Inc. Declares Q3 Dividend

Rouge Industries, Inc. Declares Q3 Dividend

Rouge Industries, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors approved a third quarter cash dividend in the amount of three cents ($0.03) per share payable on October 23, 1998 to shareholders of record at the close of business on 10/9/98. ... Continue reading

Special Events: The Great American Race Fair, ARL Reunion Party

Special Events: The Great American Race Fair, ARL Reunion Party

Special Events: The Great American Race Fair, ARL Reunion Party ... Continue reading

SPX's Contech Business Receives Contract

SPX's Contech Business Receives Contract

SPX Corporation announced its Contech division has been awarded a three-year contract to supply aluminum, magnesium and zinc die-cast components to Visteon Automotive Systems, an enterprise of Ford Motor Company. ... Continue reading

Support of Advanced Air Bag Technology Rulemaking Widespread

Support of Advanced Air Bag Technology Rulemaking Widespread

The CEOs of the nation's leading automobile insurance companies and the American automobile manufacturers met at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Vehicle Research Center here September 10, 1998. ... Continue reading

UAW Local 1832 Recesses Peterbilt Strike

UAW Local 1832 Recesses Peterbilt Strike

The UAW Local 1832 Bargaining Committee voted to recess the strike against Peterbilt Motors and notify the corporation that UAW-Peterbilt workers are available immediately and unconditionally to return to work. ... Continue reading

UAW Michigan CAP Endorses Fieger, Agee, Granholm, Parks

UAW Michigan CAP Endorses Fieger, Agee, Granholm, Parks

The General Board of the UAW Michigan Community Action Program has voted to endorse Geoffrey Fieger for Governor, James Agee for Lt. Governor, Jennifer Granholm for Attorney General, and Mary Lou Parks for Secretary of State. ... Continue reading

Ward's Reports Estimated Production

Ward's Reports Estimated Production

Vehicle production in them U.S., Canada and Mexico is expected to hit an estimated 239,060 units this week, down from the 327,007 cars and trucks built a week ago, according to Ward's Automotive Reports. ... Continue reading

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