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Tuesday, November 10, 1998

2 of Every 3 Hondas Sold in U.S To Be Low Emission Vehicles For 1999

2 of Every 3 Hondas Sold in U.S To Be Low Emission Vehicles For 1999

Nearly two-thirds of all Honda vehicles sold in the U.S. will be equipped with advanced low emission technology during the 1999 model year, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. announced. ... Continue reading

AAA Reminds Motorists to Ready Vehicles for Winter

AAA Reminds Motorists to Ready Vehicles for Winter

While technology has greatly improved vehicle quality and reliability, AAA warns motorists against viewing their cars as maintenance free -- especially with winter approaching. ... Continue reading

Aasche Transportation Services, Inc. Announces Q3 Revenues

Aasche Transportation Services, Inc. Announces Q3 Revenues

Aasche Transportation Services, Inc. announced revenues, operating income and earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 1998. Revenues for the quarter were $29.5M, an 88% increase as compared to $15.7M for the same period in 1997. ... Continue reading

Acura New Car Review: Acura 3.5RL Navigation (1998) New Car Prices for Acura

Acura New Car Review: Acura 3.5RL Navigation (1998) New Car Prices for Acura

Acura New Car Review: Acura 3.5RL Navigation (1998) New Car Prices for Acura ... Continue reading

Awesome Year for Ford Trucks: Two Million in Record Time

Awesome Year for Ford Trucks: Two Million in Record Time

Customers lifted Ford Motor Company's 1998 U.S. truck sales past the two million mark today, the earliest date that any company has reached that milestone. ... Continue reading

BULLHIDE Liner Corp. 2nd Quarter Revenues Up 263% Over 1997

BULLHIDE Liner Corp. 2nd Quarter Revenues Up 263% Over 1997

BULLHIDE Liner Corp. announced that sales for the FY 1998 2nd quarter ending September 30, 1998 were $480,198. This is an increase of 263% over revenues for the 2nd quarter of FY 1997, which were $132,000. ... Continue reading

Dana Rolling Chassis System Named Finalist for 1999 Pace Awards

Dana Rolling Chassis System Named Finalist for 1999 Pace Awards

Dana Corporation announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the 1999 Automotive News PACE(TM) Award for its innovative Rolling Chassis(TM) vehicular module system. ... Continue reading

David Knall Elected to Board of Directors of FinishMaster

David Knall Elected to Board of Directors of FinishMaster

FinishMaster Inc. announced that David W. Knall, senior managing director of McDonald & Company, has been elected to its board of directors. ... Continue reading

Details OEM Participation at SEMA Show

Details OEM Participation at SEMA Show

Once thought of as a group of trashy products that would void your warranty and ruin your car, the SEMA membership has grown to an industry which grosses more than $18B annually. ... Continue reading

F2000: Highcroft's Andy Lally Honored with Mid-Ohio School Award

F2000: Highcroft's Andy Lally Honored with Mid-Ohio School Award

F2000: Highcroft's Andy Lally Honored with Mid-Ohio School Award ... Continue reading

Indian Motorcycle Estate Beneficiaries from Viewing New Prototype

Indian Motorcycle Estate Beneficiaries from Viewing New Prototype

About 200 members of the Indian Motorcycle receivership estate were prohibited yesterday by court order from viewing the new Indian Motorcycle prototype developed by Eller Industries, Inc. ... Continue reading

Infiniti and Motor Trend Magazine Gear Up for High-Octane Partnership

Infiniti and Motor Trend Magazine Gear Up for High-Octane Partnership

Infiniti has announced an integrated marketing partnership with Motor Trend magazine to jointly promote the automaker's involvement with the Indy Racing League (IRL) and the publication's 50th anniversary. ... Continue reading

Motorcar Parts & Accessories, Inc. Reports Q2 Results

Motorcar Parts & Accessories, Inc. Reports Q2 Results

Motorcar Parts & Accessories,Inc. reported results for the three and six months ended September 30, 1998. ... Continue reading

Motorola and AMP Announce Joint Development Centre

Motorola and AMP Announce Joint Development Centre

Motorola and AMP Incorporated together announced they will create a joint development center which will develop and market intelligent connection devices for the automotive sector. ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Sam's Town Race Results, Las Vegas

NASCAR Trucks: Sam's Town Race Results, Las Vegas

NASCAR Trucks: Sam's Town Race Results, Las Vegas ... Continue reading

NHRA: Pennzoil Inks Deal with Collins Racing

NHRA: Pennzoil Inks Deal with Collins Racing

BUSINESS: Pennzoil Inks Deal with Collins Racing ... Continue reading

NHRA: Rookie Top Fuel Driver Makes Second NHRA Appearance

NHRA: Rookie Top Fuel Driver Makes Second NHRA Appearance

NHRA: Rookie Top Fuel Driver Makes Second NHRA Appearance ... Continue reading

Nissan Announces Financial Results For First Half Of Fiscal Year

Nissan Announces Financial Results For First Half Of Fiscal Year

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced the company's non-consolidated financial results for the first half (April 1 - September 30, 1998) of the fiscal year ending March 31, 1999. ... Continue reading

Nosbusch to Lead Control Systems Unit of Rockwell

Nosbusch to Lead Control Systems Unit of Rockwell

Rockwell International Corporation, the electronic controls and communications company, announced that Keith D. Nosbusch has been appointed president, Rockwell Automation Control Systems, reporting to Rockwell's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. ... Continue reading

Soligen Strengthens Its Management Team

Soligen Strengthens Its Management Team

Soligen Technologies Inc. announced the hiring of Kevin A. Charbonneau as vice president of sales, and the appointment of Charles W. Lewis to the newly created position of vice president of quality assurance. ... Continue reading

Sprint Network Speeds Credit Approval for BMW Customers

Sprint Network Speeds Credit Approval for BMW Customers

Imagine walking into your local BMW dealership, choosing the make and model of your new car, and applying for credit, all at the touch of a button. Prospective customers are doing it every day with the BMW InfoBahn system. ... Continue reading

Standard & Poor's Rates Falcon Auto Lease

Standard & Poor's Rates Falcon Auto Lease

Standard & Poor's assigned its single-'A' rating to Falcon Auto Lease Securitization Trust 1998-B auto lease backed notes and its triple-'B' rating to the trust's auto lease backed certificates. ... Continue reading

Tenneco Automotive New Title Sponsor for the Detroit Grand Prix

Tenneco Automotive New Title Sponsor for the Detroit Grand Prix

Tenneco Automotive and IMG Motorsports jointly announced that Tenneco Automotive has assumed title sponsorship of the Grand Prix of Detroit. ... Continue reading

Texan Wins Valvoline Winston Cup Ford Taurus

Texan Wins Valvoline Winston Cup Ford Taurus

The Valvoline Company dropped into Dripping Springs, Texas, to put the tiny town on the map and make resident Scott Davis the envy of auto racing fans around the world. ... Continue reading

Titan Motorcycle Teams With Shelby American

Titan Motorcycle Teams With Shelby American

Titan Motorcycle Co. of America announced an agreement with Shelby American, Inc., producer of the legendary Cobra Roadster, to jointly develop a limited edition companion motorcycle to the new Series One Shelby motorcar. ... Continue reading

TRW and Simula Agree to Develop and Market Inflatable Seat Belts

TRW and Simula Agree to Develop and Market Inflatable Seat Belts

TRW and Simula, Inc. announced that they have signed a long-term agreement to develop and market Simula's innovative inflatable seat belt technology known as the inflatable tubular torso restraint (ITTR). ... Continue reading

TRW Introduces New IT Service for Enterprise Resource Planning

TRW Introduces New IT Service for Enterprise Resource Planning

TRW has introduced SelectSource(TM), a new service designed to support customers implementing Baan Company enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. ... Continue reading

Turbodyne Signs First Supply Contract With Waste Disposal Company

Turbodyne Signs First Supply Contract With Waste Disposal Company

Turbodyne Technologies Inc. announced that a supply contract has been signed with MarBorg Industries, the largest waste management company serving Santa Barbara County, Calif. ... Continue reading

UTC Names Robert Harris Vice President, Executive Education

UTC Names Robert Harris Vice President, Executive Education

United Technologies Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. Robert S. Harris as its vice president, executive education and development. ... Continue reading

Westar Financial Services Adds New Senior Vice President - Finance

Westar Financial Services Adds New Senior Vice President - Finance

Westar Financial Services Incorporated, a prime-credit auto lender and lessor, announced that Warren Kornfeld, formerly Vice President of The Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), has joined the company as Senior Vice President -- Finance. ... Continue reading

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