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1999 Star Mazda Central Series

1999 Star Mazda Central Series

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1999 Star Mazda Southwestern Series

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ABB Wins US$ 140-Million Order for GT26 Gas Turbines in the U.K.

ABB Wins US$ 140-Million Order for GT26 Gas Turbines in the U.K.

ABB has been awarded a contract to supply power generating equipment for a privately-financed 775-megawatt combined-cycle power plant in the U.K. ... Continue reading

AimRite Holdings Corporation Approves Project with General Motors

AimRite Holdings Corporation Approves Project with General Motors

AimRite Holdings Corporation is pleased to announce that it has approved a project proposed by a division of General Motors. ... Continue reading

AMA: Ramsey Wins AMA 125 Supercross Shootout

AMA: Ramsey Wins AMA 125 Supercross Shootout

AMA: Ramsey Wins AMA 125 Supercross Shootout ... Continue reading

April Marks Continued Sales Success For Mitsubishi Motors

April Marks Continued Sales Success For Mitsubishi Motors

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc. announced a 23% increase in year-to-date sales, along with the expectation of continuing its strong sales pace for the rest of the year. ... Continue reading

ASHA Corp. Name Changed to McLaren Automotive Group, Inc.

ASHA Corp. Name Changed to McLaren Automotive Group, Inc.

Following application to NASDAQ for a new symbol reflecting the corporate name change from ASHA Corporation to McLaren Automotive Group, Inc., the Company has received confirmation that the new symbol will be MCLN. ... Continue reading

AT&T Wins $12 Million Contract from Advance Auto Parts

AT&T Wins $12 Million Contract from Advance Auto Parts

Advance Auto Parts, a leading auto-parts retailer, has awarded AT&T a three-year, $12 million contract to provide frame relay, a high-speed digital data service, at hundreds of locations nationwide. ... Continue reading

BMW Reports Record Sales

BMW Reports Record Sales

BMW of North America, Inc. continued to out-perform all import luxury passenger car competitors, with year-to-date sales of 50,033, compared to 43,406 automobiles sold during the first four months of 1998. ... Continue reading

Carlisle Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

Carlisle Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

The Board of Directors of Carlisle Companies Incorporated declared a regular quarterly dividend of $.16 per share, payable on June 1, 1999 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 17, 1999. ... Continue reading

CART: The Road to Rio

CART: The Road to Rio

CART: The Road to Rio ... Continue reading

Cooper Tire Annual Meeting

Cooper Tire Annual Meeting

COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY presented a review of financial highlights for 1998 and first quarter 1999 along with an update on operations at the annual meeting of stockholders. ... Continue reading

Dana's Spicer Light Axle Group Earns Circle of Excellence Award

Dana's Spicer Light Axle Group Earns Circle of Excellence Award

The Spicer Light Axle Group of Dana Corporation has earned the 1999 Circle of Excellence Award presented by the Indiana Regional Minority Supplier Development Council (IRMSDC). ... Continue reading

Delphi to Issue Unsecured Notes and Debentures

Delphi to Issue Unsecured Notes and Debentures

Delphi Automotive Systems announced that it had completed the sale of $500m in principal amount of its 6 1/8% Notes due 2004, $500m in principal amount of its 6 1/2% Notes due 2009 and $500m in principal amount of its 7 1/8% Debentures due 2029. ... Continue reading

Discount Auto Parts Shoppers to Win Up to $4 Million

Discount Auto Parts Shoppers to Win Up to $4 Million

Discount Auto Parts shoppers will have the chance to win one of four $1 million grand prizes based on their ability to guess the correct order of drivers placing in the top five of the "Pepsi 400 at Daytona" NASCAR Winston Cup race. ... Continue reading

Edelbrock Corp. Reports Strong Improvement in Sales for Fiscal 1999 Q3

Edelbrock Corp. Reports Strong Improvement in Sales for Fiscal 1999 Q3

Edelbrock Corp. reported that surging demand for three product lines led to significantly improved sales performance in its fiscal 1999 third quarter and nine months ended March 25, 1999. ... Continue reading

Exide and Pep Boys Expand Pact to Include Western Retail Sales

Exide and Pep Boys Expand Pact to Include Western Retail Sales

Exide Corporation announced that it has expanded its agreement with Pep Boys, the nation's leading automotive aftermarket retail and service chain, to include its western stores. ... Continue reading

General Motors Selects Goodyear as 'Supplier of the Year'

General Motors Selects Goodyear as 'Supplier of the Year'

General Motors said it will recognize The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company today as one of its global Suppliers of the Year for 1998. ... Continue reading

Goodyear to Help Victims of Oklahoma, Kansas Tornadoes

Goodyear to Help Victims of Oklahoma, Kansas Tornadoes

Responding to the devastation caused by powerful tornadoes that hit Oklahoma and Kansas yesterday, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company offered its assistance. ... Continue reading

Infanticide Case Filed Against Volkswagen

Infanticide Case Filed Against Volkswagen

One of the most horrendous acts of ethnic cleansing that occurred during the Nazi Regime is the focus of a class-action lawsuit filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. ... Continue reading

InMold Corp. Reports Strong 1999 Q3 Results In Initial Reporting Period

InMold Corp. Reports Strong 1999 Q3 Results In Initial Reporting Period

InMold Corp. reported strong fiscal 1999 third quarter earnings in its initial reporting period. Sales for the third quarter of $3.6 million generated operating earnings of $344,500. Net income was $150,000, or $.03 per share. ... Continue reading

Insilco Holding Co. Reports First Quarter 1999 Results

Insilco Holding Co. Reports First Quarter 1999 Results

Insilco Holding Co. reported sales and results for its first quarter ended March 31, 1999. ... Continue reading

Integrated Transportation Opens Rental Operation in Nanning, Guangxi

Integrated Transportation Opens Rental Operation in Nanning, Guangxi

Integrated Transportation Network Group Inc. announced the opening of its newest car rental operation, Guangxi Jinzhenghua Transport Ltd., in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China on March 28, 1999. ... Continue reading

International Fuel Technology Inc. Holds Annual Shareholders' Meeting

International Fuel Technology Inc. Holds Annual Shareholders' Meeting

International Fuel Technology Inc. held its annual shareholders meeting on April 26, 1999, in Las Vegas. ... Continue reading

IRL: Get-Well Card, Toys Encouraged for Injured Fan

IRL: Get-Well Card, Toys Encouraged for Injured Fan

IRL: Get-Well Card, Toys Encouraged for Injured Fan ... Continue reading

Jaguar's New S-TYPE On Sale Now

Jaguar's New S-TYPE On Sale Now

Jaguar Cars' new luxury sports sedan, the S-TYPE, goes on sale throughout North America today. ... Continue reading

Lear Corporation Acquires United Technologies Automotive

Lear Corporation Acquires United Technologies Automotive

Lear Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of United Technologies Automotive, the former subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, for $2.3 billion. ... Continue reading

Local Student Techs Square Off in State Auto Repair Championship

Local Student Techs Square Off in State Auto Repair Championship

FORD/AAA Student Auto Skills, a fast-paced, hands-on contest to diagnose and repair deliberately "bugged" 1999 Ford vehicles. ... Continue reading

LUCOR Inc. Announces Completion of Acquisition

LUCOR Inc. Announces Completion of Acquisition

LUCOR Inc. announced that the company had completed the acquisition of 73 additional Jiffy Lube units. ... Continue reading

Motor Club of America Announces First Quarter Results

Motor Club of America Announces First Quarter Results

Motor Club of America announced its first quarter results for the period ended March 31, 1999. ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Bobby Hamilton/Dana Chelsea Racing Notes

NASCAR Trucks: Bobby Hamilton/Dana Chelsea Racing Notes

NASCAR Trucks: Bobby Hamilton/Dana Chelsea Racing Notes ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Butch Miller racing notes for Memphis

NASCAR Trucks: Butch Miller racing notes for Memphis

NASCAR Trucks: Butch Miller racing notes for Memphis ... Continue reading

NASCAR-WCUP: Citgo Racing - Weekly Update Following the California 500

NASCAR-WCUP: Citgo Racing - Weekly Update Following the California 500

NASCAR-WCUP: Citgo Racing - Weekly Update Following the California 500 ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Eddie Jarvis: A Driver & Friend Nobody Knows

NASCAR WCUP: Eddie Jarvis: A Driver & Friend Nobody Knows

Eddie Jarvis: A Driver & Friend Nobody Knows ... Continue reading

NHRA: Mac Scores Big Win for Gumout

NHRA: Mac Scores Big Win for Gumout

NHRA: Mac Scores Big Win for Gumout ... Continue reading

Nissan Announces Appointment of Jed Connelly

Nissan Announces Appointment of Jed Connelly

Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA), announced the appointment of Jed Connelly as vice president and general manager, Nissan Division after reluctantly accepting the resignation of Michael J. Seergy, former head of the division. ... Continue reading

Outdoor Enthusiasts Experience Summer Camp Like Never Before

Outdoor Enthusiasts Experience Summer Camp Like Never Before

Now in its fifth year -- taking place for the first time east of the Mississippi -- Camp Jeep(TM) is set for August 6-8 at the historic Oak Ridge Estate, near Charlottesville, Virginia and the Wintergreen Resort. ... Continue reading

Polk Dealer Marketing Manager Introduced

Polk Dealer Marketing Manager Introduced

Responding to automotive dealer requests for a comprehensive, in-house marketing tool, The Polk Company introduced its Polk Dealer Marketing Manager product. ... Continue reading

Porsche's Strong U.S. Sales Continue for April with 11% Increase

Porsche's Strong U.S. Sales Continue for April with 11% Increase

Porsche Cars North America, importer and distributor of Porsche sports cars in the United States announced sales and stock figures for the month of April 1999. ... Continue reading

Rexhall Industries, Inc. Announces Record Sales for 1st Quarter 99

Rexhall Industries, Inc. Announces Record Sales for 1st Quarter 99

Rexhall Industries, Inc. announced record preliminary sales for the quarter ended March 31, 1999 of $22.2 million up 56% from $14.2 million for March 31, 1998. ... Continue reading

Richland Students Win State Auto Repair Championship

Richland Students Win State Auto Repair Championship

A team of two students from Richland High School combined detailed knowledge of high-tech automotive repair and fast- paced teamwork to win the Washington state finals of the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills contest. ... Continue reading

Shoreline Pacific Manages $10M Private Placement for Excelsior-Henderson

Shoreline Pacific Manages $10M Private Placement for Excelsior-Henderson

Shoreline Pacific Institutional Finance, Institutional Division of Financial West Group, announced it has arranged a $10 million private placement with two institutional investors for Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Manufacturing Co. ... Continue reading

South Carolina Trucking Association Supports Hollings' Toll Relief Bill

South Carolina Trucking Association Supports Hollings' Toll Relief Bill

The South Carolina Trucking Association (SCTA) announced its support for The Interstate Tolls Relief Act of 1999 (S. 947), a bill introduced this week by US Senators Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ). ... Continue reading

Spatial's Deformable Modeler a Global Success

Spatial's Deformable Modeler a Global Success

Spatial Technology Inc., the world's leading developer of open, component 3D modeling technology, announced the ongoing global success and broad acceptance of its Deformable Modeling technology. ... Continue reading

SpeeDee Oil Change & Tune-Up Secures $14 Million in Financing

SpeeDee Oil Change & Tune-Up Secures $14 Million in Financing

SpeeDee Oil Change & Tune-Up announced that Franchise Finance Corporation of America (FFCA) has provided $14-Million in financing for the development of 21 automotive service locations. ... Continue reading

Speedway Motorsports Elects Jack Kemp to Board of Directors

Speedway Motorsports Elects Jack Kemp to Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. elected Jack Kemp as its newest member. ... Continue reading

Strategic Vision Finds Only 1 in 10 Vehicle Buyers Impacted by Problems

Strategic Vision Finds Only 1 in 10 Vehicle Buyers Impacted by Problems

Defects in 1999 models are less likely than ever to mar new car buyers overall satisfaction with their purchase, according to Strategic Vision, Inc. ... Continue reading

Strongest Sales Month Ever In Europe For Chrysler and Jeep

Strongest Sales Month Ever In Europe For Chrysler and Jeep

The successful European launch of the award-winning 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee led DaimlerChrysler Corporation's Chrysler and Jeep(R) brands to an all-time record in Europe, where sales were up 16 percent for the month. ... Continue reading

Technology Will Increase Truck Safety

Technology Will Increase Truck Safety

Technology will continue to hold the promise for improving truck safety, Freightliner President and CEO James L. Hebe testified at recent hearings in Washington, D.C. ... Continue reading

Tracks: Bloomington Speedway's Opening Night Includes Street Stock Double Feature

Tracks: Bloomington Speedway's Opening Night Includes Street Stock Double Feature

Tracks: Bloomington Speedway's Opening Night Includes Street Stock Double Feature ... Continue reading

USAC: Stiles Pledges May 12 Speedrome Gate Receipts to 'The Care Fund' for Charlotte Victims

USAC: Stiles Pledges May 12 Speedrome Gate Receipts to 'The Care Fund' for Charlotte Victims

USAC: Stiles Pledges May 12 Speedrome Gate Receipts to 'The Care Fund' for Charlotte Victims ... Continue reading

Visteon Utica Plant and UAW Team Up with Goodwill Industries

Visteon Utica Plant and UAW Team Up with Goodwill Industries

Visteon Automotive Systems and Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit have joined forces in a unique partnership that will help protect the environment while providing work experience for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. ... Continue reading

Visual Productions Inc. Honored With Award

Visual Productions Inc. Honored With Award

Visual Productions Inc. (VPI), a tier one supplier of integrated marketing services has received a Gold Pentastar award from DaimlerChrysler for its marketing programs with the former Chrysler Corporation. ... Continue reading

ZAP Hosts Annual Meeting May 16

ZAP Hosts Annual Meeting May 16

Electric bike and scooter manufacturer ZAP Power Systems announced a general meeting of the shareholders Sunday, May 16, 1999 in Sebastopol, California. ... Continue reading

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