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Friday, November 12, 1999

2000 Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Voyager Named 'Consumers Digest' 'Best Buys'

2000 Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Voyager Named 'Consumers Digest' 'Best Buys'

For the twelfth year in a row, "Consumers Digest" magazine named Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Voyager as "Best Buys" in its annual December buyer's guide issue. ... Continue reading

ARCA: Sixty ARCA drivers entered for Georgia Boot 400

ARCA: Sixty ARCA drivers entered for Georgia Boot 400

ARCA: Sixty ARCA drivers entered for Georgia Boot 400 ... Continue reading

AT&T and Motorola Join With NETS to Educate Drivers

AT&T and Motorola Join With NETS to Educate Drivers

To help drivers focus on the important task of driving, AT&T Wireless Services, Motorola, and the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety are teaming to develop an educational campaign to teach drivers strategies and techniques to manage potential distractions. ... Continue reading

Aura Has Agreements to Complete Financial Restructure, Refocuses Company On AuraGen

Aura Has Agreements to Complete Financial Restructure, Refocuses Company On AuraGen

Aura Systems, Inc. announced that it has finalized all agreements necessary to allow it to go forward with the completion of its financial restructure. ... Continue reading

Automotive Telematics 'Hotter Than a Jalapeno in a Heatwave'

Automotive Telematics 'Hotter Than a Jalapeno in a Heatwave'

The U.S. automotive telematics market is poised for explosive growth, according to The Strategis Group's new study, U.S. Telematics Marketplace: 1999. ... Continue reading

BAT International CEO Discusses Company Strategy

BAT International CEO Discusses Company Strategy

BAT International announced that it is taking the unusual step of participating in a popular Internet forum on the World Wide Web. ... Continue reading

'Car and Driver' Salutes 100 Years of Off-The-Wall Automotive History

'Car and Driver' Salutes 100 Years of Off-The-Wall Automotive History

With the end of the century at our feet, "best of" lists are hitting us square in the face. Not to be undone, "Car and Driver" editors have culled 100 of their own interesting but generally unheralded automotive newsmakers of the 20th Century. ... Continue reading

CART: Final Driver Point Standings

CART: Final Driver Point Standings

CART: Final Driver Point Standings ... Continue reading

Cascade Engineering Gets Quick Results With QAD's ECommerce Solution

Cascade Engineering Gets Quick Results With QAD's ECommerce Solution

QAD announced that Cascade Engineering has successfully completed a rapid nine-site implementation of QAD applications with an e-commerce message conversion system within 12 months. ... Continue reading

Chevy/Vettefest Nationals Car Show/Swap Meet

Chevy/Vettefest Nationals Car Show/Swap Meet

Chicago's "CHEVY/VETTEFEST NATIONALS," The World's largest indoor Chevrolet and Corvette Car Show, Car Sale, and Swap Meet will be held Saturday, November 20th and Sunday, November 21st from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at McCormick Place's East building. ... Continue reading

Daewoo Powers Through Mexican Desert to Capture First Ever Baja Victory

Daewoo Powers Through Mexican Desert to Capture First Ever Baja Victory

With thousands of spectators cheering on, the Daewoo Korando tackled hundreds of miles of the most inhospitable Mexican desert terrain to win the Stock Mini category at the 32nd annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. ... Continue reading

DaimlerChrysler Reports Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of Nov 15, 1999

DaimlerChrysler Reports Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of Nov 15, 1999

DaimlerChrysler Corporation reports all nine U.S. assembly plants and all three Canadian assembly plants will operate the week of November 15, 1999. ... Continue reading

DaimlerChrysler Wins Award For Minority Business Practices

DaimlerChrysler Wins Award For Minority Business Practices

DaimlerChrysler was recognized for its outstanding efforts in minority supplier sourcing at the First Annual Awards Dinner of the National Coalition of Minority Businesses in Washington, D.C. ... Continue reading

DCR Assigns 'A-' to General Motors' Yen-denominated Global Notes

DCR Assigns 'A-' to General Motors' Yen-denominated Global Notes

Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (DCR) has assigned a 'A-' (Single A-Minus) debt rating to General Motors Corporation's newly issued 50 billion Yen of five-year, fixed 1.25 percent global notes. ... Continue reading

Eaton Agrees to Sell $400 Million of Debt Securities

Eaton Agrees to Sell $400 Million of Debt Securities

Eaton Corporation announced that it has entered into an underwriting agreement with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Chase Securities Inc. to sell $250 million of 6.95 percent notes due Nov 2004 and $150 million of 7.65% debentures due Nov 2029. ... Continue reading

Excal Enterprises Reports Improved Second Quarter Pretax Income

Excal Enterprises Reports Improved Second Quarter Pretax Income

Excal Enterprises, Inc. reported income before income taxes of $92,199 for the second fiscal quarter ended September 30, 1999 compared with a pretax loss of $99,034 for the corresponding three months last year. ... Continue reading

Exide Announces Quarterly Dividend

Exide Announces Quarterly Dividend

Members of the Exide Corporation Board of Directors have voted a corporate cash dividend for its second fiscal quarter of $.02 per share of common stock, payable December 2, 1999, to shareholders of record on November 22, 1999. ... Continue reading

Federal-Mogul Receives Outstanding Corporation of the Year

Federal-Mogul Receives Outstanding Corporation of the Year

Federal-Mogul Corporation will accept the Outstanding Corporation of the Year Award for its community activities presented by the Greater Detroit Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. ... Continue reading

Ford Appoints Lewis Booth President - Ford Asia Pacific Operations

Ford Appoints Lewis Booth President - Ford Asia Pacific Operations

Lewis Booth, Group Managing Director of the South Africa Motor Corporation (SAMCOR), has been appointed President, Asia Pacific and Africa Operations for Ford Motor Company. ... Continue reading

Formula One: Final Driver points standings

Formula One: Final Driver points standings

Formula One: Final Driver points standings ... Continue reading

Goodyear Revises its Third Quarter Financial Results Upward

Goodyear Revises its Third Quarter Financial Results Upward

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company said that previously announced financial results have been revised for the periods ended Sept. 30, 1999. ... Continue reading

HK Systems, Inc. Software "In Production" at Keystone Automotive

HK Systems, Inc. Software "In Production" at Keystone Automotive

HK Systems(R) announced that Keystone Automotive Industries recently migrated HK Systems' SCM/Enterprise Financial Management System -- Accounts Payable and General Ledger software modules into live production at their headquarters. ... Continue reading

Hyundai Offers San Diego Residents the First Blind Test Drive

Hyundai Offers San Diego Residents the First Blind Test Drive

Experience the first blind test drive (a la The Pepsi Challenge) as Hyundai Motor America dares consumers to compare its cars with another leading automaker's. ... Continue reading

Indy Racing League: Final Driver points standings

Indy Racing League: Final Driver points standings

Indy Racing League: Final Driver points standings ... Continue reading

IRL: 1999 IRL Champion Greg Ray Interacts with IRLCentral.com

IRL: 1999 IRL Champion Greg Ray Interacts with IRLCentral.com

IRL: 1999 IRL Champion Greg Ray Interacts with IRLCentral.com ... Continue reading

IRL: Pep Boys Indy Racing League Weekly Notebook

IRL: Pep Boys Indy Racing League Weekly Notebook

IRL: Pep Boys Indy Racing League Weekly Notebook ... Continue reading

Just in Time for the Holidays: Budget Rent a Car Gift Certificates

Just in Time for the Holidays: Budget Rent a Car Gift Certificates

Don't know what to get Uncle Eddie this year for the holidays? What about Grampa Ted, the man who has everything? Sound familiar? ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz All New 2000 S-Class Continues To Garner Awards

Mercedes-Benz All New 2000 S-Class Continues To Garner Awards

The all-new 2000 Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan was selected as a winner of Popular Science's 1999 Best of What's New award. ... Continue reading

Midas Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.02 Per Share Payable Jan. 1, 2000

Midas Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.02 Per Share Payable Jan. 1, 2000

The board of directors of Midas, Inc. has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.02 per share on the company's outstanding stock, payable Jan. 1, 2000, to stockholders of record at the close of business on Dec. 15, 1999. ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: 2000 Racing Schedule Announced

NASCAR BGN: 2000 Racing Schedule Announced

NASCAR BGN: 2000 Racing Schedule Announced ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Casey Atwood Looks Back on the 1999 Season

NASCAR BGN: Casey Atwood Looks Back on the 1999 Season

NASCAR BGN: Casey Atwood Looks Back on the 1999 Season ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Driver Standings with one race remaining

NASCAR BGN: Driver Standings with one race remaining

NASCAR BGN: Driver Standings with one race remaining ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Ron Parker closes doors on MGM Brakes sponsored racing shop

NASCAR BGN: Ron Parker closes doors on MGM Brakes sponsored racing shop

NASCAR BGN: Ron Parker closes doors on MGM Brakes sponsored racing shop ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Final Driver Point Standings

NASCAR Trucks: Final Driver Point Standings

NASCAR Trucks: Final Driver Point Standings ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: David Green grabs the pole for Cup race in Homestead

NASCAR WCUP: David Green grabs the pole for Cup race in Homestead

NASCAR WCUP: David Green grabs the pole for Cup race in Homestead ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Driver Standings with two races remaining

NASCAR WCUP: Driver Standings with two races remaining

NASCAR WCUP: Driver Standings with two races remaining ... Continue reading

NHRA: Amato leads qualifying at 35th Automobile Club of Southern California Finals

NHRA: Amato leads qualifying at 35th Automobile Club of Southern California Finals

NHRA: Amato leads qualifying at 35th Automobile Club of Southern California Finals ... Continue reading

NHRA: Driver Standings with one race remaining

NHRA: Driver Standings with one race remaining

NHRA: Driver Standings with one race remaining ... Continue reading

NHRA: Troy Off To A Good Start ; Jeg Will Focus On Improving Tomorrow

NHRA: Troy Off To A Good Start ; Jeg Will Focus On Improving Tomorrow

NHRA: Troy Off To A Good Start ; Jeg Will Focus On Improving Tomorrow ... Continue reading

Raceline

Raceline

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Rexhall Continues Record Growth, Reports Best-Ever Third Quarter Results

Rexhall Continues Record Growth, Reports Best-Ever Third Quarter Results

Rexhall Industries, Inc. posted a 30 percent increase in net earnings in the third quarter ended September 30, 1999, driven by growing market penetration in the Class A RV market. ... Continue reading

SPE to Honor Industry's First Complete Roof System

SPE to Honor Industry's First Complete Roof System

An innovative roof module program developed by Meritor for DaimlerChrysler has been honored as a finalist for The Society of Plastics Engineers annual award for Most Innovative Use of Plastics in the process and enabling technology category. ... Continue reading

State Auto Financial Corporation Announces Regular Cash Dividend

State Auto Financial Corporation Announces Regular Cash Dividend

The board of directors of State Auto Financial Corporation declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.0275 per share, payable December 30, 1999, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 13, 1999. ... Continue reading

TRACKS: Jax Raceways Continues Season Ending Events

TRACKS: Jax Raceways Continues Season Ending Events

TRACKS: Jax Raceways Continues Season Ending Events ... Continue reading

Transmission Technologies Named Idealease Component Supplier of the Year

Transmission Technologies Named Idealease Component Supplier of the Year

Idealease Inc., a national leasing agent for medium- and heavy- duty vehicles, has presented Transmission Technologies Corporation (TTC) with its 1999 Component Supplier of the Year Award. ... Continue reading

UAW President Yokich Comments on Appointment of Peter J. Pestillo

UAW President Yokich Comments on Appointment of Peter J. Pestillo

UAW President Stephen P. Yokich issued the following comment on the appointment of Peter J. Pestillo as Chairman and CEO of Visteon: ... Continue reading

Universal Automotive Acquires Assets of Total Brake Industries, Inc.

Universal Automotive Acquires Assets of Total Brake Industries, Inc.

Universal Automotive Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of certain assets of Total Brake Industries, Inc. located in Walkerton, Virginia. ... Continue reading

Winter Car Care and Driving Tips That Save Money, Energy and Help the Environment

Winter Car Care and Driving Tips That Save Money, Energy and Help the Environment

Winter cold and snow create difficult operating conditions for you and your automobile. In addition to performing routine maintenance and using quality products, this is the season for extra preparation and care. ... Continue reading

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