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Tuesday, December 21, 1999

Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers President Issues Statement on EPA's Tier 2 Rule

Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers President Issues Statement on EPA's Tier 2 Rule

The following statement was released by Josephine S. Cooper, President of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, on EPA's Tier 2 rule in anticipation of an Administration announcement: ... Continue reading

Autobytel.com Auction Hits the Open Road with Specialty Cars and Motorcycles

Autobytel.com Auction Hits the Open Road with Specialty Cars and Motorcycles

Autobytel.com, the leading international automotive e-commerce services provider, today announced the inclusion of a specialty and collectible section to its recently launched auction site. ... Continue reading

Auto Club to Immediately Begin Marketing Driversshield.com Auto Discounts

Auto Club to Immediately Begin Marketing Driversshield.com Auto Discounts

First Priority Group, Inc. announced the signing of an agreement underwhich the fast-growing Driver's Shield(R) program of automotive discounts and services will be marketed by the prestigious, Auto Club of America. ... Continue reading

Autoweb.com Captures Largest Industry Audience Share

Autoweb.com Captures Largest Industry Audience Share

Autoweb.com achieved a number one ranking for unique visitors among online car buying services in November based on recent audience data from Nielsen//NetRatings. ... Continue reading

Breakthrough Modular Fluid Management System Earns Textron Nomination

Breakthrough Modular Fluid Management System Earns Textron Nomination

McCord Winn Textron, a division of Textron Automotive Company, announced that it has been named a finalist for its patented RITec(TM) innovation in the PACE(TM) (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contributions to Excellence)awards. ... Continue reading

Cimetrix Releases Projected Sales and Earnings for 2000 and 2001

Cimetrix Releases Projected Sales and Earnings for 2000 and 2001

Cimetrix Incorporated, of Salt Lake City, UT, has released estimates for earnings and sales for fiscal years 2000 and 2001. ... Continue reading

Dana Announces Agreement To Sell Australian Truckline Parts Centres

Dana Announces Agreement To Sell Australian Truckline Parts Centres

Dana Corporation announced an agreement to sell its Australian Truckline Parts Centres business to International Trucks Australia Pty Limited, a subsidiary of Italian truck manufacturer Iveco SpA, for an undisclosed sum. ... Continue reading

Dana Corporation Announces Global Restructuring Efforts

Dana Corporation Announces Global Restructuring Efforts

Dana Corporation announced the downsizing of its Structural Products facility in Reading, Pa., which, as previously discussed with the people there, will result in a workforce reduction at that facility. ... Continue reading

Delphi Earns Fiat Qualitas Award For HVAC Modules

Delphi Earns Fiat Qualitas Award For HVAC Modules

Delphi Automotive Systems has received high honors from Fiat Auto SpA for its role in supplying heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) modules to Alfa Romeo, part of the Fiat Group. ... Continue reading

Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500(R) Ranks Jiffy Lube No. 5 Franchise In The World

Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500(R) Ranks Jiffy Lube No. 5 Franchise In The World

The rankings have been released and Jiffy Lube continues its ascension as a fixture on Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 (R) list. ... Continue reading

Excelsior-Henderson Seeks Chapter 11 Protection

Excelsior-Henderson Seeks Chapter 11 Protection

Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Manufacturing Company announced that it plans to file a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota on Dec21. ... Continue reading

Ford Motor Company Promotes Safety in New Ads

Ford Motor Company Promotes Safety in New Ads

Tailgaters, aggressive drivers and people who still refuse to buckle up are safety threats to everyone on the road. ... Continue reading

Ford to Re-Air Its Global Anthem Based On Demand from the Public

Ford to Re-Air Its Global Anthem Based On Demand from the Public

Reaction to Ford Motor Company's historic global television commercial that aired in virtually every country around the world on Nov. 1 was so overwhelmingly positive the corporation has decided to air the commercial again. ... Continue reading

GM TradeXchange Launches Ahead of Schedule

GM TradeXchange Launches Ahead of Schedule

Commerce One announced that General Motors Corporation successfully conducted the automotive industry's first-ever Internet-based business-to-business auction on its GM TradeXchange web site, months ahead of schedule. ... Continue reading

Intermet Completes Acquisition of Ganton And Diversified Diemakers

Intermet Completes Acquisition of Ganton And Diversified Diemakers

Intermet Corporation announced that it has closed on the agreement with JJM, LLC, Gantec II, LLC, and Cerberus Institutional Partners, L.P., to acquire Ganton Technologies, Inc., and Diversified Diemakers, Inc. ... Continue reading

Internet Operations Center Inc. Advances Into Millennium With New Management

Internet Operations Center Inc. Advances Into Millennium With New Management

Internet Operations Center Inc., a leading Internet application services provider focused on the automotive industry, today announced the promotion of Bill Walles to president, replacing Michael Marquardt who has resigned. ... Continue reading

InvoiceDealers.com Introduces Dot-Com Retailers Into Its New-Car Marketplace

InvoiceDealers.com Introduces Dot-Com Retailers Into Its New-Car Marketplace

InvoiceDealers.com, the only new car buying service to provide instant bids from multiple dealers, announced the introduction of online (dot-com) retailers to its new-car marketplace. ... Continue reading

Liteglow Announces Big Boyz Toys Chain to Carry Majority of Liteglow's Lines

Liteglow Announces Big Boyz Toys Chain to Carry Majority of Liteglow's Lines

Lou Wiener, COO of Liteglow Industries Inc. announced that Big Boyz Toys, a 17-store automotive accessory retail chain, will carry Liteglow product throughout its stores. ... Continue reading

Liteglow Industries Inc. Reports Sales & Earnings for the Month

Liteglow Industries Inc. Reports Sales & Earnings for the Month

Lou Wiener, COO of Liteglow Industries Inc., announced sales and profit results for the month of Nov. 1999, and for the 11 months ended Nov. 30, 1999. ... Continue reading

Long Hours, Little Sleep Contribute to Drowsy Driving Crashes, Study Shows

Long Hours, Little Sleep Contribute to Drowsy Driving Crashes, Study Shows

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) studied hundreds of sleep and fatigue-related car crashes to identify the driver behavior that caused them. ... Continue reading

Morgan Assumes Council's Chairman's Responsibilities

Morgan Assumes Council's Chairman's Responsibilities

Dick Morgan, president of Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance, is the new Chairman of the Car Care Council. ... Continue reading

New Branding for Toyota Financial Services Companies

New Branding for Toyota Financial Services Companies

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and Toyota Motor Insurance Services, Inc. announced today the creation of a new unified brand identity, Toyota Financial Services (TFS). ... Continue reading

NHRA: 'Techno Tim' Gibson signs with John Force Racing for 2000 season

NHRA: 'Techno Tim' Gibson signs with John Force Racing for 2000 season

NHRA: 'Techno Tim' Gibson signs with John Force Racing for 2000 season ... Continue reading

Plan Ahead to Ensure a Safe Holiday Driving Season

Plan Ahead to Ensure a Safe Holiday Driving Season

Gov. Jim Hunt and highway safety leaders are calling for caution on North Carolina roadways this holiday season to reduce the number of traffic-related injuries and fatalities. ... Continue reading

PPG Celebrates a Decade of Sungate Automotive Windshields

PPG Celebrates a Decade of Sungate Automotive Windshields

With 1999 ending, hoopla about 2000 has overshadowed a significant automotive innovation's anniversary - the windshield's 90th birthday. In 1909, Henry Ford offered his Model T with a windshield as an option. ... Continue reading

Prab Reports 1999 Results

Prab Reports 1999 Results

Prab Inc. reports sales of $15,317,000 and a net profit of $543,000 for the year ended Oct. 31, 1999. ... Continue reading

Renault and Nissan to Study the Development in Europe Of a Joint Organization

Renault and Nissan to Study the Development in Europe Of a Joint Organization

On Tuesday December 21, 1999, Renault and Nissan, in a new step forward in their global alliance synergy, have announced a strategy to link their European sales and distribution organizations. ... Continue reading

SCCA: Boris Said returns with Steeda

SCCA: Boris Said returns with Steeda

SCCA: Boris Said returns with Steeda ... Continue reading

SCCA: Bove to make rookie run with Team Tech

SCCA: Bove to make rookie run with Team Tech

SCCA: Bove to make rookie run with Team Tech ... Continue reading

SCCA: Runner-Up Kitchak returns with a new ride

SCCA: Runner-Up Kitchak returns with a new ride

SCCA: Runner-Up Kitchak returns with a new ride ... Continue reading

SDRC Technology Sails With America True to Semi-Final Status in Race for America's Cup 2000

SDRC Technology Sails With America True to Semi-Final Status in Race for America's Cup 2000

SDRC announced that its I-DEAS software is one of the enabling technologies in America True's ability to clinch a guaranteed position in the six-boat semi-finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Races for the America's Cup. ... Continue reading

Sertapak Announces ISTA Certification

Sertapak Announces ISTA Certification

Sertapak Group Packaging Systems is pleased to announce achievement of official certification of their testing laboratory facility with ISTA, The Association for Transport Packaging (International Safe Transit Association). ... Continue reading

Spartan's Carpenter Industries Unit Expands Dealer Network

Spartan's Carpenter Industries Unit Expands Dealer Network

Carpenter Industries, Inc., the school bus subsidiary of Spartan Motors, Inc., recently added five new distributors as it continues to expand and redefine its dealer network. ... Continue reading

Special Events: Watch the LA & Detroit Auto Shows on Your Computer

Special Events: Watch the LA & Detroit Auto Shows on Your Computer

Special Events: Watch the LA & Detroit Auto Shows on Your Computer ... Continue reading

Sterling Commerce Introduces Service To Improve E-Business Reporting and Reconciliation

Sterling Commerce Introduces Service To Improve E-Business Reporting and Reconciliation

Sterling Commerce, Inc. announced a new consulting service that provides a Web interface for improving the flow of E-business information across all company and customer locations. ... Continue reading

Test Drive off-Road 3---Rumbles into stores this week

Test Drive off-Road 3---Rumbles into stores this week

Infogrames North America Inc., a leading publisher of interactive entertainment software, announced that its off-road racing game, Test Drive Off-Road 3, for the Nintendo® Game Boy Color, will begin shipping to stores this week. ... Continue reading

Top Driver Acquires Bick's Northern Driving School

Top Driver Acquires Bick's Northern Driving School

Top Driver, the nation's largest driver education company, announced that it has purchased the five-school chain of Bick's Northern Driving School based in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Continue reading

Top Shops Unite Under Certified Inspection Banner

Top Shops Unite Under Certified Inspection Banner

A special Certified Inspection meeting followed the annual Car Care Council Board of Governors meeting during Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week in Las Vegas. ... Continue reading

Toyota Echo Trek Offers Potential 'Free Ride'

Toyota Echo Trek Offers Potential 'Free Ride'

The Washington Auto Show wants to take America for a ride -- a free ride, to be exact, for one lucky consumer. ... Continue reading

Toyota Strengthens North American Operations

Toyota Strengthens North American Operations

TOYOTA announced plans to significantly strengthen its North American manufacturing and business operations by increasing the Company's North American production capacity and activating its North American holding company, Toyota Motor North America. ... Continue reading

TRW Adds Advanced Test Circuit to Swedish Test Center

TRW Adds Advanced Test Circuit to Swedish Test Center

TRW has opened an advanced "handling" circuit at its Swedish Test Center in Arvidsjaur, Sweden, this month. ... Continue reading

Union Acceptance Corporation Announces Investment Firm's Increase in Ownership

Union Acceptance Corporation Announces Investment Firm's Increase in Ownership

Union Acceptance Corporation announced that Castle Creek Capital, LLC, has acquired additional shares of Union Acceptance Corporation, through the purchase of shares by the three funds in which it is the sole general partner. ... Continue reading

Union Pacific's Reaction to Proposed Canadian National/Burlington Merger

Union Pacific's Reaction to Proposed Canadian National/Burlington Merger

The following is a statement by Union Pacific Corporation on the proposed agreement by Canadian National Railway Company and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation to combine their businesses. ... Continue reading

York International Selects HSB Registration Services

York International Selects HSB Registration Services

HSB Registration Services, a division of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, will provide global engineering services to York International Corporation, helping to integrate that company's total quality initiatives worldwide. ... Continue reading

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