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AAA Michigan Offers Online Quotes in 5 Minutes or Less

AAA Michigan Offers Online Quotes in 5 Minutes or Less

Consumers can get an auto insurance quote online from Auto Club Insurance Association (ACIA) in about five minutes, using AAA Michigan's new "real-time" insurance quote feature at http://www.aaamich.com . ... Continue reading

Acura 3.2TL Navigation (2000)

Acura 3.2TL Navigation (2000)

Acura 3.2TL Navigation Review ... Continue reading

AMA: EA Sports Supercross Series, Bank On Ballpark, Phoenix Race Results

AMA: EA Sports Supercross Series, Bank On Ballpark, Phoenix Race Results

AMA EA SPORTS SUPERCROSS SERIES BANK ONE BALLPARK, PHOENIX, ARIZONA - JANUARY 29, 2000 ... Continue reading

AMETEK Names Stephen Hoiles as VP and GM Of Test & Calibration Instruments

AMETEK Names Stephen Hoiles as VP and GM Of Test & Calibration Instruments

AMETEK Inc. announced that the Board of Directors has elected Mr. Stephen N. (Nick) Hoiles, Vice President and General Manager of AMETEK's Test & Calibration Instruments Division, effective immediately. ... Continue reading

Analogy Reports Fiscal Third Quarter Results

Analogy Reports Fiscal Third Quarter Results

Analogy, Inc. announced its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 1999. ... Continue reading

Aura Audit Completed; SEC Filings to Be Brought Current

Aura Audit Completed; SEC Filings to Be Brought Current

Aura Systems, Inc. announced that its independent auditors have completed the audit for its fiscal year ended Feb. 28, 1999. ... Continue reading

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 5 YEAR 2000

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 5 YEAR 2000

AUTO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR WEEK 5 YEAR 2000 ... Continue reading

Baker Reaches Definitive Agreement for Sale of Heavy and Highway Unit

Baker Reaches Definitive Agreement for Sale of Heavy and Highway Unit

Michael Baker announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with A & L, Inc. for the sale to A & L of assets and certain contracts of Baker Heavy and Highway, Inc., the company's transportation construction subsidiary. ... Continue reading

Baldor Receives 'Product of the Year' Award

Baldor Receives 'Product of the Year' Award

Baldor Electric Company markets, designs, and manufactures electric motors and drives and is based in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Today Baldor made the following announcements. ... Continue reading

Ballard Files Registration Statement and Prospectus for Public Offering of Common Shares

Ballard Files Registration Statement and Prospectus for Public Offering of Common Shares

Ballard Power Systems announced that it has filed aregistration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a preliminary short form prospectus in all provinces of Canada in connection with a public offering of Common Shares. ... Continue reading

Budget Group Names Davis as VP, Financial Planning & Analysis

Budget Group Names Davis as VP, Financial Planning & Analysis

Budget Group, Inc., which owns Budget Rent a Car Corporation and Ryder TRS, today announced the appointment of Dave Davis, 33, as its vice president, Financial Planning and Analysis. ... Continue reading

Buick Century (2000)

Buick Century (2000)

Buick Century Review ... Continue reading

CIBER Gets CarsDirect.com Financial Systems Up and Running in `Internet Time'

CIBER Gets CarsDirect.com Financial Systems Up and Running in `Internet Time'

CIBER, Inc. recently completed a 12-week softwareimplementation for CarsDirect.com's financial systems, enabling the pioneering automotive e-tailer to get its enterprise software up and running and thereby supporting its rapid, ongoing growth. ... Continue reading

Cummins Announces Management Change in Filtration Business

Cummins Announces Management Change in Filtration Business

Cummins Engine Co. Inc. announced that M. David Jones, Cummins' Vice President - Filtration and President of Cummins' filtration business unit, which includes Fleetguard, Inc., and Nelson Industries, Inc., will retire from the Company. ... Continue reading

Inside Motorsports

Inside Motorsports

Inside Motorsports ... Continue reading

IRL: Jaques Lazier awaiting release from Orlando hospital

IRL: Jaques Lazier awaiting release from Orlando hospital

IRL: Jaques Lazier awaiting release from Orlando hospital ... Continue reading

IRL: Robbie Buhl Pits Early...Wins Late!!

IRL: Robbie Buhl Pits Early...Wins Late!!

IRL: Robbie Buhl Pits Early...Wins Late!! ... Continue reading

Lear Appoints Cynthia Henderson Ford Division Vice President - Quality

Lear Appoints Cynthia Henderson Ford Division Vice President - Quality

Lear announced the appointment of Cynthia Henderson as Vice President - Quality for the Ford Division. ... Continue reading

Materials, Design, Featured at Auto & Transportation Interiors Expo

Materials, Design, Featured at Auto & Transportation Interiors Expo

Exciting recent trends in automotive interiors -- from materials and electronics technologies to design -- will be highlighted in the seventh annual Automotive & Transportation Interiors Expo, May 16-18, 2000 at Cobo Center in Detroit. ... Continue reading

Mercury General Corporation Increases Dividend 14.3%

Mercury General Corporation Increases Dividend 14.3%

Mercury General Corporation announced that its Board of Directors, on January 28, 2000, declared a first quarter dividend of $.24, an annual rate of $.96, representing a 14.3% increase over the rate paid in 1999. ... Continue reading

Murata Electronics Certified to ISO 14001

Murata Electronics Certified to ISO 14001

Murata Electronics North America, a world-leading innovator in electronics, announced that its State College, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility is certified to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard. ... Continue reading

NASCAR: Martin Back to Defend Bud Shootout Win

NASCAR: Martin Back to Defend Bud Shootout Win

NASCAR: Martin Back to Defend Bud Shootout Win ... Continue reading

NHRA: Amato Has New Car, Rules for Pomona

NHRA: Amato Has New Car, Rules for Pomona

Informed Sources: Amato's Tribute to 'Peanuts' Finale ... Continue reading

Oshkosh Truck Names Bohn Chairman

Oshkosh Truck Names Bohn Chairman

Oshkosh Truck Corporation announced that Robert G. Bohn has been named chairman of the board, succeeding Daniel T. Carroll. Carroll will remain a member of the Oshkosh board of directors. ... Continue reading

Platform Racing Game Reviews: Sega Rally 2

Platform Racing Game Reviews: Sega Rally 2

Review of Sega's Rally 2 game for the Dreamcast platform. ... Continue reading

Pontiac Sunfire GT Coupe (2000)

Pontiac Sunfire GT Coupe (2000)

Pontiac Sunfire GT Coupe Review ... Continue reading

Restructuring Program Continues At National Car Rental

Restructuring Program Continues At National Car Rental

In a move to further maximize efficiencies, ANC Rental Corporation, the automotive rental division of AutoNation, Inc., announced that it would eliminate call center operations at its National Car Rental facility in Edina, Minnesota. ... Continue reading

SCCA: Gentilozzi to race Jaguar in the 2000 BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series

SCCA: Gentilozzi to race Jaguar in the 2000 BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series

SCCA: Gentilozzi to race Jaguar in the 2000 BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series ... Continue reading

SCCA: Gloy Returns to Trans-Am with Simo

SCCA: Gloy Returns to Trans-Am with Simo

SCCA: Gloy Returns to Trans-Am with Simo ... Continue reading

Simmonds Named to New GM Post

Simmonds Named to New GM Post

Fred Simmonds has been named marketing manager of drag racing at GM Racing and will oversee the company's on-site marketing activities at NHRA national events. Simmonds has been motorsports manager at Pontiac-GMC since December 1997. ... Continue reading

Special Report: Shav Glick Award to Gurney

Special Report: Shav Glick Award to Gurney

Special Report: Shav Glick Award to Gurney ... Continue reading

Symons International Group Announces Appointment of New Auditors

Symons International Group Announces Appointment of New Auditors

Symons International Group, Inc., a provider of crop insurance and nonstandard automobile insurance announces executive management and Board actions to further strengthen the organization as it implements plans to return to profitability. ... Continue reading

Toyota Names New VP of Office of the Web

Toyota Names New VP of Office of the Web

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. announced the appointment of Irving A. Miller as Vice President, Office of the Web. ... Continue reading

TRACKS: Florida Speed Park 2000 Racing Schedule

TRACKS: Florida Speed Park 2000 Racing Schedule

TRACKS: Florida Speed Park 2000 Racing Schedule ... Continue reading

Transportation Technologies Agrees to Management Buyout At $21.50 Per Share

Transportation Technologies Agrees to Management Buyout At $21.50 Per Share

Transportation Technologies Industries, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement providing for the acquisition of the Company by an investor group led by senior members of the Company's management. ... Continue reading

TRW Standardizes Worldwide On Dell

TRW Standardizes Worldwide On Dell

Dell Computer Corporation announced that TRW has selected Dell as its global corporate hardware standard. ... Continue reading

USAC: Tyler takes Orlando Silver Bullet Opener; 'Copper World' this weekend

USAC: Tyler takes Orlando Silver Bullet Opener; 'Copper World' this weekend

USAC: Tyler takes Orlando Silver Bullet Opener; 'Copper World' this weekend ... Continue reading

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