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NMRA Introduces First Ever Pro 5.0 Entrant Support Program

NMRA Introduces First Ever Pro 5.0 Entrant Support Program

NMRA Ford Nationals Show Series Official Newsletter http://www.nmraracing.com For Immediate Release: NMRA Introduces First Ever Pro 5.0 Entrant Support Program FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ca. - After an extensive evaluation of its NMRA Pro 5.0 drag racing class, ProMedia Events has announced today that it will create an unprecede ... Continue reading

Season's First Snow Calls For Extra Caution, Says AAA

Season's First Snow Calls For Extra Caution, Says AAA

DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 2, 2002; The first major snow of the winter season has generated a high level of calls for Emergency Road Service (ERS), according to AAA Michigan. As of noon, AAA Michigan ERS trucks had helped nearly 1,800 stranded motorists across Michigan, well above normal levels. A normal 24-hour period aver ... Continue reading

City of LA Takes Delivery of First Fuel Cell Car

City of LA Takes Delivery of First Fuel Cell Car

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2, 2002; The City of Los Angeles today took delivery of the nation's first certified fuel cell car, the Honda FCX. The Honda FCX being leased by the City will be used in normal, everyday use and was delivered in a ceremony today at City Hall including Mayor Jim Hahn and Hiroyuki Yoshino, President and ... Continue reading

ADP Launches Web-Based Estimate Auditing Tool for Automotive Claims

ADP Launches Web-Based Estimate Auditing Tool for Automotive Claims

SAN RAMON, Calif., Dec. 2, 2002; ADP Claims Services Group today announced the general availability of Claimsflo Passport version 3.0, the automotive claims industry's first web-based auditing tool. Passport version 3.0 audits 100 percent of estimates quickly based on customized rules so auditors can make better decisi ... Continue reading

AirWerks-Equipped Tiburons Win Prestigious Awards From Hyundai at the 2002 SEMA Show

AirWerks-Equipped Tiburons Win Prestigious Awards From Hyundai at the 2002 SEMA Show

ASHEVILLE, N.C., Dec. 2, 2002; AirWerks, the new aftermarket brand from BorgWarner Turbo Systems North America, is proud to announce that two vehicles equipped with AirWerks forced-induction technology won prestigious awards from Hyundai at the 2002 SEMA Show, held November 5-8 in Las Vegas. The AirWerks/Area 51 Hyunda ... Continue reading

FIRST LEGO League Competition/CitySights 2002/Students Clash In Statewide LEGO Mindstorms Competition

FIRST LEGO League Competition/CitySights 2002/Students Clash In Statewide LEGO Mindstorms Competition

FOR RELEASE: December 2, 2002 FIRST LEGO League Competition/CitySights 2002/Students Clash In Statewide LEGO Mindstorms Competition Students from around the State of Michigan will clash at the Novi Expo Center on Saturday, December 7 as part of the national FIRST LEGO League (FLL). This is the fourth annual State Compe ... Continue reading

German License Plates!! These look great on your Auto... www.shgraphics.com

German License Plates!! These look great on your Auto... www.shgraphics.com

Great products geared towards foreign car enthusiasts from Schoolhouse Graphics. German, French and Italian EEC license plates, Grill Badges and Flag Bars. ... Continue reading

Accuride Canada Inc. and Canadian Auto Workers Reach Early Agreement

Accuride Canada Inc. and Canadian Auto Workers Reach Early Agreement

EVANSVILLE, Ind. & LONDON, Ontario--Dec. 2, 2002--Accuride Canada Inc. and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Union, Local 27 Unit 17 successfully concluded early labour contract negotiations for the London facility, covering approximately 585 hourly employees. The London plant entered into early contract talks in late Oc ... Continue reading

Rolls-Royce Names Benet Wilson Senior Manager, Corporate Communications

Rolls-Royce Names Benet Wilson Senior Manager, Corporate Communications

CHANTILLY, Va., Dec. 2, 2002; Rolls-Royce announced today the appointment of Benet Wilson as Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. In this position, she is responsible for directing all communications activities for the company's Civil Aerospace business in North America. Wilson join ... Continue reading

Jan Lindelow Joins HyPerformix's Board of Directors; Former IBM Executive and Tivoli CEO Strengthens Enterprise Performance Management Software Firm's External Leadership Team

Jan Lindelow Joins HyPerformix's Board of Directors; Former IBM Executive and Tivoli CEO Strengthens Enterprise Performance Management Software Firm's External Leadership Team

AUSTIN, Texas--Dec. 2, 2002--HyPerformix Inc., a leader in enterprise application performance solutions, today announced that Jan Lindelow, former Vice President of Emerging Business Development for the IBM Corporation, and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tivoli Systems Inc. (an IBM company), has joined ... Continue reading

Kansas Automobile Dealers Association Promotes LML's SalesDesk; Product Suite Features LeaseLink

Kansas Automobile Dealers Association Promotes LML's SalesDesk; Product Suite Features LeaseLink

DOWNER'S GROVE, Ill.--Dec. 2, 2002--The Kansas Automobile Dealers Association has selected LML Technologies, creators of the SalesDesk(TM) product suite, as a "preferred supplier," the two organizations announced jointly today. SalesDesk, featuring the company's flagship LeaseLink(R) product, is LML's premier solution ... Continue reading

MACS Convention Entertainment

MACS Convention Entertainment

Press release attached, coverage requested. Marion J. Posen Manager of Sales and Marketing Mobile Air Conditioning Society Worldwide 225 South Broad St. (P.O. Box 88) Lansdale, PA 19446 215-631-7020 ext. 304 FAX 215-631-7017 You are receiving this message because MACS believes you will benefit from this information. Yo ... Continue reading

StockPickReport.Com Announces Stock Evaluation Ratings: New Ratings on Cisco Systems, Comcast, Ford Motor Company, FiberNet Telecom Group and PeopleSoft

StockPickReport.Com Announces Stock Evaluation Ratings: New Ratings on Cisco Systems, Comcast, Ford Motor Company, FiberNet Telecom Group and PeopleSoft

SHREVEPORT, La.--Dec. 2, 2002-- StockPickReport.Com (IARD#119079 - http://www.stockpickreport.com/?src=bw ) makes these stock evaluations for the short term: Cisco Systems - Outperform http://www.stockpickreport.com/?src=csco Comcast - Outperform http://www.stockpickreport.com/?src=cmcsk Ford Motor Company - Underperfo ... Continue reading

The Aimbridge Group Offers Balloon Note Financing; Product Offering Provides Credit Union Members Another Financing Alternative

The Aimbridge Group Offers Balloon Note Financing; Product Offering Provides Credit Union Members Another Financing Alternative

DENVER--Dec. 2, 2002--The Aimbridge Group, a provider of financial products through partnerships with credit unions, announced that it offers balloon note financing on automobiles to credit union members. Balloon notes are a hybrid of a traditional loan and a lease. While the financing tool is structured like a lease, ... Continue reading

Tower Automotive Announces Dividend on Trust Convertible Preferred Securities

Tower Automotive Announces Dividend on Trust Convertible Preferred Securities

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--Dec. 2, 2002--Tower Automotive, Inc. , announced today that a dividend of $0.84 per share will be paid on the 6 3/4% trust convertible preferred securities issued by the Tower Automotive Capital Trust. The dividend will be payable on December 31, 2002, to stockholders of record on December 15, 2002 ... Continue reading

Viewpoint Revs Up Toyota's 2003 4Runner Campaign With an Interactive Test Drive

Viewpoint Revs Up Toyota's 2003 4Runner Campaign With an Interactive Test Drive

NEW YORK--Dec. 2, 2002--Viewpoint Corporation , a world leader in interactive graphics, today announced its involvement in an online campaign for the new 2003 Toyota 4Runner, which features an extended user-driven narrative presentation using Viewpoint's rich media platform. Toyota Motor Sales recently launched its mos ... Continue reading

Winnebago Adventurer Featured in About Schmidt Starring Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Dermot Mulroney & Hope Davis

Winnebago Adventurer Featured in About Schmidt Starring Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Dermot Mulroney & Hope Davis

FOREST CITY, Iowa--Dec. 2, 2002--The number one selling motor home in the RV industry, the Winnebago(R) Adventurer(R), is featured in the upcoming New Line Cinema film, About Schmidt. The film opens December 13 in New York, Los Angeles and Omaha, Neb., where the majority of the film was set and filmed, and then nationw ... Continue reading

AAA Michigan Affirms There Are No Benefits to Distracted Driving

AAA Michigan Affirms There Are No Benefits to Distracted Driving

DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 2, 2002; AAA Michigan said the public should not be misled by a national cell-phone economic analysis released today (December 2) by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. According to the study, the value drivers place on in-transit cell-phone use is roughly equal to the economic costs incurred in ... Continue reading

10 Die in Holiday Crashes Investigated by State Police

10 Die in Holiday Crashes Investigated by State Police

HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 2, 2002; -- State Police Commissioner Paul J. Evanko today reported that 10 people were killed and 521 others were injured in 1,375 crashes investigated by State Police during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday driving period. Col. Evanko said two of those killed were not wearing seatbelts, and thr ... Continue reading

Toyota Delivers First Two, Market-Ready Zero-Emission-Certified Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles

Toyota Delivers First Two, Market-Ready Zero-Emission-Certified Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles

TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 2, 2002 -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today delivered its first two market-ready hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of California, Davis (UCD) at a press conference on the UCI campus. The official delivery is the first step in ... Continue reading

Viewpoint Revs Up Toyota's 2003 4Runner Campaign With an Interactive Test Drive

Viewpoint Revs Up Toyota's 2003 4Runner Campaign With an Interactive Test Drive

NEW YORK--Dec. 2, 2002--Viewpoint Corporation , a world leader in interactive graphics, today announced its involvement in an online campaign for the new 2003 Toyota 4Runner, which features an extended user-driven narrative presentation using Viewpoint's rich media platform. Toyota Motor Sales recently launched its mos ... Continue reading

Barrett-Jackson Expands to Florida; Barrett-Jackson Announces Spring 2003 Auction in West Palm Beach

Barrett-Jackson Expands to Florida; Barrett-Jackson Announces Spring 2003 Auction in West Palm Beach

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--Dec. 2, 2002--Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction is bringing its "World's Greatest Classic Car Auction" to West Palm Beach, Fla. The three-day event is scheduled for April 11-13, 2003 at the South Florida Expo Center. The Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. hosts some of the most anticipated automotive auct ... Continue reading

Announcing the 5th Mitsubishi Motors International Design Competition

Announcing the 5th Mitsubishi Motors International Design Competition

JapanCorp: <http://www.japancorp.net/?page_num=1> Announcing the 5th Mitsubishi Motors International Design Competition Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 02, 2002 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) today announced it will start accepting entries for its 5th International Design Competition from December 1. Startin ... Continue reading

GM North American Scheduled Overtime/Downtime for Week of Dec 2, 2002

GM North American Scheduled Overtime/Downtime for Week of Dec 2, 2002

FOR RELEASE: November 28, 2002 North American Production for Week of Nov. 18, 2002 Total U.S. Passenger Car 36,664 Total U.S. Truck 55,777 Total Canada Passenger Car 13,647 Total Canada Truck 7,529Total N.A. Car and Truck 124,529 North American Scheduled Overtime/Downtime for Week of Dec 2, 2002 Mon12/2 Tue12/3 Wed12/4 ... Continue reading

State to Crackdown on Impaired Driving During Holidays; December is Drunk & Drugged Driving - 3D - Prevention Month

State to Crackdown on Impaired Driving During Holidays; December is Drunk & Drugged Driving - 3D - Prevention Month

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Dec. 2, 2002--The Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and California Highway Patrol (CHP) aren't wasting any time getting ready for the holidays -- they're warning motorists early on to make plans for those upcoming holiday celebrations, plans that they hope will include the use of designated drivers and ... Continue reading

Champions honoured at CASCAR banquet

Champions honoured at CASCAR banquet

For immediate release / December 2, 2002 Champions honoured at CASCAR banquet Thomson, Robblee and Harr celebrate CASCAR supremacy TORONTO, ON - This past Saturday night, in Toronto, the CASCAR community gathered to honour its champions, participants, sponsors and officials. The Grand Ballroom of the Toronto Airport Ma ... Continue reading

Dana Corporation Announces Agreement To Sell FTE Brake & Clutch Actuation Operations

Dana Corporation Announces Agreement To Sell FTE Brake & Clutch Actuation Operations

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 2, 2002; Dana Corporation announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its FTE brake and clutch actuation systems operations to HgCapital, a European private equity finance company. FTE is a leading manufacturer of brake and clutch actuation systems for vehicular markets. Headqua ... Continue reading

GM's Opel Sees Sales Or JV Of Parts Units In '03

GM's Opel Sees Sales Or JV Of Parts Units In '03

FRANKFURT -December 2, 2002;Dow Jones reported that General Motors Corp.'s German arm, Adam Opel AG , won't likely reach deals to sell or form joint ventures for some auto parts units until 2003. The story said that the carmaker, fighting to slash costs and break even by the fourth quarter of next year, had originally ... Continue reading

Kia Motors China JV Launches New Passenger Car Model

Kia Motors China JV Launches New Passenger Car Model

SEOUL -December 2, 2002; Dow Jones reported that Kia Motors Corp. , South Korea's second-largest automobile producer, said its Chinese joint venture Monday launched a new passenger car model that will be manufactured and sold in China. Dongfeng Yueda Kia Motor Co., in which Kia has a 50% stake, developed the new model ... Continue reading

New JVC radio to let listeners catch fast talk more clearly

New JVC radio to let listeners catch fast talk more clearly

TOKYO December 1, 2002; Japan Today reported that Victor Co of Japan (JVC) will put on the market in early December a radio that can slow down parts of broadcast speech so that older listeners and foreign-language students can more clearly catch each sentence, JVC officials said Saturday. The device has been jointly de ... Continue reading

Japanese Firms Produce 1st Domestic Gas-to-Liquid Fuel

Japanese Firms Produce 1st Domestic Gas-to-Liquid Fuel

TOKYO November 29, 2002; Japan Today reported that the government-owned Japan National Oil Corp (JNOC), said Friday it has succeeded in producing the first domestically made gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuel in a joint experiment with five private-sector firms. JNOC said it produced the GTL fuel at its pilot plant in Hokkaido ... Continue reading

Study ties cell phone to crashes

Study ties cell phone to crashes

WASHINGTON December 2, 2002; Nedra Pickler wrting for the AP reported that researchers say in a study released today that increased cell phone use has led to more crashes caused by drivers on the phone, but the value people place on being able to call from the road roughly equals the accidents' cost. Opponents of banni ... Continue reading

EU approves deal on Hyundai car carrier division

EU approves deal on Hyundai car carrier division

BRUSSELS, Belgium December 2, 2002; AP reported that The European Union Commission Friday approved the purchase of Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd.'s car carrier division by two Scandinavian shipping lines after the buyers agreed to withdraw from an existing agreement with another shipping company. The Commission feare ... Continue reading

Former GM Boss Bob Stempel Turns Green With Optimisim

Former GM Boss Bob Stempel Turns Green With Optimisim

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Dec 1, 2002; Michael Ellis reporting for Reuters filed this feature: "Nearly 10 years to the day after he was pushed out as chief of General Motors Corp., Bob Stempel shoveled a handful of dirt to break ground for a new plant in Ohio that could make him a key player in a more environmentally-fri ... Continue reading

Pierre Peugeot Dies

Pierre Peugeot Dies

PARIS, Dec 1, 2002; Reuters reported that the great grand-nephew of the man who founded French carmaker Peugeot, died on Sunday in Paris after a 45-year-long career behind the wheels of a company which moved into automobiles from bicycles in 1885. Pierre was chairman of the supervisory board of a company now called PSA ... Continue reading

S.Korea's Renault Samsung Motors November Sales Up

S.Korea's Renault Samsung Motors November Sales Up

SEOUL, Dec 2, 2002; Reuters reported that Renault Samsung Motors Inc, one of South Korea's smallest automakers, said on Monday it sold 9,546 vehicles in November, down from a record 12,445 in October. But the latest sales figure was higher than the 6,506 vehicles the unlisted automaker sold in November of last year, he ... Continue reading

Kia Motors November Sales up 11.8 pct

Kia Motors November Sales up 11.8 pct

SEOUL, Dec 2, 2002; Reuters reported that Kia Motors Corp, South Korea's second largest automaker, said on Monday November auto sales rose 11.8 percent from a year earlier to 106,073 units. Kia, an affiliate of the country's largest automaker, Hyundai Motor Co, said in a public notice to the Korea Stock Exchange, expor ... Continue reading

Updated Unofficial Point Standings

Updated Unofficial Point Standings

----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Southers To: Tim Southers Cc: Gene Crane Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 9:28 PM Subject: Updated Unofficial Point Standings Unofficial Final 2002 USAR Hooters ProCup Series Point Standings Pos. Driver Name Points 1. Jason Sarvis 853 2. Bobby Gill 804 3. Steven Christian 790 4. ... Continue reading

USAR Race Story from USA International

USAR Race Story from USA International

For Immediate Release Tim Southers USAR Media Relations 770-719-0204 usar@bellsouth.net Gill Wins the Battle While Sarvis Wins the War Lakeland, FL (November 30, 2002) - Bobby Gill ended a frustrating run in the Championship Series on a positive note to win the Four Champions Memorial Hooters 300 presented by Jennie-O ... Continue reading

Ron Fariss Wins at Road Atlanta

Ron Fariss Wins at Road Atlanta

for immediate release December 1, 2002 RON FARISS WINS SCCS HOLIDAY RUN BRASELTON, GEORGIA - Veteran road racer Ron Fariss earned his fourth Stock Car Championship Series (SCCS) win of the 2002 season with a dominating performance at Road Atlanta in the DRP Holiday Run. Fariss took the lead at the green flag by winning ... Continue reading

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