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Friday, November 28, 2003

GM North American Production for Week of Nov. 17, 2003

GM North American Production for Week of Nov. 17, 2003

Total U.S. Passenger Car Total U.S. Truck Total Canada Passenger Car Total Canada Truck Total N.A. Car and Truck Note:Â Totals exclude Joint Venture production (i.e. HUMMER, NUMMI, etc.) 33,774 56,187 14,871 7,279 122,214 North American Scheduled Overtime/Downtime for Week of Dec. 1, 2003 <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <! ... Continue reading

Stratasys Rapid Prototyping Upgrades Increase Speed and Capacity; FDM Titan gets 54% Speed-up; FDM Vantage gets 150% Build Volume Increase

Stratasys Rapid Prototyping Upgrades Increase Speed and Capacity; FDM Titan gets 54% Speed-up; FDM Vantage gets 150% Build Volume Increase

MINNEAPOLIS--Nov. 26, 2003-- Rapid prototyping system maker, Stratasys, announced significant upgrades for its T-Class platform. The FDM Titan's(TM) build speed will increase by 54 percent on average, and the FDM Vantage(TM) will receive an optional build volume increase of 150 percent and a doubling of its modeling ma ... Continue reading

Safety-Critical Aluminum Component from INTERMET Helps Automakers Take Weight out of SUVs, Pickup Trucks and Minivans

Safety-Critical Aluminum Component from INTERMET Helps Automakers Take Weight out of SUVs, Pickup Trucks and Minivans

-- Providing consumers a more car-like ride and handling in pickup trucks, SUVs, and minivans has often put auto designers at odds with the idea of taking weight out of the vehicle in order to achieve better mileage. A new high-tech, aluminum steering knuckle, introduced by INTERMET Corporation , one of the world's lea ... Continue reading

Unique Double-File Restart Rule Headed For ASA Racing

Unique Double-File Restart Rule Headed For ASA Racing

If the following text-only file is not easily readable, particularly any tables of numbers, try enlarging this window since every line has a forced end and there is no word-wrap. Otherwise, this report will look and print better from the following PDF file: http://www.sportssystems.com/applib/PDFload.cfm?file=/email /f ... Continue reading

ABN AMRO Insurance Arm Selects Fair Isaac Decision Tools for More Efficient Auto Insurance Underwriting

ABN AMRO Insurance Arm Selects Fair Isaac Decision Tools for More Efficient Auto Insurance Underwriting

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--Nov. 28, 2003-- Real Seguros S.A. Becomes First Insurance Company in Latin America to Deploy Blaze Decision System for Insurance and Model Builder For Decision Trees Fair Isaac Corporation , the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, announced today that Real Seguros S.A., a Sao Paul ... Continue reading

Automotive Industry Reaps Benefits of Digital Manufacturing Tools from DELMIA: Reduced Cost and Time-to-Market

Automotive Industry Reaps Benefits of Digital Manufacturing Tools from DELMIA: Reduced Cost and Time-to-Market

-- Leaders from the automotive industry recently shared their Digital Factory strategies at the DELMIA Worldwide User Group Conference. Presented were compelling results of how digital manufacturing simulation tools bring products to market faster, with higher quality, and overall lower costs. You can reach the story d ... Continue reading

Webcast Alert: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2004 Results Webcast

Webcast Alert: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2004 Results Webcast

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Nov. 28 -- Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. announces the following Webcast: What: Energy Conversion Devices First Quarter Fiscal 2004 Results When: 12/01/03 @ 3:30 p.m. Eastern Where: http://www.videonewswire.com/ECDOVONICS/120103 How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the ad ... Continue reading

Automotive Industry Reaps Reduced Cost and Time-to-Market

Automotive Industry Reaps Reduced Cost and Time-to-Market

AUBURN HILLS, Mich.--Nov. 28, 2003--Leaders from the automotive industry recently shared their Digital Factory strategies at the DELMIA Worldwide User Group Conference. Presented were compelling results of how digital manufacturing simulation tools bring products to market faster, with higher quality, and overall lower ... Continue reading

BMW WilliamsF1 Team: Piquet and Rosberg To Follow in Fathers' Footsteps

BMW WilliamsF1 Team: Piquet and Rosberg To Follow in Fathers' Footsteps

NEWS FROM BMW WILLIAMSF1 TEAM Piquet and Rosberg To Follow in Fathers' Footsteps Oxford. 26 November 2003. Nelson Piquet (BRA) and Nico Rosberg (GER) will both take part in a forthcoming BMW WilliamsF1 Team test at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in Spain in early December. The two young protégés will join incumbent ... Continue reading

Roboteq Motor Controller to Be Used in Attempt to Remote Control Full-Size Car on December 1 Monster Garage

Roboteq Motor Controller to Be Used in Attempt to Remote Control Full-Size Car on December 1 Monster Garage

PHOENIX, Nov. 28 -- Roboteq (www.roboteq.com) has donated one of its flagship AX2550 Dual Channel motor controller to the builders that will be featured on the December 1 broadcast of Monster Garage(R) on the Discovery Channel. Monster Garage is a popular TV show where a contesting team must convert an ordinary car int ... Continue reading

BMW AG Entwicklungsvorstand Prof. Dr. Burkhard Göschel fordert: "In Netzwerken denken, Innovationen für Wachstum und Beschäftigung schaffen"

BMW AG Entwicklungsvorstand Prof. Dr. Burkhard Göschel fordert: "In Netzwerken denken, Innovationen für Wachstum und Beschäftigung schaffen"

MÜNCHEN/ELMAU, November 28 -- BMW Group zeichnet sechs Nachwuchsforscher mit dem 70.000 EUR dotierten internationalen Wissenschaftspreis Scientific Award 2003 aus. München/Elmau. Mehr als 200 Hochschulabsolventen aus 20 Ländern nahmen unter dem Motto "Passion for Innovation" am Scientific Award BMW Group 2003 teil. ... Continue reading

Flexcar Launches Web Reservations; Company Will Have 84 Cars by Year's End Serving All Six Major Jurisdictions

Flexcar Launches Web Reservations; Company Will Have 84 Cars by Year's End Serving All Six Major Jurisdictions

WASHINGTON--Nov. 28, 2003--Reserving a car or truck by the hour in the DC Metro area just got easier. Flexcar, the nation's largest provider of car-sharing programs announced the addition of two dozen vehicles as well as the launch of its web-based reservation system. Flexcar now has 78 environmentally-friendly cars an ... Continue reading

China Great Wall Auto Denies Copying Nissan SUV Model

China Great Wall Auto Denies Copying Nissan SUV Model

HONG KONG November 28, 2003; Dow Jones reported that Great Wall Automobile Holding Co., China's largest pickup truck producer, said Friday it hasn't violated the intellectual property rights of Nissan Motor Co. . The company's comments followed a Financial Times report Friday that Nissan Motor is considering legal acti ... Continue reading

Here We Go - Volkswagen Begins To Export Chinese-made Polo Sedans To Austrailia

Here We Go - Volkswagen Begins To Export Chinese-made Polo Sedans To Austrailia

SHANGHAI, China November 27, 2003; Elaine Kurtenbach writing for the AP reported that in 1984, Volkswagen became the first foreign automaker to invest in China, helping to launch the land of the bicycle into the age of the car. Now, Volkswagen is helping to pioneer another first -- China as the newest Asian exporter of ... Continue reading

Nissan Motor May Sue Chinese Rival Over Design

Nissan Motor May Sue Chinese Rival Over Design

TOKYO November 27, 2003; Dow Jones reported that Nissan Motor Corp. is considering legal action against a Chinese competitor for intellectual property theft, the Financial Times reported on its website Friday. Nissan's dismay at Great Wall Automobile, a domestic company it accuses of copying a design for the front face ... Continue reading

GM's Opel to roll out 300,000 new Astra cars 2004

GM's Opel to roll out 300,000 new Astra cars 2004

ANTWERP, Nov 27, 2003; Reuters reported that Opel, the German unit of the world's biggest carmaker General Motors, plans to roll out some 300,000 units of its new Astra model next year, company executives said on Thursday. Jonathan J. Lauckner, one of the executives overseeing the new Astra line, told reporters at a pr ... Continue reading

Isuzu Recalls 48,000 Vehicles

Isuzu Recalls 48,000 Vehicles

TOKYO, Nov 27, 2003; Reuters reported that Japanese truckmaker Isuzu Motors Ltd said on Thursday it will recall some 48,000 trucks and buses due to a faulty lamp system that has triggered fires in three vehicles. In a report filed with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Isuzu said it would recall 48,07 ... Continue reading

Scott Pruett Nominated to AARWBA All American Team

Scott Pruett Nominated to AARWBA All American Team

CONTACT: Justin Anderson (704) 348-9400 Cell: (517) 927-3614 Fax: (704) 348-9444 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 26, 2003 SCOTT PRUETT NOMINATED TO AARWBA ALL-AMERICAN TEAM LANSING, Mich. &#8249; 2003 Motorock Trans-Am Tour for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup champion Scott Pruett¹s name has been placed on the Road Racing ballot ... Continue reading

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