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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Former American Motors CEO Comments on Nasser/Jaguar Deal - VIDEO NEWS STORY

Former American Motors CEO Comments on Nasser/Jaguar Deal - VIDEO NEWS STORY

NEW YORK - August 26, 2006: Gerald Meyers, CEO of American Motors from 1978 to 1982, offers some thoughts and insight on what's happening at Ford and why Jack Nasser (former Ford president and CEO) would be interested in trying to save Jaguar. CLICK BELOW to watch Part 1 of the story. CLICK BELOW to watch Part 2 of the ... Continue reading

Toyota Strengthens Efforts to Develop Safe Vehicles

Toyota Strengthens Efforts to Develop Safe Vehicles

<http://www.japancorp.net/?page_num=1> JapanCorp: Toyota Strengthens Efforts to Develop Safe Vehicles; Integrated Safety Management Concept Forms Base of New Safety Technologies Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 25, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation announced today its Integrated Safety Management Concept, an expressio ... Continue reading

From Showcase To Showroom - How Mercedes-Benz Puts Concept Car Technology Onto The Road

From Showcase To Showroom - How Mercedes-Benz Puts Concept Car Technology Onto The Road

Mercedes-Benz has an enviable reputation for building and exhibiting show vehicles, and then installing the “fantasy ideas” into its passenger car range. Indeed, the latest S-Class Saloon and CL-Class Coupé bristle with world-first innovations that first appeared in a research car only three years ago. Nig ... Continue reading

Ford Focus Turns 30

Ford Focus Turns 30

For the last 30 years, Ford Fiesta has proved that good things come in small packages. Although today's Fiesta is different in many ways from the original Fiesta that went on sale in 1976, it shares many of the fundamental attributes for which Fiesta has always stood. "Fiesta's birthday gives us the opportunity to cele ... Continue reading

NYSE, 2006 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma Practice Report

NYSE, 2006 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma Practice Report

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/fi ... Continue reading

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Friday from Heartland Park Topeka

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Friday from Heartland Park Topeka

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES - WEST CENTRAL DIVISION HEARTLAND PARK TOPEKA, TOPEKA, KAN. Friday, August 25, 2006 Contact: Eric Lotz, NHRA (626) 688-8646 Jamie Overocker (785) 925-3786 PUTZ, MOATS TOP QUALIFYING LADDERS AFTER SHORTENED FIRST DAY AT HEARTLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS TOPEKA, Kan. - A hot ... Continue reading

Rocketsports Racing Montreal Report - Friday

Rocketsports Racing Montreal Report - Friday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heather Haupt &#9642; cell: (517) 927-8472 &#9642; e-mail: heatherh@rocketsportsracing.com PIZZONIA SITS 8TH QUICKEST DURING FIRST ROUND OF QUALIFYING IN MONTREAL WHILE PASTORELLI STRUGGLES Notes MONTREAL, Canada (August 25, 2006) – Track experience seems to be key here in Montreal a ... Continue reading

Capps, McCulloch bring "Revolution" history to Indy

Capps, McCulloch bring "Revolution" history to Indy

JUST MARKETING INTERNATIONAL For Immediate Release Capps, McCulloch Bring "Revolution" History To Indy Top U.S. Nationals Funny Car Driver Hopes To Give Capps 1st Indy Win BROWNSBURG, Ind. (August 25, 2006) - NHRA legend Ed "the Ace" McCulloch remembers his first trip to O'Reilly Raceway Park 35 years ago. He traveled ... Continue reading

Lexus LS 460 Achieves World First In Preventive Safety

Lexus LS 460 Achieves World First In Preventive Safety

New flagship model equipped with advanced pre-crash systems · Advanced Obstacle Detection System can pick wide range of obstacles on the road ahead, including pedestrians, in day and night-time driving · Emergency Steering Assist helps the driver take rapid, evasive action to avoid a collision · World-first Dr ... Continue reading

Unions Approve New Labor Agreements With Tower Automotive

Unions Approve New Labor Agreements With Tower Automotive

Contracts will be submitted to Bankruptcy Court for approval NOVI, Mich., Aug. 25 -- Tower Automotive (BULLETIN BOARD: TWRAQ.PK) today announced ratification of contract agreements with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and the United Steelworkers union (USW) covering approximately 1,000 employees at Tower facilities ... Continue reading

Annual Forecasts to 2010 for the World's Automotive Radiators Industry

Annual Forecasts to 2010 for the World's Automotive Radiators Industry

DUBLIN, Ireland--Aug. 25, 2006--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41189) has announced the addition of Automotive Radiators - Global Strategic Business Report to their offering. This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Automotive Radiators in Thousands of Units. The major product se ... Continue reading

Bizarre Fire Temporarily Sidelines Southard BMW-Riley at Infineon

Bizarre Fire Temporarily Sidelines Southard BMW-Riley at Infineon

Bizarre Fire Temporarily Sidelines Southard BMW-Riley at Infineon Team Looks to Get No. 3 Back in Show for Shane Lewis and Craig Stanton SONOMA, Calif., August 25, 2006 - In a bizarre sequence of events the No. 3 Truechoice/PAP-Parts.com BMW-Riley sustained substantial fire damage in yesterday's first practice for the ... Continue reading

KB Racing LLC: Will to make IHRA debut at Norwalk

KB Racing LLC: Will to make IHRA debut at Norwalk

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KB RACING LLC IHRA eMAX DRAG RACING SERIES KB RACING LLC-owned, KALITTA MOTORSPORTS-managed TOP FUEL DRAGSTER HILLARY WILL (www.hillarywillrace.com) -- DRIVER JIM OBERHOFER (Jim O.) -- CREW CHIEF MEDIA CONTACT: Mickey Schultz PHONE: 425-557-8899 E-MAIL: mschultz@bellsouth.net IHRA SKULL SHINE WOR ... Continue reading

Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 3rd at Bristol

Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 3rd at Bristol

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Penske Truck Leasing Opens New Facility in Kansas City, MO.

Penske Truck Leasing Opens New Facility in Kansas City, MO.

- State-of-the-Art Facility is Designed to Enhance the Customer Experience - READING, Pa., Aug. 25 -- Penske Truck Leasing announced today that it opened the first of its newly designed, state-of-the-art facilities at 1111 N. Century Ave., Kansas City, Mo. The facility, which incorporates new design elements and advanc ... Continue reading

Audi Has the First 'Match Ball' at Mosport

Audi Has the First 'Match Ball' at Mosport

INGOLSTADT, Germany, Aug. 25 -- The fastest circuit of the year plays host to the American Le Mans Series where Audi will have the first "match ball": Dindo Capello (Italy) and Allan McNish (Scotland) could wrap up the drivers' title early at the wheel of their Audi R10 TDI at Mosport (Canada), round eight of the ten r ... Continue reading

Turkish GP 2006 - Free Practice 1 & 2

Turkish GP 2006 - Free Practice 1 & 2

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/fi ... Continue reading

Global Automotive Transmission Systems Report 2006

Global Automotive Transmission Systems Report 2006

DUBLIN, Ireland--Aug. 25, 2006--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41114) has announced the addition of Automotive Transmission Systems - Global Strategic Business Report to their offering. This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Automotive Transmission Systems in Thousands of Units ... Continue reading

Aero Exhaust, Exclusive NASCAR Performance Partner, Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement With Rockford-Montgomery

Aero Exhaust, Exclusive NASCAR Performance Partner, Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement With Rockford-Montgomery

Muffler line currently featuring prestigious NASCAR Performance brand; Company continues success on and off the track SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 25 -- Aero Exhaust has reached an exclusive distribution agreement with Rockford-Montgomery, Inc. This agreement allows Rockford-Montgomery to exclusively distribute the Aero ... Continue reading

Monaco Coach Corporation Announces Cash Dividend

Monaco Coach Corporation Announces Cash Dividend

COBURG, Ore., Aug. 25 -- Monaco Coach Corporation announced today that its upcoming quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per share will be payable on September 15, 2006 to stockholders of record on September 1, 2006, and represents its 11th consecutive quarterly cash dividend since the Company declared its initial cash div ... Continue reading

When a Car - or Its Driver - Turns Your Head and Then It's Gone, It Might Not Be Gone Forever, When SearchPlates.com Comes to the Rescue

When a Car - or Its Driver - Turns Your Head and Then It's Gone, It Might Not Be Gone Forever, When SearchPlates.com Comes to the Rescue

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 25 -- It's a scene right out of the movies and a common real-life frustration: Girl sees cute guy driving a convertible, smiles and gets a smile back. But off they each drive, never making any other contact. Or from his front porch, a car collector sees just the model and year he's been trying to f ... Continue reading

Electrical problems zap rallynotes team at Gorman

Electrical problems zap rallynotes team at Gorman

PRESS RELEASE Rallynotes.com Media Irvine, California webkris@yahoo.com Pictures: Bill Rogers - Motorsport Memories Release Date: 08/24/2006 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *********************************************************************** * “ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS ZAP RALLYNOTES TEAM AT GORMAN.” Ten miles int ... Continue reading

IRL's Dixon Posts Top Speed in Practice

IRL's Dixon Posts Top Speed in Practice

Contact: John Cardinale 707-334-9805 Dixon Posts Top Speed in Practice for Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma SONOMA, Calif. (IMMEDIATE RELEASE) - Target Chip Ganassi driver Scott Dixon posted the top speed on Friday in practice at the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway. Dixon turned the 12-turn, 2.26-mile road cours ... Continue reading

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