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Cox Auto Trader Forms New Business Unit: Cox AutoTrader/AutoMart

Cox Auto Trader Forms New Business Unit: Cox AutoTrader/AutoMart

With AutoTrader.com and Cox AutoTrader/AutoMart, Cox Auto Trader now provides a total solution for car buyers and sellers ATLANTA, Dec. 10 -- Cox Auto Trader announced the creation of a new combined print and online publishing unit: Cox AutoTrader/AutoMart, which produces classified automotive advertising for dealers a ... Continue reading

GM Europe Sets All-Time Sales Record

GM Europe Sets All-Time Sales Record

ZURICH, Switzerland, December 10 -- - Sales of 2,004,172 units from January to November beat last year's total with a month to spare - GM Europe YTD share up 0.3 point, at 9.5 percent - GM Europe YTD sales 157,282 vehicles ahead of last year - YTD: Opel/Vauxhall grows 4 percent, Chevrolet up 32 percent General Motors ( ... Continue reading

Jason H. Vines Resigns as Vice President-Communications at Chrysler LLC

Jason H. Vines Resigns as Vice President-Communications at Chrysler LLC

Company Realigns Corporate Communications Department AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Dec. 10 -- Chrysler LLC today announced that Jason H. Vines, its Vice President-Communications has elected to resign and, therefore, the company is announcing a realignment of its Corporate Communications Department. "Now that Chrysler is an inde ... Continue reading

New Winter Care Offers From Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

New Winter Care Offers From Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

- http://www.webitpr.com/writeitfiles/serviced%20vans.JPG <http://www.webitpr.com/writeitfiles/serviced%20vans.JPG> New Winter Care Offers From Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles To help keep your van <http://www.volkswagen-vans.co.uk/index.php> in full working order this winter, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is introduci ... Continue reading

Motorists Perplexed When Cruising in the Cold, According to GMAC Insurance and Road Safe America

Motorists Perplexed When Cruising in the Cold, According to GMAC Insurance and Road Safe America

Survey Finds More Than One-Third of Drivers Don't Know Proper Use of Cruise Control, Nearly Two-Thirds Underestimate Recommended Gas Tank Levels in Freezing Temperatures ST. LOUIS and ATLANTA, Dec. 10 -- Today, in a continuing effort to make the nation's roads safer, GMAC Insurance and its non-profit partner Road Safe ... Continue reading

Hayes Lemmerz Reports Strong 2007 Third Quarter Results

Hayes Lemmerz Reports Strong 2007 Third Quarter Results

NORTHVILLE, Mich., Dec. 10 -- Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. today reported that sales for the fiscal third quarter ended October 31, 2007 were $554.9 million, up 20% from $463.3 million in the year earlier quarter. The sales increase resulted from strong international steel and aluminum wheel sales, material cost r ... Continue reading

ALMS - LIZARDS' VAN OVERBEEK WINS PORSCHE CUP

ALMS - LIZARDS' VAN OVERBEEK WINS PORSCHE CUP

Johannes van Overbeek receives the Porsche Cup from Porsche Executive Vice-President for Development Wolfgang Durheimer. The Porsche Cup is staying with Flying Lizard Motorsports and the American Le Mans Series. Johannes van Overbeek was presented over the weekend with the Porsche Cup, which goes annually to the world' ... Continue reading

GRAND AM (DAYTONA, FLA.) - Grand-Am Rolex Series Drivers Gurney, Fogarty, and Pruett Sweep First Team All-America Honors In Road Racing

GRAND AM (DAYTONA, FLA.) - Grand-Am Rolex Series Drivers Gurney, Fogarty, and Pruett Sweep First Team All-America Honors In Road Racing

Alex Gurney, Jon Fogarty, Scott Pruett and Max Angelelli battled to the season’s final laps for the 2007 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Daytona Prototype championship. Each of the four Daytona Prototype drivers has been recognized for their accomplishments with selections to ... Continue reading

A1GP (ZHUHAI, CHN) - A1GP Gets Set For Thrilling Zhuhai Debut

A1GP (ZHUHAI, CHN) - A1GP Gets Set For Thrilling Zhuhai Debut

After a sensational event at Sepang, which saw Switzerland secure a double victory and steal the championship lead from New Zealand, A1GP World Cup of Motorsport returns to Asia to make the first of two visits to China this season, as 22 nations prepare to take on the Zhuhai International Circuit for the first time thi ... Continue reading

TEAM REPORTS (ZHUHAI, CHN) - A1 TEAM USA's Summerton focused on scoring points at Zhuhai

TEAM REPORTS (ZHUHAI, CHN) - A1 TEAM USA's Summerton focused on scoring points at Zhuhai

Jonathan Summerton has scored points in five of the 10 races he's driven for A1 TEAM USA. The 19-year-old from Kissimmee, Fla., has his sights set on enhancing that record this weekend (Dec. 14-16) in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at Zhuhai International Circuit in the Republic of China. "We want to score points in ... Continue reading

CORR (NEWPORT, CA.) - CORR Pro 4 Champion CARL RENEZEDER made the All-America Auto Racing Team

CORR (NEWPORT, CA.) - CORR Pro 4 Champion CARL RENEZEDER made the All-America Auto Racing Team

Championship Off Road Racing’s own Carl Renezeder made the All America Auto Racing Team. The team is voted on by the AARWBA and includes drivers from all forms of racing. Renezeder received the Honorable Mention award in the At Large category. Renezeder previously received an Honorable Mention nod in 2005. “J ... Continue reading

TEAM REPORTS (DELAWARE, OH.) - Coughlin named to AARWBA's All-America Race Team (NHRA/JEGS)

TEAM REPORTS (DELAWARE, OH.) - Coughlin named to AARWBA's All-America Race Team (NHRA/JEGS)

Coughlin named to AARWBA's All-America Race Team DELAWARE, Ohio (Dec. 9) -- The accolades continue for recently-crowned Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. as the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) has once again named him to its prestigious All-America Auto Racing Team. This is the thir ... Continue reading

China exported 20,000 vehicles to central Asian countries in Jan-Nov

China exported 20,000 vehicles to central Asian countries in Jan-Nov

China exported 20,000 vehicles to central Asian countries in Jan-Nov http://www.gasgoo.com/autobiz/4160/China-exported-20-000-vehicles-to-ce ntral-Asian-countries-in-Jan-Nov.html Shanghai. December 10 (Gasgoo.com) ¨C China exported 20,563 automobiles to central Asia region via Customs in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regi ... Continue reading

What Would Santa Drive?

What Would Santa Drive?

BLENHEIM, Ontario, Dec. 10 -- Everyone knows Santa's vehicle of choice for getting around on his biggest night of the year -- a magical sleigh led by nine good-natured reindeer -- but how does the jolly old elf get around the remaining 364 days of the year? The experts at RM Auctions have ventured a guess at what a guy ... Continue reading

Update on the Launch of the Direct Injection Autorickshaw

Update on the Launch of the Direct Injection Autorickshaw

PERTH, Australia, Dec. 10 -- Orbital Corporation Limited notes that Bajaj Auto held a press conference on Saturday, December 8th, to discuss the capability and future plans for the Direct Injection gasoline Autorickshaw, now named RE GDi which was initially launched in May this year. Set out below is a copy of the Baja ... Continue reading

Skoda to produce 100,000 vehicles in China by 2010

Skoda to produce 100,000 vehicles in China by 2010

Skoda to produce 100,000 vehicles in China by 2010 http://www.gasgoo.com/autobiz/4163/Skoda-to-produce-100-000-vehicles-in -China-by-2010.html Shanghai. December 10 (Gasgoo.com) ¨C Skoda Auto, the Czech unit of Volkswagen, said it would produce 100,000 vehicles in China as its compact car model Fabia and Superb are re ... Continue reading

All UK Homes Could Be Wind Powered by 2020: Reuters

All UK Homes Could Be Wind Powered by 2020: Reuters

LONDON - December 10, 2007: According to a Reuters report this morning Every home in Britain could be supplied by wind power alone in 2020 by making full use of the wind-swept seas around the country, Energy Secretary John Hutton said on Monday. Britain has some of the best wind conditions for generating carbon-free el ... Continue reading

Country Music Star Taylor Swift Rewards Top Holiday Carolers at Smart Driving Competition

Country Music Star Taylor Swift Rewards Top Holiday Carolers at Smart Driving Competition

'Holiday Holla' contest finalists holla about smart driving to help save teen lives during holidays BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Dec. 8 -- Car crashes are the No. 1 killer of teens, taking nearly 6,000 lives a year, and the holiday season is a deadly time for teen drivers. But that hasn't stopped a group of teens from spreading ... Continue reading

Kia Motors Opens Second Production Plant in China

Kia Motors Opens Second Production Plant in China

Dongfeng Yueda Kia (DYK) Motors, officially opened its second manufacturing facility in China at a ceremony in Jiangsu Province on Saturday. The opening of the US$800 million state-of-the-art, fully integrated passenger car production facility indicates that expansion plans to boost overseas production to over one mill ... Continue reading

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