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Friday, June 11, 2004

KASEY KAHNE WINS POCONO POLE

KASEY KAHNE WINS POCONO POLE

Friday, June 11, 2004 Ray Cooper Pocono Raceway. Clear!Blue, Inc. Pocono 500 Qualifying. 704-975-3232 KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge) - Pole Winner's Interview NOTE: This is Kahne's circuit-leading fourth pole of the season and his second track record. He also set the track record when he won the pole at La ... Continue reading

LA Auto Club Announces Board Chair, Vice Chair and New Directors

LA Auto Club Announces Board Chair, Vice Chair and New Directors

LOS ANGELES--June 11, 2004--The Automobile Club of Southern California announced that Byron E. Allumbaugh and Willis B. Wood, Jr. have been elected by its board of directors to serve as chairman and vice chairman, respectively. The board also elected two new members, Anne L. Evans and Peter K. Barker, to serve three-ye ... Continue reading

The Arthritis Foundation Presents: Annual Concours At Ault Park Cincinnati: June 11-13 2004

The Arthritis Foundation Presents: Annual Concours At Ault Park Cincinnati: June 11-13 2004

Schedule of Events Click Here for a Map and Directions to Ault Park To order tickets for special events, call the Arthritis Foundation: (513)271-4545. Friday June 11th Concours Kick-off Party and Art Preview (Sponsored by Schiff Kreidler-Shell, Inc.) 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. - Mariemont Inn & Zakira's Garage Come and mingle w ... Continue reading

Bose Studio Surround Sound System Announced as Featured Audio System in All-New 2006 Infiniti M Sedan

Bose Studio Surround Sound System Announced as Featured Audio System in All-New 2006 Infiniti M Sedan

SAN FRANCISCO--June 11, 2004--Infiniti, the luxury division of Nissan North America today announced that an advanced Bose(R) Studio Surround(TM) sound system with 5.1 channel decoding and 14 speakers has been selected as the featured premium audio system in the new 2006 Infiniti M sedan. The all-new Infiniti M, which w ... Continue reading

NexCup: Chevy Advance Notes - Pocono 500

NexCup: Chevy Advance Notes - Pocono 500

Contact: Kristyn Sobier GM Racing Communications ksobier@g-2communications.com ofc: (248) 642-2700 x226 cell: (734) 776-2440 For more information: media.gm.com CHEVROLET NOTES & QUOTES NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES POCONO 500 Advance POCONO RACEWAY JUNE 11, 2004 Terry Labonte in the No. 5 Kellogg's Chevrolet will make his 6 ... Continue reading

Dodge notes, quotes from Pocono

Dodge notes, quotes from Pocono

Friday, June 11, 2004 Ray Cooper Pocono Raceway. Clear!Blue, Inc. Pocono 500 Advance Material. 704-975-3232 KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge) NOTE: Kahne, a 24-year-old driver from Enumclaw, Wash., leads the Raybestos Rookie of the Year Standings by 38 points (166-128) over Scott Wimmer after 13 of 36 races i ... Continue reading

Petersen/ White Lightning - 24 Heures Du Mans Race Preview

Petersen/ White Lightning - 24 Heures Du Mans Race Preview

Petersen/ White Lightning – 24 Heures Du Mans Race Preview LE MANS, France, June 11, 2004 – In 1989, Michael Petersen sought-out Dale White and White Lightning Racing to assist his entry into desert truck racing. An immediately successful partnership was born that day. The two have grown to become teammates ... Continue reading

Ward's Reports Estimated North American Vehicle Production - June 11, 2004

Ward's Reports Estimated North American Vehicle Production - June 11, 2004

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 11 -- Vehicle production this week in the U.S., Canada and Mexico is expected to hit an estimated 327,339 units, up 10.1 percent from the 297,281 cars and trucks built last week, according to Ward's Automotive Reports. Including this week's estimates, calendar year North American output now tota ... Continue reading

Edmunds.com Announces Consumers' Most Wanted Awards for 2004

Edmunds.com Announces Consumers' Most Wanted Awards for 2004

Toyota Prius Named Consumers' Choice for Most Significant Vehicle of the Year SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 11 -- Edmunds.com (http://www.edmunds.com/), the Internet's premiere resource for consumer automotive information, today announced the winners of the third annual Consumers' Most Wanted vehicle awards. (Logo: http:/ ... Continue reading

Walter P. Chrysler Museum hosts first-ever collection of Chrysler classic, custom and concept vehicles

Walter P. Chrysler Museum hosts first-ever collection of Chrysler classic, custom and concept vehicles

"Inspired Chrysler Design: The Art of Driving" runs May 27-Sept. 19, 2004 Extraordinary Chrysler automobiles spanning eight decades Retrospective heralds introduction of 2005 Chrysler 300 The Walter P. Chrysler Museum is presenting Inspired Chrysler Design: The Art of Driving, an all-Chrysler special exhibition featuri ... Continue reading

ArvinMeritor Transfers World-Class Light Vehicle Emissions Technologies to Create Advanced Diesel Emissions Solutions for Commercial Vehicles

ArvinMeritor Transfers World-Class Light Vehicle Emissions Technologies to Create Advanced Diesel Emissions Solutions for Commercial Vehicles

Clean Air Solutions promise significant opportunities for business growth TROY, Mich., June 11 -- At a press briefing today, ArvinMeritor, Inc. unveiled a suite of Clean Air Solutions technologies and products designed to help commercial vehicles meet the increasingly stringent emissions regulations in the United State ... Continue reading

ArvinMeritor's New Suite of Clean Air Solutions Meet Stringent New Emissions Standards

ArvinMeritor's New Suite of Clean Air Solutions Meet Stringent New Emissions Standards

Advanced technologies help fleet operators, OEMs and engine makers face challenges TROY, Mich., June 11 -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. today introduced a broad portfolio of innovative Clean Air Solutions to help North American fleet operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) face strict new emission standards schedul ... Continue reading

ArvinMeritor's Clean Air Solutions Provide Technologies Tailored to Address Commercial Vehicle Emissions Challenges

ArvinMeritor's Clean Air Solutions Provide Technologies Tailored to Address Commercial Vehicle Emissions Challenges

TROY, Mich., June 11 -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. today unveiled its suite of Clean Air Solutions that will provide commercial truck and bus original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a number of technologies and products to address vehicle emissions challenges. OEMs will now be able to select the solution that best suits t ... Continue reading

ArvinMeritor Celebrates a Heritage of Developing Breakthrough Clean Air Solutions

ArvinMeritor Celebrates a Heritage of Developing Breakthrough Clean Air Solutions

June marks the fortieth anniversary of the development anniversary of the catalytic converter TROY, Mich., June 11 -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. celebrates 40 years of providing innovative, effective clean air solutions to the transportation industry this month. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010524/ARVINLOGO ) T ... Continue reading

ArvinMeritor Receives $1.7 Million Grant from Indiana to Develop Exhaust Emissions Technology

ArvinMeritor Receives $1.7 Million Grant from Indiana to Develop Exhaust Emissions Technology

TROY, Mich., June 11 -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. today announced that it has received a $1.7 million grant from the Indiana 21st Century Research and Development Fund. The grant will assist in the development of the company's breakthrough Plasma Fuel Reformer exhaust emissions technology, which is being developed at the comp ... Continue reading

Breakthrough ArvinMeritor Technology Promises Revolutionary Approach to Extensive Exhaust Emissions Regulation Changes

Breakthrough ArvinMeritor Technology Promises Revolutionary Approach to Extensive Exhaust Emissions Regulation Changes

Lab tests indicate 50 percent better fuel consumption than competing technologies TROY, Mich., June 11 -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. today unveiled its Plasma Fuel Reformer, a breakthrough exhaust emissions technology that could revolutionize the way commercial and light vehicle manufacturers meet the upcoming 2010 diesel engi ... Continue reading

Chrysler Group President and CEO Dieter Zetsche to Host Major Groundbreaking Ceremony

Chrysler Group President and CEO Dieter Zetsche to Host Major Groundbreaking Ceremony

* Zetsche to Unearth What's Coming Next at the Chrysler Group * Groundbreaking Event Marks 50th Anniversary of DaimlerChrysler Chelsea Proving Grounds WHAT: To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the DaimlerChrysler Chelsea Proving Grounds, Chrysler Group will conduct a major groundbreaking event WHO: Dieter Zetsche, C ... Continue reading

Asia Wi-Fi Services and Pricing Pose Dilemma for Future Growth

Asia Wi-Fi Services and Pricing Pose Dilemma for Future Growth

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Asia Wi-Fi Services and Pricing Pose Dilemma for Future Growth, According to BroadGroup Report LONDON, June 11, 2004 -- A new report from BroadGroup, the London-based consultancy, reveals that consumerist pricing found in the region is still the cheapest worldwide for public broadband, with one-ho ... Continue reading

Telematics Update: Detroit 2004 Presentations

Telematics Update: Detroit 2004 Presentations

Telematics Update Detroit 2004 event program and materials May 25-26, Cobo Center, Detroit, MI, USA Event Program and materials Transcript Presentations Boom or Bust? The state of telematics today Thilo Koslowski, VP & Lead Analyst Automotive, Gartner|G2 posting from June 14 n / a Customers drive markets but what do th ... Continue reading

School Bus Races At SSP Postponed Until Sunday

School Bus Races At SSP Postponed Until Sunday

Contact: Todd Fisher (717) 292-1696 -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE School Bus Racing Postponed Until Sunday at SSP NEWBERRYTOWN, PA (June 10, 2004) – Thursday night racing at SSP has been postponed until Sunday, June 13 due to rain. The evening will feature The Great American School Bus Race along with the 410 Sprint ... Continue reading

Yazaki Supplies Innovative New Technology to Aston Martin DB9

Yazaki Supplies Innovative New Technology to Aston Martin DB9

CANTON, Mich., June 10 -- Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki), a leading global supplier of vehicle power and data solutions to the automotive industry, has announced the first automotive application of the new display technology, Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) into the new Aston Martin DB9. Yazaki incorporated the OLED t ... Continue reading

Yazaki suministra nuevas tecnologías innovadoras al Aston Martin DB9

Yazaki suministra nuevas tecnologías innovadoras al Aston Martin DB9

CANTON. Michigan, June 11 -- Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki), principal proveedor de soluciones de datos y alimentación para vehículos en la industria del automóvil, ha anunciado su primera aplicación para la tecnología de display del mundo del automóvil, el Diodo Emisor de Luz Orgánica (OLED), que se utilizará en ... Continue reading

LA Auto Club: Gasoline Prices Begin Slow Decline

LA Auto Club: Gasoline Prices Begin Slow Decline

LOS ANGELES--June 11, 2004--Following two months of record price hikes, retail gasoline prices appear to be on a downward pace which should continue for much of the summer, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California's Weekend Gas Watch. The average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Lo ... Continue reading

Yazaki: Zulieferer innovativer Technologie für den Aston Martin DB9

Yazaki: Zulieferer innovativer Technologie für den Aston Martin DB9

CANTON, Michigan, June 11 -- Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki), ein führender weltweiter Zulieferer von Auto-Kabelsätzen und -Bordnetzen, hat die erste automobile Anwendung der neuen Display-Technologie OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) im neuen Aston Martin DB9 bekannt gegeben. Yazaki hat die OLED-Technologie in die Ins ... Continue reading

Klein Tools/Jim Beam Driver Dan Wheldon 12th in Texas Qualifying

Klein Tools/Jim Beam Driver Dan Wheldon 12th in Texas Qualifying

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FRANCHITTI WINS POLE AT TEXAS IN ARCAEX CAR

FRANCHITTI WINS POLE AT TEXAS IN ARCAEX CAR

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TEAM 7-ELEVEN'S KANAAN QUALIFIES THIRD AT TEXAS

TEAM 7-ELEVEN'S KANAAN QUALIFIES THIRD AT TEXAS

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XM Satellite Radio Driver Bryan Herta Qualifies Fifth at Texas

XM Satellite Radio Driver Bryan Herta Qualifies Fifth at Texas

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ROOKIE CARPENTER LEADS THREE CHEVYS IN TOP 10 IN TEXAS QUALIFYING

ROOKIE CARPENTER LEADS THREE CHEVYS IN TOP 10 IN TEXAS QUALIFYING

Contact: Rick Voegelin GM Racing Communications (831) 761-2201 http://media.gm.com/gmracing ROOKIE CARPENTER LEADS THREE CHEVYS IN TOP 10 IN TEXAS QUALIFYING FORT WORTH, Texas, June 10, 2004 - Rookie Ed Carpenter made the most of his previous experience at Texas Motor Speedway tonight, putting Red Bull Cheever Racing's ... Continue reading

Team Baurtwell Partners With Kenwood to Customize Celebrity Cars for Spike TV's 'Ride With Funkmaster Flex'

Team Baurtwell Partners With Kenwood to Customize Celebrity Cars for Spike TV's 'Ride With Funkmaster Flex'

Missy Elliott, 50 Cent, and Tracy McGrady to Have GM Classics Equipped With Latest Kenwood Mobile Entertainment Gear: Cars in Touring Exhibit NEW YORK, June 11 -- Hip Hop radio DJ and TV personality Funkmaster Flex and Kenwood announced a promotional agreement under which Kenwood is providing Team Baurtwell, the car cu ... Continue reading

ARCA Announces Staff Promotions

ARCA Announces Staff Promotions

ARCA ANNOUNCES STAFF PROMOTIONS (6-11-04) TOLEDO, OH-ARCA President Ron Drager has announced several key personnel promotions as part of a formal restructuring of ARCA's full time administrative staff. Those involved and their new titles include: Joe Wells, 47, Vice President Competition. Wells has been an ARCA officia ... Continue reading

SAE Fuel Economy Competition Challenges Students from Forty College and High School Teams at Eaton Proving Grounds

SAE Fuel Economy Competition Challenges Students from Forty College and High School Teams at Eaton Proving Grounds

MARSHALL, Mich.--June 11, 2004--More than 200 engineering students will participate in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International) Supermileage(TM) competition on June 11-12, 2004 at the Eaton Proving Grounds here in Marshall from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. The student participants represent 30 univer ... Continue reading

Top 10 Most Efficient U.S. Vehicle Assembly Plants

Top 10 Most Efficient U.S. Vehicle Assembly Plants

June 10, 2004; The Associated Press reported the top 10 North American vehicle assembly plants in terms of productivity, according to the Harbour Report, released Thursday by Troy, Mich.-based Harbour Consulting. The figures represent the number of hours needed to build a vehicle: 1. Nissan Motor Co., Smyrna, Tenn., (A ... Continue reading

Federal Regulators Say Vehicle Black Boxes Shouldn't Be Required Under Federal Proposal

Federal Regulators Say Vehicle Black Boxes Shouldn't Be Required Under Federal Proposal

WASHINGTON June 10, 2004; Dee-Ann Durbin writinf for the AP reported that data recorders that collect information on speed, seat belt use, braking and other factors shouldn't be required in vehicles, federal regulators said Thursday. Dr. Ricardo Martinez, former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Admi ... Continue reading

Starting Grid, Pocono ARCA 200

Starting Grid, Pocono ARCA 200

ARCA RE/MAX Series Pork Pole Qualifying Rained Out At Pocono; Field Set By Points LONG POND PA (6-10-04) Thursday's ARCA RE/MAX Series Pork Pole Award Qualifying at Pocono Raceway was rained out. Consequently, the starting field for Saturday's Pocono ARCA 200 has been set by current ARCA RE/MAX Series car owner points. ... Continue reading

Customer Receives First Dodge Sprinter Westfalia

Customer Receives First Dodge Sprinter Westfalia

JACKSON CENTER, Ohio, June 10 -- A very happy author and adventurer has become the proud owner of the first Dodge Sprinter Westfalia recreational vehicle. Joined by officials from Airstream, Westfalia and DaimlerChrysler, the vehicle manufacturer, keys and other bonus items were presented to Ronni Lundy at Airstream's ... Continue reading

The Major Automotive Companies Reports Receipt of Proposed Offer for Company

The Major Automotive Companies Reports Receipt of Proposed Offer for Company

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.--June 10, 2004--The Major Automotive Companies, Inc. today reported that it has received a proposal letter contemplating a transaction pursuant to which an entity to be formed by Bruce Bendell, the Company's Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Acting Chief Financial Officer, would be ... Continue reading

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