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Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Allied Holdings, Inc. Announces Annual Meeting Date

Allied Holdings, Inc. Announces Annual Meeting Date

Allied Holdings, Inc. today announced that its annual meeting of shareholders has been scheduled to be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 ... Continue reading

ASA: Wynns Back on Board with ASA in 2000; Oil Company Also Returns as Sponsor of St. Amant

ASA: Wynns Back on Board with ASA in 2000; Oil Company Also Returns as Sponsor of St. Amant

ASA: Wynns Back on Board with ASA in 2000; Oil Company Also Returns as Sponsor of St. Amant ... Continue reading

Astris Energi Heads Toward Market for Small Fuel Cell Systems

Astris Energi Heads Toward Market for Small Fuel Cell Systems

While other companies attempting to develop fuel cell power generators are focusing on the eventual automobile market Honda says it will have a fuel cell-powered car by 2003 Astris Energi Inc., a pioneer that has devoted 17 years and $12 million to the fuel cell field, is focusing on developing fuel cell systems to pow ... Continue reading

Avis' Club Red Incentive Program Earns Agents Automatic Cash

Avis' Club Red Incentive Program Earns Agents Automatic Cash

Avis Rent A Car, Inc. announced today the launching of "The New Club Red 2000." The Company's popular Club Red is a travel agent incentive program with the theme this year being: " Book Avis. Get Money!" ... Continue reading

BASF Inks New Long-Term Agreement With CARSTAR

BASF Inks New Long-Term Agreement With CARSTAR

CARSTAR, the nation's largest collision repair organization, announced today it has renewed its long-standing relationship agreement with BASF ... Continue reading

BAT's Subsidiary, Ultra Force Battery Company, Files International SEALER Patents

BAT's Subsidiary, Ultra Force Battery Company, Files International SEALER Patents

BAT International's subsidiary, Ultra-Force Battery Co., has filed international patents for the SEALER battery technology in eight countries in Europe ... Continue reading

Brake Corner Modules Improve Comfort, Performance And Customer Satisfaction

Brake Corner Modules Improve Comfort, Performance And Customer Satisfaction

Continental Teves has grown to be among the largest automotive suppliers by applying its engineering and technical systems expertise for global automakers ... Continue reading

CART: Mercedes-Benz Retailer is 'Work Shop' for Champ Car Pilot Kanaan

CART: Mercedes-Benz Retailer is 'Work Shop' for Champ Car Pilot Kanaan

Mercedes-Benz Retailer is 'Work Shop' for Champ Car Pilot Kanaan ... Continue reading

CART to feature all-driver autograph sessions at each race in 2000

CART to feature all-driver autograph sessions at each race in 2000

CART to feature all-driver autograph sessions at each race in 2000 ... Continue reading

Continental Teves Adds Safety and Comfort Option To Vehicles with the Adjustable Pedal

Continental Teves Adds Safety and Comfort Option To Vehicles with the Adjustable Pedal

Continental Teves, a leading supplier of safety and comfort systems, is engineering innovative technologies to address this issue. Their newly developed adjustable pedal is an interactive high-tech device that gives drivers the option of moving accelerator and brake pedals fore or aft by as much as three inches ... Continue reading

Cooper Tire Gets a Lot of ``Mileage & Grip'' From Its New Campaign

Cooper Tire Gets a Lot of ``Mileage & Grip'' From Its New Campaign

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Cooper Tire launches its new national advertising campaign this week ... Continue reading

Delphi Provides Business Opportunities to Minority Suppliers At Automotive Matchmaker Conference

Delphi Provides Business Opportunities to Minority Suppliers At Automotive Matchmaker Conference

For the fifth consecutive year Delphi Automotive Systems is hosting the Automotive Matchmaker Conference at the Dayton Convention Center, March 14 and 15, 2000 ... Continue reading

Dollar Rent A Car Texas Locations Purchase Complete

Dollar Rent A Car Texas Locations Purchase Complete

Dollar Rent A Car, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc., today announced it has closed the purchase of all of the DOLLAR(R) locations in the state of Texas formerly operated by its licensee, JFC Automotive Rental Group, L.L.C., for an undisclosed price ... Continue reading

DRAG BIKES: AMA/Prostar MRE Sunshine Nationals qualifying results

DRAG BIKES: AMA/Prostar MRE Sunshine Nationals qualifying results

AMA/Prostar MRE Sunshine Nationals qualifying results ... Continue reading

EU Commission Stops Volvo's Acquisition of Scania

EU Commission Stops Volvo's Acquisition of Scania

The EU Commission today rejected Volvo's application for competition approval of Volvo's proposed acquisition of Scania. ... Continue reading

F2000: F2K, Y2K merge this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway

F2000: F2K, Y2K merge this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway

F2000: F2K, Y2K merge this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway ... Continue reading

FIA RALLY: Ford duo chase repeat of Portuguese vintage

FIA RALLY: Ford duo chase repeat of Portuguese vintage

Retailer is 'Work Shop' for Champ Car Pilot Kanaan ... Continue reading

Formual One: Blundell: Indy aura, track will make US Grand Prix special

Formual One: Blundell: Indy aura, track will make US Grand Prix special

Formual One: Blundell: Indy aura, track will make US Grand Prix special ... Continue reading

Freudenberg-NOK Helps Tomorrow's Leaders Gain Global Understanding Through TANNER Program

Freudenberg-NOK Helps Tomorrow's Leaders Gain Global Understanding Through TANNER Program

As part of a multi-billion dollar enterprise that has been operating globally for four generations, Freudenberg-NOK understands the importance of global perspective ... Continue reading

GM Ratings Affirmed By Fitch IBCA On Fiat Alliance

GM Ratings Affirmed By Fitch IBCA On Fiat Alliance

Fitch IBCA affirms GM's `F1' commercial paper, `A' senior debt and `A-' preference share. ... Continue reading

Improve Your Vehicle's Gas Mileage

Improve Your Vehicle's Gas Mileage

Improving gas mileage can be done at any stage in the life of a car, say automotive experts at the Specialty Equipment Market Association ... Continue reading

Investor's President and CEO Remarks On The EU Commission's Decision to Block Volvo's Acquisition of Scania

Investor's President and CEO Remarks On The EU Commission's Decision to Block Volvo's Acquisition of Scania

Investor's President and CEO Remarks On The EU Commission's Decision to Block Volvo's Acquisition of Scania ... Continue reading

IRL: Galles thinks Unser is peaking despite slow start

IRL: Galles thinks Unser is peaking despite slow start

IRL: Galles thinks Unser is peaking despite slow start ... Continue reading

Latest Braking Technology Helps Keep Cars on the Road

Latest Braking Technology Helps Keep Cars on the Road

Engineers at Continental Teves, a leading supplier of automotive safety and comfort systems, are doing their part to help motorists travel more safely, through innovative braking technology that helps keep cars out of trouble and on the road ... Continue reading

Lund International Holdings, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter And Year-to-Date 1999 Financial Results

Lund International Holdings, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter And Year-to-Date 1999 Financial Results

Lund International Holdings, Inc. announces results of operations for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1999 ... Continue reading

NASCAR: Martin Already Thinking Points

NASCAR: Martin Already Thinking Points

NASCAR: Martin Already Thinking Points ... Continue reading

NASCAR SJAPS: Teams head to Coastal Plains Raceway

NASCAR SJAPS: Teams head to Coastal Plains Raceway

NASCAR SJAPS: Teams head to Coastal Plains Raceway ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Even After Atlanta, Lycos Team Has More Points Than Most

NASCAR WCUP: Even After Atlanta, Lycos Team Has More Points Than Most

Even After Atlanta, Lycos Team Has More Points Than Most ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Nadeau Looks Ahead to the Mall.com 400

NASCAR WCUP: Nadeau Looks Ahead to the Mall.com 400

NASCAR WCUP: Nadeau Looks Ahead to the Mall.com 400 ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Tony Stewart set to 'tame' Darlington

NASCAR WCUP: Tony Stewart set to 'tame' Darlington

NASCAR WCUP: Tony Stewart set to 'tame' Darlington ... Continue reading

Nationwide Gas Price Shattering Records, Topping $1.54 Per Gallon

Nationwide Gas Price Shattering Records, Topping $1.54 Per Gallon

Gasoline prices are breaking records nationwide, reaching their highest level ever in the United States this month and registering their biggest 12-month increase in history, AAA said today ... Continue reading

New Crash Test Results Available on NHTSA's World Wide Web Site

New Crash Test Results Available on NHTSA's World Wide Web Site

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's latest crash test results for 2000 model year vehicles are now available on the agency's World Wide Web site: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov. ... Continue reading

NHRA Extra: Krisher $teps Up to Win in Pro Stock

NHRA Extra: Krisher $teps Up to Win in Pro Stock

NHRA Extra: Krisher $teps Up to Win in Pro Stock ... Continue reading

NHRA: Hines Begins His 'Roar for 4'

NHRA: Hines Begins His 'Roar for 4'

NHRA: Hines Begins His 'Roar for 4' ... Continue reading

NHRA: Martino looks to complete the picture at Gainesville

NHRA: Martino looks to complete the picture at Gainesville

NHRA: Martino looks to complete the picture at Gainesville ... Continue reading

PeopleFirst.com Closes $36.5 Million in Venture Capital; Equity Infusion to Expand Business

PeopleFirst.com Closes $36.5 Million in Venture Capital; Equity Infusion to Expand Business

Online auto loan leader PeopleFirst.com announced the completion of a $36.5 million investment led by Madison Dearborn Partners ... Continue reading

Scania's Comment in View of the Decision by The EU Commission

Scania's Comment in View of the Decision by The EU Commission

Against the background of the decision by the EU Commission not to approve the proposed acquisition of Scania by Volvo, Scania's President and CEO Leif Ostling makes the following comments ... Continue reading

SCCA: Simo Shifts for Y2K

SCCA: Simo Shifts for Y2K

SCCA: Simo Shifts for Y2K ... Continue reading

Southern California Gas Prices Soar Says Auto Club Survey

Southern California Gas Prices Soar Says Auto Club Survey

Southern California gasoline prices have climbed more than 27 cents a gallon in one month, shooting past the 1999 April high of $1.61, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California Fuel Gauge Report ... Continue reading

Special Report: eBay Hosts Valvoline Racing Auction

Special Report: eBay Hosts Valvoline Racing Auction

Special Report: eBay Hosts Valvoline Racing Auction ... Continue reading

USAC: Kahne, Wade share Bakersfield Victory Podium

USAC: Kahne, Wade share Bakersfield Victory Podium

USAC: Kahne, Wade share Bakersfield Victory Podium ... Continue reading

USAC: Parsons celebrates 50-year anniversary of father's '500' victory with win

USAC: Parsons celebrates 50-year anniversary of father's '500' victory with win

USAC: Parsons celebrates 50-year anniversary of father's '500' victory with win ... Continue reading

U.S. Transportation Secretary Slater Announces Grants of $7.6 Million to 44 States to Improve Traffic Records

U.S. Transportation Secretary Slater Announces Grants of $7.6 Million to 44 States to Improve Traffic Records

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater today announced that 46 States and U.S. territories will share $7.6 million in grants help improve safety by developing or implementing strategies to improve traffic records systems ... Continue reading

U.S. Transportation Secretary Slater Charges Safety Conference to Help Meet Seat Belt Goal

U.S. Transportation Secretary Slater Charges Safety Conference to Help Meet Seat Belt Goal

In a keynote address at Lifesavers 2000, the nation's premier traffic safety conference, U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater today charged those attending to mount an all-out effort to meet the national goal set by President Clinton to reach 85 percent seat belt use by the end of 2000. ... Continue reading

Volkswagen Reels in the College Market

Volkswagen Reels in the College Market

Volkswagen of America, Inc. has hit the road for the second consecutive year with their marketing initiative involving college students ... Continue reading

Wheaties Honors Racing Legends

Wheaties Honors Racing Legends

Wheaties today announced a series of four limited-edition packages commemorating the careers of stock car racing legends Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett, Benny Parsons and Cale Yarborough ... Continue reading

ZAP Signs Electric Bike Deal With Smith & Wesson

ZAP Signs Electric Bike Deal With Smith & Wesson

Smith & Wesson, known for well over a century as one of the world's premier firearm makers, launched its bicycle division three years ago to produce and distribute Law Enforcement bicycles ... Continue reading

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