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Friday, March 17, 2000

AMETEK Names Dr. Jurgen Gassen GM Of Precision Instruments Europe

AMETEK Names Dr. Jurgen Gassen GM Of Precision Instruments Europe

AMETEK Inc. announced that it has named Dr. Jurgen Gassen as General Manager of AMETEK Precision Instruments Europe (APIE), effective March 20, 2000. ... Continue reading

Aromatherapy For The Car

Aromatherapy For The Car

Aromatherapy For The Car ... Continue reading

ASA: Childrens Internet Website to sponsor ASA Race Team in 2000

ASA: Childrens Internet Website to sponsor ASA Race Team in 2000

Childrens Internet Website PAWISLAND.COM to sponsor ASA Race Team in 2000 ... Continue reading

ASA: elf Race Fuel Reaches Agreement With American Speed Association

ASA: elf Race Fuel Reaches Agreement With American Speed Association

elf Race Fuel Reaches Agreement With American Speed Association ... Continue reading

Bridgestone/Firestone Again Wins Awards At NUMMI's Annual Supplier Conference in San Francisco

Bridgestone/Firestone Again Wins Awards At NUMMI's Annual Supplier Conference in San Francisco

Bridgestone/Firestone won two awards at the annual Supplier Conference of the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. held recently in San Francisco ... Continue reading

CARSTAR's Founder Named Chairman of CCAR(R)

CARSTAR's Founder Named Chairman of CCAR(R)

CARSTAR, the nation's largest collision repair organization, announces that Vice Chairman and Founder Lirel Holt will be named as chairman of the board for the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair on April 25, 2000 ... Continue reading

CART: Target/Chip Ganassi Racing set to defend their title

CART: Target/Chip Ganassi Racing set to defend their title

CART: Target/Chip Ganassi Racing set to defend their title ... Continue reading

CART: Ticket sales get revved up soon for Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix

CART: Ticket sales get revved up soon for Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix

CART: Ticket sales get revved up soon for Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix ... Continue reading

Cummins Names Engine Business Unit Leaders

Cummins Names Engine Business Unit Leaders

F. Joseph Loughrey, Executive Vice President and President - Engine Business with Cummins Engine Co. Inc., has announced key appointments in the Engine Business ... Continue reading

Delco Remy International, Inc., Names New e-Business Director

Delco Remy International, Inc., Names New e-Business Director

David A. Spoelstra has been appointed director of electronic business strategies for Delco Remy International, Inc. ... Continue reading

Detroit Diesel Announces Shipment of 60,000 Pro Driver(R) Unit

Detroit Diesel Announces Shipment of 60,000 Pro Driver(R) Unit

Detroit Diesel Corporation announced the shipment of the 60,000 Pro Driver unit ... Continue reading

Detroit Diesel Corporation Introduces New Fuel Economy Feature - PasSmart(TM)

Detroit Diesel Corporation Introduces New Fuel Economy Feature - PasSmart(TM)

Detroit Diesel Corporation will introduce a new feature for Series 60 powered trucks, named PasSmart(TM) (patent pending), during the Mid American Trucking Show ... Continue reading

Detroit Diesel Introduces New Infrared Information System

Detroit Diesel Introduces New Infrared Information System

During the Mid American Trucking Show, Detroit Diesel Corporation will introduce its new Infrared Information System, IRIS(TM) ... Continue reading

Detroit Diesel Unveils Year 2000 Series 50 Bus & Coach Engine

Detroit Diesel Unveils Year 2000 Series 50 Bus & Coach Engine

Detroit Diesel Corporation will unveil their new Year 2000 Series 50 Bus engine during the Mid America Truck Show next week ... Continue reading

Fiat's New Holland Credit LLC CP To `F2' From `F1'

Fiat's New Holland Credit LLC CP To `F2' From `F1'

New Holland Credit LLC's U.S. commercial paper rating is lowered to 'F2' from 'F1' by Fitch IBCA and removed from RatingAlert Negative where it was placed on May 17, 1999 ... Continue reading

Freudenberg-NOK Launches Complete Web Strategy For Servicing Customers in the New Millennium

Freudenberg-NOK Launches Complete Web Strategy For Servicing Customers in the New Millennium

With the Internet changing the way business is being conducted in the new millennium, Freudenberg-NOK announced today that it has launched a complete web strategy for servicing its customers through a new program called WITTH(TM) (Web Interactivity Through Team Harmony) ... Continue reading

INDY RACING: Excite@home and Team Cheever gear up for the ultimate in interactive partnering

INDY RACING: Excite@home and Team Cheever gear up for the ultimate in interactive partnering

INDY RACING: Excite@home and Team Cheever gear up for the ultimate in interactive partnering ... Continue reading

LTV Steel Buy Recycled Program Achieves All-Time High

LTV Steel Buy Recycled Program Achieves All-Time High

LTV Steel today announced that it purchased in excess of $15.5 million in recycled products and supplies in 1999, establishing a new all-time record for the Company's Buy Recycled Program ... Continue reading

Mazda Divisions Merge Under Leadership of Gordon Dickie

Mazda Divisions Merge Under Leadership of Gordon Dickie

Mazda North American Operations today announced that the Product Planning and Design and the Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Divisions will join as one organization under the leadership of Gordon Dickie ... Continue reading

Modine Opening New Facility in Northern Italy

Modine Opening New Facility in Northern Italy

Modine Europe GmbH, Filderstadt-Bernhausen, Germany, a leading international manufacturer of heat-transfer technology and cooling systems, has opened its first Southern European facility here ... Continue reading

Modine Opening New Facility in Northern Italy

Modine Opening New Facility in Northern Italy

Modine Europe GmbH, Filderstadt-Bernhausen, Germany, a leading international manufacturer of heat-transfer technology and cooling systems, has opened its first Southern European facility here ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: SunCom 200 Starting Lineup, Darlington

NASCAR BGN: SunCom 200 Starting Lineup, Darlington

NASCAR BGN: SunCom 200 Starting Lineup, Darlington ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: NASCAR 150 Starting Lineup, Phoenix

NASCAR Trucks: NASCAR 150 Starting Lineup, Phoenix

NASCAR Trucks: NASCAR 150 Starting Lineup, Phoenix ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Mall.com first round qualifying results, Darlington

NASCAR WCUP: Mall.com first round qualifying results, Darlington

NASCAR WCUP: Mall.com first round qualifying results, Darlington ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Petty and Company set to make Sixth Trek across U.S.

NASCAR WCUP: Petty and Company set to make Sixth Trek across U.S.

Petty and Company set to make Sixth Trek across U.S. ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Ward Burton respects the tradition at Darlington

NASCAR WCUP: Ward Burton respects the tradition at Darlington

NASCAR WCUP: Ward Burton respects the tradition at Darlington ... Continue reading

ON Semiconductor to Advance Research in Automotive Electronics With Donation to University of Michigan

ON Semiconductor to Advance Research in Automotive Electronics With Donation to University of Michigan

ON Semiconductor, a leading supplier of analog, logic, and discrete semiconductor components, announced that it has presented a grant to advance research in the field of automotive electronics ... Continue reading

Qvale Automotive Group and DeTomaso Dissolve Agreement

Qvale Automotive Group and DeTomaso Dissolve Agreement

Effective immediately, Bruce Qvale, President and CEO of the Qvale Automotive Group, and Alejandro DeTomaso have agreed to dissolve the licensing agreement signed by their respective companies two years ago ... Continue reading

RDO Equipment Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2000

RDO Equipment Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2000

RDO Equipment Co. announced today that revenues for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2000 increased by 19.1 percent from the prior fiscal year and were $689.0 million compared to $578.6 million for fiscal 1999 ... Continue reading

Rexhall Industries Announces Record Results

Rexhall Industries Announces Record Results

Driven by continuing strong demand in the recreational vehicle market, Rexhall Industries, Inc. posted record sales and earnings for the year ending December 31, 1999 ... Continue reading

SCCA: Miller scores first pole with new record for Sebring Trans-Am opener

SCCA: Miller scores first pole with new record for Sebring Trans-Am opener

SCCA: Miller scores first pole with new record for Sebring Trans-Am opener ... Continue reading

The Great BMW-Rover Fiasco (03/17/2000)

The Great BMW-Rover Fiasco (03/17/2000)

The Great BMW-Rover Fiasco(03/17/2000) ... Continue reading

VX-02 and 'Mission To Mars' No. 1 at Box Office

VX-02 and 'Mission To Mars' No. 1 at Box Office

The Sci-Fi thriller "Mission To Mars" with a cameo appearance of the Isuzu VX-02 concept vehicle, opened with number-one box- office sales this weekend of 28.1 million on 3,054 screens, according to the Los Angeles Times ... Continue reading

Ward's Reports Estimated Production

Ward's Reports Estimated Production

Vehicle production this week in the U.S., Canada and Mexico is expected to hit an estimated 382,736 units, down from the 390,887 cars and trucks built last week, according to Ward's Automotive Reports ... Continue reading

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