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ARCA: Daytona testing complete as Chevrolets roll quickest with Bobby Gerhart showing the way

ARCA: Daytona testing complete as Chevrolets roll quickest with Bobby Gerhart showing the way

Daytona testing complete as Chevrolets roll quickest with Bobby Gerhart showing the way ... Continue reading

AutoAlliance International, Inc. Employees Donate to Holiday Charities

AutoAlliance International, Inc. Employees Donate to Holiday Charities

The spirit of giving has been thriving this holiday season at AutoAlliance International, Inc. ... Continue reading

Auto Club Introduces Convenient New Way to Give Gifts This Holiday Season

Auto Club Introduces Convenient New Way to Give Gifts This Holiday Season

A new, stored-value card currently being test-marketed by the Automobile Club of Southern California could not only be a welcome gift, but keep holiday shoppers from going over budget. ... Continue reading

Borg-Warner Automotive Names Lawrence B. Skatoff Chief Financial Officer

Borg-Warner Automotive Names Lawrence B. Skatoff Chief Financial Officer

Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc. announced that Lawrence B. Skatoff has been appointed to the new position of executive vice president and chief financial officer, according to John F. Fiedler, chairman and chief executive officer. ... Continue reading

CTS Corporation Elects Walter S. Catlow to Board of Directors

CTS Corporation Elects Walter S. Catlow to Board of Directors

Walter S. Catlow has been elected to the CTS Corporation Board of Directors, according to an announcement today by Joseph P. Walker, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CTS. ... Continue reading

Datakey's Tracker Makes a Splash in the Car Wash Industry

Datakey's Tracker Makes a Splash in the Car Wash Industry

Datakey, Inc., an international supplier of rugged portable memory products and systems, announced an order of $200,000 from its Minnesota-based distributor, Key Solutions, Inc., for its recently announced Tracker solution. ... Continue reading

December Holiday Travel a near Record, says AAA

December Holiday Travel a near Record, says AAA

Nearly 5.4 million Californians will be traveling at least 100 miles from home sometime over Christmas and New Year's, AAA reported. ... Continue reading

Delphi Announces New Operating Sector and Staff Leadership Structure    

Delphi Announces New Operating Sector and Staff Leadership Structure    

Delphi Automotive Systems Chairman, CEO and President J.T. Battenberg III, today announced several changes to streamline the company's sector reporting structure and staff alignment. ... Continue reading

Delphi Beams Giant Safe Travel Message on Building

Delphi Beams Giant Safe Travel Message on Building

"Drive Safe, Drive Smart, Drive Sober." That's the message northbound I-75 drivers will see from Saturday, Dec. 18 to Jan. 1, 2000, when passing the Delphi Automotive Systems World Headquarters near the Crooks Road exit in Troy. ... Continue reading

Engine Manufacturers Applaud New ARCO Cleaner Burning Diesel Fuel

Engine Manufacturers Applaud New ARCO Cleaner Burning Diesel Fuel

The Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) applauds ARCO's efforts in developing a cleaner burning diesel fuel, well in advance of anticipated regulatory requirements. ... Continue reading

Environmentally Friendly Fuel Now Available at the Pump

Environmentally Friendly Fuel Now Available at the Pump

The American Lung Association of Minnesota (ALAMN) announced that E85, a blend of 85% ethanol and just 15% petroleum is available at a growing number of fuel stations in Minnesota. ... Continue reading

Ford Model T Voted Car of the Century

Ford Model T Voted Car of the Century

Ford Motor Company was awarded Car of the Century (COTC) for its Model T at an internationally attended gala in Las Vegas. ... Continue reading

Ford Poised to Move Volvo, Jaguar From NJ HQ to Join Lincoln-Mercury

Ford Poised to Move Volvo, Jaguar From NJ HQ to Join Lincoln-Mercury

Barring an eleventh-hour reversal, Ford Motor Company will move the headquarters of two of its most prestigious nameplates to the West Coast. ... Continue reading

Insilco Holding Co. to Sell Specialty Publishing Unit

Insilco Holding Co. to Sell Specialty Publishing Unit

Insilco Holding Co. announced that it signed a definitive agreement for the sale of Taylor Publishing, its specialty publishing business unit, to a newly formed company owned by Castle Harlan Partners III, L.P. for proceeds of $93.48 million. ... Continue reading

ISC Chairman to Pursue Medical Treatment

ISC Chairman to Pursue Medical Treatment

International Speedway Corporation announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William C. France, has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently pursuing additional diagnoses and treatment. ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Helps Innovative School Obtain Financing

Johnson Controls Helps Innovative School Obtain Financing

Financing arranged by Johnson Controls, Inc. has helped make the Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee a reality. ... Continue reading

Last Christmas of the Century Will Bring Second-Highest Number of Travelers

Last Christmas of the Century Will Bring Second-Highest Number of Travelers

More than 5 million Californians, and 3.2 million Southern Californians, will travel the state's freeways and roads this week on their way to long-distance holiday destinations, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. ... Continue reading

Market-Changing Cars Nominated by Independent Jurors

Market-Changing Cars Nominated by Independent Jurors

Three cars and three trucks that will change the segments they compete in have been selected by a jury of 47 independent auto journalists in the United States and Canada for the North American Car and Truck of the Year Awards. ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz, Motorola Offer Drivers Fully Integrated Digital Portable Phone

Mercedes-Benz, Motorola Offer Drivers Fully Integrated Digital Portable Phone

Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) is the first auto maker to offer U.S. drivers a fully integrated digital cellular phone system. ... Continue reading

Mini Named 'European Car of the Century' in International Awards Program    

Mini Named 'European Car of the Century' in International Awards Program    

Mini fans the world over are celebrating that the little car has been voted the highest placed European car by 130 of the world's leading journalists in the 'Car of the Century' awards at a glittering bash in Las Vegas. ... Continue reading

More Streamlined Management Structure at Mannesmann Demag Krauss-Maffei

More Streamlined Management Structure at Mannesmann Demag Krauss-Maffei

With effect from January 1, 2000, Mannesmann Plastics Machinery (MPM), the parent company for all the Mannesmann Group's plastics machinery businesses, will be merged with Mannesmann Demag Krauss-Maffei AG. ... Continue reading

MSN CarPoint Asks, What Are Your Most 'Unforgettable' Cars?

MSN CarPoint Asks, What Are Your Most 'Unforgettable' Cars?

What is the most unforgettable car of all time? Beginning Dec. 17, consumers will be able to declare their choice and enter to win a 1999 Volkswagen New Beetle. ... Continue reading

Odetics ITS Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering

Odetics ITS Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering

Iteris Inc. (formerly known as Odetics ITS Inc.) announced that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the initial public offering of up to $50 million of its common stock. ... Continue reading

Old American Insurance Announces Construction of New Facility

Old American Insurance Announces Construction of New Facility

Old American Insurance has begun construction of Old American Plaza at the Sojourn Office Centre, a new, state-of-the-art office complex. ... Continue reading

PPG Industries, AECI Ltd. Set South African Coatings Venture

PPG Industries, AECI Ltd. Set South African Coatings Venture

Pittsburgh's PPG Industries and AECI Ltd. of South Africa, have agreed to join forces in an automotive refinish, auto original equipment and industrial coatings venture based on AECI's technical coatings division at Port Elizabeth. ... Continue reading

Royal Oak Marketing Featured at 2000 CES Conference

Royal Oak Marketing Featured at 2000 CES Conference

Autoco.com announced that its subsidiary, Royal Oak Marketing, will be exhibiting their line of brand name consumer technology products at the 2000 CES conference on January 6-9th in Las Vegas. ... Continue reading

Saab Production Passes 50 Year Mark

Saab Production Passes 50 Year Mark

On December 12, 1949, the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab began regular production of its first ground-based vehicle - a green Saab 92. ... Continue reading

SCCA: Hikari Racing Expanding in 2000

SCCA: Hikari Racing Expanding in 2000

SCCA: Hikari Racing Expanding in 2000 ... Continue reading

'Some Seat Belt Buckles Safer Than Others' According to South Carolina Attorney

'Some Seat Belt Buckles Safer Than Others' According to South Carolina Attorney

"Evidence is mounting that some seat belt buckles are more prone to fail during some crashes than others," according to J. Kendall Few, a widely respected South Carolina trial lawyer and seat belt buckle researcher. ... Continue reading

Spectre Updates Recent Developments

Spectre Updates Recent Developments

Spectre has structured a new management agreement with Grant Brothers Sales Ltd., eff Jan, 2000 that will significantly increase Spectre's automotive aftermarket presence through a wholly owned subsidiary, the Grant Automotive Group. ... Continue reading

State Safety Belt Use Falls Among Young Adults in Michigan

State Safety Belt Use Falls Among Young Adults in Michigan

State safety belt use fell in a critical area in 1999, most notably among young adults, announced the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP). ... Continue reading

Stretchy Seatbelt Fiber Improves Safety

Stretchy Seatbelt Fiber Improves Safety

A new seatbelt fiber stretches slightly to allow the passenger's upper body to slowly move into the airbag, helping to prevent injuries in accidents, according to its inventor, Honeywell Performance Fibers. ... Continue reading

Thrifty Joins Icelandair Frequent Flyer Program, Offers 500 Miles Per Transaction

Thrifty Joins Icelandair Frequent Flyer Program, Offers 500 Miles Per Transaction

Thrifty Car Rental will warm the toes of Icelandair's Frequent Flyer Program members by offering 500 miles per rental transaction at any Thrifty location worldwide, effective Jan. 1, 2000. ... Continue reading

Timken and United Steelworkers Reach Tentative Contract Agreement

Timken and United Steelworkers Reach Tentative Contract Agreement

The United Steelworkers of America has reached a tentative agreement with The Timken Company that covers hourly employees at their Canton, Wooster and Columbus plants. ... Continue reading

Tracks: Southeast Motorsports kicks off inaugural season with Speedweeks 2000 events

Tracks: Southeast Motorsports kicks off inaugural season with Speedweeks 2000 events

Tracks: Southeast Motorsports kicks off inaugural season with Speedweeks 2000 events ... Continue reading

Traffic Station Extends Service to Six New Markets in North America

Traffic Station Extends Service to Six New Markets in North America

Traffic Station, Inc., the leading national provider of personalized traffic and transportation information via the Internet and wireless communications devices, announced the expansion of its services to six new cities: ... Continue reading

Truck-side Advertising Audience Measurement Methodology Now Available

Truck-side Advertising Audience Measurement Methodology Now Available

The Traffic Audit Bureau announced the availability of a new methodology that will confirm the number of people exposed to an advertiser's message on the side of a truck. ... Continue reading

TRW Adds Advanced Test Circuit to Swedish Test Center

TRW Adds Advanced Test Circuit to Swedish Test Center

TRW has opened an advanced "handling" circuit at its Swedish Test Center in Arvidsjaur, Sweden, this month. ... 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 378,112 units, down from the 397,727 cars and trucks built a week ago, according to Ward's Automotive Reports. ... Continue reading

Wynn's International, Inc. Completes Acquisition Of Goshen Rubber Companies, Inc.

Wynn's International, Inc. Completes Acquisition Of Goshen Rubber Companies, Inc.

Wynn's International, Inc. announced that it had completed the acquisition of all of the capital stock of Goshen Rubber Companies, Inc. headquartered in Goshen, Indiana. ... Continue reading

ZAP Signs Agreement to Acquire Electric Scooter Company

ZAP Signs Agreement to Acquire Electric Scooter Company

ZAPWORLD.COM announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire emPower Corporation, a Cambridge, Massachusetts electric scooter company. ... Continue reading

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