Sunday, October 21, 2012

Nutson's Nuggets: Here Is Last Week's (October 15-21 2012) Automotive News Incase You Were Dozing

* The odd-looking Nissan DeltaWing race car with the unbelievably narrow front track crashed in practice during its first North American race, Petit LeMans at Road Atlanta. The crash had nothing to do with the car's design, rather it was clipped by an errant Porsche. DeltaWing represents perhaps the most dramatic chang ... Continue reading

General Motors and HP Team Up on IT Transformation

General Motors and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today new multi-year project services and software contracts that will accelerate GM's ongoing IT transformation efforts and deliver seamless, global services and products throughout the automaker's operations. These agreements provide GM a cost-neutral solution in which ... Continue reading

CarMax Board Authorizes $300 Million Share Repurchase

CarMax, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program for up to $300 million of the company's outstanding common stock. The share repurchase authorization is effective immediately and expires on December 31, 2013. 'We're very pleased with the Board's approval of our share repu ... Continue reading

Voting Begins as Completed Vehicles are Unveiled this Saturday In the Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge

After weeks of following four accomplished Toyota racing drivers and their talented build teams create four utterly unique and exciting vehicles for the Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge, anxious fans will finally get to see the completed vehicles when each is unveiled on the Dream Build website this Saturday, Oct. 2 ... Continue reading

Emergent Systems Selected to Participate in NSRP Research Project

Emergent Systems will be teaming up with NASSCO and Bollinger Shipyards to develop a ''Design for Production Rules Delivery and Technical Memory Management System'' for Shipyards in order to evaluate the impact of Emergent's Knowledge Management technology, E2ks, on naval ship design and cost. This effort was one of tw ... Continue reading