Bloomberg - 9 hours agoBy Brian McGee. Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Tomkins Plc, the world's biggest maker of replacement wiper blades for cars, said third- quarter …

Advance Auto Parts to Report Third Quarter Earnings on November 2
Business Wire (press release), CA - Oct 26, 2006ROANOKE, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket retailer of parts, batteries …

GM spinoff closing Anderson, Louisiana auto parts plants
NewsLink Indiana, IN - Oct 19, 2006By: AP. ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - Guide Corporation has notified Anderson officials that it plans to shut down its factory there. Guide …

Delphi settles fraud charges
Los Angeles Times, CA - 10 hours agoThe auto parts company does not admit or deny US allegations that it cooked the books. … Federal securities regulators charged auto parts giant Delphi Corp. …

CSK Is Latest Auto Parts Retailer To Face Active Holder
Easy Bourse (Communiqu s de presse), France - Oct 25, 2006… On Tuesday, Karsch filed a letter attached to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing pushing auto parts retailer CSK Auto, which recently had top …

Amazon Announces Auto Parts Store
Slippery Brick, OR - Oct 23, 2006Amazon.com today announced the opening of its new Automotive Parts and Accessories Store which features over 1 million new, used and remanufactured parts from …

Auto parts maker Federal-Mogul ends Britain bankruptcy protection
International Herald Tribune, France - Oct 12, 2006AP. DETROIT Auto parts supplier Federal-Mogul Corp. says it has emerged from bankruptcy protection in Britain and is close to doing …

Cruz Pedregon And The Advance Auto Parts Race To Final Round In …
Auto Racing Daily - Oct 17, 2006Cruz Pedregon and his Advance Auto Parts Race Team raced to a final-round appearance at the NHRA Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park in Richmond, Va., in …

Pedregon, Advance Auto Parts Team DNQ in Las Vegas
WhoWon.com, NE - 22 hours agoby Allison Holt, Pedregon Racing. LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Cruz Pedregon and his Advance Auto Parts Race Team came to the NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas …

Auto-Parts Deals;
Wall Street Journal (subscription), NY - Oct 28, 2006Auto-Parts Deals: Wall Street expects a buyout deal this week for Lear's automotive-interiors unit and offers for Delphi. By some …

Who Won - Todd Bowsher And The Jack Bowsher & Associates Motorsports Team Have Their Safe Auto Ford All Set And Ready To Go For This Weekends Final Race On The 2006 Arca Re/Max Series Schedule. Hueytown, Alabama’s Justin South is heading to the Iowa Speedway

Ford’s China partner back in black for Q3
Reuters - Changan Auto, Ford and Mazda are expanding their Chongqing plant to make 200,000 cars a year. They are also building a plant in Nanjing, three hours by road from Shanghai, which will have an initial capacity of 160,000 vehicles per year. ($1=7

Bowsher Survives Talladega To Finish 16th
Who Won - TALLADEGA, Ala. — Todd Bowsher and the Jack Bowsher & Associates Motorsports Team overcame their 34th place starting spot and a couple of on track crashes, including the so called “big one” to bring their Safe Auto Ford to the 16th place finishing

Bowsher all Set for Iowa Season Finale
Who Won - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Todd Bowsher And The Jack Bowsher & Associates Motorsports Team Have Their Safe Auto Ford All Set And Ready To Go For This Weekends Final Race On The 2006 Arca Re/Max Series Schedule. The New Iowa Speedway In Newton, Iowa Is A

Ford says chief of staff to leave on Oct. 31
Reuters - Last: Oct 12 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. (F.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Thursday said Chief of Staff Steve Hamp will leave the company on Oct. 31. The No. 2 U.S. automaker, which had previously confirmed Hamp’s plans to leave Ford, said the

Stratfor - Oct 19, 2006… In the wake of the 1973 oil embargo, the United States put auto fuel-efficiency standards (the standards commonly referred to as CAFE) into place. …

A New Standard for Preventing Global Warming
Foreign Policy In Focus - Oct 4, 2006… The point is not to debate the long-run cost of improved auto fuel efficiency.) If actual financing costs were used to make the purchase decision (eg, an auto …

Govt may offer tax breaks for bio-fuel
Business Standard, India - Oct 23, 2006The government is mulling tax incentives like excise and import duty exemptions to promote the use of bio-diesel and ethanol in auto fuel. …

An oil boom? Not in India
CNNMoney.com - Oct 9, 2006… according to Iyer. The government has also cut some taxes and allowed a small increase in the price of auto fuel in June. The rest …

LPG companies for price stability
The News - International, Pakistan - Oct 13, 2006… of rules and guidelines for use of LPG in automobiles, which indicate towards their intention of popularizing the use of LPG as auto fuel against compressed …

OIL INDUSTRY INTRODUCES A REVOLUTIONARY MARKER SYSTEM TO ELIMINATE …
Press Information Bureau (press release), India - Oct 4, 2006… for the first time by the Oil Industry in alignment with the international practices is expected to curb to a large extent auto fuel adulteration using kerosene …

Motor Head #16: Jabiru — A New Engine That's Not All That New …
AVweb, CT - Oct 29, 2006… to keep the pin from riding out and scoring the bore.) Those pistons provide a modest 8.0:1 compression ratio, which would be suitable for auto fuel if only …

Domestic fuel prices unlikely to follow global fall
Hindu, India - Oct 5, 2006New Delhi, Oct 5. (PTI): The Government is unlikely to cut auto fuel prices soon, despite global softening of crude oil prices as oil companies continued to …

WHAS 11 - Chinese auto maker plans new MG assembly plant in Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY China’s oldest carmaker plans to build an assembly plant in southern Oklahoma to help revive a historic English automotive brand the MG. Toyota, Nissan

‘Grand Theft Auto‘ maker loses round in lawsuit
ZDNet - A federal judge refused a request from Take-Two Interactive Software to immediately dismiss some claims in a lawsuit accusing it of selling “Grand Theft Auto” video games containing sexually explicit images under the wrong content label. The lawsuit

Business Day South Africa - IC Auto Nissan s Benoni, Kempton Park and Roodepoort dealers have a special of a pair of Nissan 1400LDV bakkies from R1200 a month. Buy a new Opel at Premier Auto Germiston or Premier Auto Benoni any time from now until December and stand a

Final Eight Champions Crowned at SCCA Runoffs
Who Won - Greg Ira, of Plantation, Fla., brought his No. 2 Cu Yacht Charters/First Coast Auto Nissan 240z home fourth, while John Schmitt, of Sunbury, Ohio, finished fifth in his No. 62 Hoosier/Red Line/Hondata Honda Prelude. Charles Davis, of Overland Park

Mpumalanga 400 final summary
Motorsport.com - The Class D honours went to Jaap and Hugo de Bruyn, in the Castrol Toyota Hilux, after a close battle with the BB Auto Nissan Hardbody pair of Arnold du Plessis and John Knox. For the de Bruyn’s it was their second win of the season and their second

NDTV.com, India - Oct 23, 2006… "Sales were higher due to very low base and growth in demand for petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas used as auto fuel," a ministry official said. …

Statement of Philip Clapp, President of the…
U.S. Newswire (press release), DC - 9 hours ago… China is already far ahead of us in making its economy more energy efficient — its auto fuel economy rules are stronger than ours, for example. …

Petro division drives RIL`s better show in Q2FY07, while the …
Business Standard, India - Oct 20, 2006… Also, under-recoveries in the auto fuel retailing division were estimated at Rs 80-90 crore in the quarter versus Rs 500 crore in the June quarter, analysts say …

Govt unlikely to cut fuel prices
Chennai Online, India - Oct 5, 2006New Delhi, Oct 5: The government is unlikely to cut auto fuel prices in the near future despite global softening of crude oil prices as oil companies continued …

Two new laboratory breakthroughs are poised to dramatically improve how plastics are made by assembling molecular chains more quickly and with less waste. Using such environmentally friendly substances as vitamin C or pure water, the two approaches present attractive alternatives to the common plastic manufacturing technique called free radical polymerization (FRP).

Chinese credit card market growing 
BEIJING — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and General Electric Co.’s finance arm are joining the race for a share of China’s growing consumer credit market by issuing their own credit card this week, a Wal-Mart spokesman said Tuesday.

Alabama-made SUV named best in class 
Motor Trend has named the Mercedes-Benz GL450 its 2007 Sport/Utility of the Year, the automotive magazine announced Tuesday.

Metro autoworkers to get retraining funds 
Georgia has been given a U.S. Department of Labor Career Advancement Account Demonstration grant to re-train displaced workers of the Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and their suppliers.

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AOL - Renault owns a 44 percent stake in Nissan, which in turn holds 15 percent of the French auto maker. “The talks with GM were a very worthwhile project to undertake,” he said. A potential alliance partner needs to have substantial synergies worth

Japanese stocks rise, dollar up vs yen
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - TOKYO - Japanese stocks were higher just after Friday’s open on gains in technology and auto maker stocks in the wake of Wall Street’s climb overnight. The dollar was higher against the yen. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 67.73 points, or 0.40

Honda unveils ultraclean diesel system
CNN - Just as we paved the way for cleaner gasoline engines, we will take the leadership in the progress of diesel engines,” Honda Chief Executive Takeo Fukui told a news conference at the auto maker’s R&D center north of Tokyo. Fukui said Honda would be

Volkswagen offers Pope a luxury sedan
Catholic World News - Volkswagen offers Pope a luxury sedan Oct. 18 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI ( bio - news ) is the owner of a new Volkswagen Phaeton, courtesy of the German auto maker. Volkswagen’s President Bernd

Tata Motors Q2 PAT up 31%
Financial Express - MUMBAI, OCTOBER 30: Country’s leading auto maker Tata Motors Ltd on Monday posted a 31 per cent increase in profit after tax at Rs 441.72 crore for the quarter ended September 30, as compared to Rs 337.87 crore for the corresponding quarter last

Honda brings luxury to China
CNN Money - Earlier this month, the Japanese auto maker added 120,000 units of annual capacity in a venture in south China, bringing its capacity to 360,000 units. It is now capable of making 530,000 vehicles a year in the country, including its manufacturing in

Motorsport.com - The Class D honours went to Jaap and Hugo de Bruyn, in the Castrol Toyota Hilux, after a close battle with the BB Auto Nissan Hardbody pair of Arnold du Plessis and John Knox. For the de Bruyn’s it was their second win of the season and their second

Production, Special Vehicle penultimate round preview
Motorsport.com - The two BB Auto Nissan crews of Arnold du Plessis and Johan Knox and Jurie and Andre du Plessis will also be looking for some reward from so far disappointing seasons. Last season Manfred Schroder wrapped up the Class D drivers championship on the

Deals of the week
Business Day South Africa - IC Auto Nissan s Benoni, Kempton Park and Roodepoort dealers have a special of a pair of Nissan 1400LDV bakkies from R1200 a month. Buy a new Opel at Premier Auto Germiston or Premier Auto Benoni any time from now until December and stand a

Final Eight Champions Crowned at SCCA Runoffs
Who Won - Greg Ira, of Plantation, Fla., brought his No. 2 Cu Yacht Charters/First Coast Auto Nissan 240z home fourth, while John Schmitt, of Sunbury, Ohio, finished fifth in his No. 62 Hoosier/Red Line/Hondata Honda Prelude. Charles Davis, of Overland Park

Easy Bourse (Communiqu s de presse), France - Oct 25, 2006… GM, the world's No.1 auto maker in terms of production and sales, is in the midst of restructuring after posting a $10 billion loss in 2005. …

Outsider gets Fiat going by flouting traditions
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Oct 26, 2006… network in Russia. Another is with Turkish auto maker Tofas and France's PSA Peugeot Citroen SA to make a small cargo vehicle. By next …

'Grand Theft Auto' maker loses round in lawsuit
ZDNet - Oct 26, 2006A federal judge refused a request from Take-Two Interactive Software to immediately dismiss some claims in a lawsuit accusing it of selling "Grand Theft Auto …

PRESS DIGEST-Financial Times, Wall St Journal Asia editions
Reuters AlertNet, UK - Oct 26, 2006… He was 52. — Ford's chairman said the auto maker's long-term health depends on building more cars and buying more components outside the US, with a focus on …