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Town Hall - The new versions of the company’s minivans to be unveiled this week at the North American International Auto Ford Designers Redo Focus, Five Hundred - Jan 7, 2007 The challenge from Ford Motor Co.’s top brass was daunting: Take an old car and a

Globe and Mail - Last year, high fuel prices drove consumers away from General Motor Corp.’s sport utility vehicles and light trucks, forcing the auto maker to cut production. Ford Motor Co. has said that it expects to further cut production in the first six months

Honda Motor to spend 150-200 mln usd on building second plant in India
Forbes - Once the auto maker brings the new factory up to its maximum capacity, its total output in India will be 300,000 cars a year, five times what it produces now. Honda hopes to sell 60,000 cars in India in the fiscal year ending March, having sold 43,000

Chinese auto maker Changfeng seeks U.S. presence
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Along with exotic cars and concepts from big global auto makers, visitors to the international auto show this month in Detroit will see vehicles from an obscure Chinese auto maker called Changfeng Group Co. Up close, the five Changfeng vehicles, two

Ford sues Navistar over prices, contract
Boston Globe - Though Ford’s actions could hurt the auto maker and the supplier, Ford is banking on the success of large pickups — many of which use Navistar engines — to help the auto maker regain profitability. Because engines are such high-cost components, it

MONDAY, JAN. 29
Wall Street Journal - The auto maker’s painful restructuring continues under new CEO Alan Mulally, with its core North American operations not expected to regain profitability until 2009. Ford could add a heaping to the $7 billion in losses it posted for the first nine

News at a Glance
Smart Money - General Motors ( GM ) posted a 32% increase in the number of cars sold in China in 2006, making GM the top auto maker in China for the second year in a row, the company said Monday. GM has seen its domestic market share eroded by Toyota ( TM ), but the

Hyundai Motor faces a strike as union issues ultimatum
Forbes - SEOUL (XFN-ASIA) - Hyundai Motor faces a strike after its labor union gave the company until Thursday to pay a disputed bonus or face a walkout. The clash between the auto maker and its 44,000-strong union has intensified since Hyundai cut year-end

U.S. consumers, companies feeling green
MSNBC - damage and national security risks, and they are prepared to do something about it. Sales of Hummers — those over-sized SUVs that became the poster child for poor gas mileage — were down 10.9 percent in December, according to auto maker General

Hyundai chairman may face 6-year jail term
CNN Money - demanded a six-year jail term Tuesday for the chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s No. 6 automaker, for alleged breach of trust and embezzling company funds. The prosecution request came as unionized workers at South Korea’s top auto maker

Pravda - GM, Germany’s Volkswagen AG, France’s PSA Peugeot and two local auto groups are vying for a stake in Proton, which has an underutilized auto plant. That could help foreign carmakers consolidate their position in Asia’s booming automotive market

Big GM plant likely to learn fate this year
Akron Beacon Journal - In return, GM invested $1 billion to remodel Lordstown, which is the largest single-line auto plant in the world. Donahoe and union leaders wouldn’t discuss specifics about this year’s bargaining, but United Auto Workers Local 1112 President Jim

Layoffs Hit Black Auto Workers Hardest
Black Press USA - Scott discussed some of the problems she has in attempting to convince workers she knows who work at the Nissan auto plant in nearby Canton, Mississippi, to organize a union. They make $12 to $13 an hour without many of the benefits I enjoy as a

China IS COMING and why Detroit should be worried
Detroit News - Not because comparatively tiny Changfeng (with global production capacity of 200,000 vehicles, less than one typical auto plant today) and Geely, which made its unofficial debut last year at the North American International Auto Show, are towering

Ford’s $12.7-billion loss signals end of an era
Globe and Mail - I have had plenty of “white collar” jobs, and by far working in an auto plant has proven to be far more taxing on the body and mind then sitting a comfortable desk blogging during work hours. Almost everyone I work with is regularly visiting the

Tripped Up By History
Time - But once he got beyond his script and the questions started, Lott was talking about the new Pascagoula River bridge for which he had won federal funding, the Nissan auto plant he had helped attract to Canton and all the defense contracts he had

‘Family drama’ before rampage
San Jose Mercury News - His son, who had worked at the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont, usually helped. Family argument On Tuesday morning, the argument with his mother began, Nekrawesh said. It continued in the car, as Popal’s mother and sister came along for the ride when Popal

Toyota Said To Narrow New Plant Location To Arkansas, Tennesee
Industrial Distribution - Mitch Chandler, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Economic Development, would only say Saturday that state officials believe Marion is the best site for the auto plant. He said the new administration under Gov. Mike Beebe has made the

Tech Dirt - Auto manufacture is a great example. Almost every single industrialized nation produces its own home brew cars that appear to thrive regionally, even though the US and Japan are by far the largest auto producers

Man of steel is fresh face of Russia’s global view
Times Online - Mr Mordashov said: The future of auto manufacture in Russia is in partnerships with international companies and we looking at that very intensively. In Russia there are big incentives to start up these sorts of deals because the authorities are

Gamespot News - All nondroid characters are able to assemble random piles of Legos into usable devices, something that originally only Jedi were capable of; many blaster-wielding characters will now auto-dodge incoming blaster fire; and most characters now have

Montgomery Advertiser - TALLASSEE — A tier-one supplier to the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, announced Wednesday it would expand its operations in a new Tallassee industrial park, creating nearly 100 new jobs. Hanil USA, a subsidiary of Warren, Mich.-based TI Automotive

Detroit News - Gordon Trowbridge and David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — President Bush called Tuesday night for a dramatic increase in auto fuel efficiency standards, a step long-dreaded by an already battered auto industry. Increased

Cooperation is necessary in Washington
Weirton Daily Times - He also made a call for a 20 percent reduction in oil consumption by 2017 and called for tougher standards for auto fuel economy as well as further funding for alternative fuels research and development. But Bush didn t use his first address in

Exxon Mobil chief brings poverty into discussion
Houston Chronicle - Tillerson’s comments come after President Bush this week pledged to slash projected gasoline use by 20 percent over a decade and gradually raise auto fuel economy standards. He also ordered big increases in ethanol production and use of alternative

Bush focuses on pocketbook issues
MSNBC - The rest could come from raising the mandated auto fuel efficiency standards. That marks a dramatic shift for a White House that has spent most of the past six years working with a Republican-led Congress to develop greater supplies of oil and

Letters: Global warming group-think danger
Corvallis Gazette-Times - President Bush s belated solution is investment in alternative energy research, with only a ridiculously small push for greater auto fuel efficiency standards. Right now, we need a crash program of emergency measures, spelled C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N

September 2006
Cape Cod Today - Heating and Auto Fuel Costs; Regressive Tax policies; Health and Homeowners Insurance; Loss of People and livable wage jobs. List the Top 5 issues facing the Cape and Islands. Water quality Management; Public Transportation; Home owners Insurance

Town Hall - The new versions of the company’s minivans to be unveiled this week at the North American International Auto Ford Designers Redo Focus, Five Hundred - Jan 7, 2007 The challenge from Ford Motor Co.’s top brass was daunting: Take an old car and a

Detroit News - Group urges feds to make sure add-on auto parts don’t impair anti-rollover technology. WASHINGTON — Millions of vehicles could have malfunctioning electronic stability systems if drivers have customized their vehicles with add-on parts and

U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission Highlights Beijing
American Economic Alert - In auto parts, Chinese regulations currently require automakers to exceed a 40 percent domestic content requirement or face higher tariffs on the imported auto parts. These discriminatory tariffs pressure China-based auto assembly companies to use

Report: Phaseout needed on Lake Michigan dune mining
Ludington Daily News - Molten metal is poured into them to form auto parts. Coastal dune sand is valued because it usually has fewer impurities than inland sand and features a blend of grain sizes and shapes that promotes strong bonding. And the supply seemed endless

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American Economic Alert - As your constituent and an American citizen, I am greatly concerned about the difficulties facing the U.S. automotive and auto parts industries, including the junk-bond status of both GM and Ford, as well as the bankruptcies of auto parts makers

Auto Clinic Expert Q & A - March 2006
Popular Mechanics - Go to the auto parts store and get a fuel-injection hose-fitting tool. The fuel line’s female fitting has a spring inside it that clips over the flange on the male end. You need to depress the spring by clipping the tool over the line and stuffing it

CSK Auto Presents the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Fantasy
MSN MoneyCentral - also create private leagues while still competing for prizes. Players can win weekly and quarterly prizes, including t-shirts, hats, autographed drag racing memorabilia and gift cards good at all Checker, Schuck’s, Kragen and Murray’s auto parts

Los Angeles Times - In two deals, OnTrac paid more than double the appraisals for properties with a coin-operated carwash and an auto-repair shop. Caltrans records show the city paid $612,425 for the carwash property on South Placentia Avenue and $849,438 for the auto

Iowa sues Aardvark Auto Sales, others
Quad Cities Onlines - The defendants did business as Aardvark Auto Service & Sales, State Street Car Company, The Motorhaus, Auto Kings, UBA Auto Repair and/or URA Auto Repair, and The Car Boys (a used car lot located in Moline.) Allegations: The 52-page lawsuit alleges

No gas for you
Beverly Citizen - It was the end of an era last week in Ryal Side: The neighborhood s last gas station stopped selling gas. The owner of Bridge Street Automotive, Mike Boland, said it was a business decision to stop selling gas and focus instead on auto repair and

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Friday, Dec. 29
MSNBC - At an auto repair shop, Al Salim (ph), a Shiite we interviewed at random, said Saddam s security forces killed 27 members of his extended family, accusing them of belonging to a radical party. The execution should be done without delay, he

Fasten your seat belts, we are in for some do-it-yourself turbulence
Baltimore Sun - We ended up driving the van to a neighborhood auto repair shop, where at least the junkyard seat belt would be used. Four hundred and eighty-nine dollars later, we have a working passenger seat belt. The good news is that apparently some elements of

Former auto repair shop building leveled
Crawford County Avalanche - A former gas station and automotive repair shop located on one of the city’s main gateways was demolished last month. A former commercial building, most recently operated as Cueters Automotive and Tire, located at 1440 I-75 Business Loop, was

Automotive & Transport
PR.com - Cybert Tire & Car Care was established in 1916. We are a full service Tire & Auto Repair facility. Our organization is professional. Our goal is to handle all auto maintenance and repair International Profit Associates Buffalo Grove, IL

Best of Boulder County ‘05
Boulder Clarion - The Flatirons are rumbling. Pearl Street is quaking. The prairie dogs are scurrying deep into their burrows. Boulder is in the midst of a Richter Scale-smashing upheaval. The signs are everywhere. The site of the once-sprawling Crossroads Mall is now