TUPELO, Miss. Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will build a $1.3 billion assembly plant in northeast Mississippi to manufacture its Highlander sport utility vehicle. Production is set to begin by 2010 and employment is projected at 2,000. The company said it expects to build 150,000 vehicles a year. The plant will be built on a 1,700 acre site at Blue Springs, land that has been promoted for …

Ahead of the Bell: DaimlerChrysler 
A brief sentence in the multitude of pages DaimlerChrysler AG released Wednesday trumped the its fourth-quarter earnings, outlook for 2007 and plan to cut 13,000 jobs at struggling Chrysler, analysts said.

Toyota holds 2 cities’ hopes 
Chattanooga: Once-polluted city has remade itself; can it do it again? CHATTANOOGA As visitors wind their way around Lookout Mountain on Interstate 24, most don’t realize they’re entering what once was called the most polluted city in the nation.

Daily Southtown - Garcia’s insurance company eventually paid $845 to retrieve the vehicle and towed it to an auto repair shop in Riverdale. The charges included $195 for a tow, $75 for mileage, $250 for storage, $125 for cleanup and $50 for an administration fee.

Former Cardinals GM Bing Devine Dies
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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

Latest from the
Stateline - To reduce dependence on imported oil, Bush proposed to cut gasoline consumption 20 percent over the next decade by improving auto fuel efficiency and increasing renewable fuel production five-fold by 2017. Despite the global dimensions of both oil

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Vapor Systems Technology’s Upgraded Website is Loaded with Information on Gas-Saving, Super-Efficient Automotive Fuel Vaporizing Systems 400 hours of research at the US Patent Office website has paid off handsomely! 920 different auto fuel vaporizer

Another oil CEO spreads the word
Houston Chronicle - Exxon Mobil Corp. chief Rex Tillerson also has spread the industry’s message in a few recent speeches, notably calling for boosting auto-fuel efficiency and cutting coal-plant emissions to reduce greenhouse gases. Mulva said Wednesday that the U.S

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

WTNH.com - Lincoln Educational Services Corporation is the parent company of Lincoln Tech, The Cittone Institute, Career Education Institute (CEI), Nashville Auto-Diesel College (NADC), Denver Automotive and Diesel College (DADC), Southwestern College and New

It was news then
Delphos Herald - Associate degree graduates in auto-diesel technology were Phillip Miller of Delphos and Scott Patty of Elida. Diploma graduates in automotive technology were Scott Markward of Delphos, Jean O Daffer of Middle Point, and Mark Schimmoller of Delphos.

WOOD - COLUMBUS, Ohio Just two weeks after Honda announced its new auto plant wasn’t coming to Ohio, the state now is trying to attract automotive suppliers. Ohio will offer interest-free loans to companies that want to build or expand here. Lieutenant

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

Delaware auto plant’s future appears dim
Delmarva Daily Times - WILMINGTON — Two Delaware businesses closely tied to DaimlerChrysler’s Newark assembly plant have issued layoff warnings amid reports that the automobile plant will close. Collins & Aikman, a Chrysler supplier, and Caliber Auto Transfers, a

Industry Week - Feb. 23, 2007 — Auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. said Feb. 22 it was closing a factory in Spain with the loss of 1,600 jobs. In Spain, a representative of the General Union of Workers at the Puerto Real plant in the southern city of Cadiz said that

Setting the mood
US News and World Report - Vehar recalls an auto parts manufacturing company that had problems with product pieces getting lodged in machinery. To find a solution, the company used an exercise called “forced connections,” showing employees photos of un-related objects. A photo

Couple Restoring Life After Self-Defense Shooting
WCCO - Cegon was rehired for an auto parts delivery job he’d quit shortly before the shooting, fearing that Richter would be able to find him there. The couple, together only five months, have already been through a lot but said the shooting put a dark cloud

It s the two-step for Town Center deal
Tacoma News Tribune - The branch is temporarily housed in an old auto parts store on 37th Street West. In return, the city was going to build a 15,000-square-foot branch west of Bridgeport by July 2009. In November, the city had a tentative agreement with Security

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

Nashville Tennessean - Jon Byrd moved from Atlanta to Nashville in 2001, and since then he’s been kicking around Music City stages, playing fine guitar, singing soulful lead and harmony vocals, leading his Byrds’ Auto Parts band and providing sideman-style assistance for a

Steuben County Worker Suffers Electrical Burns
WANE-TV - (Fremont - AP) Officials are investigating an accident at an auto parts plant in Fremont that left a worker burned on the hands and face. The employee, whose name was not released, was airlifted to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne Monday from the

Delphi to sell interiors business that includes Ohio plant
Canton Repository - TROY, Mich. (AP) Auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. said it has signed a nonbinding agreement to sell its interiors and closures business, including a plant in Columbus, Ohio, to a private holding company owned by billionaire Ira Rennert. The sale

UPDATE 2-Auto parts maker Delphi to shut Spain plant
Reuters - CHICAGO/MADRID, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Bankrupt U.S. auto parts maker Delphi Corp. (DPHIQ.PK: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Thursday it plans to close a plant in Spain that produces steering, suspension and bearings after significant operating

Longmont FYI - Lund makes accessories for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles that it sells to both original equipment manufacturers, such as Ford, GM and Toyota, and to after-market retailers such as Checker Auto Parts, Auto Zone and independent auto parts

UPDATE: TRW Profit Nearly Halved Amid Production Cuts
Beurs.nl - But at a time when other auto parts suppliers are posting losses and filing for bankruptcy, investors cheered TRW’s better-than-expected results, with shares rising to an all-time high of $30.60 in early trades. At last check, the stock was up 36

Tecumseh Products changes earnings report policy
Detroit Free Press - new financial reporting policy whereby it will release quarterly earnings information on or about the same day as the filing of its quarterly and annual reports to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The Tecumseh-based auto parts

Ford to rely on fewer suppliers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A study released recently by the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., concluded that Wisconsin ranks among the top 10 states in terms of auto-parts jobs. Wisconsin is one of nine states with at least 15,000 people employed in the auto

Phoenix: Hillary Will preview
Motorsport.com - At the first race on the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series schedule, the NHRA CARQUEST Auto Parts Winternationals in Pomona, Calif., lady luck was again not on the team’s side. In the opening round of eliminations, the clutch linkage on Will’s

Hedge fund again says CSK Auto should be sold
Reuters - Karsch Capital, which holds 9.3 percent of the Phoenix, Arizona-based auto parts retailer, said previously that CSK should be sold, but only after the company completes financial restatements for several previous fiscal years. It has said it is

German auto parts supplier Continental says 2006 profit rose 5 percent
San Diego Union-Tribune - FRANKFURT, Germany Tire maker and auto parts supplier Continental AG said Thursday its 2006 net profit rose 5.6 percent and that it expects earnings this year to grow at the same pace. The company, which sells tires under the Continental, General