Detroit Free Press - Sordi is perfectly cast as Antonio Badalamenti, a puffed-up efficiency expert at a Fiat auto plant in Milan, who decides to show his Northern Italian trophy wife (Norma Bengall) and their daughters the Sicilian village where he was born. Before

Weaver wants to revisit Toyota issue
Globe Gazette - An auto plant would need 2,000 or more. Get real. Max is trying to champion an effort that will never bear fruit in hopes that he can point to this come election time and say “see what I tried to do for our community?” This is absurd!” Feed Up 2

Lott on Changing Mississippi
WTOK-TV - Several years ago, northeast Mississippi specifically Pontotoc, Union and Lee counties saw an opportunity and decided they wanted the next auto plant. They coalesced around a mutual site and marketed it aggressively. A couple of years later

Ford, Mazda begin production at joint venture engine plant in east
San Jose Mercury News - launch of full scale production at the CFME will inject new vitality into the Chinese auto market,” said Yin Jiaxu, chairman of state-owned Changan Motor Corp. Ford, Mazda and Changan are also launching a new auto plant this year that will produce 160

Osprey News Archive Service
Owen Sound Sun Times - Hargrove said McGuinty s Liberals gave $100 million to help rebuild an Oakville auto plant, matched by the federal government, then invested another $235 million, also matched federally, to help secure a new $2.5-billion General Motors plant

Nizhny Novgorod Region
Kommersant - The largest auto plant in Russia was founded here in 1937. But it was only in 1990, after the decline of Communist regime, that the fair was revived. The city is linked with the name of the great Russian scientist and fighter for democracy Andrei

Detroit: Who cares?
Detroit News - Massachusetts said goodbye to its last auto plant years ago. Its economy is growing. Its population is generally better educated with a substantially higher percentage of adults holding college degrees. Property values aren’t an oxymoron. If my buddy

New auto plant in Pinson? Associated Press
WIAT TV - Isuzu Motors is planning to begin construction of an assembly plant in Pinson this year to make commercial trucks, according to newspaper reports. The Birmingham News reported on Monday that a source close to the recruitment of the Japan-based

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Zanesville Times Recorder - For every new distribution center or auto plant under development, there are literally 10,000 or more communities pitching incentives to attract them. Given the realities of the global economy, anyone who thinks we’re going to attract manufacturing

Times-Argus - Toyota has just passed General Motors for the first time, making it the world’s largest auto maker. It is not Toyota that is shrinking and laying off workers. Toyota, which specializes in high-quality, fuel-efficient, durable cars, is doing well. The

Report: Navistar interested in GM’s medium-duty truck unit
Springfield News Sun - Navistar International Corp. is reportedly in talks with General Motors to acquire the auto maker’s medium-duty truck unit. United Auto Workers Local 402 union President Charles Hayden said he could not confirm that the companies are in talks, but

Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Gate - Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games, for example, gets credit for this and this . Fox Atomic is currently the reigning swag champion, for last year’s Severed Ear Happy Meal that was sent to promote “The Hills Have Eyes.” So when a VCR-sized Fox Atomic

Everything Alabama - Birmingham firefighters spent an hour and a half bringing Tuesday afternoon’s blaze at Frankie’s Auto Parts, at 2320 Avenue C Ensley, under control. Capt. C.W. Mardis, spokesman for the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service, said the fire was reported

1960 Sun - To select more than one item in a list, press CTRL key or Command key [Mac] while clicking on an item. Select a sub-category Beep Beep - All Auto Parts & Supplies Auto/Trucks Wanted Automotive automotive Repair Autos for Sale Boats Boats

Business Day South Africa - A steady drive saw the experienced Andre du Plessis and Johan Knox in the BB Auto Nissan Hardbody take the Class D honours. They took control when prologue winners Cliff and Louis Weichelt (Bosal Toyota Hilux D4D) were forced to retire after a

Industry Week - the Customer Experience sounds like a Marketing nuance, consider that this approach opened up a $100 million market for Kodak, transformed one of International Paper’s divisions from a money-loser to a profit leader and saved a major auto-parts

A firm advantage in landing Chrysler
CNN Money - So how did Cerberus beat private equity juggernaut Blackstone, Canadian auto parts maker Magna, and activist investor Kirk Kerkorian for a carmaker that analysts say could be profitable if its cost structure is radically slashed? In the conference

Scott Races in Home State
Who Won - driver stayed in-state and competed at Elkins Motor Speedway and Tyler County Speedway racing the team s Rocket Chassis/Mopars by Stanton #18 sponsored by Amos Paving, Atlas Autobody Parts LLC., Patricia Feltz, Walt’s Inc., Advance Auto Parts

Sundaram Clayton to spin off brakes unit
Reuters India - MUMBAI (Reuters) - Auto parts maker Sundaram Clayton Ltd. will spin off its brakes division to a subsidiary, which will be listed on the stock exchanges and eventually controlled by its co-founder, the WABCO group. Sundaram Clayton will focus on

Dana-Sypris dispute sent to mediation
Louisville Courier-Journal - Bankrupt auto parts supplier Dana Corp.’s effort to drop contracts with Louisville-based Sypris Solutions has been sent to a mediator by the judge overseeing Dana’s reorganization. Judge Burton R. Lifland’s order, signed today, means mediator Denis

Photo Essay
CBS News - It led a consortium that bought a majority stake last year in General Motors Acceptance Corp., the financial arm of GM, and plans to invest in ailing auto parts giant Delphi. “They bring some financial discipline that I think this industry has needed

Countywide cleanup clears 10.5 tons of trash
Indianapolis Star - Hansen, Hendricks County commissioners, Hendricks County Soil & Water Conservation District, Hendricks County Solid Waste Management, JDH Contractors, Kinetico Water, Kristy’s Caf , Living Christ Lutheran Church, Maplehurst Bakeries, NAPA Auto Parts

Bayh holds summit supporting intellectual property theft law
Martinsville Reporter-Times - Bayh said ramping up enforcement of intellectual property rights on goods ranging from pharmaceuticals to auto parts requires an organized network of federal agencies and formal channels for working with state and local law enforcement. “We’ve got to

Chrysler Raises Cerberus’ Auto Holdings
CNBC - Cerberus is in the midst of a $1 billion takeover of Tower Automotive Inc. and has been in talks to buy a controlling interest in bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. Those talks have stalled, but could begin again. “Chrysler now has a 1-in-5

Delphi may be nearing deal with unions, GM: analyst
Boston Globe - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Delphi Corp. may be near agreements with the United Auto Workers and former parent General Motors Corp. that the auto parts maker needs to exit bankruptcy, a leading industry analyst said on Tuesday. “From what I

DailyTech - Toyota’s margins on hybrid vehicles to reach parity with gasoline-only vehicles by 2010. Toyota is basking in the limelight as it sees the sales of its hybrid vehicles take off worldwide. The company introduced the world first’s modern gasoline

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Apple Valley Chili Cook-off is Big Success
Hurricane Valley Journal - Road Runner Muffler and Auto Repair in La Verkin, Little Creek Station in Apple Valley, and Bed, Bath & Beyond in Washington also donated. St. George merchants donating were Big O Tires, Staples, Ruby Tuesday, Golden Corral, and Intermountain Farmers

Pipe shop’s graffiti alternative must go
Denver Post - But some, like Dave White, owner of Englewood Auto Repair & Body Shop, across the street from Headed West, don’t agree - at least in this case. “With kids around, it sends the wrong message,” said Dave White, who complained to the city about

Avoid Air Conditioning Woes
WSAW - Local auto repair store workers say they see a lot of broken air conditioners during the warmer months. Mostly you re going to see leaks, leaking past the seal, says Greg Reissmann of Jay s Auto Shop in Schofield. But many auto shops offer

Greensboro News & Record - When Toyota chose Tupelo, Miss., earlier this year for its new SUV factory, North Carolina’s latest effort to land an auto plant headed for the pits. The package had all the right components: A promise of at least 1,500 acres in Davidson County

It’s going to take more than ‘why not the Pine Belt’ to lure major
Hattiesburg American - In a recent editorial in the Hattiesburg American (”Next big business deal should involve Pine Belt”), the author suggested that Gov. Haley Barbour and the Legislature should focus on the Pine Belt as the location for the “next” auto plant because

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

Rumors Circulate In Elk Point About New Business
KELOLAND TV - The state looks hard for a piece of industry, but it would be neat to know what we’re getting into.” Elk Point residents are throwing around ideas of what’s coming, including maybe an energy or auto plant, but probably something in the manufacturing

MSN UK News - Auto parts maker Visteon Corp. on Wednesday reported a net loss of US$153 million (euro112.46 million) in the first quarter compared with a profit of US$3 million in the same quarter last year. The Van Buren Township-based company lost US$1.19 per

Wholesale Trade
PR.com - Auto Parts Train Los Angeles, CA For more than 25 years in the car parts business, we have expertly and consistently served our clients only with the

Parts makers urged to broaden horizons
Ottawa Citizen - Struggling auto parts makers in Canada still focus on the local market despite the globalization of their industry and their shrinking share of the slower growing domestic market, Scotiabank said in a report yesterday. Unless the domestic industry

UAW Set to Give Last Offer to Delphi
Wall Street Journal - The union is making the offer, which will include some modest concessions, in hopes of ending a stalemate that has delayed the auto-parts maker’s exit from bankruptcy proceedings, these people said. But it also signals the tough place in which the