San Jose Business Journal - UC Davis prof gets $2.4M stem-cell grant [Sacramento] Stanford gets $10.7 million in latest stem-cell agency grants [East Bay] Stanford gets $10.7M in latest stem-cell agency grants [San Jose] Auto plant sweepstakes may begin again as Volkswagen

Lawsuit may affect sale of local Delphi plant
Dayton Business Journal - Auto plant sweepstakes may begin again as Volkswagen looks at U.S. [Columbus] UAW ready to move on Ford contract [Buffalo] Ford rolls out, Chrysler moves in at Yucca proving ground [Phoenix] Chrysler LLC has asked a bankruptcy judge to temporarily

Toyota deal bad for workers
Hattiesburg American - The 70-year-old photographs tell the story of the American labor movement as clearly as any thousand-page tome. United Auto Workers leader Walter Reuther and three fellow organizers stand on the overpass at the entrance to the Ford River Rouge auto

Auto Industry 1991-2000
Kommersant - In June, Ivan Kostin, KamAZ’s general director, announced that the EBRD had agreed to a restructuring of the auto plant’s debts to it ($141 million with penalties and fines on principal of $100 million) in a share offset. In July, Vice-premier Il’ya

Greensburg Daily News - Published September 24, 2007 11:32 am - Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants around the And people wonder why american auto manufacture’s can’t make any money. Go to work people.

MSN MoneyCentral - Checker, Kragen, Advance Auto, Schucks, Autozone, AJ Prindle, Access Garage Doors, Silvo, Pantograms, Herrington, Egg Shops, GarageToys.com, garagedepot.com, Garage Doors and More, Car Care, Logo Advantage, Marwest, Meban Tuire and Auto, Ford Lincoln

McDermid Takes Third Championship in Wild SCCA American Sedan Race
Who Won - McDermid started second in his No. 24 Felice Race Engines/Lane Auto Ford Mustang but got the jump on polesitter Jason Von Kluge s No. 78 Mr. K s racing Ford Mustang at the start on the damp, but drying track. McDermid held a comfortable advantage

Ford launches talking auto
Computer Business Review - Nuance’s VoCon speech-recognition and RealSpeak text-to-speech technologies will this month begin to be fitted into European Ford autos. The speech technologies have been integrated into Ford’s Blaupunkt Human Machine Interface system, which allows

Who Won - McDermid started second in his No. 24 Felice Race Engines/Lane Auto Ford Mustang but got the jump on polesitter Jason Von Kluge s No. 78 Mr. K s racing Ford Mustang at the start on the damp, but drying track. McDermid held a comfortable advantage

Upcoming Events
PaddockTalk - In addition to Tanner Foust, Ken Gushi will return with his thundering V8-powered Toyo Tires/Ford Performance/Gushi Auto Ford Mustang, while Stephan Papadakis will once again demonstrate his versatile driving abilities with his AEM/Memphis Car Audio

Ford launches talking auto
Computer Business Review - Nuance’s VoCon speech-recognition and RealSpeak text-to-speech technologies will this month begin to be fitted into European Ford autos. The speech technologies have been integrated into Ford’s Blaupunkt Human Machine Interface system, which allows

Daytonabrands, Inc. to Attend AAPEX, the World’s Largest
MSN MoneyCentral - Checker, Kragen, Advance Auto, Schucks, Autozone, AJ Prindle, Access Garage Doors, Silvo, Pantograms, Herrington, Egg Shops, GarageToys.com, garagedepot.com, Garage Doors and More, Car Care, Logo Advantage, Marwest, Meban Tuire and Auto, Ford Lincoln

Ford’s better idea: more, brighter colors
Columbus Dispatch - Here’s a peek at some of the new colors in store at Ford in the coming years: from left, a cinnamon Flex, a vapor silver Lincoln MKZ, a kiwi green Escape, a white chocolate Limited F-150, an ice blue Mercury Mariner, a redfire Focus and an grabber

PR Inside - - Slowing U.S. economic growth will place pressure on U.S. auto sales in 2008, with revenue declines offsetting much of the benefits from recent fixed-cost improvements achieved at GM, Ford and Chrysler. Fitch Ratings expects that U.S. light vehicle

Motorsport.com - In a close family battle Ford Carnival City winners Arnold du Plessis and Johan Knox (BB Auto Nissan Hardbody) took third place in the championship. They were just two points ahead of du Plessis’s brothers Jurie and Andre. Down in Class E a close

JCN Newswire - Tokyo, Dec 13, 2007 (Jiji Press) - Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. 8053> said Thursday it has agreed to acquire a stake in an auto parts maker in India. Sumitomo and its subsidiary Kiriu Corp., based in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, signed the

Millions ready to greet Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico
Houston Chronicle - She is the mother of all Mexicans,” said Raul Trejo, an auto parts salesman whose family erects a home shrine to the Virgin and celebrates every year. “We all adore her.” Well, not quite all, not really anymore. Conversions syphon faithful Worship of

China’s SAIC, Nanjing Auto agree to tie-up -sources
Guardian Unlimited - Under the deal, Nanjing Auto, owner of the classic MG car brand, would fold its vehicle and auto parts operations into Shanghai-based SAIC Motor, the sources, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.

Denso Inside Toyota Poised to Prove Auto Industry’s Top Performer in
Bloomberg - Denso’s operating profit margins for electronics-related components range from 10 to 15 percent, compared with about 8 percent on average for the company and 4 to 5 percent for the auto-parts industry, according to UBS’s Matsumoto. The segment makes

Dana bankruptcy exit plan OK’d
Detroit News - NEW YORK — A federal court on Wednesday confirmed Dana Corp.’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan, paving the way for the auto-parts supplier to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of January. After more than two days of hearings, Judge Burton Lifland of

More Information
Mississippi Business Journal - CRYSTAL SPRINGS Advance Auto Parts Inc. will open its first store in this Central Mississippi city on U.S. 51 December13. Company officials say they chose this location for the 7,000-square-foot store because it is convenient for customers and

North County Times - Citizen wrote on Dec 11, 2007 3:18 PM: If you can’t stomach the academics by 10th grade then trade school should be an option -welding, drafting, auto/diesel mechanics, Electrical, culinary/ clerical skills, tile setting etc -and get a work permit

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation Announces the
MSN MoneyCentral - Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College and Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 18,185 students at

Mom learns it’s never too late to earn her GED
Nashville Tennessean - that door and it really changed my life,” Roberts said. “It’s hard to explain how much.” Roberts hopes to earn her GED by the end of 2008. Then, if she can find scholarship and grant funds or earn enough, she will enroll at Nashville Auto-Diesel

MAILBAG - Littering, gas prices, stray animals
WISC News - The United States alone uses 60 million gallons of jet fuel per day.This does not include auto, diesel, heating oil or any other use of petroleum. Remember, just days after 9-11 all those jets and other aircraft were not allowed to fly. With no demand

CCC Announces Recipients of 2nd Annual Scholarship Fund
Earthtimes - Brian Miller and Cody Tea, attending Bridgerland Applied Technology College, Logan, Utah** — Jeremy Lick, attending Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin — Brian Cobb, attending Nashville Auto Diesel College in Nashville

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation to Present at the Signal Hill
Forbes - Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Technical Institute, Nashville Auto-Diesel College, Southwestern College and Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences. Lincoln had a combined average enrollment of approximately 18,185 students at

Ukrainian News - As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Atlant-M Chinese Cars (Great Wall cars), as well as Intercar Ukraine Ltd (general importer of Volkswagen), Atlant-M Asia (BYD Auto and Brilliance Auto cars), Volkswagen dealers - Atlant-M Auto Center, Auto

Big rigs roll out in lead up to race
Bathurst Western Advocate - Mr Sullivan said his big rig is purpose built to carry the SuperCheap Auto cars around Australia. I suppose we d cover 60,000 kilometres in a season, he said. We go all over the country, from Perth to Darwin and Queensland but the big

Greensburg Daily News - Published September 24, 2007 11:32 am - Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants around the And people wonder why american auto manufacture’s can’t make any money. Go to work people.

Homestead: Kurt Busch - Friday media visit
Motorsport.com - I don’t think it has as much to do with the auto manufacture as you might think. It is a strong indication that Chevy is a competitive team and they have the most chances at winning each race weekend. They have the most cars out there. They have the

New Knight Rider Gets Hoffed
E! Online - Early reports suggested the vehicle would have Transformers-like abilities and indicated producers were still seeking an auto manufacture to partner with. The Knight Rider telepic is being produced by filmmaker Doug Liman ( The Bourne Identity ), who may

Jury asked to award Federici $38 million
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Boy, if U-Haul has to pay, I want someone to run into me so I can sure the auto manufacture and gety rich.”, are you insane? You would rather go through what this young lady has gone through for money????? Like Made in China has pointed out, whatever

Berlin economics senator to visit Mumbai
Antara Interactive - Berlin is a European center of excellence for rail traffic technology and auto manufacture. Bombardier Transportation has its world headquarters in the city, which also hosts other famous-name corporations like Siemens, Alcatel, Transrapid