Economic Times - After several rounds of deliberations on raising auto fuel prices, the government finally decided to bite the bullet. Despite the Left s opposition it has raised petrol and diesel prices by Rs 2/litre and Re 1/litre, respectively, from February 15.

President Bush Signs Bill Boosting Auto Fuel-Efficiency Standards 40
FOX News - WASHINGTON President Bush signed into law Wednesday legislation that will bring more fuel-efficient vehicles into auto showrooms and require wider use of ethanol, calling it “a major step” toward energy independence and easing global warming. The

Report: Chrysler says Canada should follow U.S. fuel rules
Detroit News - Canada should follow new, “extremely aggressive” auto fuel economy standards adopted by the U.S., not set its own rules, the chief of Chrysler LLC’s Canadian unit said, according to a Bloomberg News report today. For Canada, which “represents less

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

Leading Companies are Benchmarked inside the Automotive Quarterly
Raleigh News & Observer - four regions — Production data by group and model and by location (Western Europe, NAFTA, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, China and numerous other countries) Content Outline: Preface Summary BMW Group Daimler Fiat Auto Ford

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

Team Toyo’s Tanner Foust Leads Formula D Championship Points Entering
Who Won - 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

CNBC - 2008-02-26 06:24:14 American Axle workers strike DETROIT (AP) - American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. said early Tuesday its workers went on strike after the auto parts supplier failed to reach a new contract agreement with the United

2nd UPDATE: AutoZone 2Q Net Up On Commercial Sales, Margins
CNN Money - DETROIT -(Dow Jones)- AutoZone Inc. (AZO), the nation’s largest auto parts retailer, reported a 3.6% rise in fiscal second-quarter net income as it offset a soft retail market with more sales to commercial repair shops and a further refinement of its

Champion insurance suit pending By STEPHANIE HARRIS-SMITH Hope Star
Hope Star - I have met with clients regarding their concerns about a certain activity with regard to money that Champion Auto Parts collected from their checks, or were deducted from their checks, in reliance by those employees that they were going to have

Movers roundup: AutoZone shares rise on strong earnings, Google shares
CNBC - NEW YORK (AP) _ Shares of AutoZone Inc. rose Tuesday, after the auto parts retailer reported a fiscal second-quarter profit that beat Wall Street predictions but warned of slowing sales. NEW YORK (AP) _ Shares of Google Inc. dropped Tuesday after

Woe, Canada: USA’s economic chill spreads north
USA Today - The big hit from the U.S. slump is expected to fall on smaller Canadian auto parts makers, many of whom are almost wholly dependent upon the American market.

News & Results
Who Won - With the Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series season opener, the 37th Annual Florida DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park just around the corner on February 8, several drivers, car owners, and series officials are getting a

You’ll have fewer excuses for not voting under a bill that cleared the
Wave 3 - The suspect’s mother is best friends with the mother of the victim, 16-year-old Branden Trumbo, who was killed Feb. 15th in front of an auto parts store at 22nd and Broadway. WAVE 3’s Lindsay English investigates. Indiana woman among 3 killed in

Finding And Fixing Water And Air Leaks
Popular Mechanics - Sometimes fixing a leak is as simple as reinstalling a misplaced rubber gasket. An auto parts store will have the proper trim adhesive. Clean all the old adhesive off the doorframe and gasket first. As you finish your morning coffee, you wait for the

Workers at US auto parts supplier American Axle strike after failing
MSN UK News - American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. said early Tuesday its workers went on strike after the auto parts supplier failed to reach a new contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union. American Axle spokeswoman Renee Rogers said workers

Strike to close GM pickup plant
CNN Money - DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) says it will idle a Pontiac, Mich., pickup truck plant starting Thursday because of a strike at a key auto parts supplier. GM spokesman Tom Wickham says plant employees were told that production would

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

New Energy Law Means Opportunities for Business
WAFF - The new federal alternative-fuel mandate, which will require blending some 21 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol in auto fuel by 2022, will be a boon to the likes of Abengoa Bioenergy of St. Louis and Poet of Sioux Falls, S.D. Meanwhile, Novozymes

TOPIC: Re: Congress passes auto fuel economy increase
Daily Herald - WASHINGTON — Congress by a wide margin approved the first increase in automobile fuel economy in 32 years Tuesday, and President Bush plans to quickly sign the legislation, accepting the mandates on the auto industry. This is a good start. After

Clinton, Obama Must Answer to Farmers
OpEdNews.com - They both want to increase auto fuel economy standards, but not for 18 or 20 years! Why not now? They both support local and regional food systems buy fresh, buy local. Good, but what will they do to make it work? Will they take food out of trade

FORD: Mercury sales keep falling
Detroit Free Press - Canada should follow new, “extremely aggressive” auto fuel economy standards adopted by the United States, not set its own rules, the chief of Chrysler LLC’s Canadian unit said. For Canada, which “represents less than 2% of the global automotive

Financial Times - Ford and Mazda closed plants on Monday in Nanjing, the city in eastern China that has been one of the worst affected by snow, as did Nanjing Auto. Nissan, Honda and Toyota have all been forced to close at least one of their plants in China, while

Globe and Mail - Still, Canada produced more vehicles in 2007 than in 2006, which may come as a surprise to people used to reading bad auto news. And a huge drop in auto production in December, which some suggested heralded an even steeper slide, was due in large

Auto News
Nation - Thailand - Looking for a new set of tyres for your high-performance sport-utility vehicle? Opel has been in Thai customers\’ minds since its compact car, the Corsa, hit local roads 10 years ago. It has been one of the leading auto brands in European countries

You have to sink a lot lower to embarrass NBC
Everett Herald - And in auto news, Ford is offering glass roofs on some 2008 models. The roofs offer panoramic views from the back seat of your car. The roofs are perfect for romantic evenings, stargazing with your sweetie. Just don’t make it too romantic. It’s a

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dBusinessNews.com - The Sun-Times News Group is also launching a weekly electronic newsletter that will recap the week s local auto news. Our new print SearchChicago-Autos will provide the most comprehensive auto coverage in the region and link to our Web site with

Cars.com auto news
Chicago Tribune - The doors are opening to the public at the Chicago Auto Show, and we would hate for you to head to the show without first learning which new production and concept cars won our hearts and minds. Chicago wasn’t as

Andretti hasn’t raced Indy since league split
ESPN.com - The biggest name in American open-wheel racing will be returning to America’s premier open-wheel race. Michael Andretti, the winningest driver in Championship Auto Racing Teams who has been shut out of victory lane at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Chennai Online - It will meet shortly,” a government official said. Last week, a Group of Ministers headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had left it to the Cabinet to decide on the quantum of hike in auto fuel prices necessitated due to the surge in

Editorial: A lot of green work still left to do
San Jose Mercury News - advocates must fight in court to reverse the EPA decision and press the Bush administration to be more aggressive in combating climate change. Fostering renewable energy: The U.S. enacted a broad energy bill earlier this month that raised auto fuel

Times of India - Then our auto parts’ producers and pharma companies. When Ratan Tata unveiled the Nano in January this year, the nation burst with pride. But where did the engineers and technicians who have enabled these companies to succeed come from? And how

Delphi sees fewer losses
Buffalo Business First - Western New York’s largest manufacturer, Delphi Corp. , posted continued losses in the fourth quarter and for the year 2007. However, both were smaller than for 2006 or the comparable quarter of that year, the bankrupt auto parts supplier said. The

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Jacksonville Business Journal - Napa Auto Parts Portfolio 2685 Blanding Boulevard Middleburg, FL 32068 Price: $18,591,072 Building Size: 83,155 SF Space Available: 0 SF This portfolio contains twelve (12) freestanding Napa Auto Parts stores net-leased to Genuine Parts Company under

Employers experiment with tough get-healthy regimes
Chicago Tribune - If we found something that says it’s successful we would certainly have to consider it,” said Jim Knutson, risk manager at Rockford Acromatic Products, an auto parts-maker based in Loves Park, Ill., that launched a voluntary weight-loss program in

UPDATE 1-O’Reilly profit flat, cautious on 2008 outlook
Reuters - DETROIT, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Auto parts retailer O’Reilly Automotive Inc (ORLY.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Tuesday posted flat earnings for the fourth quarter and said a slower U.S. economy would weigh on sales this year as it looks to close a

DemandTec to Present at the Pacific Crest 3rd Annual On-Demand
Forbes - DMAN) customers include leading retailers such as Advance Auto Parts, Best Buy, Circle K Stores, Delhaize America, Giant-Carlisle, H-E-B Grocery Co., Monoprix and Safeway, as well as more than 100 consumer products companies. DemandTec has managed

O Reilly marks 15 years of record revenues, earnings
News-Leader.com - Diluted earnings per common share for the year increased 7.7 percent to $1.67 on 116.1 million shares versus $1.55 a year ago on 115.1 million shares. Founded in 1957 by the O Reilly family, the company operates 1,830 auto parts stores in 26 states

Columbus Dispatch - blends, auto company executives say. Vehicles are expected to be lighter, but not necessarily smaller, with more sophisticated engine and transmission technologies aimed at saving fuel. Consumers are expected to save up to $1,000 a year on auto fuel.

CORN FOR CARS
Der Spiegel - The equivalent of the 3 percent gain in automotive fuel supplies from ethanol could be achieved several times over and at a fraction of the cost, for example, by raising current auto fuel efficiency standards by 20 percent. Highly efficient gas

UPDATE 3-Ballard shifts strategy, sells auto fuel cell unit
Reuters UK - VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Ballard Power Systems (BLD.TO: Quote , Profile , Research ) (BLDP.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) has spun off the automotive fuel cell operations that were once a Wall Street darling but are now viewed

Seeing the positive in Hawaii’s climate talks
Daily Telegraph - One such bill, signed by Bush in December, mandates a phase-out of incandescent light bulbs and a 40 percent increase in auto fuel efficiency by 2020. This might seem like small potatoes, but it’s closer to a sea change in regulation-averse America.

Life-Science Discoveries Revolutionize Auto Fuel
Medical News Today - Recent announcements by industrial biotechnology companies illustrate the rapid development of life-science tools that are enabling the United States to shift to cleaner-burning renewable fuels, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) said. “By

EPA Working to Produce Documents on Decision to Block California Clean
FOX News - rules essentially required automakers to improve vehicle fuel efficiency, because by burning less fuel, vehicles would emit less carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas. Johnson maintained that the new federal 35-mile-per-gallon auto fuel economy

Biden speaks out against oil subsidies, Iraq war
Des Moines Register - Sen. Joe Biden, speaking Tuesday night in Sioux City, said the signing of a new energy bill by President Bush is “a positive step” in the right direction. But Biden said he would like to have seen an even stronger bill, with the standard auto fuel

Financial Times - Ford and Mazda closed plants on Monday in Nanjing, the city in eastern China that has been one of the worst affected by snow, as did Nanjing Auto. Nissan, Honda and Toyota have all been forced to close at least one of their plants in China, while