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- SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats…
- Auto restoration program gains national reputation
- MassLive.com: Auto Racing Forum
- The end of no-fault: Legislators will have to rescue program but…
- Audi Tradition celebrating 100 years of DKW
- Ford Makes Progress In Initial-Quality Study
- CNG Meter Calibration: 75 percent companies disappear
SportingNews.com – Your expert source for NASCAR Auto Racing stats…
SportingNews.com – Jun 10, 2007
Qualifying at Pocono requires a ton of horsepower because of its long straightaways and considering David Gilliland was the top qualifier at 16th Ford obviously is missing something. Matt Kenseth has the manufacturer’s lone win of the season at California in the second race of the season. Horsepower will be important in this weekend’s race at Michigan a wide-open two mile track.
Auto restoration program gains national reputation
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) – Jun 10, 2007
A year later he restored a 1956 turquoise and white Chevrolet. –>Auto restoration program gains national reputationBy Jan BilesThe Capital-JournalPublished Sunday June 10 2007 MCPHERSN — When Matt Shroyer was 16 he pulled his great-grandfather’s pickup out of a barn cleaned it up rebuilt its carburetor and replaced its spark plugs and battery. A year later he restored a 1956 turquoise and white Chevrolet. He soon realized he wanted to make a living working on cars and applied for admission into McPherson College’s Automotive Restoration Technology Program.
MassLive.com: Auto Racing Forum
The Republican – Jun 10, 2007
She was having dinner with the new (apparently) Mr. None other than Ray Evernham. They were at dinner and she had a ring bigger than a lug nut.
The end of no-fault: Legislators will have to rescue program but…
Free with registration – Palm Beach Post – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 10, 2007
The end of no-fault: Legislators will have to rescue program but should they? (10-JUN-07) Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach FL). 10–Who could argue with a major auto-insurance price reduction? State Farm Florida’s largest auto insurer with more than 20 percent of the market plans to cut rates by… That’s a significant number given that some 94 percent to 96 percent of all drivers are currently insured with the mandatory PIP coverage according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Ending no-fault may end mandatory insurance requirements in Florida to register a car and increase the number of uninsured driving in the road according to a department official. The lapse of no-fault also is expected to bring additional auto accident-related pain-and-suffering lawsuits to the courts because such actions are barred under the current no-fault law. State legislators could grant a last-minute reprieve to the no-fault system or.
Audi Tradition celebrating 100 years of DKW
WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Jun 10, 2007
In that very year Rasmussen took over the Audi car factories in Zwickau and two years later commissioned the Audi designers with the production of a small car with the following design features: a DKW two-cylinder two-stroke motorcycle engine with a displacement of 600 cc a unitary wooden body with leatherette upholstery front and rear swing axles and front-wheel drive. The DKW Front was thus born becoming one of the best-selling and most popular German small cars of its time. n 29 June 1932 Auto Union AG was founded with its headquarters in Chemnitz a result of the Great Depression. This new enterprise was formed by the merger of the four previously independent companies Zschopauer Motorenwerke J. Rasmussen AG (DKW) from Zschopau Audiwerke AG from Zwickau (which J… Assembly of the front-wheel-drive models took place at the Audi plant in Zwickau. This was a quite astonishing logistical achievement at the time. The DKW brand whose main competitor in the 1930s was pel offered Auto Union great potential with which the company fully intended to counter the expected competition from the KdF-Wagen (Volkswagen) by launching a model (DKW F 9) which was every bit its equal. This would have made Auto Union the only car company in Germany to have had an immediate response ready to challenge this Volkswagen model. After the war Auto Union GmbH which was re-founded in West Germany was able to re-establish a foothold in the automotive industry in Ingolstadt and D?ldorf and it was with the DKW brand that it did so. DKW vehicles were built in West Germany until 1965 following which the two-stroke era came to an end at Auto Union in Ingolstadt and the company turned its attention to four-stroke engines thereby enabling the renaissance of another “old” brand Audi. The four rings of the Audi badge symbolise the brands Audi DKW Horch and Wanderer which were later combined under the umbrella of Auto Union.
Ford Makes Progress In Initial-Quality Study
wsj.com – Jun 10, 2007
and barely outpacing Ford’s Mercury brand. Ford was the most-awarded company on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis. Toyota in years past dominated the study but other auto makers have gradually picked up steam. Still Toyota remains the fastest growing large auto maker in the U. and passed Ford for the No. 2 sales slot in the market in May… Ford was the most-awarded company on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis. Toyota in years past dominated the study but other auto makers have gradually picked up steam. Still Toyota remains the fastest growing large auto maker in the U. and passed Ford for the No. 2 sales slot in the market in May.
CNG Meter Calibration: 75 percent companies disappear
Daily Star – The Daily Star – Jun 10, 2007
June 10 2007 Star City CNG Meter Calibration: 75 percent companies disappear Raihan SabuktaginMeter calibration on all CNG auto rickshaws could not be completed as about 75 percent of the companies that sold the meters have disappeared according to Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). Besides the few companies that did not disappear violated conditions set by the authorities and churned out lakhs of taka in calibration charges from auto rickshaw owners claimed owners of CNG-run auto rickshaws. Bangladesh Road Transport Authority on June 6 formed a committee to probe into the matter. The committee is supposed to submit its report within 15 days. Humayun Rashid one of the directors at BRTA told Star City that meters on 10000 CNG auto rickshaws were calibrated out of around 13000 authorised CNG auto rickshaws in the city… Humayun Rashid one of the directors at BRTA told Star City that meters on 10000 CNG auto rickshaws were calibrated out of around 13000 authorised CNG auto rickshaws in the city. Rest of the meters could not be calibrated due to disappearance of 11 meter selling companies he said adding there were 15 companies approved for selling fare meters to CNG auto rickshaws in Dhaka. “BRTA has formed an investigation committee after CNG auto-rickshaw owners’ association filed complaints about the meter sellers” he said. A BRTA source said a large number of companies bagged the approvals in 2002 for being an approved meter seller for auto rickshaws since political influence played a major role at that time. “Political influence was so severe that different companies managed to have different terms and conditions approved. To favour a certain company BRTA was forced to change a number of clauses in the general terms and conditions for selling fare meters. “BRTA director Humayun Rashid admitted the existence of different terms and conditions and hoped “the investigation committee will dig out all issues related to fare meters and will recommend possible solutions.