Autos keep off roads due to ‘confusion’
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- Autos keep off roads due to ‘confusion’
- Toyota plans to unveil hybrid truck at 2008 auto show
- Car hits CRPF men auto driver
- Authorities gear up to use new auto-theft law
- Winter weather’s been good to auto body shops
Autos keep off roads due to ‘confusion’
Times of India – Dec 29, 2007
Unionleader Dhirendra Bharati said that autos did not run because of confusion. “The transport department gavethe proceedings of the meeting on Friday. The transport commissioner said thatthe minister’s sign was needed to issue the proceedings. The minister had goneto Muzaffarpur” Bharati said insisting that the situation should normalize bySaturday.
Toyota plans to unveil hybrid truck at 2008 auto show
Taipei Times – Dec 29, 2007
The A-BAT concept vehicle is equipped with Hybrid Synergy Drive Toyota’s third-generation gas-electric hybrid powertrain technology according to the company. Its trapezoidal profile was borrowed from the Prius another hybrid Toyota vehicle. `NEXT EVOLUTION’ “This concept is the next evolution of the compact truck” said Kevin Hunter president of Calty Design Research Inc Toyota’s North American-based research and design center in a statement. The four-passenger pickup features a 1.
Car hits CRPF men auto driver
Times of India – Dec 29, 2007
Though the two mishapsoccurred at different places the area has become a stomping ground for speedingvehicles. In Friday’s incident. the victims ? CRPF constable Vijay KumarYadav (30) and CRPF ASI Gopal Saran ? were coming to their head office inCGO complex on their bike.
Authorities gear up to use new auto-theft law
Press-Enterprise – Dec 29, 2007
BERRYThe Press-Enterprise Beginning Tuesday a new law prompted by a San Bernardino County prosecutor will allow authorities to seize the profits of car-theft rings. The law resulting from a sophisticated Inland smuggling operation run by Mexican organized crime plugs a gap in the 1982 California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act. The act did not include a provision targeting car-theft rings. "We’ve got guys stealing millions in cars and getting a slap on the wrist" said Margaret Bevan a San Bernardino County deputy district attorney. "It’s big business.
Winter weather’s been good to auto body shops
Waterbury Republican-American – Waterbury Republican American – Dec 29, 2007
About the same amount of precipitation has fallen across the state this December compared with the same month last year according to the Connecticut Weather Center in Danbury. But twice as much has fallen as ice and snow. Joann Serkey said business at her shop A&R Auto Body at 3629 Winsted Road in Torrington is running ahead of last year. The current wait there is a month for repair work.
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