The News Review:
- Downturn Will Test bama’s Vision for an Energy-Efficient Auto …
- KDB Sets Conditions for Ssangyong Aid
- Expect a quieter less glitzy Detroit Auto Show this year as …
- Japan auto production marks worst drop since 1967
- Auto Club: New Motorist Laws for 2009 Target Texting GPS Devices …
- Most city officials forgo auto allowance
Downturn Will Test bama’s Vision for an Energy-Efficient Auto …
New York Times United States
bama after all has been thinking out loud about the future of the American automobile industry for years well before his presidential campaign began. He co-sponsored two bills in 2006 during his second year as a United States senator — one to raise fuel economy standards and the other to encourage the use of alternative fuels. His writings and speeches on the auto industry suggest a keen interest in finding ways including new technology to improve the.
KDB Sets Conditions for Ssangyong Aid
Wall Street Journal
–>KDB Sets Conditions for Ssangyong Aid ArticleCommentsmore in Asia » SEUL – The global auto slump has battered Ssangyong Motor Co. South Korea’s fifth-largest car maker by sales leaving it short of cash and forced to delay salary payments to its workers. Now the car maker’s efforts to seek financial aid is hitting snags. n Friday executives of China’s Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. which owns 51% of Ssangyong visited the South Korean government and Ssangyong’s main creditor Korea Development Bank to ask for help.
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Expect a quieter less glitzy Detroit Auto Show this year as …
MLive.com MI
open(urlwinnameoptions) newwin. DETRIT Michigan — It’s a show famous for grandiose measures — where longhorn cattle once lumbered through downtown Detroit Jeeps smashed into plate-glass windows and a virtual blizzard blasted snow on stage.
Japan auto production marks worst drop since 1967
The Associated Press
the world’s biggest auto market. But signs are growing the fallout is so serious domestic sales are getting drastically damaged as well. Auto executives have expressed dismay at the fall in Japanese sales which have worsened in the last two months. Japanese plants are being idled to reduce production and thousands of assembly line workers have lost their jobs in recent weeks. “Even if we are doing our utmost the global crisis is coming at us like a tidal wave” Teruyuki Minoura president of Daihatsu Motor Co. a Toyota affiliate told reporters Thursday. Earlier this month the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said it expected demand in Japan will dive next year to its lowest in about three decades.
Science Technology
Auto Club: New Motorist Laws for 2009 Target Texting GPS Devices …
MSNBC
Senate Bill 28 prohibits drivers from text messaging or e-mailing whiledriving. Fines for violating this law are at least $76 (includingpenalties) for a first offense and about $190 for subsequent offensesdepending on the county in which the violation occurred. “The Auto Club supported this law because we believe it will help reducethe number of traffic crashes in the state” said Alice Bisno the AutoClub’s senior vice president for public affairs. “We encourage motorists toavoid all distractions while driving. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
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Most city officials forgo auto allowance
San Diego Union Tribune CA
nline: Read what elected officials had to say about auto allowances when they were running for office at. With so many declining the $9600-a-year benefit among the largest offered by any city in the state will the new City Council eliminate it entirely in a time of austerity? New Councilman Carl DeMaio said he plans to ask his colleagues to do just that ? unless a review by the City Attorney’s ffice makes the point moot by finding that the allowance violates state law. ?I certainly am prepared to take it away from those who have not already given it up? DeMaio said. ?But the question becomes do you have five votes on the City Council to do that?? A 2006 state law requires elected officials to be reimbursed only for actual expenses though many cities still pay flat-rate allowances based on an older law that allowed the payments by contract. Along with Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith six of the eight council members are declining the auto allowance.