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3 Best & Worst: Heavy Industry Stocks

The Street (Free subscription) | yesterday

TheStreet.com Ratings studies the heavy-industry sector to discern the three best -- and three worst -- stocks in the sector.

TK Carsites Earns Top Industry Award for Most Powerful Search Optimized Automotive Dealer Websites

Auto Channel (Free subscription) | yesterday

TK Carsites Earns Top Industry Award for Most Powerful Search Optimized Automotive Dealer WebsitesORANGE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2009 -- TK Carsites, Inc. received the Automotive Search Marketing Architecture (ASMA) "Super Charged Search" award and Brian Pasch, CEO of the Pasch Consulting Group, and the source behind the ASMA report, stated publicly, "TK Carsites is the ONLY website provider...

OSRAM SYLVANIA, Studies Shed New Light on High-Intensity Discharge (HID) Automotive Lighting

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Remy International, Inc. to Supply HVH250 Electric Motor to eZEhybrid Drives, Inc. for Off-Highway Applications Used in Construction and Mining Industries

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Carbon Disclosure Project Again Recognizes PPG as Industry Leader

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Silicon Labs Expands Family of Automotive-Qualified Microcontrollers

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Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive Announce Plans for Electric City Car Program

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ZF 8-Speed Automatic Transmission Named 2010 Automotive News PACE Award Finalist

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Frost & Sullivan Honours Fludicon With European Automotive Advanced Suspension Technologies Excellence in Research Award

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Group 1 Automotive Inc.: Group 1 Automotive Acquires BMW Dealership in Mobile, Alabama

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

HOUSTON, TX (MARKET WIRE) Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE: GPI), a Fortune 500 automotive retailer, today reported it acquired the only BMW franchise in Mobile, Ala. The dealership will operate as BMW of Mobile, under Group 1's Eastern Region, and is expected to generate an estimated $37.7 million in annual revenues. BMW of Mobile is located at 3025 Highway 90 West, approximately three miles from Group...

GM decision to keep Opel causes no harm to Russian auto industry: Putin

People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

The decision of U.S. automaker General Motors to scrap plans for selling its European Opel unit will not affect the Russian auto industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "GM's decision not to carry out the deal and to drop plans to sell Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium will clearly not damage our interests," Putin said. Putin said Russia would continue to cooperate with...

Frost & Sullivan Honours Fludicon With European Automotive Advanced Suspension Technologies Excellence in Research Award

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

LONDON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2009 Frost & Sullivan European Automotive Advanced Suspension Technologies Excellence in Research Award is presented to Fludicon GmbH (Fludicon) for its successful research and development efforts in Electrorheology and Electro-Rheological Fluid (ERF) based damping systems.

Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. Appoints Dillon McDonald CEO of Jumpstart Automotive Group

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Alain Lemarchand, President & CEO, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (HFM U.S.) today announced that Dillon McDonald has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Jumpstart Automotive Group, the recently announced combination of HFM U.S.'s automotive media assets. Previously the company's Chief Operating Officer, McDonald will assume CEO responsibilities for Jumpstart...

Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive Announce Plans for Electric City Car Program

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

LONDON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive today announced an all-electric 3-seater city car, made possible through a 4.5m pounds Sterling (US $7.48M) investment from the UK-backed Technology Strategy Board. With a total cost of 9m pounds Sterling (US $14.9M), a new research and development project will allow the consortium to develop four prototypes by February 2011.

Post U.S. Bailout: Fiat's Chrysler Unplugs Its Electric Car Plans

Auto Channel (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

DETROIT, Nov 6, 2009; Kevin Krolicki writing for Reuters reported that Chrysler has disbanded a team of engineers dedicated to rushing a range of electric vehicles to showrooms and dropped ambitious sales targets for battery-powered cars set as it was sliding toward bankruptcy and seeking government aid.

Geely Automobile confident about its bid for Volvo

habser | 11/03/2009

The chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding, Li Shufu, said that the company was confident about winning the bid for Ford Motor Co.’s Volvo car unit, Reuters reports. Zhejiang Geely Holding, the parent of Geely Automobile, leads a consortium that includes both domestic and foreign banks.

• Geely confident of successful bid for Ford's Volvo - Gasgoo.com

Geely Automobile shares soared as a result of its parent’s bid for Volvo

habser | 11/01/2009

Analysts say that if Geely Automobile’s parent, Zhejiang Geely Holding, succeeds in its bid to acquire the Volvo Unit from Ford Motor Co. , then it would gain a valuable brand but it could take years before profits are seen.

Report: Ford makes progress while Chrysler fumbles in key quality survey - 4WheelsNews

habser | 10/30/2009

Among major automakers, Ford Motor Co. is judged to have made the most progress in improving vehicle quality, while Chrysler ranks at the bottom of the industry for reliability, according to an annual Consumer Reports survey.