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New and Used Cars in Minneapolis / St. Paul - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Your Minneapolis and St. Paul resource to buy and research new cars, used cars, trucks, SUVs and vans sold by auto dealers and private sellers, plus get a dealer quote, find a dealer, get auto coupons, read vehicle reviews and sell your car

GM sales still lag Toyota - Detroit News
General Motors Corp. is falling further behind rival Toyota Motor Corp. and is unlikely to retain the crown of the world’s largest automaker as softening sales overseas fail to offset losses in the United States, analysts said. Through September, the

Baghdad commuter rail skirts traffic, checkpoints - San Francisco Gate
Baghdad commuters have a new way to bypass the city’s checkpoints and congested, dusty streets with the launch of a commuter rail that travels 15 miles through through Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in the heart of the capital. The new service, which

MAN’s 3Q, 9-month profit gain - Seattle Times
Truck maker MAN AG said Thursday that its third-quarter profit rose 33 percent despite a decrease in orders during the third quarter. Investors were not spooked, sending MAN shares up 7.5 percent to 36.43 euros ($46.57) in Frankfurt trading. Despite

Silver Falcon Mining, Inc. (SFMI) Delivers First Tonnage of Ore to - MSN MoneyCentral
Silver Falcon Mining, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SFMI) announced today that the Company continues to move aggressively with its 3-stage transportation of the “Belle Peck” tailing piles. A fleet of 30-ton articulated trucks, load and transport the ore to a

Parental Love Can Lead To Misery in Single-Car Crashes That Kill Teens - The Ledger
On a recent weekend we noted another teen and a 20-something die in a single-car accident. We seem to have had a lot of these over the past few years and have lost way too many kids. Few reasons exist for single-vehicle accidents other than

Journey Dynamics Announces Latest Traffic Speed Forecasts for Cars and - Earthtimes
- Latest Predictive Traffic Forecast Empowers Cars and Trucks to Avoid Time-based Congestion and Reduce Fuel Consumption Journey Dynamics, a privately-owned provider of traffic intelligence solutions, http://www.journeydynamics.com today announces

Volvo Trucks to shed an additional 600 jobs in Sweden and Belgium - TMCnet
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Feds to challenge LA port’s clean truck program - MSN MoneyCentral
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Federal Maritime Commission has voted to seek a court order to halt portions of the clean truck program at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The panel plans to file for an injunction in federal court in Washington

Bleak economy’s best investment? Beer - News.com.au
IF your shattered share portfolio has left you a little dispirited, here’s an investment opportunity almost guaranteed to produce solid returns in the bleak months ahead - beer. A 30-year study of Australian beer sales tracked against the Westpac

Police punt cars from cheap petrol queues - News.com.au
Independent stations offered petrol happy hour Joined forces to fight retail giants Nationwide : Find cheap petrol where you live Special feature : Fuelwatch around the country THE battle against major oil companies has spread, with independent

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare $2 Million? - Forbes
If you have a spare $250,000 or even $2 million, think automobile. The ultra-luxury marques (at those prices the word is marque, not “brand”) are expanding. Marques that once built only exotic coupes and roadsters, such as Aston Martin, Lamborghini

Century dresses up for homecoming game - Oregonian
Lisa Edwards, special to The Oregonian Century High School students (from left) Ryan Andrews, Miranda Matthews, Jessica Naranjo, Sami Hodge and Alexis Chan decorated Matthews’ car before the Oct. 17 homecoming football game between Century and

UPDATE 2-Toyota has not received aid request from GM-source - Reuters
TOKYO/DETROIT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) has not asked Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) for help in turning around its business, a source

Warren Buffett Invests In Chinese Company Developing ‘Green’ Cars - CNBC
A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is making a $230 million investment in a Chinese battery company that’s developing environmentally-friendly cars to be sold around the world. In a news release , Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy

Rental cars’ trade mixed after interest rate cut - MSN MoneyCentral
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of rental car companies remained mixed on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut the fed funds rate by a half point, as many investors had expected. The troubled economy has taken a toll on rental car companies, which have

Crowds watch demise of Missouri River bridge - Detroit Free Press
BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota state chemist whose name was drawn from a hat has pressed a button today to demolish the old Liberty Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River. The span was the first to carry cars across the Missouri. It was built in

UPDATE 2-Toyota has not received aid request from GM-source - Reuters
TOKYO/DETROIT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) has not asked Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) for help in turning around its business, a source

Police punt cars from cheap petrol queues - News.com.au
Independent stations offered petrol happy hour Joined forces to fight retail giants Nationwide : Find cheap petrol where you live Special feature : Fuelwatch around the country THE battle against major oil companies has spread, with independent

Bleak economy’s best investment? Beer - News.com.au
IF your shattered share portfolio has left you a little dispirited, here’s an investment opportunity almost guaranteed to produce solid returns in the bleak months ahead - beer. A 30-year study of Australian beer sales tracked against the Westpac

Measure R is more than roads and rails - Los Angeles Times
This is the first of two articles on the intersection of public transit, urbanism and architecture on next week’s ballot. There is a pedestrian path — maintained, if that is not too generous a word, by the city of Los Angeles — near my house in

Rental cars’ trade mixed after interest rate cut - MSN MoneyCentral
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of rental car companies remained mixed on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut the fed funds rate by a half point, as many investors had expected. The troubled economy has taken a toll on rental car companies, which have

Toyota Cars to Be Recalled in China - JCN Newswire
Beijing, Oct 29, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co. plans to recall 83,406 cars starting Monday due to defects in transmission systems, the Chinese government said Wednesday. China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare $2 Million? - Forbes
If you have a spare $250,000 or even $2 million, think automobile. The ultra-luxury marques (at those prices the word is marque, not “brand”) are expanding. Marques that once built only exotic coupes and roadsters, such as Aston Martin, Lamborghini

LoJack Corp. Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results Webcast and - MSN MoneyCentral
How: To listen to the live webcast, visit http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=52788 . You may also participate in the live conference call by dialing 1-800-894-5910 and using LOJACK as the conference ID. If you are unable to participate during

Porsche plans to raise Volkswagen holding to 75% - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Oct. 28 — Porsche SE, maker of the 911 sports car, plans to raise its holding in Volkswagen AG to 75 percent next year and outlined steps for reaching that goal in a way meant to reduce the stock’s volatility in the past two months. Porsche

No kisses for Michigan-based furniture company - CNN Money
A federal judge ordered Art Van Furniture of Warren to stop promoting a truck design that shows a sofa being unwrapped from a chocolate bar. U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts ruled Friday in a lawsuit filed by Hershey Co., which claimed the

Rails and trucks post widely different 3Q outcomes - BusinessWeek
Railroads and trucking companies told very different stories in their third-quarter earnings reports, as rails continued fetch higher prices and truckers dealt with weak pricing and slumping demand. But both were helped by a drop-off in the price of

COVINA, Calif., Oct. 27, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — K-Fed Bancorp (Nasdaq:KFED), the parent company of Kaiser Federal Bank, reported net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 of $1.4 million or $0.10 per diluted share as compared to $993,000 FirstChoiceAutoFinder

LONDON — Gold pared losses on Monday as the U.S. dollar retreated from highs against the euro, but strength in the U.S. currency is likely to keep the metal under pressure. Gold slipped more than 3 per cent to a session low of $706.10 (U.S FirstChoiceAutoFinder

K-Fed Bancorp Announces a 42 Percent Increase in Net Income for First - MSN MoneyCentral
COVINA, Calif., Oct. 27, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — K-Fed Bancorp (Nasdaq:KFED), the parent company of Kaiser Federal Bank, reported net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 of $1.4 million or $0.10 per diluted share as compared to $993,000

Edwards Wins at Atlanta Motor Speedway - ABC News
Carl Edwards passed Denny Hamlin on a late restart, then held on to win Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway to keep his championship hopes alive. But his seventh win of the season barely dented Jimmie Johnson’s points lead. Johnson had a rough start to

Favorite . . . Football movie? - Philadelphia Daily News
People in tiny Strathmere were busy stacking 50-pound sandbags on the perimeter of their multi-million-dollar properties as township officials scrambled to reinforce 1,000 feet of seawall with boulders the size of Mini Cooper cars

Central Ohio dump producing fuel for cars - Herald-Dispatch
GROVE CITY, Ohio (AP) — Trash is being turned into gas near a landfill outside Columbus, where officials hope the cheap fuel — made from the methane that’s naturally given off by rotting garbage — will eventually be used in local buses and

Traffic throws no surprises ahead of Diwali - Hindustan Times
Traffic congestion on Delhi’s roads continued on Sunday thanks to the pre-Diwali rush. As people went around distributing gifts and visiting markets, traffic flow remained torturously slow in many parts of the Capital. “The traffic was very slow

Ask AP: Presidential birthplaces, flex-fuel cars - Associated Press
If John McCain wins next month’s election, the United States will have its first president who began life in the Panama Canal Zone. But is there anyone else born outside the 50 states who’s risen to the nation’s highest office? A reader’s curiosity

Sports Cars - Chicago Tribune
Money or no money, Eduard Strizhev wanted his Porsche. Stocks were collapsing downtown; the airwaves groaned with grim economic news; Russian finances teetered on the back of slumping oil prices and global credit crunch. But why dwell on dreariness

Japan’s mini car boom sends Suzuki past Honda - BusinessWeek
Strange things are happening in Japan’s domestic auto market. Despite a glut of models and Japan’s economic recovery, regular car sales are still slumping—down 6.2% in October, the sixteenth consecutive year-on-year monthly decline. But perhaps

Toyota sees rare drop in quarterly sales - Financial Times
Toyota has suffered its first quarterly sales decline since the months after the September, 2001 terrorist attacks, underscoring Japanese carmakers’ growing vulnerability to the worldwide motor industry slump. The rare drop for Japan’s top

New Catalogue “Engine Cooling Passenger Cars And Light Trucks 2008/09 - The Auto Chanel
SCHWABISH HALL – October 24, 2008: The new catalogue from Behr Hella Service, which will be launched in November 2008, contains information on more than 1,800 products for passenger-car and light-truck engine cooling. Its 576 pages include

Volvo trucks reports profit slump, issues warning - Hindustan Times
Swedish truck maker Volvo reported a 36.5-per cent net profit slump in the third quarter on Friday, and cut market growth forecasts for this year, saying that orders had fallen 55 per cent for two quarters running. The company said demand for heavy

WRAPUP 3-Swedish truck makers hit as Europe slams on brakes - Forbes
STOCKHOLM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Sweden’s two top-flight truck makers Volvo and Scania posted lower-than-expected third-quarter pretax earnings on Friday and painted a bleak picture of truck markets hit by the global financial crisis. Order intake at

Volvo, Scania Miss Profit Estimates, Curtail Truck Production - Bloomberg
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Volvo AB , the world’s second-largest maker of heavy trucks, and Scania AB reported lower-than- anticipated earnings and said they’ll cut production after industrywide European sales fell for a fifth straight month. Volvo

Which new cars and trucks are the best? - CNW Group
AJAC DECLARES THE BEST FOR 2009 IN 14 CATEGORIES NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON, Oct. 24 /CNW/ - After five days of intense testing, the 2009 “Best New” AJAC award winners in 14 different vehicle categories were announced today, October 24, 2008, by the

Volvo, Scania Miss Profit Estimates, Cut Truck Output (Update1) - Bloomberg
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Volvo AB , the second-largest maker of heavy trucks, and Scania AB reported lower-than- anticipated earnings and said they’ll cut production after industrywide European sales fell for a fifth straight month. Volvo and Scania

Ford called most reliable of U.S.-brand cars, trucks - Detroit Free Press
Ford Motor Co. builds the most reliable American-brand cars and trucks. So said Consumer Reports, in its respected Annual Car Reliability Survey, which was released Thursday during an Automotive Press Association luncheon in downtown Detroit. “Ford

The Hurst Challenger will be at SEMA. The white version is equally fast. The company that brought you the iconic Hurst/Olds 442 and a host of great muscle cars half a century ago is back in the car business. It never left the car-parts business FirstChoiceAutoFinder

If John McCain wins next month’s election, the United States will have its first president who began life in the Panama Canal Zone. But is there anyone else born outside the 50 states who’s risen to the nation’s highest office? A reader’s curiosity FirstChoiceAutoFinder

CARS in Churchill were given a scrub as part of a weekend event. Churchill Methodist Church held its annual Autumn Fair on Saturday, where visitors could leave their cars to be cleaned while they browsed the many stalls. They also had the chance to FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Toyota Motor Co.’s Scion brand tops the list of most reliable cars in Consumer Reports’ annual vehicle reliability study, as Asian automakers continue to fill the top of the magazine’s rankings. Ford Motor Co. ’s reliability increased this year and FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Ford Motor Co. builds the most reliable American-brand cars and trucks. So said Consumer Reports, in its respected Annual Car Reliability Survey, which was released Thursday during an Automotive Press Association luncheon in downtown Detroit. “Ford FirstChoiceAutoFinder

It was still unclear late Thursday why an eastbound freight train failed to stop in west Jackson before hitting a stationary train and sending two crew members to the hospital. Witnesses said the crash on the tracks near Bullard Street and Industrial FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Fuel efficient cars won’t just help you save more on gas than standard vehicles, they’re more reliable too. Nine various hybrid models in the Consumer Reports’ 2008 Car Reliability Survey earned above-average predicted reliability ratings.  The FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The Assets Forfeiture Unit is seizing assets worth R47-million from three people who allegedly stole money meant for a medical scheme, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Friday. The assets included properties and luxury vehicles such as FirstChoiceAutoFinder

If John McCain wins next month’s election, the United States will have its first president who began life in the Panama Canal Zone. But is there anyone else born outside the 50 states who’s risen to the nation’s highest office? A reader’s curiosity FirstChoiceAutoFinder

STOCKHOLM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Sweden’s two top-flight truck makers Volvo and Scania posted lower-than-expected third-quarter pretax earnings on Friday and painted a bleak picture of truck markets hit by the global financial crisis. Order intake at FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Volvo AB , the world’s second-largest maker of heavy trucks, and Scania AB reported lower-than- anticipated earnings and said they’ll cut production after industrywide European sales fell for a fifth straight month. Volvo FirstChoiceAutoFinder