Archive for June, 2007

National Sprint Car Museum-Benefit Auction Set at Kings Royal by Crown Royal

For the third year in a row, Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway in Rossburg has thrown its support behind the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame with its museum-benefit auction during the storied half-mile’s 24th annual Kings Royal by Crown Royal sprint car event on Saturday, July 14. The auction will take place from 3:30 until […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

DAMAC launches summer promotion in cooperation with Abu Khader Automotive

DAMAC Properties, the largest private master developer and luxury lifestyle provider in the Middle East has launched its summer promotion ‘Live the luxury and Drive the Luxury’ in cooperation with Abu Khader automotive exclusive distributor and representative of GMC, Hummer, Cadillac , Opel, Fiat, and Mitsubishi Fuso in Jordan.
Throughout the campaign’s duration which will extend […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Engineering Professors Receive Automotive Safety Engineering Award

Four engineering professors from the U.S. and Australia are recipients SAE International’s Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award. They were presented the award at the 2007 Government/Industry Meeting in Washington, D.C.
The award, established in 1975, recognizes the authors delivering the most outstanding paper at an SAE International meeting on the subject of automotive safety […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

London car bomb plot a test of new PM’s mettle

Britain was today grappling with a far deadlier threat than initially thought with the discovery yesterday of a second car bomb set to go off in central London. Nothing but sheer luck, police say, prevented what is now known to be carefully co-ordinated attacks from devastating the British capital.
The twin discoveries and the desperate continuing […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Parrot Capitalizes on Digital Music Craze with New Streaming Audio Car Kits, Compact Speaker Systems

Some say the digital music revolution started in 1999 with the debut of Napster’s online music service. Others say that Apple was responsible for it with the launch of the iPod in late 2001.
Regardless, the digital music market is huge and still growing. In April, iPod sales passed the 100-million mark and this unique device […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Car dealer issues profits warning

Car dealer Pendragon has warned that a slowdown in consumer spending and fierce competition in the car market will blow a £20m hole in its profits this year.
Shares in the group, Britain’s biggest car dealer, tumbled nearly 18%, down 17.5p to 80.5p.
Chief executive Trevor Finn said spending has slowed on the back of the recent […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Sri Lankan car parts face ban in Pakistan over Indian taint

Auto part exports from Sri Lanka to Pakistan would be blocked because Indian-owned firms in the island are starting to “sneak” products to the country under a “faulty” free trade agreement, reports said.
Pakistan’s The News said India has managed to ship automotive parts through a faulty free trade agreement which it claimed was a “shocking […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Pitstop: Moveable wings for F1 cars from 2011

The FIA is pressing ahead with plans for radical electronically controlled moveable wings on Formula One cars from 2011, as reported on autosport.com, as part of a major shake-up of the sport’s rules. The world motor sport council met in Paris on Wednesday to evaluate the latest proposals put together following discussions between the FIA, […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Kimball Electronics Awarded Major New Business;

Kimball Electronics Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Kimball International, Inc. (NASDAQ:KBALB), announced today that the Company’s Kimball Electronics-Poland facility has been awarded a major new business program to manufacture automotive steering systems for the European market. Kimball Electronics Group is a global contract electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company that specializes in durable electronics with applications […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

Jeff Gordon Doesn’t Like NASCAR’s Brand Of Punishment

Nextel Cup points leader Jeff Gordon will go through this weekend at New Hampshire International Speedway, and the next five events on the schedule, without crew chief Steve Letarte at the track with him.
That Letarte and fellow Hendrick Motorsports crew chief Chad Knaus were suspended by NASCAR came as little surprise after Gordon’s team and […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

See my wheels, hear my music

It’s now about CD headers, changers, sub-woofers, amplifiers and crossovers - and they don’t come cheap.
Actor Murli doesn’t even want to disclose how much he spent on his audio systems. “I love my cars; I have three of them. I love my music and all my cars have the best audio systems I can get,” […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized

US EQUITIES WEEK AHEAD: Incentives Fuel June Auto Sales

A healthy dose of sales incentives is expected to fuel June car and truck sales to a considerable increase compared to the same period a year ago as discounts and rebates entice consumers to shrug off concerns about high gasoline prices and dwindling home values.
“Sales appear to have picked up nicely in June, following the […]

June 30th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized