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InTroubleZone Productions Brings Revolutionary Episodic Car Commercials to Kia of Sanford, NC

The people of Sanford, North Carolina need to brace themselves for the whirlwind of activity that's going to happen next week. InTroubleZone Productions (ITZ), a Hollywood-style video production company based out of New York and Florida, is headed to town to start filming their trademark episodic... - June 22, 2008 - InTroubleZone Productions

NAFA Launches 2008 Membership Drive

NAFA begins its annual Member-Recruit-A-Member campaign to bring in new members across North America. - June 22, 2008 - NAFA Fleet Management Association

Software for Automotive Dealers Arrives in Puerto Rico

Autologica S.A., a specialist in business management software for automotive dealers (known as Dealer Management Systems or DMS), continued its strategic plan for the Caribbean region with a visit to Puerto Rico in order to meet with the most important dealerships and distributors in the country. - June 21, 2008 - Autologica S.A.

Bestacuraprices.Com Announces Competitive Prices for 2008 Acura MDX

Bestacuraprices.com, an online service that assists automobile buyers in getting the best prices on Acura models has announced the latest prices on the 2008 Acura MDX. Bestpricesacura.com carries out its service by making a search of prices with Acura dealerships through the length and breadth of the country. - June 21, 2008 - BestAcuraPrices

New Pressure Sensor: High Quality Pressure Solution Starting at €97

FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc has expanded its Pressure Sensor product line yet again by adding the new model: Pressure Sensor PMP300 to its line up. This marks the second pressure sensor release for FUTEK in 2008. The PMP300 Pressure Sensor (OEM) is precision engineered and manufactured to... - June 19, 2008 - FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc.

Auto Enhancement Specialists FMG to Hold Its Biggest Sale of the Year June 19th-21st at Its Sunnyvale Store

FMG, a brand of the Famous Motor Grupe, will hold its first annual Midnight Madness Extravaganza Sale on June 19th, 20th, and 21st at their Sunnyvale store, located at 1205 W. El Camino Real in Sunnyvale. Doors will open at 10 a.m. each morning and remain open until midnight each night for this... - June 19, 2008 - Famous Motor Grupe

DickSaysYes.com Launches Brand New Website

DickSaysYes.com has just launched a brand new website that takes customer service for auto dealerships and education to the next level. This newly designed website was built by the management team of Dick Says Yes and Dealerpeak, a specialty web design and hosting company based in Portland... - June 11, 2008 - Dick Says Yes

Water4Gas - the Soaring Popularity of the Water4Gas Solution for How to Get Better MPG

Hundreds Converge on Weekly "Show and Tell" Type Exhibition in Los Angeles to Learn More and Compare Their Own Installations of Water4Gas and to Do Related Business. Thousands of new customers are buying Water4Gas information online weekly. See Videos from the Los Angeles park get togethers here. - June 05, 2008 - Garko Factor - Water4Gas MPG Solutions

19-Story "Sky Garage" in New York City's Chelsea District is "Topped Out," Announces the Architect of Record, Steven Kratchman

"Topping out" [all concrete poured] Completed on 10-story "Sky Garage" luxury condo at 200 11th Avenue in NYC's Chelsea district, says Architect of Record Steven Kratchman, AIA. - June 05, 2008 - Steven Kratchman Architect, P.C.

Apollo Fleet Goes Green

Apollo Motorhome Holidays has become member of New Zealand’s GreenFleet program. The New Zealand car hire and campervan rental operator pledged to maintain and increase its environmentally friendly business policies. Apollo CEO Luke Trouchet said, “As the Southern Hemisphere’s... - June 04, 2008 - Apollo Motorhomes

AutoUSA Has a Write-Up on the Oregon Trail Rally

AutoUSA, an online lead referral service that links up customers across the country on the lookout for cars online, has come out with a report of the Oregon Trail Rally held in April. - June 04, 2008 - AutoUSA

Marketing Vet Tapped to Help Promote Electric Vehicles

25-year marketing veteran Craig Shields joins EV World as vice president of marketing and sales. - June 04, 2008 - EV World.com, Inc.

Maryland Law Extends Trade-In Tax Credit To Automotive Leases

Marylanders who choose to lease, rather than purchase, a car may now receive a tax credit for the value of their trade in vehicle, under a law signed by Governor O"Malley and supported by the Maryland Automobile Dealers Association. - June 03, 2008 - Maryland Automobile Dealers Association

Maryland Automobile Dealers Association Honors 2008 Teachers Of The Year

The Maryland Automobile Dealers Association is partnering with the Maryland State Board of Education to recognize the state’s most outstanding educators as Teachers of the Year. “With their dedication, commitment, and the passion they bring to the job every day, these outstanding... - June 02, 2008 - Maryland Automobile Dealers Association

Hollywood-Style Video Production Company Heads to Columbia, South Carolina

The people of Columbia, South Carolina need to brace themselves for the whirlwind of activity that's going to happen this weekend. InTroubleZone Productions (ITZ), a Hollywood-style video production company based out of New York and Florida, is headed to town to start filming their trademark... - May 31, 2008 - InTroubleZone Productions

Bestacuraprices.Com Announces Competitive Prices for 2008 Acura TL

Bestacuraprices.com, an online service that helps buyers get the least expensive prices on Acura models by making a search of prices with Acura dealerships across the country, has announced the latest prices on the 2008 Acura TL. For more details, visit http://www.bestacuraprices.com/acura-tl.php - May 31, 2008 - BestAcuraPrices

HG Creates Custom Artwork for One-of-a-Kind Luxury Car Club

HG Art and Framing Consultants creates custom artwork for Luxautica Ultimate Car Club in Orlando. The interior of the unique showroom and membership club was designed by Beasley & Henley Interior Design. Designer Troy Beasley commissioned Tara LaManna of HG to create the artistic interpretations of the luxury cars. - May 29, 2008 - HG Arts

ShopFactory Just Got a Whole Lot Faster...

Speed, performance, endurance. That’s what it takes to cross the finish line in the winning position on the race track. And what says that better – than having your mark on a race car. ShopFactory.com takes great pride in announcing their sponsored support of the Fusion Racing Team. - May 29, 2008 - ShopFactory

BestAcuraPrices.com Launches a New Forum

BestAcuraPrices.com is the website which helps to find the absolute lowest and best prices on all the latest Acura vehicles. The website has launched a new web forum http://www.bestacuraprices.com/forum/index.php which will be useful for all Acura related queries. The various sections of the website are designed to make Acura vehicle purchasing as easy as possible. For more information, visit http://www.bestacuraprices.com/. - May 29, 2008 - BestAcuraPrices

NAFA Hands Out 5th Excellence in Education Award

The Excellence in Education Award was handed out to Matt Betz at NAFA's 2008 Institute & Expo in Salt Lake City. - May 29, 2008 - NAFA Fleet Management Association

Older Diesel Engine Emission Control Retrofits Go DIGITAL, Virtually Eliminating the Need for Expensive Exhaust After-Treatment

If you have ever been stuck driving behind a diesel truck or bus belching out black clouds of emissions and wanted to know why this is happening, it's simple, these older diesel engines have poor combustion efficiencies and no emission control systems. One small California Company, Extengine Systems, has hit on a novel approach to cleaning up these older diesels, Go DIGITAL. - May 24, 2008 - Extengine Systems, Inc

Meteor Meet and Greet Parking Announces Huge Success of Heathrow Terminal Five Parking Service.

Meteor meet and greet parking, the nation’s favourite meet and greet parking company, is reporting that the new terminal has been a big success for its newly launched secure Heathrow Terminal 5 parking service with over 1,500 bookings in the first month of operation. - May 23, 2008 - Meteor meet and greet parking

Fatigue Rated Pancake Load Cell: Can Now be Provided in 2 mV/V Output

Futek Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc. (www.futek.com) can now provide its fatigue rated version of Pancake Load Cells LCF700 in 2.0 mV/V output: LCF701 Fatigue Rated Pancake Load Cell. Futek can also provide this model with a tension base. These load cells are primarily used in inline applications... - May 22, 2008 - FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc.

Autonagar.com – Online Showroom for Dealers

Autonagar.com a prominent automobile portal in India which within 13 months of its launch has become a well known automobile marketplace to Buy and sell used cars, bikes and trucks, announced the re-launch of its website with better user interface and design. - May 21, 2008 - Congent Infoway (P) ltd.

Senator Bill Bradley Captivates Crowd in Salt Lake City

Senator Bill Bradley provided the Keynote Address at NAFA's 2008 Institute & Expo in Salt Lake City. - May 21, 2008 - NAFA Fleet Management Association

MyAutoPartsForLess, a Division of Auto Parts Solutions, Inc., Awarded Automotive & Truck Parts Contract by Dallas Area Rapid Transit

MyAutoPartsForLess.com, a certified Minority Business Enterprise and Small Business has been awarded a highly coveted automotive and truck parts contract by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). DART serves Dallas and 12 surrounding cities with approximately 130 bus routes, 45 miles of light rail transit (DART Rail), 75 freeway miles of high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and paratransit service for the mobility impaired. - May 20, 2008 - Auto Parts Solutions, Inc.

Nation's Top KIA Dealer Opens a State-of-the-Art Hyundai Dealership in America's Booming Solar City/Toledo, Ohio

The Taylor Automotive Family completes the "Triple Crown" by opening its third stunning dealership in the metropolitan Toledo area. The first jewel was the award winning Taylor Cadillac showplace at 6300 W. Central Avenue in 2000. Many have commented that this is the finest Cadillac dealership in the world. Next came Taylor KIA in 2005, the sleek home of the 2008 top volume KIA dealership in the country. These dramatically designed dealerships are now joined by Taylor Hyundia. - May 19, 2008 - Taylor Automotive Group

The Kopley Group Hires Senior Vice President/ Strategic Planning to Oversee All Divisions, Including Newly Created Real Estate Brokerage Arm, Kopley Partners

The Kopley Group, a Chicago based, nation wide, multi faceted company specializing in residential rental and new construction real estate projects, construction, brokerage, venture capital, automotive sales and banking, hired Lynne Sott Jackson as senior vice president of strategic planning. - May 18, 2008 - The Kopley Group, Inc.

CarJunction Now in Tanzania

Recently there has been a welcome addition to Dar-es-Salaam`s automobile milieu. The largest exporter of primarily used Japanese automobiles, CarJunction has established its physical presence with top notch used vehicles of all categories, makes, and models of vehicles popular not just in Tanzania... - May 18, 2008 - Car Junction Ltd.

RechargExpo and Asia Imaging Forum in Singapore from June 25-27

Trade Show and AIF combined offers rare access to Asian markets for the imaging industry. - May 18, 2008 - RechargeAsia Corp

ARCA SIM RACING - Now Available - Professional Sanctioned Stock Car PC Simulation

After over two years of anticipation, ARCA SIM RACING 08, from the Sim Factory LLC, is now available for the PC/DVD Rom format. This fully-licensed online stock car simulation software is rated "E" for Everyone and provides the most realistic and immersive, thought provoking racing... - May 17, 2008 - The Sim Factory

AutoMax Sales Training Implements New Program for Dealerships

AutoMax Sales Training and Consulting, a recruiting and training company for the automotive industry, has announced a new “No Risk” Salesperson Recruiting Program for automobile, motorsports and RV dealerships. The performance-based incentive structure eliminates up-front costs and... - May 16, 2008 - AutoMax Sales Training and Consulting

1-800 LEMON LAW to Sponsor Alex’s Lemonade Stand Telethon to Air June 5, 2008 on KYW TV in Philadelphia

Lemon Law firm Kimmel & Silverman will be sponsoring a live telethon to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer. - May 16, 2008 - Kimmel & Silverman

Motorcycle Towing Service Provider Locator Service Launches

towPartners today announced that it has expanded the offering of its popular towSearch service (www.towsearch.com) by adding a motorcyclist specific site, www.motorcycleroadside.com, that uses the highly developed towPartners database system. This service will allow motorcyclists to locate service providers when they have a roadside disablement. A mobile version of the application simplifies the search process for those on cell phones and other mobile devices. - May 15, 2008 - towPartners

Cable Tester with Multi-Language Voice Control from CAMI Research

New software released for CAMI Research’s CableEye Cable and Wire Harness Tester permits production engineers to utilize synthetic speech and voice recognition for hands-free operation. Voice recognition permits the operator to issue commands to the tester without pushing buttons or keyboard keys. Synthetic speech may be employed during production to read pin numbers or provide assembly instructions. - May 15, 2008 - CAMI Research Inc.

NAFA Announces the Winners of the 2008 Green Fleet Awards

NAFA Fleet Management Association announces the winners of the first-ever Green Fleet Awards. The awards were handed out at NAFA's Institute & Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 5, 2008. - May 14, 2008 - NAFA Fleet Management Association

AMH Canada Ltd Introduces Hand-Held Spectra-Jet

The Spectra-Jet unit produced by AMH Canada Ltd for drying waterborne paint has proved very popular. AMH has now introduced a hand-held version to complete smaller jobs. - May 10, 2008 - AMH Canada Ltd

Richard Chevrolet Promotes Four to Senior Account Executives

The family-owned Richard Chevrolet in Cheshire, one of the largest dealerships in the Northeast, has recently promoted four of their account executives to Senior Account Executives. - May 10, 2008 - Richard Chevrolet

Plymouth North’s News Show Earns Tracy Chevrolet Cadillac’s "Driven Students" Award for April

They say good news comes in three’s. For the Plymouth North News, the newscast produced by Plymouth North students, that news came on Friday, April 7. That’s when the PNN team learned it had placed third in Fox 25’s Best High School Newscast contest, an accomplishment that earned them Tracy Chevrolet Cadillac’s “Driven Student” award for the month of April. - May 08, 2008 - Tracy Chevrolet-Cadillac

BudgetGPS Service Used to Recover $400,000 Truck After Theft

On April 20, 2008, a 2007 Kenworth truck equipped with a Century XP-850 wrecker body was stolen from the Marlow’s Fuel Center truck stop in Dallas, TX. The truck was owned by Walnut Hill Wrecker, a WHW Towing Companies Company, based in Dallas, TX. The tow truck operator was off-shift and... - May 06, 2008 - towPartners

Commercial Vehicle Expo on May 17th & 18th at Richard Chevrolet in Cheshire

The family-owned Richard Chevrolet in Cheshire, one of the largest dealerships in the Northeast, will hold a Commercial Vehicle Expo on Saturday, May 17th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, May 18th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. - May 05, 2008 - Richard Chevrolet

Brazil – LCVs to Zoom Ahead of Passenger Cars by 2010, Says RNCOS

Light commercial vehicles are becoming the first preference of Brazilians over passenger cars with increasing road connectivity and emerging middle class. - May 04, 2008 - RNCOS

American Cars Offer Great Value for Money Compared to Their European Counterparts. With a Weak Dollar, Now is the Time to Buy American.

In their 18th year, American Car Imports is established as a market leader in the UK at importing new vehicles from the United States. Whatever new American vehicle you want to import, they offer you a premier door to door service. American cars offer great value for money compared to their... - May 03, 2008 - American Car Imports

Bags Are Packed for NAFA's 2008 Institute & Expo in Salt Lake City

NAFA's 2008 Institute & Expo opens in Salt Lake City, Utah and runs from May 3-6, 2008. - May 02, 2008 - NAFA Fleet Management Association

ITW Trans Tech Makeover with New Logo Aims at Market Expansion

ITW Trans Tech, worldwide leader in product decorating solutions, will present a new company identity to coincide with its recent expansion into the on-demand digital industrial decoration market. The campaign will include a new logo, re-designed website and revamped product line. The familiar... - May 01, 2008 - ITW Trans Tech

CycleTrader.com Reaches More Than 2 Million Visitors in April

Cycle Trader key performance indicators are dramatically up year over year. Improvements for total traffic, page views, time-on-site, and repeat visitors showed marked increases in the month of April based upon enhancements to the cycletrader.com site. - May 01, 2008 - Cycle Trader