Archive for February, 2009

FirstChoiceAutoFinder - 17 cars broken into (Daily Pilot)

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

At least 17 cars were reported burglarized in Costa Mesa on Monday, an unusually high number that police said Wednesday serves as a reminder for people to take care of the valuables in their vehicles. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

AAA Texas and the Houston Police Department have entered a long-term partnership to provide services and education addressing car theft prevention and awareness. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

FirstChoiceAutoFinder - More drivers opting for repairs over new cars (Pensacola News Journal)

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

More drivers opting for repairs over new cars (Pensacola News Journal)
Repair shops keep more cars on the road

Bloomington wrestlers compete with heavy hearts (Bloomington Sun-Current)
Bloomington Kennedy/Jefferson wrestlers experienced an emotional incident off the mat last week. Jefferson sophomore wrestler Tim Crockett’s 34-year-old mother, DoraLasheen Lake, was killed in an automobile crash Jan. 19. Team members and coaches attended her funeral Saturday.

Six injured as two cars collide (Central Chronicle)
New Delhi, Feb 15 Six people were injured, two of them seriously, when two cars collided in the Aman Vihar area in Rohini in north west Delhi late last night, police said.

Family flees, garage fire destroys home, cars in Watchung (Echoes-Sentinel)
WATCHUNG – A family of four were forced to flee their home at 118 Johnston Drive at 8:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, when a fire that probably started in the garage beneath the living room and kitchen caused significant damage to the entire home and two cars, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest and Watchung Police Chief Sean Whelan.

Stewart-Haas loses two cars to a blown tire (Winston-Salem Journal)
Defending Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman and teammate Tony Stewart wrecked during the final practice session before the Daytona 500 yesterday, tearing up Stewart-Haas Racing’s two cars before today’s season-opening race.

FirstChoiceAutoFinder - Renault to miss 2010 deadline of launching cars in India (Business Standard India)

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

French auto major Renault has temporarily put on hold its plans to launch cars in India by 2010 in the wake of the global slowdown as the company has decided to hold back on investments on assembly line at its Chennai plant. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath said on Sunday that Canadian companies have extensive opportunity in India for joint ventures and investments in sectors such as infrastructure, automobile, power generation, petroleum, mining and environment. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Changan Automobile (Group) Ltd. said it will ask shareholders for approval next month to buy back as much as HK$909 million ($117 million) of its foreign currency- denominated Class B shares to help boost the slumping share price. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

CARS that talk to each other and respond to danger much faster than drivers could be on the road within three years. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

New Delhi, Feb 15 Six people were injured, two of them seriously, when two cars collided in the Aman Vihar area in Rohini in north west Delhi late last night, police said. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The bankrupt Prebul automobile dealerships in Chattanooga and Dalton, Ga., could resume limited operations this week and get new owners by this spring, the court-appointed trustee for the businesses said Saturday. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Repair shops keep more cars on the road FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Auto stocks outperformed the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex this week on hopes that the government may announce some tax sops to the automobile sector in the interim Budget on Monday. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Defending Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman and teammate Tony Stewart wrecked during the final practice session before the Daytona 500 yesterday, tearing up Stewart-Haas Racing’s two cars before today’s season-opening race. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

WATCHUNG – A family of four were forced to flee their home at 118 Johnston Drive at 8:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, when a fire that probably started in the garage beneath the living room and kitchen caused significant damage to the entire home and two cars, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest and Watchung Police Chief Sean Whelan. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

FirstChoiceAutoFinder - NATO Supply Route Imperiled As Pakistani Truckers Refuse To Carry - Radio Free Europe

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

As a truck driver, Gul Mohmamad regularly ferries containers full of food and other supplies along the Khyber Pass route to Western forces in the Afghan capital. It’s an increasingly dangerous occupation, with Taliban forces attacking trucks on the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

There are at least 10,000 employees in the Ministry of Transport who practically have nothing to do, the minister said. Amer Abduljabbar Ismael said the employees were highly skilled but the scaling down of public transport activities has made them FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Higher foreign exchange costs have forced domestic car companies to raise prices even as they face difficulty in realizing higher sales this year. Industry leader Toyota Motor Philippines Corp. and all-commercial vehicle player Isuzu Philippines have FirstChoiceAutoFinder

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Interstate 5 remains closed to trucks at the Fawndale exit 10 miles north of Redding this morning. The California Department of Transportation required chains for all other motorists. About a thousand vehicles were backed up at the Fawndale exit at FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Caroline County authorities today identified a 63-year-old man killed in Saturday’s fire at his home. Robert E. Jeter Sr.‘s remains were found after firefighters extinguished the fire at the house in the 30000 block of Bethlehem Road in the FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Most of the time, such small choices have little consequence. But on the morning of Feb. 3, when a blinding snowstorm triggered one of the biggest highway crashes Indiana has ever seen, small choices were the difference between life and death. Snow FirstChoiceAutoFinder

I periodically see one or two flatbed trucks - either empty or with products on them - on the westbound service road of the Long Island Expressway between exits 48 and 50. I have no idea what’s on these trucks. I finally took pictures of the trucks FirstChoiceAutoFinder

According to Israeli media, 9 British activists on their way to join a humanitarian aid caravan to Gaza were seized by British ‘anti-terror’ police, along with the aid in their vehicles and the vehicles themselves. Most of them were released FirstChoiceAutoFinder

FirstChoiceAutoFinder - Family flees, garage fire destroys home, cars in Watchung (Echoes-Sentinel)

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

WATCHUNG – A family of four were forced to flee their home at 118 Johnston Drive at 8:40 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, when a fire that probably started in the garage beneath the living room and kitchen caused significant damage to the entire home and two cars, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest and Watchung Police Chief Sean Whelan. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Mike Anderson was a very happy man in Columbia Saturday as his Tigers extended their home-court winning streak to 17 games. Rick Majerus, on the other hand, had to be miserable. He stayed back in St. Louis to tend to his girlfriend, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Auto stocks outperformed the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex this week on hopes that the government may announce some tax sops to the automobile sector in the interim Budget on Monday. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

AAA Texas and the Houston Police Department have entered a long-term partnership to provide services and education addressing car theft prevention and awareness. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

French auto major Renault has temporarily put on hold its plans to launch cars in India by 2010 in the wake of the global slowdown as the company has decided to hold back on investments on assembly line at its Chennai plant. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Boynton Beach theft investigators are grappling to stop a wave of GPS units being stolen from cars. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath said on Sunday that Canadian companies have extensive opportunity in India for joint ventures and investments in sectors such as infrastructure, automobile, power generation, petroleum, mining and environment. FirstChoiceAutoFinder

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Changan Automobile (Group) Ltd. said it will ask shareholders for approval next month to buy back as much as HK$909 million ($117 million) of its foreign currency- denominated Class B shares to help boost the slumping share price. FirstChoiceAutoFinder