Business Meeting Need With Scootatrailer midway | greg tesh grew tired of turning away customers because his family-owned trailer hitch business didn't make a product that power wheelchair and car dealers kept calling to ask him for, so he decided to start making one. www.the-dispatch.com
Gm Dreams Big With Cruze - Detroit Free Press paris -- general motors corp. displayed the most important car in its global turnaround plan wednesday night on the eve of the paris motor show. the chevrolet cruze, a roomy and stylish compact sedan, will be built on at least four continents and ... www.freep.com
Wegmans Photo Centers Finished if you are used to getting your photos processed at wegmans, start making other plans. the supermarket giant is getting out of the picture business. wegmans will close 49 photo centers in all, with 13 of those to close at local wegmans stores. the photo centers’ will close next saturday, october 11. www.rnews.com
Brazil Banks Raising Rates For Auto Loans - Estado sao paulo (dow jones)--brazilian banks will immediately start raising interest rates for new and used car loans by as much as 25%, the local estado newswire reported wednesday. news.ino.com
Inside Plug-in Car Tech's Race To Production (and Top 10 Rides) - Popular Mechanics big automakers and promising startups say electric vehicles are coming as soon as next year, but there's a lot of work to be done—by scientists—before lithium-ion batteries are ready for mainstream hybrids. flashy concepts and expensive, limited ... www.popularmechanics.com
Pontiac Aztek Goes The Way Of The Dodo - Businessweek in the summer of 2000, i attended a global conference in italy put on by general motors and its just named ceo rick wagoner. one of the topics of conversation was the accelerating market for crossover suvs, sport utility vehicles built on car ... www.businessweek.com
Gas, Car Audits At City Hall Continue the criminal case against rochester police sergeant carlos garcia is over. an internal investigation continues. in a plea deal tuesday, garcia admitted he used a city-issued gas card 13 times for unauthorized travel. www.rnews.com
Toyota, Experts See Plug-in Car Trouble: Electric Reality Check - Popular Mechanics published on: october 2, 2008 portland, ore. — for all their long-standing promises of ultralow fuel costs for consumers and mega-efficiency for the environment, plug-in hybrid cars have never been as hotly anticipated as they've become in the past ... www.popularmechanics.com
Credit Crunch Causing Bigger Dent In Car Sales - San Diego Union-tribune as congress debates its next step in dealing with the nation's financial crisis, evidence is mounting that the problems on wall street are creeping onto main street. charlie neuman / union-tribune poway chevrolet filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy ... www.signonsandiego.com
Businesses Lobbying Hard For Bailout in the wake of the stunning house defeat of the $700 billion economic rescue plan, the business community has launched an unprecedented lobbying blitz to polish the plan's public image and change some votes. news.yahoo.com
Anniversary Car when glen chaffin first laid eyes on his favorite car, its sides were splayed out and nearly collapsed. the rear deck lid was almost completely flattened. and it had no passenger door. www.pe.com
Police Log - Tracy Press 12:37 a.m.: police arrested a man and towed his car from washington mutual, 691 w. 11 th st., after a report that someone had an illegal weapon. 1:34 a.m.: a woman reported a man rang the doorbell and yelled to open the door at her home on the 300 ... tracypress.com
Singur: A Dream Ride Interrupted - Times Of India for the young men of badaberi village, durga puja always meant a fortnight of running around. coaxing donations out of the reluctant, rehearsing for plays like sonar horin (the golden deer) and getting marinated in the festive spirit — everyone ... timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Entrepreneurs Struggle To Hang On Across The Usa the term "credit markets" sounds so esoteric. but for many companies that are nowhere near the fortune 500, the credit markets are a very practical place to be. it's where bankers and other lenders decide if their small business will get money to buy goods, expand or pay employees or not. www.usatoday.com
New Rate Increases Could Make Service Unprofitable, Put America's ... - Dailytech the music industry is a complex business. at its head are the major labels, which control the distribution of the most popular tunes online and off. their never-ending hunger for a bigger slice of the revenue pie has taken many forms, from ... www.dailytech.com
Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says - Tech.slashdot.org you may feel nice and fuzzy warm about getting an electric vehicle, but then, you get a whoop-ass dose of reality when you find out, low and behold, your electric provider uses coal fired plants to create this invisible power. what is the dirtiest ... tech.slashdot.org
Scott Adams: The Unexpected Economist fujitsu to sell hard drive unit to western digital?--company will sell its hard disk drive business to western digital, according to a japan-based report. news.cnet.com