2006 NAIAS CoverageThe Official Web Site of the North American

2006 NAIAS Coverage
The Official Web Site of the North American International Auto Show.
Editors of MSN Autos

How Will America's Big Two Automakers Survive?
After decades of market share losses, look for a leaner and more focused Big Two.
Ann Job

Local classic cars head for Rose Parade (Valencia County News-Bulletin)
Los Lunas Two Valencia County couples are going to the Tournament of Roses Parade the old-fashion wayed by "cruzin'" to California on Route 66. Gene and Sarah Hazlett and Joe and Kathy Duffy will drive in New Mexico's Classic Car Caravan that will leave Acoma on Thursday morning.

Caravan makes a run for the Roses (The Gallup Independent)
Jim Johnson rolls toward California in his 1954 Ford on his way to the Rose Parade with a group of classic cars from New Mexico. Johnson's father bought the car new when Jim was 7. Johnson has rebuilt the car three times in those 51 years.

Custom-made career (The Plainfield Sun)
Don't tell Eileen O'Malley that muscle cars aren't for girls. Her business, O'Malley Enterprises, which operates Spectacular Detail at 10148 Clow Creek Drive, Unit A, in Plainfield, at one time owned as many as 25 classic Pontiac Trans Ams dating from the late 1960s to the 1970s.

IIHS's Top 10 Safety Picks
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety picks the ten safest cars of the 2006 model year.
Perry Stern

Villages residents have watched golf cars evolve over five decades (Villages Daily Sun)
THE VILLAGES - When Ken Zalecki first started playing golf in the 1970s, he used a pull cart to haul his gear around the course. Although motorized golf carts had been around since the 1950s, Zalecki preferred something quieter and perhaps safer, he said.

In New Jersey, Party Bosses Meld Politics and Business (New York Times)
The saga of a townhouse project called JSM at Hickory is a classic illustration of how citizens' concerns can be overcome by money and political connections.

Detroit's 'Big Three' Automakers Launch New Incentive Programs
General Motors, Chrysler and Ford announce new programs in efforts to boost slackening year-end sales.
Perry Stern

Planners look to ease road's congestion (The News-Press)
CORKSCREW GROWTH The Corkscrew corridor between Three Oaks and Ben Hill Griffin parkways will soon be bursting with commercial development and the traffic it brings: Estero Interstate Commerce Park, including Embassy Suites, Applebee's, Arizona Pizza, Burger King, B&W Golf Cars, Tires Choice and more at the northwest corner of Corkscrew and I-75.