Inability of govt to ban used auto imports alarms industry

Inability of govt to ban used auto imports alarms industry (Manila Bulletin)
Local automotive assemblers, parts makers and their workers have expressed alarm over the government s inability to enforce laws banning the used of vehicle importation and the importation of right hand drive vehicles.

US car theft rings probed for ties to Iraq bombings (Boston Globe)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering that some of the vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior government officials.

Michigan auto industry suits up (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Toyota s U.S. sales have quadrupled since the 1970s, to 2 million vehicles a year, and its Michigan presence has grown accordingly. The Japanese automaker now employs 600 people at the Toyota Technical Center, near downtown Ann Arbor.

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Do-it-yourself auto salvage yard gives customers the pick of parts (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A self-serve automotive-salvage yard is still a relatively new idea in the Midwest. Pick-N-Pull, a chain of 30 stores in the U.S. and Canada and based in Sacramento, Calif., took over the 23 acres of U-Wrench-It in January, when it bought the smaller four-store chain.

Auto Racing Notebook: Cup teams creativity is crushed (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- In the wake of a ruling by NASCAR officials that will make the type of rear shock absorbers used this past week at Dover by Hendrick Motorsports illegal in the future, Roush Racing driver Greg Biffle says creativity within the teams is being quashed.