2005 Frankfurt Motor ShowMSN Autos brings you highlights from one

2005 Frankfurt Motor Show
MSN Autos brings you highlights from one of Europe's major shows.
Editors of MSN Autos

Bottom Line: Roxboro auto fabric plant faces uncertain future (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
ROXBORO, N.C. - For decades, the economy of Person County has been built around its government sector and the Collins & Aikman automotive fabric plant, the county's largest private employer.

More Auto news (Detroit Free Press)
It's round three this year in the match between auto suppliers and the car companies. First there was David Stockman, the former CEO of auto interiors supplier Collins & Aikman Corp ., who threatened to shut down production on DaimlerChrysler AG's most-popular new vehicle, the Chrysler 300, unless the automaker paid more for C&A's parts.

CSK Auto Corp. Reports Third Quarter 2005 Results (The Auto Channel)
PHOENIX--Dec. 5, 2005--CSK Auto Corp. , the parent company of CSK Auto Inc., a specialty retailer in the automotive aftermarket, today reported its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2005.

ITT Industries to sell auto brakes unit (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Industrial conglomerate ITT Industries Inc. on Monday said it had agreed to sell its automotive brake and fuel tubing and parts business to Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. for $205 million.

Auto Assault Hands-On - Character Creation, Opening Levels, and Updated Graphics [PC] (GameSpot)
Auto Assault is cruising toward completion, and we've checked out the latest developments in this high-speed online role-playing game.

Attendees hear an echo at Equip?Auto international exposition (Aftermarket Business)
PARIS A recent trip to Paris for the Equip Auto Show, a collaboration of international vehicle equipment manufacturers, OE networks, independent repairers, distributors and trade unions, suggests that many challenges we re coping with in North America stretch outside our boundaries.

Ideal Supply Takes Descartes Challenge to Improve Delivery Productivity (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WATERLOO, Ontario----Dec. 7, 2005--The Descartes Systems Group Inc. , a leading provider of on-demand delivery management solutions and services for transportation, logistics, manufacturing, retail and distribution enterprises, today announced that Ideal Supply, a Canadian auto parts and electrical products distributor, has successfully taken the Descartes Challenge, identified significant

Top Sport Utilities on MSN Autos
The most popular sport-utility vehicles on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle research pages during the third quarter of 2005.
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