Highlights From the 2006 NAIASMSN Autos highlights the eight things

Highlights From the 2006 NAIAS
MSN Autos highlights the eight things you should know about this year's show in Detroit.
Ann Job

Greenbrier gets a $100M order for railcars (The Portland Business Journal)
The Greenbrier Cos. has received a $100 million order from American Honda Motor Co. Inc. for Auto-Max railcars used for transporting new cars.

Pedestrian traffic at Harrison spurs traffic light proposal (Chicago Flame)
The Circle Cycle Club (CCC), UIC's student cycling organization, is working to establish a traffic light on the Harrison and Peoria-Blue Line intersection. "Students, faculty, and administration must be made aware of the growing problem with the high density of pedestrian traffic and the high speeds of automobiles at the Harrison and Peoria-Blue Line intersection.

Bugs help craft future of fuel (The Charlotte Observer)
The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation's oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew enzymes that turn waste into fuel.

Buick Enclave Debut
This luxury crossover SUV with high-tech features, which debuted at the auto show in Detroit, should be in production during 2007.
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Vietnam permits used car imports from May (Financial Express)
HANOI, Feb 13 (Xinhua): Vietnam is to allow the import of second- hand cars from May, which, plus a potential wave of low- cost Chinese automobiles, will drive vehicle prices in the country down, the local newspaper Pioneer reported today.