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Fuel Prices Drive Down Demand For Car Rentals - Forbes

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Fuel Prices Drive Down Demand For Car Rentals Forbes, NY - Jul 2, 2008 Fuel prices are denting demand for car rental companies and causing companies like Avis Budget Group and Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group to veer from ... Record fuel prices hurt car rental firms Car Rentals This Car for Rent Wall Street Journal Blogs Car rental companies issue profit warning Eye For Travel Wall Street Journal - Reuters all 24 news articles

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Dollar Thrifty's Down On Chrysler Forbes, NY - 1 hour ago (See "Fuel Prices Drive Down Demand For Car Rentals") He said that Avis has been more successful in reselling its cars than other rental car companies ... Dollar Thrifty shares plunge as Tulsa company lowers outlook Journal Record (subscription) all 60 news articles

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Some US Auto-Parts Makers May Weather Industry Downturn CNNMoney.com - Jul 2, 2008 BorgWarner , for example, has an attractive portfolio of fuel-saving technology, said Jim Gillette , an automotive supplier analyst with CSM Worldwide, ... America’s carmakers That shrinking feeling Economist Most Popular Mid-Size Cars Forbes Highway to hell? Atlantic Online Voice of America - Detroit Free Press all 1,693 news articles

Is your car on this list? Independent Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago The standardised fuel economy and emission testing and labelling system is a South African Automotive Industry initiative in conjunction with the Department ... Sustainable emissions reduction within reach The Age all 14 news articles

US Auto Makers Mull US Launches Of Mini, Subcompact Cars CNNMoney.com - 5 hours ago GM's US sales were down 16% in the first half of the year, and the auto maker can't move fast enough to meet demand for its smallest, most fuel- efficient ... Will Americans have to slim down to fit into their cars? BloggingStocks all 3 news articles

Kongsberg Automotive Holding ASA - Kongsberg Automotive Made the Cut FOXBusiness - 9 hours ago The product portfolio includes gearshift systems, cables for a wide variety of applications, fuel lines, tubing and hoses, couplings, clutch actuation, ...

GM May Sell Mini-Cars to Fuel-Conscious US Buyers (Update3) Bloomberg - 5 hours ago Besides the Beat, GM is weighing a list of options for refocusing its auto lineup on fuel efficiency rather than performance. ... GM considers mini-car for US Sydney Morning Herald US: GM considering Chevrolet Beat minicar for the US Automotive World (subscription) GM shifting tiny Chevy Beat car to US MarketWatch all 15 news articles

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NHRA cuts race distance to 1000 feet: Move made to AutoWeek - 4 hours ago Shortening the race distance will give the Funny Car and Top Fuel dragsters more runoff room after the finish line. Kalitta died on June 21 in Englishtown, ... NHRA shortening fastest races Charlotte Observer all 107 news articles

Who’s to blame for $4 gas? Durant Daily Democrat, OK - Jul 2, 2008 For seven years, the public would have been buying more fuel-efficient cars — as they are now — and domestic auto companies would have had an incentive to ... McCain’s plan to woo Obama supporters backfires Afrik.com all 1,109 news articles

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3M Offers Tips to Improve Fuel Mileage Autochannel (press release) - Jul 2, 2008 ... fuel injectors, intake manifold, intake valves, combustion chambers and throttle plate with the same trusted 3M products used by automotive ...