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SOUTH NYACK - An Orange County man jumped off the Tappan Zee Bridge yesterday after he stopped his car at midspan and waited for emergency crews to arrive before going over, police said.

Limited edition gets 200-hp engine.

Jose Garcia, 25, of the 14400 block of Taos Court in Silver Spring was charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and first-degree assault.

Westmoreland County officials plan to meet soon with representatives of Sony Corp. to discuss leasing parts of the electronics giant's massive TV plant in hopes of mitigating the loss of up to 900 jobs this year.

A woman walks past a Proton outlet in Kuala Lumpur, 8 March. Malaysian officials vowed Wednesday to meet an end-March deadline to choose a strategic partner for ailing carmaker Proton but said they were still mulling both local and foreign players, including Germany's Volkswagen AG.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian officials vowed Wednesday to meet an end-March deadline to choose a strategic partner for ailing carmaker Proton but said they were still mulling both local and foreign players, including Germany's Volkswagen AG.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian officials vowed Wednesday to meet an end-March deadline to choose a strategic partner for ailing carmaker Proton but said they were still mulling both local and foreign players, including Germany's Volkswagen AG.

'Green' automobiles of the future, in limited production, have been the focus of intense interest this week at the annual conference of the National Hydrogen Association that is meeting in San Antonio.

Bandar Seri Begawan - The new Volkswagen Polo now comes with an option of a full body kit, adding more appeal to the already sporty car that took the Brunei market by storm in March: last year after its launch.

pledges and counting. The number of pledges that will appear on this year’s Honda F1 car just keeps growing — good news for the environmentally driven idea. Of this number, 231 have come from Malaysia where 23 per cent have pledged to recycle all paper — a tall order indeed.

- Malaysia wants a stronger currency and believes exporters will be able to cope with a slow and steady appreciation of the ringgit, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said on Tuesday.

The opening round of the 2007 Sasol South African Rally Championship takes place this weekend and is shaping up to be a well-supported and close-fought affair.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (Reuters) - Malaysian shares are expected to rise on Wednesday on expected fresh foreign demand after the prime minister said he wanted a stronger ringgit currency, dealers said.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Volkswagen of American said on Tuesday that a Wolfsburg Edition Passat is now available at U.S. dealerships, priced at $27,630, including a $640 destination charge.

A man describes the "terror" of his depressed daughter before she killed herself by running out in front of a lorry.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Volkswagen of American said on Tuesday that a Wolfsburg Edition Passat is now available at U.S. dealerships, priced at $27,630, including a $640 destination charge.

A woman who police said slammed her car into a child as he was walking to school along a sidewalk last year has agreed to a plea deal.

Volkswagen's special Wolfsburg Editions are nothing new to most VW enthusiasts. Typically featured on Jettas and the Golf/Rabbit, the designation usually signifies exclusive trim options and a couple nifty Wolfsburg Badges on the front fenders.

A Riverside teen who drove the car that hit and killed a disabled mother in a wheelchair was sentenced Monday to a juvenile work program and ordered to speak to youths about the dangers of street racing.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks had the biggest back-to-back gain in eight months as investors bet on increasing takeovers in the financial, travel and construction industries.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose for a fourth day as investors bet on increasing takeovers in the financial, travel and construction industries.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- MAN AG, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, expects commercial-vehicle sales and earnings to rise to records this year after orders in January and February surged.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose for a fourth day as investors bet on increasing takeovers in the financial, travel and construction industries.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rebounded as increasing takeovers in the region outweighed concern that slowing growth in the U.S. will hurt earnings.

After ten years of flying jets for Northwest Airlines, John Plaza decided during a long, cold layover that he wanted to change the world. "I was flying cargo planes from Anchorage to Tokyo," says Plaza, 41.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell for the first time in four days as concern that economic growth is slowing in the U.S. outweighed speculation that takeovers will increase.

"Regionalized schools called dens of inequity" (Page A-1, March 12) fails to consider the whole picture on property taxes. Towns don't pay school taxes, property owners do. The municipality's role is simply collection on behalf of the schools, local and regional.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell for the first time in four days as concern that economic growth is slowing in the U.S. outweighed speculation that takeovers will increase.

BURBANK, Calif.----Herbie first raced onto the scene in 1969 with Walt Disney's "The Love Bug," securing the white Volkswagen Beetle a spot in movie history. Now with five films and a television series under its hood, the car with a mind of its own is back speeding into the world of videogames.

Proton Holdings Bhd is talking only to German carmaker Volkswagen AG about a strategic alliance, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told Reuters on March 20.

PUTRAJAYA March 20 (Reuters) - Malaysian state car maker Proton Holdings Bhd is talking only to German carmaker Volkswagen AG about a strategic alliance, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told Reuters on Tuesday.

As Brady worked to secure the accident scene and began assessing the condition of the victims, Dr. William Reed was just arriving at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend for his shift.

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A WHITE Volkswagen Transporter van containing a number of tools was stolen from Downham's Trafalgar Industrial Estate yesterday afternoon. (March 19). (20/03/2007 11:19:38)

A Volkswagen Beetle flipped on its side on a downtown Visalia street Monday morning. The 66-year-old woman driving the car did not require hospitalization, Visalia Police Department Officer Scott Nelson said. The crash occurred just after 8:40 a.m., when Nancy Minyard of Visalia was driving south of Tipton Street between Mineral King Avenue and Acequia Street.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- MAN AG, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, expects commercial-vehicle sales and earnings to rise to records this year after orders in January and February surged.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks dropped as concern that economic growth is slowing in the U.S. outweighed speculation increased takeovers will lift earnings.

SAN DIEGO, March 20 (UNION-TRIBUNE): SAN DIEGO–The San Diego High Educational Complex has something found at no other public high school in the region: an alternative-energy program where students convert used cooking oil into biodiesel and learn chemistry and automotive science along the way. Encouraged by the response to the program, education officials and leaders in alternative energy are ...

ONE of the world's leading experts on branding has teamed up with a Yorkshire company which aims to rebrand places in the UK to help boost their economies. (20/03/2007 08:50:26)

Ernie Fage is back. The Cumberland North MLA, who is facing a criminal charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident, arrived at Province House on Monday evening for the spring sitting of the legislature.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- MAN AG, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, expects commercial-vehicle sales and earnings to rise to records this year after orders in January and February surged.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European bank stocks rose for a second day after Barclays Plc said it's in talks to buy ABN Amro Holding NV in what would be the world's largest financial- services acquisition. Regional benchmarks were little changed.

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego High Educational Complex has something found at no other public high school in the region: an alternative-energy program where students convert used cooking oil into biodiesel and learn chemistry and automotive science along the way. Encouraged by the response to the program, education officials and leaders in alternative energy are looking to replicate it at other ...

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks including TUI AG and Volkswagen AG rose. Deutsche Post AG fell. The benchmark DAX Index lost 2.1, or less than 0.1 percent, to 6669.31 as of 9:16 a.m. in Frankfurt. The HDAX Index of the country's 110 biggest companies dropped less than 0.1 percent.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European commodity stocks rose, led by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Plc, after the price of metals including copper and gold gained. Benchmarks in the region were little changed.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- European commodity stocks rose, led by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Plc, after the price of metals including copper and gold gained. Benchmarks in the region were little changed.

EDISON — THE AMERICANA Hospitality Group will sponsor at the Pines Manor along with Partners in Sound Productions on Route #27 south, in Edison a Sweet Teen & Party Expo on Wednesday, March 28.

Financially-troubled Proton Holdings Bhd is conspicously missing from the list of invited companies to Bursa Malaysia's Invest Malaysia 2007.

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. | Industrialist Mike Yager, 57, prefers to be called "chief cheerleader." But his business sense is far from textbook.

You think we have trouble with driving licence tests here in South Africa? Take a drive with Westerner NICK MACFIE through the labyrinth of doing it in China - but hey, you might feel right at home!

A Riverside teen who drove the car that hit and killed a disabled mother in a wheelchair was sentenced Monday to a juvenile work program and ordered to speak to youths about the dangers of street racing.

BOMB disposal experts were called out to Lowerhouse Lane, Burnley, after an industrial firework was discovered in a car. (19/03/2007 15:34:26)

The Geek Squad was founded 12 years ago by a college dropout in Minnesota and has grown into a national computer support service.

Boise, Idaho -- Boise Police are on the lookout for a person they believe is guilty of hit and run. The accident happened early Monday morning, sending the victim to the hospital.

A 16-year-old Riverside boy was sentenced this morning to the juvenile work program and to give speeches about a street-racing collision that killed a disabled mother.

FRAMINGHAM - An allegedly drunk Georgetown Drive man was arrested Saturday morning on his sixth charge for operating under the influence of alcohol after he drove erratically down Main Street and rear-ended another car, police said.

Coil Pack failed which also took out the ignition amplifier, car run on three cylinders and felt like a bag of spanners, fortunatly a well documented failure and parts where cheap, plentiful and easy to change.

BEND, Ore. - A grandmother was killed and six other people, including her 5-year-old granddaughter, were seriously injured in a weekend car crash. It happened Saturday afternoon along Highway 20 near Bend.

BEND, Ore. - A grandmother was killed and six other people, including her 5-year-old granddaughter, were seriously injured in a weekend car crash. It happened Saturday afternoon along Highway 20 near Bend.

Denny Teichow got off the bus each day near a patch of trees. Next to the woods was a red sign with a skull and crossbones, a common sight in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Merger activity boosted European bourses on Monday as the formation of Europe's largest tour operator was announced, while Barclay's Bank of the UK was reported to be in talks with Dutch group ABN Amro.

First Thousand Miles? Great! I used to own a Jetta and I loved it. Now I do not feel like I own a reliable car

I purchased car in June 2006. We have had the MAF (mass air flow sensor) replaced after the car would 'put-along' at 20 mph even with my foot to the floor.

Police have released the names of those involved in a three-car crash on U.S. Highway 20 northwest of Bend on Saturday. The crash left one woman dead and six others seriously injured.

In response to a query posed in Leah Garchik's March 5 column, readers recalled their experiences during the quake of 1957. The quotes below are excerpted from longer letters. As the quake began, about 11:45 a.m., students quaked, too, especially those...

A YOUTH worker with Fakenham's Baptist Church Ekklesia Project was killed in a motorcycle crash on Monday. (19/03/2007 10:18:48)

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The German benchmark stock index rose, paced by TUI AG after the company agreed to buy First Choice Holidays Plc to create a company with 27 million customers in 20 countries.

One night last July, Iraq war veteran Nicholas Rusanoff followed his neighbor, Peter Losher, into the parking garage of their Redwood Shores apartment complex. Rusanoff was breathing heavily.

You think getting a driver's licence in South Africa is complicated? You should try China, reckons Nick Macfie.

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ZURICH (AFX) - Sika AG said it is selling its bituminous coatings production in Germany to Walter Maeder Aqualack Gmb, withdrawing from the business of supplying coatings to the cast iron pipe industry.

Sika sells bituminous coatings production in Germany for undisclosed sum ZURICH (AFX) - Sika AG said it is selling its bituminous coatings production in Germany to Walter Maeder Aqualack Gmb, withdrawing from the business of supplying coatings to the cast iron pipe industry.

For Jim Romano, the latest Calgary Sun contest was a wheely big deal. That's because the Calgarian drove off yesterday with the grand prize, a 2007 Volkswagen Jetta GLI.

TIFFIN - Mix equal parts lawmaker, average citizen, and worker. Then stir vigorously until a hodgepodge of conversation on alternative energy in Iowa emerges at the inaugural celebration of National Biodiesel Day. The Tiffin-based Flying F Bio-Fuels workshop welcomed officials and regular Iowans alike at an open house on Sunday afternoon that showed how anyone - literally - could ...

their feelings about US president George W Bush's trip to their country. His nemesis, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, toured South America to rival Bush's own five-nation tour of the continent. The trips are widely seen as attempts by the leaders to limit each other's influence.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Reuters) - The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange lists 50 government-linked companies, known as GLCs, which are engaged in strategic sectors of finance, plantations, communications, energy and construction.

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The following stocks may rise or fall in German markets today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after the company names and prices are from the market close on March 16 unless otherwise stated.

A pedestrian was severely injured Sunday morning in Downtown Boise. A man was crossing Idaho Street near 15th Street on foot about 3:24 a.m. Sunday when he was struck by a westbound car, Boise police said.

Boise, Idaho-- Saint Patrick's Day nearly turned deadly for a pedestrian involved in a hit and run accident. Police are looking for the driver of a Volkswagen Passat, who may have had too much to drink and ended up behind the wheel.

In response to a query posed in Leah Garchik's March 5 column, readers recalled their experiences during the quake of 1957. The quotes below are excerpted from longer letters. As the quake began, about 11:45 a.m., students quaked, too, especially those...

- The Malaysian government has given up trying to extract concessions from independent power producers over their supply contracts and will switch to imposing a higher tax on them, the New Straits Times newspaper reported on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Reuters) - Malaysian shares are expected to slip on Monday, after losses on Wall Street and as investors await a Federal Reserve meeting to get a hint on the U.S. economic outlook.

BOISE - Police need the public's help, after a man is hit by a car -- and the driver flees the scene. It happened just after three this morning and right now the victim is at Saint Alphonsus in critical condition.

A pedestrian was severely injured early this morning in Downtown Boise, Boise report. A man was crossing Idaho Street near 15th Street on foot about 3:24 a.m. when he was struck by a westbound car traveling west on Idaho Street.

BEND -- One woman died and six others were seriously injured Saturday afternoon in a head-on crash on Highway 20 about 6 miles west of Bend, police said.

Saturday was a day at the beach for Stanford, and any future opponents scouting the game would have dozed off early in the lopsided win over poor Idaho State, except... A very disturbing blip popped onto the scouts' radar screens. Cissy Pierce....

Ohio governors mimic Major League baseball managers in one respect this time of year: giving people hope that better days are on the horizon.

Beyond body building: Lifting gets popular

B.J. Cannon was there at the start of the service life of Big John and he plans to be there at the end.

The old apple tree leans over the adobe wall like an old woman reaching out for support.

A woman is injured after being abducted by two masked men and driven around west Belfast.

A Bolingbrook woman remained hospitalized Saturday with head injuries suffered in a traffic collision in west central Naperville. The crash included a sport utility vehicle flipping over onto its roof.

Two men have been quizzed and released without charge following the alleged attempted abduction of a woman in west Belfast. Police said the woman was forced in to the back seat of her car by masked men after she locked up a fast food restaurant on the Glen Road.

With March Madness in full swing, letʼs pause to handicap the remainder of the tournament.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Driving my battered old Volkswagen Santana on the streets of Beijing, I made the mistake of stopping at a red light.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Driving my battered old Volkswagen Santana on the streets of Beijing, I made the mistake of stopping at a red light.

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A Wotton-under-Edge man who set light to his brother's brand new car as part of a bitter feud has escaped jail with a suspended sentence.

BBC?s latest documentary captures the rarities of the natural world in crystal-clear creature?s-eye view.

I have a 2000 Passat GLS 4-Motion and I have experienced similar problems. I had to get the fuel sensors changed twice, but my gauge actually died on me and wouldn't work anymore. It sort of worked after the sensors were changed the first time and went bad again.

A motorcyclist killed when he was involved in a collision with a car in a Surrey village is named.

Dear Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee:

Workers at Airbus plants in France, Germany and Spain staged strikes and protests Friday, maintaining a united front against a restructuring plan the troubled aircraft maker said would slash 10,000 jobs across Europe.

Bought it in 2004 because I needed a car. It wasn't in the best of shape. It was spray painted flat black by the previous owner, which I later found out that he painted over a 2000 dollar paint job because he wanted to make it look hot rod ish.

Sales of Volkswagen vehicles soared 24.3 percent to 711,000 units in China in 2006, allowing the country to become the German automaker's fastest growing market in the world, said sources with Volkswagen China on Friday.

Sales of Volkswagen vehicles soared 24.3 percent to 711,000 units in China in 2006, allowing the country to become the German automaker's fastest growing market in the world, said sources with Volkswagen China on Friday.

BAYFIELD, Colo. — Larry Phelps bought one of the world's most famous cars on a whim last year — a vehicle outsold only by the Volkswagen Beetle.

BAYFIELD, Colo. — Larry Phelps bought one of the world's most famous cars on a whim last year — a vehicle outsold only by the Volkswagen Beetle.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Reuters) - Talks for a partnership between Europe's largest car maker, Volkswagen AG , and Malaysian state car maker Proton Holdings Bhd are at a "fairly advanced stage", a newspaper said on Saturday.

The driver of a car that smashed into a Cathedral City mausoleum, leaving a passenger in critical condition and damaging the tomb, was suspected of being under the influence, the Cathedral City Police Department reported Friday.

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All the speculation about Mark Martin's schedule finally will come to an end next week at Bristol, and the longtime NASCAR star says he does not plan to be there to say "I told you so."

HAMPTON, Ga. -- All the speculation about Mark Martin's schedule finally will come to an end next week at Bristol , and the longtime NASCAR star says he does not plan to be there to say ''I told you so.'' ''Saturday night, I'm going to be at...

AP Auto Racing Writer HAMPTON, Ga. -- All the speculation about Mark Martin's schedule finally will ...

All the speculation about Mark Martin's schedule finally will come to an end next week at Bristol, and the longtime NASCAR star says he does not plan to be there to say "I told you so." "Saturday night, I'm going to be at Lake City (Fla.) watching Ricky Carmichael and (son) Matt Martin race late model sports cars," Martin said Friday. "Sunday, I'll probably be sitting on a couch somewhere with a ...

There are four elements to the hip hop culture: rapping, dj-ing, break dancing and graffiti, according to Marcus Tufono. He’s the program director at Writerz Block, a graffiti arts studio in South East San Diego.

I'm starting to think my cute little 2004 Beetle is a cruel joke someone is playing on me.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's benchmark stock index closed little changed. TUI AG and ThyssenKrupp AG declined, while E.ON AG and Volkswagen AG paced rising shares.

It's tough to imagine the Suze Orman as a waitress. But that's where she started, serving diner food to the likes of Apple founder Steve Wozniak at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, Calif. It was a time that Orman, now a 55-year-old bestselling financial author and TV star, described as "the best years of my life," despite making just $400 a month. She said she could have gone on living like that ...

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks including Volkswagen AG and Bayer AG rose. TUI AG declined. The DAX Index was little changed at 6588.55 at 4:08 p.m. in Frankfurt, bringing this week's decline to 1.9 percent.

Police say that three people were heading east on I-70 about 2:15 a.m. when the Volkswagen Jetta in which they were riding hit the median and rebounded across the interstate into the ditch.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks rebounded after a report showed industrial production in the U.S. rose last month by the most since November 2005. Adidas AG, Metro AG and Volkswagen AG paced rising shares.

Consumer inflation in the United States spurted higher in February.

A motorist and a bus driver narrowly escaped serious injury after they were shot at on a busy road.

Metro police are responding to a report of a wreck involving a Metro bus downtown at 9th Avenue and Broadway. There are no reports of injuries, Metro officials said. The wreck involved a Volkswagen van, officials said.

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The sprawling Sony Corp. television plant in Westmoreland County could be left with only 250 jobs later this year, officials said Thursday.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's benchmark stock index dropped, erasing yesterday's gains, as ThyssenKrupp AG and Deutsche Boerse AG paced the retreat.

Volkswagen has cut its prices in China in an effort to regain market share.

A 77-YEAR-OLD former teacher from Ware died of a heart attack when her car veered off a road and mounted a verge.

A man drowned and four people were seriously injured after the car they were travelling in plunged into a lake — the driver will be charged with culpable homicide.

A man drowned and four people were seriously injured after the car they were travelling in plunged into a lake, Johannesburg metro police said today.

Students interested in attending any one of the nation's service academies should plan to attend the 20th annual "Academy Day" on Saturday, March 24. The program will be from 8:45 a.m. until noon at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum off Route 28 in Chantilly.

A man has drowned and four people are in a serious condition after the car they were travelling in plunged into a lake, Johannesburg metro police said.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn will give up oversight of North American operations after Japan's third-largest carmaker missed its profit forecast for the first time in seven years.

Conventional thinking is that, if a company seeks to adopt an eco-friendly strategy, it has to do that at a cost. Thus eco-friendly products are perceived to be more expensive than eco-unfriendly ones.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks may slide after oil fell for a second day in New York, raising concern that earnings at energy companies including BP Plc and Eni SpA will drop.

Chase Card Services has awarded $50,000 to the Delaware Financial Literacy Institute, part of a three-year, $3.9 million program to improve financial education nationwide. The bank officially handed over the check this morning in a ceremony at the University & Whist Club in Wilmington. The institute plans to use the money to educate public high school juniors on the basics of good credit, said ...

An Edmonton graduate student has lost three years of research, irreplaceable family photos and sensitive personal information after his laptop was swiped from his van Monday.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The following stocks may rise or fall in German markets today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after the company names and prices are from the Xetra close yesterday unless otherwise stated.

SHANGHAI, March 16, 2007 Reuters reported that Volkswagen AG cut prices on several of its China-made cars by up to 11 percent, its Shanghai joint venture said, to promote sales in the fiercely contested market.

Had police officers been following me last week, they might have mistakenly thought I was a terrorist.

It said in a statement that the cuts are as large as 11,000 yuan. The joint venture of Volkswagen AG and Shanghai Automotive Co Ltd (SHA 600104) said it has reduced the price of the Santana 3000 by 11,000 yuan to 97,800 yuan.

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The decor at Sunday's glam preview of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's "Modernism: Designing A New World 1914-1939" nearly stole the show.

Prices for the Santana 3000, Santana and Polo were cut 12 pct, 7 pct and 2 pct, respectively. No further details were provided. Sharewatch Ltd T/A Sharewatch.com is a multi-agency intermediary regulated by the Financial Regulator.

Volkswagen probe: Marketing Minister appears before Lok Ayukta

Police say a woman lost control of her car, crashing into a tree.

Two days before her first appearance in the cast of the top-ranked TV show, "NCIS," actress Cote de Pablo was given the script of a lengthy phone conversation -- in Hebrew.

Volkswagen probe: Marketing Minister appears before Lok Ayukta

THE BAJAJ Auto plant at Chakan. Pune March 15 It has taken 20 years for Chakan, a water scarcity zone that produced one annual crop of onions for export, to metamorphose from the outback into an auto hub.

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks posted their biggest gain in eight months, following a rebound in U.S. and Asian markets, led by DaimlerChrysler AG and Deutsche Boerse AG.

Reverse selector in auto gearbox broke. Plenty of engine oil leaks. Great for camping, is fitted with a pop-top. Good on sand work. Good view of the road.

A 27-year-old city woman was sentenced to state prison yesterday for running down her husband while he was giving a female coworker a ride home on a motorcycle last summer.

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks advanced for the first time in four days, following a rebound in U.S. and Asian markets.

Rider swerved to avoid car moving into lane and hit center divider on Ball Road in Fullerton, police say.

Published March 15, 2007 in issue 0611 of the HooK. For attorney John Slough, a trip in his bright yellow Volkswagen Beetle is also a trip down memory lane. "In 1963, when I was a student in Austria, I had a yellow Beetle," he says. There's quite a difference in the new and old models, however.

Seeing Alvin Brooks with his police academy classmates, the only black face in the 1954 picture, one can only imagine how proud his family must have been.

Historic Bok Sanctuary will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with carillon concerts at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday. Carillonneur William De Turk will play Irish favorites such as "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "Paddy Whack" and "Londonderry Air."

MARLBORO — A five-car crash at Route 79 and Ryan Road backed up Route 79 traffic for about a half-mile late Wednesday afternoon.

TINTON FALLS: A borough man shocked by a downed wire in his driveway remained hospitalized Wednesday, nearly a month after being severely burned during the accident.

He lived in St. Paul, on bus routes 16 and 50, just blocks from the stops of four others. As for the rest, Corbin Kidder had traveled them all, with each path and timetable fixed in his head.

The salty aroma and squawking gulls greeted us like old friends as we eased down the canal. Ahead lay Laguna Madre, a mecca for inshore saltwater anglers in Texas. At the helm of the boat was another old friend: Danno Wise. Danno is publisher of the Port Isabel Press and guides fishing trips on the side.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Volkswagen has turned back to its color-and-trim archives for the latest special model in the New Beetle lineup. The 2007 Triple White New Beetle convertible, which hits showrooms this week, draws its inspiration from the original Super Beetle convertible from the late 1970s.

Hamburg, March 15 (DPA) A driverless robot car with an electronic brain and laser eyes that see everywhere at once has been built in Germany to demonstrate the future of road transport - when computer-assisted cars take the steering wheel out of error-prone human hands.

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- China's industrial output grew at the fastest pace in eight months as surging exports and retail sales encouraged companies in the world's fastest-growing major economy to produce more steel, cars and clothes.

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- China's industrial output growth accelerated as surging exports and retail sales encouraged companies in the world's fastest-growing major economy to produce more steel, cars and clothes.

The unrestrained driver of a 2001 Volkswagen Golf that crashed on Santa Fe Drive just south of C-470 early yesterday morning has been identified as Andrew L. Given, 20, of Avon.

A 77-YEAR-OLD Ware woman was killed in an accident on the B158 Lower Hatfield Road near Bayford. The woman was driving a silver Volkswagen Polo east towards Hertford, when her car crossed the road, mounted the offside verge, flipped onto its nearside and then back onto all four wheels.

"The People's Car" badge didn't rack up sales and the model was rightfully pulled. Volkswagen USA have plans to bring back the Phaeton, it will have some cosmetic alterations.

Volkswagen has arranged financing for new assembly lines at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany.

For a vehicle which was once regarded as a sign that Porsche had lost the plot, the Cayenne has been remarkably successful.

A German lawmaker will go on trial in June in a corruption scandal at automaker Volkswagen AG, charged with involvement in events that allegedly featured prostitutes, a court said Wednesday.

Here are the first shots of what’s to become Volkswagen’s ultimate canon ball: the Golf R36!

Baltimore man remains in federal custody in 1984 rape, killing of nursing student The Baltimore man facing extradition to Germany in the killing of a nursing student more than 23 years ago did not fight for his release from jail at a federal detention hearing yesterday but proclaimed his innocence.

Private equity investment firm Cerberus Capital Management LLC buttressed its effort to buy Chrysler by hiring the auto maker's former chief operating officer, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

Audi AG has lured Peter Duffy away from Barclays to become the new head of marketing at the German car marque. Duffy replaces Nigel Brotherton who left the company four months ago to take up the post of head of loyalty with majority-owned parent company Volkswagen. ...

A civilian employee of the Arapahoe County Jail, who allegedly exchanged calls and letters with convict Robert Ray, has been suspended after being accused of bringing a knife into the jail, authorities said Tuesday.

A Sarasota woman died late Monday when a Volkswagen Jetta collided with a Ford Mustang at the intersection of University Parkway and Lockwood Ridge Road in southern Manatee County, according to authorities.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 13 -- Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today that the limited edition Triple White New Beetle convertible is now available at dealers. Only 3,000 customers will have the opportunity to own this truly special edition.

A backlash over a spate of advertising with suicide themes has raised questions about ads that are deliberately provocative.

Ignition coils. They would only replace one at a time, so you were scared to death of breaking down at any given time. It seemed each year, one went at a time. Luckily for me, all of mine have been replaced at this point.

UBS upgrades truck maker to buy, citing a stronger order intake.

Hyderabad, March 13 : After Volkswagen, it’s the turn of Volvo to drive away from Andhra Pradesh.

The Colorado State Patrol is looking into a fatal one-car crash on U.S. 85 just south of C-470 early this morning.

Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today that the limited edition Triple White New Beetle convertible is now available at dealers. Only 3,000 customers will have the opportunity to own this truly special edition.

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks fell, paced by Commerzbank AG after Citigroup Inc. said it's not interested in buying the country's second-largest lender. Hypo Real Estate AG and BASF AG also declined.

A Sarasota woman died late Monday when a Volkswagen Jetta collided with a Ford Mustang at the intersection of University Parkway and Lockwood Ridge Road in southern Manatee County.

I had absolutley nothing go wrong with this car in the short time that I owned it.

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks fell, paced by Commerzbank AG, TUI AG and Hypo Real Estate AG. MAN AG, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, advanced after UBS AG advised investors to buy the shares.

Volkswagen SA has marked the export of 300,000 vehicles from its Uitenhage factory in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The company currently exports new Golfs and Polo hatch units to the Asia Pacific region.

Online DVD rental company LOVEFiLM.com is to offer free film downloads sponsored by advertisers with Volkswagen the first client to be involved.

Volkswagen South Africa has exported 300,000 vehicles from its Eastern Cape plant since its entry into the export market.

I had absolutley nothing go wrong with this car in the short time that I owned it.

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's benchmark stock index retreated, paced by Volkswagen AG, Continental AG and TUI AG. MAN AG, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, advanced after UBS AG advised investors to buy the shares.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares lost ground Tuesday ahead of U.S. retail sales data and as investors looked for a fresh catalyst after recent takeover activity, though truck maker Man posted strong gains on merger hopes.

Volkswagen SA has marked the export of 300 000 vehicles from its Uitenhage factory in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.

The mere mention of weight lifting generates images of people who resemble vending machines with arms. We see bodybuilders posing with clenched teeth during Mr. America contests, or we hear them grunting in a corner of the health club as they struggle to control barbells the size of Volkswagen Beetles.