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| NAPA Receives Extension on Exclusive Agreement for NUCAP’s NU-LOK ... - YAHOO! Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:46 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. NAPA's Exclusive North American Authorized Dealer Status agreement extended for the Dealer Assortment Kit of NU-LOK Piston Cushion, NUCAP's patented brake noise-reducing technology. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) February 7, 2010 -- Leading auto parts manufacturer NUCAP Industries is pleased to announce the extension of an exclusive distributor agreement with NAPA Auto Parts, the largest auto parts wholesaler and retailer in the world, for the NU-LOK Piston Cushion Dealer Assortment Kit (KPC-200). The agreement is extended to August 1, 2010. "The partnership between NUCAP and NAPA is mutually beneficial," says Gerry Roy, NUCAP's Vice President of Product Development, "NU-LOK Piston Cushion enjoys exposure to NAPA's large and loyal customer base and NAPA remains the only source for a patented product with proven benefits that gains more market share everyday." Yet another innovative automotive solution from the prolific NUCAP Product Development team, NU-LOK Piston Cushion is a new approach to reducing brake squeal, vibration and harshness while lowering operating temperatures. Constructed of durable nitrile rubber coated steel, NU-LOK Piston Cushion snaps into the caliper piston to buffer the movement between the piston surface and brake pad. The Dealer Assortment Package includes 160 pieces, the full range of NU-LOK Piston Cushion sizes, designed to fit 95% of all global passenger car and light-truck applications. "The real advantage of NU-LOK Piston Cushion is it's a simple and effective solution to one of the biggest problems faced by auto repair professionals," says Roy. The NU-LOK Piston Cushion will stop customer complaints and comebacks by minimizing brake squeal, piston damage, vibration and heat problems. Mechanics and Auto Service Centers may order the NU-LOK Piston Cushion Dealer Assortment Package through NAPA's convenient and easy-to-use online order desk at www.napaonline.com. About NUCAP Industries Located in Toronto, Canada, NUCAP designs and manufactures an extensive line of disc brake hardware, including NU-LOK Shims, NRS brake plates and NU-LOK Piston Cushion, for both original equipment and aftermarket friction manufacturers. Since 1996 NUCAP has delivered a constant stream of new initiatives and designs to product development, tooling and manufacturing. About NAPA Auto Parts ### Piston Cushion Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach Goes Back To The Future - YAHOO! Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:46 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. See automotive industry's latest technology at Los Angeles dealership Signal Hill, Calif. (PRWEB) February 7, 2010 -- Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach is proud to offer customers the automotive industry's latest technology. As Mercedes-Benz continues to drive the future of the automobile, they've carried forward everything they've ever imagined, studied and learned along the way. Some of the results include the trademarked PRE-SAFE system, Night View Assist, Distronic Plus, COMAND and Rear View Monitor. Mercedes-Benz originated the landmark PRE-SAFE system and is still the only manufacturer to offer it standard. If the system sensors detect vehicle movements that indicate an accident is possible, PRE-SAFE acts decisively to protect the vehicle's occupants. Electronic tensioners tighten the seat belts of front-seat occupants. PRE-SAFE adjusts the occupied front passenger's seat to a more favorable position for air-bag and seat-belt effectiveness. In the event of severe skidding, which indicates a rollover is likely, PRE-SAFE will close the sunroof and side windows. Using infrared technology, Night View Assist can detect objects nearly 500 feet ahead in darkness. When activated, it displays the captured field on a black-and-white screen in the instrument cluster. Unlike other systems that identify only warm objects, like animals, but not cold ones, such as debris, Mercedes-Benz's system can detect both. Night View Assist is also packaged with a high-resolution screen that gives you a clear, sharp image of what's ahead. Another innovation from Mercedes-Benz is Distronic Plus Adaptive Cruise Control, which monitors the traffic ahead to help maintain the driver's selected following distance, even in stop-and-go traffic. Using two onboard radar systems, Distronic can employ up to 40 percent of your vehicle's braking power to slow your vehicle all the way to a stop, and then - with a tap of the accelerator - bring you up to the full speed to the flow of traffic. The COMAND Cockpit Management and Data system combines radio, optional GPS satellite navigation, AUX-in devices and controls for the optional phone and 6-disc changer into one convenient dash unit. The system incorporates both DVD navigation and a separate CD drive, allowing MP3-CD playback even while navigating. A large color-LCD screen shows navigation maps in sharp detail and the system integrates with the multifunction display and steering-wheel controls. Rear View Monitor offers innovative driver assistance that enables you to see what's behind your vehicle when reversing. The monitor also makes parallel parking and backing into a parking space easier and more accurate than ever before. When you shift into reverse, a wide-angle camera mounted discreetly in the trunk lid recess area near the license plate captures an image of what's behind the vehicle and displays it in the COMAND screen on the dash. This image is overlaid with dynamic guidelines, which react to steering wheel inputs to assist the driver in making accurate parking maneuvers. To check out these latest technologies and more, visit Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach, located at 2300 E. Spring Street in Signal Hill, Calif. Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach offers the highest levels of service in all departments with competitive pricing. With a knowledgeable sales staff, factory-trained service and parts experts and a wide selection of new and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles, Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach is committed to providing Southern California residents with a true Mercedes experience. For more information about current offers, please call 562-988-8300 or visit www.mbzlongbeach.com. # # # Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Harvick Repeats as Budweiser Shootout Winner - ABC News Posted: 06 Feb 2010 11:27 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
Kevin Harvick started Speedweeks in bed, started the Budweiser Shootout in a backup car and started the final few laps out of the lead. After all that, he ended up in Victory Lane. Again. Harvick won the exhibition race for the second consecutive year by moving from fourth to first and passing leader Greg Biffle with two laps remaining in Saturday night's kickoff race to Speedweeks. Biffle's wreck moments later ended the race under caution, giving Harvick his first win since the Shootout victory a year ago. He hasn't won a points race since the 2007 season-opening Daytona 500, and was not ready to proclaim his Shootout victory a precursor for a possible repeat in next week's 500. "I know we started last year the same way," he said of the 2009 Shootout win — the lone bright spot in an otherwise abysmal season for Harvick and all of Richard Childress Racing. And, the way he started Speedweeks was a reminder of just how topsy-turvy the 11 days in Daytona can be. He was battling the flu and too ill to travel to Daytona on Thursday for Shootout practice, so teammate Clint Bowyer drove the Chevrolet in the first session. Then it was marred by a seven-car accident that destroyed the No. 29, forcing RCR to pull out its backup car. Jeff Burton practiced that for Harvick, who was able to get to Daytona in time for Friday's 500 practice. That got rained out after just two laps. So Harvick was all too aware of the bizarre things that can happen between now and the Feb. 14 race. "I've been here enough times now that you know this can be a funny week and it can mess with you," he said. "Time after time, hour by hour can bring something unexpected, just like getting sick to start the week. That's not something that you can plan for. And wrecking a car in the first practice with somebody else driving it. "There's just so many things, so many different variables that can get thrown at you this week. This place can knock you down as fast as it can pick you up. You've got to be able to maintain even keel and be able to keep that focus ... because strange things happen." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Cairns: Move over Danica, here comes F1 racing - Delaware Online Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:39 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. With Saturday's ARCA Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 a wrap, the wheel-well era of Danica Patrick's motorsport career is officially out of the garage. This transition, as per the American tradition of overworking the social implications of pretty much everything, is either the dawn of the Autopocalypse or the start of a tectonic rift in the glass ceiling. If you're the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, it's a top-dead-center moment in the suddenly contrite thrust for "diversity." I've deployed quotation marks on that term because, Danica or not, I'm not of the mind to sew a merit badge for cultural transcendence on NASCAR's sash. Not so much because the circuit makes redundant the term "white-knuckle driving," but because its global relevance falls far short of its machismo. Just as the World Cup actually supplants the Super Bowl as the globe's true football world championship, there is, for the rest of the planet, a predominant world championship of auto racing. The U.S. hasn't had much to do with it lately, a down spell lost on American sports fans who believe Formula One is a feeder league for NASCAR. While Patrick's move to stock-car racing saps up the ink and flashbulbs, the ambitious re-entry of U.S. blood into F1 is quietly spooling up. US F1, the first American F1 team in over two decades, is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C, in an old NASCAR factory. Its premise is noble: Channel America's automotive enterprise and its vast multidisciplinary auto racing talent into a franchise that can keep up with the world's most exquisitely engineered racing and bring U.S. fans with it. The latter bit of that might be the hardest. US F1 will stoke the appetite of true American motorsport savants, who likely already appreciate the global spectrum of auto racing. Beyond that audience lies one tough sell. Like our football, the NASCAR empire is a monument to our ESPN-fed belief that American sports are the world's sports. The fan base that has bought into that while all but forsaking the country's once-signature international auto race, the Indy 500 -- isn't likely to take to F1. F1 is urbane and intricate and revolves around someone else's time zone. (And its races don't air on ESPN or its multitude of sub-networks). In 2010, there won't be a grand prix on U.S. soil and there likely won't be a U.S.-born driver in an F1 race on anyone's soil. Changing the latter is part of US F1's mission that will take patience. The U.S. has a glut of fine drivers -- the men and women of stock-car racing included -- but you can't just strap one into an F1 machine and expect podiums. In short, we can't just send Kyle Busch out there to tattoo everyone into the wall, and Americans aren't going to like that. No matter. US F1 isn't pandering to cheap appeal -- not so far and hopefully never. Tailgate party be damned, US F1 is making a determined effort to put the United States back in the Formula One conversation. And that's one tough glass ceiling to bust. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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