It could be considered an annual ritual: When the weather gets warm, the cars come out in every make, model and size.
The Corvette Stingray — undeniably cool. Mercedes sports car
sophistication. A Packard Roadster — true classic. The Lamborghini Countach — there’s a reason “Countach” translates roughly to “Holy cow!”
For car enthusiasts of all stripes, Bucks [...]

Parade at 1 p.m. at the intersection of Flanders Road and Main Street. The procession will go up Main Street, also known as Route 61, and end at the Town Green across from Memorial Hall.
Selectman Thomas O’Neil will be master of ceremonies and resident Polly Kacerguis will narrate the poem “In Flanders Fields.” Rev. Joseph [...]

The top auto analysts in this year’s Best on the Street survey had to look long and hard to find winners in a struggling industry. Detroit’s Big Three auto makers and many of their suppliers are losing money, and vehicle sales in the U.S. were down last year.
The winning stock pickers trained their sights on [...]

“The economy is far from being ‘out of the woods,’” wrote Brian Bethune and Nigel Gault, economist for Global Insight. The economic indicators in the coming week will show “an economy that is still struggling.”
The data will cover all the main parts of the economy: Consumer spending, manufacturing, housing and inflation.
Consumer spending, industrial output and [...]

This past weekend, the Dutchess County Fairgrounds played host to the Rhinebeck Car and Auto Show.
Although attendance was down a bit from previous years, Vicki Imperati, spokeswoman for fairgrounds, said the event is always a successful one no matter how many people come out.
“Totals for attendance were down on both days, which was most likely [...]

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NEW YORK, April 10 (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales excluding
cars rose in March following a record drop in February, but
much of the rebound was fueled by record-high gasoline prices,
according to a private report released on Thursday.
Consumer spending minus auto sales climbed 0.6 percent last
month [...]

“Consumers are buying what they need,” said Jennifer Black , president of Jennifer Black %26 Associates, an equity research company in Lake Oswego, Ore. For everything else, shoppers are being pickier and focusing on discounters, she said.According to a preliminary tally by UBS-International Council of Shopping Centers, sales slid 0.5 percent versus its original estimate [...]

“The main challenge is unison,” Block Party Bash producer Thomas Tryon says of the stunts. “Normally, as a trampoline performer, I’m just doing my thing on my own.”
The scream portion provides brief relief from the physical activity. Each side of the street tries to outshout the other (”Not bad for Barbie dolls!” yells a Green [...]

SEOUL, March 3 (Reuters) - Stocks on the move on Monday
include:
As of 0530 GMT, the main KOSPI was down 2.47 percent
to 1,669.27 points as renewed U.S. recession fears following weak
economic data hit exporters such as LG Electronics (066570.KS: Quote, Profile, Research).
The index opened 2.06 percent lower at [...]

Through it all, the RDX soldiered through unfazed with its occupants as snug as bugs and the wonderful Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) system compensating for deteriorating road conditions and keeping the sport-ute out of the ditch and headed in the proper direction.SH-AWD is certainly more advanced than conventional all-wheel drive systems in that it [...]