European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday decembers 1994 automotive  and stripes general motors corp. Has selected Breed technologies  Supply air bag inflators for two pm car lines Breed said tuesday. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Breed Stock Rose 7 percent on the news to $31.75 a share up $2.125 in afternoon trading on the new York Stock Exchange Breed said the first deliveries of the electric devices Are due in late 1995 or Early 1996. The inflators will be manufacture Dat Breed s Plant in Lakeland Fla. -. ,. Volvo a of Sweden said tuesday that it is planning a joint venture with Bow Rolls Royce of Germany to build aircraft engines. The engines will be for airplay Nethat can accommodate 90 to 130 passengers such As the Boeing 737, Volvo said. The project will be conducted through its Volvo Aero subsidiary. The swedish automaker which also makes Marine engines expects the project to increase its annual sales by about $133 million.  general motors corp. Is recalling 403,000 Cadillac Devil Les manufactured Between 1991 and 1993 to replace a defective rubber Oil Hose that could create a fire risk. Pm said the Hose could separate from a connector and spill Oil into the engine compartment. Pm said it had reports of 27 fires related to the j defect. There were no injuries .-.". Spokeswoman Julie Hamp said. A the affected cars have 4.9-liter engines. Pm said recall notices would Besent to owners Over the next six to _ eight weeks ".  Mazda motor corp has reached a agreement with Ford motor co. To sell Small cars based on the Ford fiesta in Europe. Mazda which is 25 percent owned by Ford will buy about 25,000 of the cars annually and sell them though it european Dealership network starting m the Spring of 1996. Having abandoned a plan to set upits own production facility in Europe Mazda said in october that it was in the final stages of negotiations to Purchase Ford made cars in Europe. The vehicles will be engineered by Ford with Mazda responsible for styling of exteriors and interiors. Mazda sold 192,000 cars in european the year up to last March 31, nearly All of them exported from Japan. The automaker said the addition of the  car in its european lineup " should t have significant Impact on its Export volume since the european Auto Market is recovering. .,.--.  frightful weather would be delightful to dealers with jots of Snow  running out of supplies during last Winter s blizzards tire dealers have increased inventory a task made tougher by strikes at several tire plants the Wall Street journal has _. Reported. Moore s tire sales in Utica n.y., has raised its Stock by about 25percent. Automobile City a unit of Fred Schuler & sons in Wilkes Barre pa., has doubled its inventory the journal reported. In Menomonie wis., Churchill tire and Battery service took in 10 percent More tires but sales did t take off until a recent snowfall manager Ron Husby said _. From wire reports a drive against drunks. Florida to Monitor worst of the worst in Highway offences by the St Petersburg times Early next year Florida state Highway officials plan to begin a surveillance pro Gram that targets the most incurable Drunken Drivers. The program will be called operation Roundup. Its Mission to catch dangerous Drivers at the wheel and give them More time in jail. Thirty percent of our people get Al the tickets. We be got to Zero in on the problem Drivers said Fred Dickinson executive director of the department of Highway safety and motor vehicles. Highway safety officials believe As Many As 100,000 Florida residents or 1 percent of the state s 10 million Drivers have several Drunken driving convictions on their records. They Are developing a list of the worst of the worst Drivers in Florida those with at least six convictions and recent driving offences. In january or february the depart ment plans to begin putting those Drivers. Under surveillance. The observers will be troopers in Plain clothes and unmarked cars. "  _ troopers will be staking out their Homes their businesses where they work. And if they see them getting in to drive a car they la take them to jail said department spokesman Ken Howes. What we Hope to accomplish by this is twofold. No 1, to arrest those who Are targeted. 1\vo, hopefully Well get enough press that it will deter people from driving with suspended or revoked  operation Roundup May be limited to a few counties because Highway patrol offices cannot spare enough troopers to implement it statewide to minimize the number of troopers pulled from the highways into the opera Tion the state plans to solicit help by of Fering its list of bad Drivers to interested sheriffs and City police departments. Florida s Laws on Drunken driving Are designed to keep repeat offenders off the Road. A second conviction for Drunken driving revokes a Driver s License for five years. A third brings a 10-year Revo cation. Four convictions and you lose the License for life. Yet Many Drivers ignore these sanctions and thousands Are arrested for Drunken driving after their licenses have been revoked repeatedly. Robyn Blumner executive director of the american civil liberties Union in Florida said she has no problem with the civil liberties implications of operation Roundup. If these people have already been convicted she said their License is re yoked for life and the police Are doing follow up Stork. Observation on a Public Street is available to police  a fender Bender meet Robo Roo the world s first Kangaroo Dummy for crash tests. The Critter pictured with its creator Ernest Waddington in Sydney Australia was hopping into trouble however. Robo Roo was to help general motors corp. Study the effects on vehicles of hitting kangaroos in the wild. The Dummy follows on the heels or hoofs of opel crash test boar and Saab s crash test Elk. R i _ _ _ it getting right fix for your car Detroit a the Quality of new cars has never been better but even the most reliable will need some Basic repairs after a few years and ens of thousands of Miles. Choosing a repair shop is a chore Many Drivers dread. You want honesty competence and a Good Price consumer reports Magazine surveyed 40,000 of its readers about their experiences with Basic car repairs and offered some Basic advice in its september Issue. If you Don t know a Mechanic you Trust get recommendations from friends and family then use this general Check list take appearances seriously. Choose a shop that looks clean and Well maintained has up to Date electronic diagnostic equipment and has employees who Are Forte and ask detailed questions Abri your problems. S look for certificates or window de cals that show the repair shop is certified by organizations such As the National Institute of automotive service excellence " Vasej or the american automobile association aaa. Prepare yourself. Know the exact symptoms of the problem you re having and be Able to Tell the service write when they occur when it s hot or cold outside when the engine is idling when you re turning or stopping. Report sounds smells or smoke. Tell the shop you want a written Esti mate. Some states require this for re pairs above a specified Cost make sure you will be contacted if the repairs will exceed the estimate. So that the parts the Mechanic re places be kept so you can inspect them. Some states also require repair shops to offer this avoid unnecessary tuneup. Distributed by Scrippa Howard Newa Servic Japan makes gains in . Production Washington a for the first time japanese automakers produced More vehicles in the United states last fiscal year than they shipped to this coun try a japanese Auto association said. More than 1.8 million vehicles were produced in the United states for the Fis Cal year ended in january 1994, the Japa Nese automobile manufacturers association said last week. In the same year Japan exported 1.5 million vehicles to the United states. The general trend has been to produce More japanese cars in the United states using american  number of americans employed by japanese automakers in the unite states More than tripled from 11,236 in 1987 to 37,435 in fiscal 1993, according tothe manufacturers association. However Steve Beckman an International economist with the United autoworkers Union said the association s Fig ures fail to address the Low . Part con tent in japanese automobiles. Only 50 percent of the parts in Japa Nese cars manufactured in the United states Are american on average Beck Man said and parts on autos shipped from Japan have near Zero . Content. We d like to see 70 percent of the parts be . Parts on japanese cars made in America at least he said. He predicted that the . Trade imbalance with Japan and its Auto in _ balance with Japan this year would be larger probably than Ever  he said the . Trade deficit in Auto with Japan probably would be $20 billion while Auto parts would add More than $12 billion to the  association said. That japanese automakers purchases of . Auto part increased More than sixfold Between 1986 and 1993 from $2.49 billion to$15.54 billion. The number of . Parts suppliers More than quadrupled during the same period from 298 in 1986 to 1,245 in March 1994, Jama said. Japanese automakers own and operate seven Auto manufacturing plants in the United states that sometimes manufacture parts for american cars. The Japa Nese plants Are Honda in Ohio Nissan in Tennessee Mitsubishi in Illinois and Toyota with a Plant each in Kentucky and Missouri Ana two in California. The japanese also have two joint Ven Ture plants with american car manufacturers along with nine research and development centers