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0Ohio Turnpike begins accepting credit & debit cards at toll booths 1244638860
Cruising the Ohio Turnpike is about to get a whole lot easier. Anyone who's ever traveled the highway is probably plenty familiar with the annoyance of having to scrounge for change and small bills to pay at each toll booth. But after holding out for years, the Ohio Turnpike Commission is taking a ...
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One in 20 Million: Honda celebrates U.S. production milestone 1233788220
In spite of Honda's latest production cuts, the Japanese automaker reached a significant milestone this week. Twenty-seven years after opening its Marysville, Ohio, assembly plant, Honda has produced its 20 millionth vehicle in North America. The original U.S. plant is still open but it has been ...
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Honda ending U.S. motorcycle production 1204209060
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Honda VTXHonda has announced that next year it will cease motorcycle production at its Marysville, OH manufacturing plant. That facility's output, along with that of the Hamamatsu, Japan factory, will be shifted to the the company's brand new bike ...
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Ohio switching fleet to Ford Focus, gov't workers not amused 1201275000
click above for more pics of the 2008 Ford Focus SES CoupeFuel economy and CO2 emissions are on a lot of our minds right now, and many of us are re-examining our vehicle needs in an effort to save coin at the pump. The push to downsize has influenced the entire state of Ohio, which plans to switch ...
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No more home turf advantage - Kia sales outpacing Jeeps in Toledo 1187798520
It looks like residents of Ohio's Lucas County, home to Jeep's Toledo HQ, aren't buying into the hype, even if they're the ones building the things. Part of it is that Kia plays in more segments than Jeep, so while the brands do compete, Kia has an edge. We're not saying we want to see a Jeep ...
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Toledo cops begin selling ads on police cruisers 1183559760
"This citation has ben brought to you by _________, for all your _________ needs. Thanks for using the Toledo PD, please drive safely and have a nice day." var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Desperate_Cops_Begin_Selling_Ads_on_Police_Cars'; The Toledo, Ohio police department needs to ...
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Honda sends some CR-V production south of the border 1174651560
In 2008, 50,000 CR-Vs will be cranked out of Honda's assembly plant in Guadalajara, Mexico. Currently, the plant is used to build Accord sedans, to the tune of about 30k per year, but when CR-V production begins, they'll be no more hecho en Mexico Accords finding their way north. Instead, ...
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Ohio offering the farm for Ford to stay 1162735680
We here in Ohio love our Ford plants. We've got 'em all over the place – in Cleveland, in Toledo, in Cincinnati... wait. Scratch those last two, as the Way Forward plan counts among its victims a stamping plant in Maumee near Toledo and a transmission plant in Batavia near Cinci. Ohio ...
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Ohio has nation's cheapest gas 1158432900
According to AAA, our friends in the Buckeye State are benefiting from the end of the summer driving season by registering the lowest gas prices in the nation. Ohio residents are enjoying a 30-cent discount on fuel, compared to the national average, partly due to seasonal demand and increased ...
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Toyota opens biggest showroom in country 1156536060
We know at least one of you will take this post as a personal challenge to go out to your local dealerships, tape measure in hand, just to prove how wrong we are, but a 5-acre Toyota showroom in Cincinnati is now thought to be the biggest around. The square footage of the facility amounts to 68,000 ...

