1.   Boots also owns Halfords, an auto parts chain, and home-improvement chains Do It All and AG Stanley.

2.   Burbank likes Magna International, a Canadian auto parts supplier, and Lear Corp., which makes car seats.

3.   Ford Motor Co. has asked its auto parts suppliers for help in redesigning these vehicles, known as light trucks, to make them less dangerous.

4.   Ford also announced Friday that, as expected, that it will spin off the newly independent Visteon auto parts company to its shareholders.

5.   He successfully demanded that Washington drop its insistence that Japan guarantee foreign makers of autos and auto parts a greater share of the Japanese market.

6.   Under the system, many auto parts companies are virtually beholden to the auto maker who buys nearly all of their product.