The 1998 Holden Astra continued Holden's trend of sourcing its mid-size car | mid-size and smaller model lines from Opel in Europe.

* January 12 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver ( d. 1998 )

The day after he bought the team, Prost signed a three-year deal with French car manufacturer Peugeot, who would supply the team with engines for the 1998 season through the 2000 season.

On 15 August 1998, four months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the Real IRA exploded a car bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone, killing 31 people and injuring 220, from many communities.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

She herself died prematurely, in a car crash in Italy in 1998.

When SVA was first introduced in 1998, many believed this would kill off the kit car market, but in reality it has made the kit car market stronger, as the vehicles produced now have to meet a minimum standard.

He finally retired in January 2002 at age 50 ( having previously retired in 1998 ) following a bad car crash in October 2001, with a professional record of 119 fights, 103 wins with 70 KOs.

In 1994, Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One, a " retro "- themed concept car with a resemblance to the original Beetle, and in 1998 introduced the " New Beetle ", built on the Golf platform with styling recalling the original Type 1.

It is also popular in Canada ( though withdrawn from sale in 1998 ), South America, Iceland, and other regions where the terrain requires a robust and tough car for a reasonable price.

A South African inventor brought the Blaster car mounted flamethrower to market in 1998 as a security device to defend against carjackers.

395 ( 1998 ) ( empty, torn, knotted piece of baggie, in plain view, gave officer probable cause to search car because baggie was a unique container, officer had previous experience with such containers, and stop occurred in area known for drug transactions ).

" Mr B ", John Murphy, died in a car accident in Belfast in August 1998.

Ronald " Gun " Ficklin took over the sheriff's office in 1998, but on 5 February 2007, Ficklin himself pleaded guilty on multiple counts involving his role in operating " chop shops " — reselling stolen automobiles and parts — using state prisoners to staff these activities and as a pit crew for his race car.

Omagh came into the international focus of the media on 15 August 1998, when the Real Irish Republican Army exploded a car bomb in the town centre.

Santiago then signed a contract to play for the Blue Jays (-) where he lost almost the entire 1998 season to a serious injury sustained in a car crash in Florida.

( See Cavalese cable car disaster ( 1998 ))

The Omagh bombing () was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army ( RIRA ), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, on Saturday 15 August 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

In April 2000 two motorists who were caught speeding in the United Kingdom challenged the Road Traffic Act 1988 which required the keeper of a car to identify the driver at a particular time as being in contradiction to the Human Rights Act 1998 on the grounds that it amounted to a ' compulsory confession ', also that since the camera partnerships included the police, local authorities, Magistrates Courts Service ( MCS ) and Crown Prosecution Service ( CPS ) which had a financial interest in the fine revenue that they would not get a fair trial.

The Citroën ZX is a small family car produced by the French manufacturer Citroën between 1991 and 1998.

* Dissident Irish Republicans in Northern Ireland used car bombs for decades, the deadliest attack beind the Omagh bombing of 1998.

The road car engine aspect of the business was split from the racing division following the sale of the engineering division of Cosworth to VW / Audi in September 1998 and renamed Cosworth Technology, before being acquired by Mahle GmbH in 2005.

The Chrysler 300M was likewise a Premier / LH-derived car and was initially to have been the next-generation Eagle Vision, until the Eagle brand was dropped after 1998.

On February 3, 1998, police found Letourneau having sexual relations with Fualaau in her car.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

As one law review article pointed out, the perception that the ADA primarily helps freeloaders was harshly satirized by The Onion in 1998 in the form of an article about the " Americans With No Abilities Act ".

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

On March 9, 1995, Colangelo's group was awarded a franchise to begin play for the 1998 season.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

This treaty was prematurely exposed to public scrutiny and subsequently abandoned in November 1998 in the face of strenuous protest and criticism by national and international civil society representatives.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

The CBS television sitcom Becker, 1998 – 2004, was more ambiguous.