| Auto show opens with much fanfare in Xian |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
auto show , which lasts from June 8 to 17, is the way many local residents spent their three-day Dragon Boat Festival vacation from June 10 to 12. ...
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| Voice-to-text as distracting as using hand-held phone while driving study |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
may actually be as distracting as using a hand-held device, new research has shown. The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Utah for US consumer group AAA, found that drivers exhibit a similar level of distraction when using hands-free voice-to-text technology to send text messages as when typing texts manually with their hands. The researchers studied 150 drivers with an ...
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| U.S. Open facing bad weather for opening round |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
The oldest professional golf tournament in the nation returns to one of the sport's treasured sites Thursday for the playing of the 113th U.S. Open. Nasty weather, however, threatens to spoil the first round of the much-anticipated tournament, which for the first time in 32 years will be contested at the Merion Golf Club. For most of the 156 members of the field, this week has brought ...
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| Toyota Supra-style replacement favoured by incoming chairman |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
Toyota’s next chairman later this week at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting, believes Toyota’s next sports car should be comparable to the larger six-cylinder Supra that ended production in 2002 so as to not overlap with the smaller ...
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| Former Ford chief to head automotive industry investment drive |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
automotive industry .Joe Greenwell, who retired from Ford in April with more than 40 years experience in the industry, will be chief executive of the Automotive Investment Organisation, which will receive up to 3m of funding over the next two years, after being launched by business secretary Vince Cable.It will be led by UK Trade and Investment and take strategic direction from the Automotive ...
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| BMW i3 100000 reservations to test drive electric hatchback |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
BMW Group sales and marketing chief Ian Robertson told Automotive News this high level of interest, combined with a ';significant number of deposits'; already laid down for the electric hatchback, should see it make a big impact on the market when it launches later this year. "We are confident that with ...
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| 3 cars left at dealerships overnight drop in St. Peters are stolen |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
o Burglars broke into the Suntrup Buick GMC DealershipTuesday and stole three vehicles that had been left to be serviced, police said.The keys to the vehicles --a2012 Buick Lacrosse, a 2010 GMC Arcadia and a 2008 GMC Arcadia --were stolenfrom the drop box. The 2012 and 2010 vehicles were equipped with On Star and were recovered later; the 2008 vehicle is still missing.Workers at the dealership, ...
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| 6 tips on getting a good deal on an auto lease |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
Even with low interest rates that make buying a car more affordable, many consumers are leasing a new car or truck instead.New vehicle leasing climbed in the first three months of 2013 to the highest level in seven years, according to Experian Automotive, a unit of credit data tracker Experian. Leasing made up nearly 28 percent of all new vehicles financed in the quarter - the greatest proportion ...
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| Lexington Parking Authority expected to enact new regulations for food trucks |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
Jessica Noto served Jordan Todd at Mia Nonni food truck outside West Sixth Brewing Company in Lexington, Ky., on May 16, 2013. Photo by Pablo Alcala | ...
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| House passes bill to exempt automakers other firms from some financial rules |
Jun 13th, 2013 |
Washington -- The U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill to exempt automakers and other users of financial hedging from Wall Street regulations approved in 2010. The bill, co-authored by Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, and Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., was approved 411-12 and is designed to correct a drafting error in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform act. The Business Risk ...
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