| Polaris Borrowing Airless Tire Tech From Subsidiary, Putting it Into Production |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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Polaris, maker of powersports vehicles such as snowmobiles and ATVs, will put an airless tire onto a production vehicle by 2014. To recap, an “airless tire” is what’s known as a non-pneumatic tire (NPT), meaning it has no captured, air-filled cavity to absorb impacts or cushion the tread. So what is Polaris doing in the [...]
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| Toyota Readies Next-Gen Highlander Crossover for Debut [2013 New York Auto Show] |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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Outside of the U.S., the Toyota Highlander is known as the Kluger. We mention this not because it impacts the likelihood of success for the all-new third-gen model, which debuts at the New York auto show later this month. Nor because Toyota would ever consider using the name Kluger on any vehicle here. No, we’ve [...]
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| Service Satisfaction Drives Loyalty |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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 Lexus ranks highest among luxury nameplates for a fifth consecutive year, and GMC ranks highest among mass-market nameplates, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Customer Service Index (CSI) Study.
Among luxury brands, Cadillac, Jaguar, Acura, and Infiniti follow Lexus in the rankings. Among mass-market brands, Mini, Buick, Chevrolet, and Volkswagen follow GMC.
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| Primeritus Sells Repo Firms |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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 Primeritus Financial Services announced the sale of two of its subsidiaries: Repossessions Unlimited, LLC, operating in Florida; and, Extreme Recovery, L.P., in California.
In the first transaction, Chris Fazio purchased Primeritus' ownership in Repossessions Unlimited.
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| Small Cars Shine |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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 Used-car values were relatively flat in February, declining 0.4 percent overall.
Kelley Blue Book reports that although most segments generally were flat or down slightly overall, subcompact and compact cars improved 1.1 percent month-over-month, due in large part to a more than $0.20 per gallon increase in gas prices.
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| FTC Bans Payment Processor |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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 A payment processor and two of its principals are banned from processing electronic payments under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which resolves charges that they debited, or tried to debit, millions of dollars from tens of thousands of consumers' bank accounts without their consent.
The FTC's action against Automated Electronic Checking Inc. (AEC) and its principals, John P. Lawless and Kenneth Mark Turville, is part of its continuing efforts to protect consumers in financial distress.
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| 2013 BMW M5 review notes: Less cylinders and more power is mostly OK with us |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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ROAD TEST EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: The last-generation BMW M5 was a riot with a big, high-strung V10 sitting under the hood.
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| 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray’s Design Evolution on Hot Rod Unlimited |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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On this week’s episode of Hot Rod Unlimited, host Elana Scherr hitches a ride in a 1957 Chevrolet Corvette to the Petersen Automotive Museum for the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray’s West Coast debut. While there, Scherr discusses the Corvette’s design evolution from the original C1 concept to the new Stingray with Kirk Bennion, exterior design [...]
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| Legends Collide: The Custom Mustang-GT40 Ford Mach 40 |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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The original Ford Mustang and the GT40 are arguably the two most legendary cars the Blue Oval has ever built. But what would happen if the two legends collided? The result isn’t a spectacular (and expensive) crash; rather it’s the one-off Ford Mach 40, and our sister publication Hot Rod has the details on how [...]
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| Porsche Hiring More Than 1000 Workers to Build Macan Crossover |
Mar 15th, 2013 |
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Before the end of the year, one of the most significant Porsches will roll off an assembly line in Leipzig. We’re not talking about the new 911 GT3, but the Macan crossover. Porsche has just announced it plans to hire more than 1000 permanent workers in Leipzig to prepare for Macan production. The new Porsche [...]
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