| Voting for 2015 Dealers’ Choice Awards to Open March 16 |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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Voting for Auto Dealer Monthly’s 2015 Dealers’ Choice Awards will open Monday, March 16. The awards recognize the industry’s leading third-party vendors, suppliers and finance companies.
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| What Slump? |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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His Madness advises slumping F&I pros to channel their inner Yogi and get back to business.
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| BMW R&D Exec Says RWD Is Far from Dead and He Wants “More Personality Into the Cars” |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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Klaus Fröhlich is BMW’s new board member of research and development, and with the rollout of a large number of new models, some of which seem to go against the core of the brand, he has a lot on his plate. While we don’t expect him to turn the brand upside down, our recent conversation […]
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| Audi’s “Driving Cup” Asks Students to Program Super-Cute, Teensy Audis to Drive Autonomously |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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Audi has made headlines with its Piloted Driving autonomous-car project, which has birthed a self-parking A7, a self-driving A6 Avant (that we’ve ridden in!), a racetrack-devouring autonomous RS7, and, most recently, an A7 that made its way from Palo Alto to Las Vegas all on its own. Now, Audi is taking Piloted Driving to a decidedly […]
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| Hear the Ford Focus RS Snarl In Mountain-Carving Video |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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You know you love the Ford Focus RS. Based on the pleasant and fine-driving Focus five-door hatchback, and packing a hopped-up version of the EcoBoost Mustang’s turbo 2.3-liter four and a nifty all-wheel-drive system, it’s poised to occupy the perch at the top of the hot-hatch food chain. Here’s a good listen at what the rampaging compact sounds […]
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| Report: Late Dinner Caused Clarkson to Punch Producer |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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The more we learn about Jeremy Clarkson’s latest drama, the uglier it gets. After the BBC hastily suspended the host and canceled the broadcast of this season’s remaining episodes, British tabloid The Mirror reports that the whole thing erupted when Clarkson got angry over his dinner not being served on time. We’re taking this with […]
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| Porsche GT Update: More Manuals Coming, No GT2 Yet, No GT SUV Ever |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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| The Definitive Guide to the Modern Automotive Interior: Best at a Price, Deep Dives, and More |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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From the March 2015 issue of Car and Driver Highly regulated, painstakingly designed, often cleverly packaged, and increasingly stuffed with technology, a modern car’s interior is equal parts engineering feat and artistic expression. Sweating the details is critical, because the cabin is the filter through which we experience the machine and the road. At its […]
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| Bug Out? Beetle Could Go, As Volkswagen Re-Evaluates Its Two-Door Offerings |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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In its quest to cut costs and raise profitability, Volkswagen is weighing options to kill several model lines and derivatives. According to a recent report in the German magazine Der Spiegel, the company is taking a particularly close look at its two-door models, and one casualty might be the Beetle, which could be killed off after […]
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| Arbitration Clauses Limit Consumer Relief, CFPB Says |
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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In a report released this week, the regulator revealed that 75% of consumers did not know whether they were subject to an arbitration clause in their agreements with their financial service providers. The study covered six different consumer finance markets, including auto loans.
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