| Screen-Plate Club: How License-Plate Scanning Compromises Your Privacy |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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Towing companies are a necessary evil when it comes to parking enforcement and property repossession. But in the Google Earth we now inhabit, tow trucks do more than just yank cars out of loading zones. They use license-plate readers (LPRs) to assemble a detailed profile of where your car will be and when. That’s an […]
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| How Fast Would You Need to Go to Beat a Speed Camera? |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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Speed cameras. If you’re over the posted limit when the shutter clicks, you’re basically toast. How do you get around that problem? You can slow down, obviously, or you can travel fast enough that your license plate isn’t readable by the camera. How fast is that, exactly? Good question—and one that a quartet of students […]
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| Dodge Wins TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Titles, Sends Viper Racing Program Packing Three Days Later |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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At 1 p.m. Monday, we were on the phone with racer Kuno Wittmer, who on Saturday drove a Dodge SRT Viper GTS-R to the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans season driver’s title and team title, to talk about his bright future in 2015 with SRT. At 1:30 p.m. that same day, Kuno Wittmer […]
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| Stump the Pro: The 'I Can't Afford It' Objection |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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There’s nothing worse than hearing a customer say he or she can’t afford your protections after making a solid presentation. The magazine’s objection-handling wiz has the answer to this all-too-common objection.
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| Proceed With Caution |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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Data from the second quarter didn't support talk of a subprime auto bubble, with subprime financing showing signs of leveling off and delinquencies remaining at historic lows.
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| 4 Steps to CFPB Compliance |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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Compliance pros lay out a plan for keeping regulators at bay. If followed, the four-step plan may also help with a dealership’s customer-retention efforts.
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| Saudi Arabia Commercial Vehicles Market to Grow at around 15% during 2014-19, Says TechSci Research |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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Continuing growth in infrastructure, growing religious tourism and increasing government focus on non-oil sectors to drive commercial vehicles market in Saudi Arabia through 2019.
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| F&I and Showroom's Industry Summit 2014 |
Oct 8th, 2014 |
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The magazine's 2014 conference, held Sept. 7-10 at the Paris Las Vegas, featured an all-new Dealership Sales & Technology track, which was kicked off by sales trainer and dealer advocate Jim Ziegler. Keynote speakers included Steve Braskamp from Capital One Auto Finance and Hudson Cook's Rick Hackett, a former official with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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| Devil’s Grip, Iron Fist: Mercedes-Benz Bequeaths 2015 S-class Coupe Pricing |
Oct 7th, 2014 |
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Attention aspiring members of the plutocracy! You can get yourself into the long-hood, short-deck equivalent of a Pinkerton truncheon for as little as $120,825! That’s right, Mercedes-Benz has released pricing for the 2015 S-class Coupe, and the seemingly paltry sum we’ve just listed will net you the basest of base S550 4MATIC available. De-badge it, and […]
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| Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Gears Up for International Racing, Stars in New Video |
Oct 7th, 2014 |
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Lamborghini’s Squadra Corsa racing division has already showed us the competition version of the new Huracán supercar, the LP620-2 Super Trofeo, but now it’s taking the concept a step further with a full-blown GT3 version. Whereas the Super Trofeo is destined for Lamborghini’s single-make Blancpain Endurance Series, the Huracán GT3 is the automaker’s first in-house […]
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