| Faster Five: Audi Video Shows Off Wicked 525-hp S3 Clubsport Concept |
May 29th, 2014 |
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With Austria’s Wörthersee Festival happening this weekend, the onslaught of VW Group specials is at full pitch. And while a speedster based on Volkswagen’s Design Vision GTI Concept that you’ll be able to drive on your television set is a very neat thing, Audi’s S3-based Clubsport is more to our taste, offering hints of what […]
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| Give ’Em the Boot: Mercedes-AMG Audio Files Stoke the Stoplight Dragster’s Heart |
May 29th, 2014 |
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Last week, we brought you a clip of the 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT (pictured above in our exclusive artist’s rendering) stomping about with its engine under load. That’s all well and good for the track-rat and alpine-touring sets. But what about the boulevardiers? The cats who simply want to roll up to a stoplight and intimidate […]
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| Super Mini! Up Close with Mini’s New Superleggera Vision Concept [Video] |
May 29th, 2014 |
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We take you up close with the new Mini Superleggera Vision Concept in our latest video. Watch Video Here ››
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| From the C/D Archives: The Original 1972 BMW 2002 tii Tested |
May 29th, 2014 |
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It’s here at long-awaited last . . . with all of the high-priced, understated functionality of a Hardy Amies hair shirt. The BMW 2002 tii, exquisite penance for the un-rehabilitated car addict. No matter how you try, you can’t help but like it. It is the essence of motoring truth: no strobe stripes, no phony […]
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| VW ’Roks Wörthersee Festival with Amarok Power Concept with 5000(!)-Watt Sound System |
May 29th, 2014 |
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MMM-TSCH, MMM-TSCH, MMM-TSCH, MMM-TSCH, MMM-TSCH, MMM-TSCH . . . We were so very, very tempted to fill this page with just those words, along some pictures of Volkswagen’s Amarok Power pickup concept. What better way is there to describe a truck with a ridiculous sound system than putting the sound of thumpin’ bass into words? […]
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| Go-Go-Gadget Bike-Riding Goat—Your Afternoon Non Sequitur, In Video Form |
May 29th, 2014 |
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When a YouTube video is titled “Goat Riding a Guy Riding a Bike,” what else do you think you’re going to get? Certainly, you didn’t think a dude strapped his original Pontiac Tempest GTO to his back—with its 389 V-8, dual exhausts, four-barrel carb, and floor-mounted shifter—and decided to go for a cycle? Nope, it’s […]
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| Next VW Jetta Could Get Coupe, Wagon, and Crossover-ish Variants |
May 29th, 2014 |
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The Volkswagen Jetta may have lost the SportWagen to the Golf family, but much lies ahead for the nameplate if the latest rumors are to be believed. For most of its life, the Jetta was basically a Golf with a trunk in terms of architecture and technologies. But the current model deviated from that path and […]
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| F&I Tip of the Week: Find the Money |
May 29th, 2014 |
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Sometimes all it take to make an F&I product sale is to help your customer find the money. Tony Dupaquier, director of training for American Financial and Automotive Services’ F&I University, explains in F&I’s Tip of the Week.
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| NADA Data: F&I’s Contribution to Gross Profits Rises in 2013 |
May 29th, 2014 |
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The NADA reported this week that combined sales from F&I, service contracts and other F&I products accounted for 38.8% of gross profit in 2013, up from 36.5% in 2012.
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| RV Dealers Discuss RV Warranty Forever Product |
May 29th, 2014 |
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NWAN reported this week that its RV Warranty Forever program, which was launched this past October, is already making a big impact at RV stores carrying the protection.
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