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Auto Dealers Worry New Vehicle Prices May Be Getting Too High

9/23/2018, 3:53:22 PM
As the automotive industry braces for changes including electrification and autonomy, dealers across the U.S. are worried about something much simpler: the price of a new car. ✔ New tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that went into effect Friday could exacerbate the problem ✔ An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the name of the organization as the National Automobile Dealers Council ✔ (March 26, 2018) Appeared in the March 26, 2018, print edition as 'Dealers Worry as Car Prices Increase.'

Used-Car Sales Boom as New Cars Get Too Pricey for Many

9/23/2018, 11:07:34 AM
Rising new-car prices are pushing more buyers to the used-car lot, where they are finding a growing selection of low-mileage vehicles that are only a few years old. ✔ Justin Scholz, a 35-year-old banker, was stunned by the new-car sticker prices when he went shopping this spring for a new SUV for his growing family ✔ We’re offering a more attractive product at a better price, said AutoNation Chief Executive Officer Mike Jackson about the chain’s used-car offerings

The Tesla Model 3 key fob looks just like a Tesla Model 3

9/23/2018, 1:32:27 PM
A new way to unlock your car ✔ At times, Elon Musk himself has been supervising the production lines ✔ With reports of sabotage from inside the company and the occasional self-driving car wreck to deal with, it looks as though Tesla's future will continue to be rocky for the foreseeable future, even as delivery times start to come down

Porsche is the first German car maker to drop diesel

9/23/2018, 5:33:46 PM
The sports car giant is responding to public pressure. ✔ Outside of the press release, however, the company also acknowledged a reality: while it might not have any qualms with diesel, its would-be customers do ✔ Still, it's a significant step -- and it may be just a matter of time before VW and other brands follow suit

Volkswagen's electric van concept | Drive.com.au

9/23/2018, 8:30:27 AM
Next piece of the puzzle for VW's MEB vehicle range.

Lexus ES300h price and specifications | Drive.com.au

9/23/2018, 5:58:00 AM
Lexus has confirmed full details for its seventh-generation ES mid-sized luxury sedan, including an exclusive hybrid-powered line-up, prices, features and safety equipment

Ferrari reveals hybrid future

9/23/2018, 8:30:25 AM
Plus gives its long-awaited SUV a name. CarArticle - drive.com.au

Porsche says that it will no longer make diesel vehicles

9/23/2018, 4:27:24 PM
It’ll focus on hybrid and electric vehicles ✔ There’s been indications of this attitude in recent months: the German automaker has been increasingly interested in electric and hybrid vehicles ✔ At the time, it seemed that it was simply pausing production, but today’s announcement reveals that it’s settled on the route that it will take one without diesel

The best luggage of 2018

9/23/2018, 2:23:15 PM
Here is the best luggage you can buy from hard shells to duffels and carry-on bags, plus accessories as well. ✔ However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today’s newsroom and any business incentives ✔ The only real complaint about this bag is that when not in use, it can’t be compressed down for storage ✔ For more info on checked luggage, carry-on bags, packing cubes, luggage scales and more, check out Reviewed

How Charlottesville forced Reddit to clean up its act

9/23/2018, 12:27:38 PM
In an extract from her new book, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin looks at how last year’s violence in Virginia sparked change at the social news site ✔ As the clock ticked up to 9pm on Friday 11 August 2017, more than 200 men snaked down a dark, long expanse of grass in Charlottesville, Virginia, called Nameless Field ✔ On r/personalfinance, individuals asked for help getting out of debt, and strangers chimed in with worthwhile tips

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Travel - SERIES 203 {10 articles}

Turkey trying to woo more Chinese tourists - Travel 9/28/2018, 3:34:24 AM undefined ✔ Based on what it has experienced over the years, Turkey is trying to diversify the sources of foreign arrivals, with emphasis given in particular to Asian countries like China, Japan, South Korea and India, said Mehmet Nuri Ersoy ✔ Cui Wei, the Chinese consul general in Istanbul who joined the dinner, spoke of tourism's significance in promoting Chinese-Turkish ties and deepening exchanges and contacts between the peoples How the Boeing 747 jumbo jet changed travel 9/28/2018, 1:08:04 AM The Boeing 747 is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Here are five ways the jumbo jet changed how we travel. ✔ Up-sized airports The 747's dimensions were huge compared to the 707s and Douglas DC-8s that were the mainstay of airlines' international fleets in the 1960s ✔ The shorter flight times, the higher altitudes, the better pressurization -- a lot of things we brought out with the 707 were ...

Trade War - SERIES 269 {15 articles}

Trade war headwind blows into China's face 10/19/2018, 10:23:44 PM GDP growth slows to decade low as production and investment shrivel ✔ The trade war is decreasing Chinese production of mainstay products like smartphones and robots while making companies think twice about investing in the country ✔ The factory is mostly closed and no workers are here, the court-appointed administrator of Shandong Yongtai Group, a tiremaker that went bankrupt in August, said last month at its main factory ✔ Notably, growth dropped 0.2 percentage point from the April-June period China's economic growth slows to its lowest pace since early 2009 - Los Angeles Times 10/19/2018, 5:10:27 PM China's economy is growing at the slowest pace since the depths of the financial crisis, according to official data that heightens pressure on the leaders in Beijing navigating a trade dispute with the United States. And that doesn't even include trade-war effects, many economists say. ✔ The sl...

Travel - SERIES 163 {15 articles}

The Thing: Arizona's weirdest roadside attraction just got stranger 9/19/2018, 10:01:44 PM For years The Thing rested in a dusty warehouse, visitors wondering what it was. A new museum makes it clear - The Thing is stranger than you thought. ✔ The Thing deserved better things The original resting place of The Thing, now housed in its own museum in the Bowlin Travel Center near Benson ✔ The center is located on Interstate 10 at exit 322, east of Benson, Arizona ✔ (Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic) Where: Bowlin Travel Center, 2631 Johnson Road, Benson Is this the future of cruise ships? 9/20/2018, 2:03:04 AM The brand new Celebrity Edge ship uses a radical engineering concept to create cabins with epic panoramas that experts say could be a game-changer for the cruise industry. ✔ At this point, exploration of the ship requires protective hard hats and goggles ✔ They see the spaciousness of it, they see the beauty of it, they see the experiences that we're creati...

Disasters - SERIES 347 {19 articles}

Firefighter dies as truck overturns in Spanish floods 10/21/2018, 9:39:43 PM Firefighter and father-of-two Jose Gil disappeared when the truck he was travelling in with two others overturned in Malaga ✔ A destroyed firefighter truck on a road where a firefighter died (Image: AFP/Getty Images) Cars covered with mud are pictured on a flooded street (Image: AFP/Getty Images) People cleaning a flooded street (Image: AFP/Getty Images) Read More UK weather forecast: Brits face 'white Halloween' amid warning of heavy snow before end of October In the town of Campillos, cars were borne along the streets by the water and left in wrecked piles after the flood subsided Hurricane Willa becomes Category 3 storm off Pacific coast of Mexico 10/21/2018, 9:27:15 PM National Hurricane Center said Willa has become a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph; it's expected to make landfall Tuesday in central Mexico ✔ A hurricane watch was posted for a ...

Disasters - SERIES 128 {50 articles}

Hurricane Florence: North Carolina fears possible environmental disaster 9/12/2018, 2:04:39 PM Waste from hog manure pits, coal ash dumps and other industrial sites could wash into homes and contaminate drinking water ✔ Photograph: Alan Marler/AP The bloated carcasses of hundreds of thousands of hogs, chickens and other drowned livestock bobbed in a nose-stinging soup of fecal matter, pesticides, fertilizer and gasoline so toxic that fish flopped helplessly on the surface to escape it While war raged in the Pacific, Washington fought the great flood of 1942 9/12/2018, 12:09:33 PM ✔ He was the chief of the Bethesda Volunteer Fire Department and ran an auto repair shop on Wisconsin Avenue ✔ Lee, the meteorologist, noted that the Washington area is again saturated from recent rains, and if we get ten inches from Florence, we could easily revisit 1942 Mass evacuation from 'storm of a lifetime' 9/12/2018, 1:27:38 PM South Carolina authorities turn four motorways ...

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