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Drive Car of the Year: Best Luxury Car over $80,000 11/12/2018, 8:43:06 PM David Morley reviews the contenders for the Best Luxury Car over $80,000 category in the 2018 Drive Car of the Year awards, including the BMW 530e, Mercedes-Benz CLS450, Lexus LS500h and Audi A8 55TSI ✔ There’s a real mix of technologies here, with just about every mainstream concept covered off ✔ The Audi treads the most conventional path with a 3.0-litre petrol V6 turbocharged engine giving it 250kW of power and a neat 500Nm of torque ✔ Let's start a personal and meaningful conversation! Leave a comment (Get advice from an expert) Volkswagen owners can use Siri Shortcuts to unlock their car 11/13/2018, 12:09:21 AM You can also set the temperature and start the defroster using your voice. ✔ Bloomberg via Getty Images If you're a Volkswagen driver, you now have another way to lock and unlock your car, start and stop electric charging and check your remaining estimated mileage ✔ Stil...

City park or flood defense? How about both. 11/13/2018, 2:24:02 AM A Bangkok park offers a green solution to urban flooding. ✔ When Thai architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom was a little girl she used to play in the flood waters of Bangkok ✔ Beneath the porous ground is a water tank with a capacity of nearly 160,000 gallons (600 cubic meters) ✔ It will take some time, but these good solutions are convincing for other private investors and government structures or municipalities to follow this model Trump approves expedited major disaster declaration for California wildfires 11/13/2018, 2:38:28 AM President Trump approved Monday an expedited request for a major disaster declaration for California as the state grapples with devastating wildfires that have left 31 dead. ✔ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018 The declaration was requested Sunday by Democratic Gov ✔ Jerry Brown to boost the state’s response to destructive wildfires in Butte, Los Angeles and Ventura cou...