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Enter to win a chance to win a high performance 345hp 2016 Ford Focus RS. Runners-up get an adrenaline driving experience with Ken Block, whose Gymkhana videos have gone viral. Two lucky grand-prize winners will drift away in a coveted Ford Focus RS, and five more first-prize winners will each fly with a friend to
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New Orleans is famous for its food, so it makes sense that a museum devoted to food is here. The Southern Food and Beverage Museum showcases the food and crops of the South, not just Louisiana. The museum, SoFAB for short, is in the Central City neighborhood, which – like so much of the city
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Happy 450th birthday to St. Augustine, the oldest city in what is now the United States. Even if you can’t attend the week-long celebrations in September 2015, this historic city is fascinating and fun any time. My favorite spots on a recent visit were the Fountain of Youth, the Pirate & Treasure Museum, the beach
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Travel news to know: Budget airline Frontier has just dropped it’s toll-free customer service number to save money, and a European airline wants to weigh us before boarding. Frontier hopes to save about $2 million a year by dropping the 800-number, which an executive says “will help keep fares low””. According to the Denver Post,
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Kia now ranks in the top ten of all automakers on the J. D. Power quality rating scale, ahead of Lexus and Mercedes-Benz. That’s quite an accomplishment, considering that when the first Kia cars arrived in North America twenty years ago, they were as reliable and well designed as the Yugo. That’s just one of
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Are we there yet? What parent or grandparent hasn’t cringed at hearing that, even when the road trip vehicle is crammed with all the latest entertainment devices to keep kids happy. These old fashioned road games help pass the time and avoid complaints of boredom and backseat fighting, and even help teach spelling and geography.
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Scam alert: phony car sales on Craigslist. If you are thinking about selling your car online, especially on Craigslist, beware of a scam that pays you with bogus bank checks. Insurance fraud watchdog National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), working with law enforcement agencies in the Midwest, has identified nearly 100 such fraudulent sales, including one
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The founder of the Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich chain is a big game hunter who has shot and killed animals for sport and trophy photos, including an elephant and a leopard. That may not have anything to do with the quality of the chain’s food, but it does indicate the quality and ethics of the
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Where to Go Next – The Hotel Aquatis has just opened in Lausanne, Switzerland, in a complex with an aquarium and water museum. It’s an interesting combination, but not so unusual considering snow-covered Swiss Alps melt into picturesque lakes, such as the one Lausanne sits alongside. That would be Lake Geneva. The complex is called
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The new Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has just set a distance record, and Toyota hopes the zero-emission Mirai will help make hydrogen cars as popular as Prius did for hybrid cars. The 2016 Toyota Mirai, which is a bit larger than the Prius, just set a record 312 miles on a single fill,
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