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Santa is going modern. He’s replacing Rudolf, the reindeer and the sleigh with a high-tech vehicle to deliver all those toys, games and electronics to the good boys and girls of all ages everywhere. But Santa can’t decide what vehicle to buy, rent, lease or even subscribe to. What should Santa drive on Christmas Eve
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Bertha Benz was the first documented woman driver and the first woman we would describe today as an automotive marketing pro or influencer. Her pioneering and headline-making 130-mile round-trip drive in 1888 between home and her mother’s house was a media sensation and helped her husband’s motorized contraption become popular. It was a road trip
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Picture this: Drive whatever car you want, whenever you want it, for a monthly fee. Match a model to that day’s activities, just as you match your shoes or the playlist for your driving route, even choose a model color to match that day’s wardrobe choice. We subscribe to magazines, streaming music and video services,
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Daimler, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, is relaunching the super-luxury Maybach sedan in 2015 as a 2016 model. The company stopped manufacturing them in 2012 because there just weren’t enough sales of the $380,000 car, even to Russian oligarchs or American rap stars. Maybach sold just 3,000 cars in a decade of competing against super-luxury limo
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Alfa Romeo is returning to the USA for the first time in decades, with a hot, high performance two-seater, the Alfa Romeo 4C The roadster is being introduced to North America at the 2014 New York International Auto Show in April, and will be available in the US some time this summer. Price has not
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The first Porsche sportscar arrived in the USA in October, 1950, and Porsche is celebrating its 60th Anniversary in America with a contest to find the oldest Porsche in America. If you own and can officially verify the age of your Porsche 356, 911, 912, 924, 928, 944, 968, Boxter, Cayenne, Carrera GT or Cayman,
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Germany is justifiably famous for its great beer and wine festivals, which start in late summer or early fall and focus on regional wines, beers, and culinary specialties. The most famous is the Munich Oktoberfest, the world’s oldest and largest beer festival , which celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2010. Festival dates this year are
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It’s not just vintage and classic cars that draw the crowds at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Luxury car manufacturers also use this important, headline making car enthusiast event to debut new car models. Porsche is showing off the Porsche 918 Spyder concept plug-in hybrid supercar, just recently approved for production. This is an
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The 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the 60th anniversary of what has become the most famous and most prestigious vintage and antique car show in the United States, perhaps even the world. The Pebble Beach Concours is this weekend, August 13-15, attracting thousands of classic car fans to Monterey and Carmel, California, to see
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What’s your dream car for a summer road trip? Mine would be a fast, sexy roadster, preferably a convertible, preferably a two-seater, probably in red, with enough trunk space for a weekend bag for each of us. The 2011 Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 V10 tops the list, according to the August issue of the Robb Report.
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