Fri.Sep 29, 2023

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Turns Out A Lot Of People Don't Want To Bike To Work

Jalopnik

It looks as if getting people to commute to work on a bike isn’t as popular as it once was. Bloomberg reports that commuting by bike is down across the country. Read more.

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The Impact of Florida’s Tourism on Auto Dealerships

Fladco

Florida is one of the top tourist destinations in the United States, welcoming over 137 million visitors in 2022 alone. The sunshine state’s beautiful beaches, theme parks, and warm weather attract tourists nationwide and worldwide. This high influx of visitors significantly impacts many local industries in Florida, including the auto industry.

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Jeff DePascale Named Chief Technology Officer

Call Revu

Baltimore, MD – CallRevu, the distinguished leader in automotive communication solutions, has announced the promotion of Jeff DePascale to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With 16 years of experience in technology and 12 years specializing in enterprise SaaS, DePascale is well-positioned to lead CallRevu’s team in their mission to deliver world-class, modern, compliant products leveraging best in class artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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The Impact of Florida’s Tourism on Auto Dealerships

Fladco

Florida is one of the top tourist destinations in the United States, welcoming over 137 million visitors in 2022 alone. The sunshine state’s beautiful beaches, theme parks, and warm weather attract tourists nationwide and worldwide. This high influx of visitors significantly impacts many local industries in Florida, including the auto industry.

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Jeff DePascale Named Chief Technology Officer

Call Revu

Baltimore, MD – CallRevu, the distinguished leader in automotive communication solutions, has announced the promotion of Jeff DePascale to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With 16 years of experience in technology and 12 years specializing in enterprise SaaS, DePascale is well-positioned to lead CallRevu’s team in their mission to deliver world-class, modern, compliant products leveraging best in class artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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Maximizing ROI: Leveraging Automotive Software for Sales and Marketing

Automotive Mastermind

In today’s constantly changing automotive marketplace, dealerships are not just brick-and-mortar places showing off the latest vehicles. They have, over the last two decades especially, turned into tech-savvy hubs of interaction, relying on a complete toolbox filled with technology, digital platforms, and software that elevate their operations, sales, and marketing.

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Aw, VinFast Thinks It's A Real Car Company

Jalopnik

VinFast, a company that makes bad cars and then apparently sells them back to itself , has big plans. The automaker is eyeing scale and expansion, with plans for new factories in Europe and North America , and it wants the sales to match: 50,000 EVs sold in 2023 alone. The only problem for VinFast is that this goal… Read more.

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This Shorty Ram TRX Is An Adorable Little Beast

Jalopnik

Ram recently announced that the TRX will go out of production at the end of the year , which really isn’t surprising. In a way, it’s cool that it was ever sold in the first place, but even the name made it clear that the TRX was a dinosaur. It was a truck for a different time. A time when you didn’t have to worry about… Read more.

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New MG Cyberster 2024 review: electric GT is a world away from the MGB

Auto Express

The two-seat MG Cyberster electric roadster fits the open-topped grand tourer brief

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Consumer Reports' Most Reliable Fuel-Efficient Midsize SUVs In 2023

Jalopnik

If you’re in the market for a midsize SUV, it can be easy to get overwhelmed with all the options. The good news is, unless you accidentally stumble into a VinFast dealership , there aren’t really any bad options anymore. But who wants to spend all day driving to every dealership in your area test-driving crossover… Read more.

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The 2024 Toyota Tundra 1794 Limited Edition Also Gets A Set Of Custom Leather Accessories

Jalopnik

Texas loves pickup trucks. So much so that a new truck usually drops at the Texas State Fair. That tradition continues this year with Toyota showing a brand new limited edition of its Tundra pickup called the Toyota Tundra 1794 Limited Edition. Read more.

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Plymouth Satellite, Ford Mustang GT350R, Kawasaki Ninja H2: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online

Jalopnik

Do you feel the need? The need for speed? But not, y’know, the video game. Or the 2014 major motion picture adaptation starring Aaron Paul. I’m talking good, old-fashioned, fighter pilot need for speed. If so, if you feel that specific need, you’ve come to the right place. Read more.

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Deer Discovers A Gruesome New Way To Die: Jumping Off An Overpass Into A Car

Jalopnik

Deer really only love one thing; getting smashed up by cars. They’ll go to almost any length to get run over , obliterated, maimed etc. As long as it’s a fast moving car striking their body, preferably fatally, they’re enthusiastically onboard. Which is why it’s not shocking to hear that a doe in New Jersey recently… Read more.

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What’s The Worst Infotainment You’ve Ever Used?

Jalopnik

Over the past decade or so, infotainment has become increasingly important inside cars. Hell, if an infotainment system is bad enough, it may keep a buyer out of the car altogether. In more recent years, some companies like BMW and Stellantis have figured out how to make infotainment screens and the information they… Read more.

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Airports Want To Make Travel More Miserable By Letting Anyone Into The Terminal

Jalopnik

Imagine, going to the airport and through all the indignities of security just to eat at the P.F. Chang’s near gate B12 and then go home. Or better yet, imagine trying to get to your gate and having to deal with people just poking around and taking their sweet time while you have a flight to catch. Read more.

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These Are The Tools That Changed My Wrenching Life

Jalopnik

I’ve been working on cars for more twenty-some years. (YIKES) In that time, I’ve had acquired a handful of tools that instantly made me a more-capable mechanic and expanded the world of projects I could take on. Here they are: Read more.

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These Are The Best Used Cars To Buy Instead Of The Remaining New Cars Under $20,000

Jalopnik

It’s no wonder that a used Honda Civic , Toyota Corolla , and Mazda3 are among the most sought-after models on the used market. These are trusty cars that make for great first vehicles, and they’re pretty cheap. They’re like the starter Pokémon of the auto world: you can’t go wrong with either one. They’re so good, in… Read more.

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At $18,900, Is This Turbine-Powered 1976 Bradley GT A Hilariously Good Deal?

Jalopnik

Unlike the turbine-powered cars of yesteryear from the likes of Rover and Chrysler, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Boeing-powered Bradley doesn’t connect its turbine to the wheels. Instead, it uses the jet’s thrust for propulsion. Let’s see if there’s any connection between its fun and its price. Read more.

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An Angry Florida Customer And Auto Shop Owner Kill Each In A Shootout Over Bad Service

Jalopnik

A customer angry about the service he received while his vehicle was being repaired literally lost his life over it. The Miami Herald reports that a customer and the owner of a Florida auto shop have both been killed after a shootout regarding bad vehicle service that was performed over two years ago. Read more.

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Porsche Debuts Its Track-Only 911 GT3 R Rennsport During Rennsport Reunion 7

Jalopnik

Porsche loves debuting new, rare, expensive track toys at its fan-fest, Rennsport Reunion. In 2018, we got the 935 recreation , which caused the car world to collectively lose its mind, and on Thursday night, at Rennsport Reunion 7, it debuted it’s next technological terror Read more.

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Gas Prices Are So High In LA That Inspectors Are Checking Stations For Price Gouging

Jalopnik

The entire state of California currently has the highest gas prices in the entire country. While Southern California drivers have it worse, LA County drivers are dealing with something else. Prices are so high that, as KTLA reports, LA County inspectors are checking local gas stations for price gouging. Read more.

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You Should 3D Print Your Own Space Shuttle

Jalopnik

When I was a kid, one of my favorite places in the world was the National Air and Space Museum down in Washington, DC. It, and its annex building over in Virginia, have some of the coolest exhibits imaginable. Moon rocks! Early airplanes! Satellites! But three exhibits, out of them all, stand above: The SR-71 Blackbird Read more.

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2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale PHEV: A Disappointing Plea To The Female Buyer

Jalopnik

In introducing the 2024 Tonale , Alfa Romeo repeated a common refrain: The Italian brand has too long catered to an older male audience; now, it’s time to expand the demographic targets to encompass the ever-elusive woman. The Tonale would be the company’s first effort in developing a subcompact SUV with this subset of… Read more.

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Arrest Made In Drive-By Shooting Death Of Tupac Shakur

Jalopnik

Las Vegas police have reportedly arrested a man for the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. According to Bloomberg , it’s a long-awaited break in the case that has stumped investigators since the hip-hop star was gunned down on the Vegas Strip 27 years ago. Read more.

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California Town Will Pay You Not To Drive Your Car

Jalopnik

In an effort to curb the driving habits of its citizens, the Los Angeles Country Metropolitan Transportation Authority is rolling out a new pilot program with the city of Santa Monica. It’s called the “One Car Challenge,” and the program will pay 200 residents of households that have multiple vehicles a weekly stipend… Read more.

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Porsche’s American Prototypes Through The Ages At Rennsport Reunion 7

Jalopnik

Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 is taking place this weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. The automaker-organized event offered fans the opportunity to celebrate Porsche’s racing history once every few years and the marque’s classic machines as well as their drivers in action one more time.… Read more.

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Rain Is Drowning New York City Transportation

Jalopnik

It is raining in New York City. A lot. So much so that it’s pretty much drowned the entire public transportation system , and now streets are flooding all over the city as its ancient infrastructure does its best to deal with the five inches of rain that have fallen in the past 12 hours. Read more.

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‘Appalled’: GM, Stellantis Dismiss United Auto Workers Claims They’re Allowing Strike Violence [Update]

Jalopnik

Good morning! It’s Friday, September 29, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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Someone Is Already Trying To Flip A Fisker Ocean

Jalopnik

Against all odds, Henrik Fisker’s latest car company actually built a car. And not just a single car, either. Production numbers aren’t particularly high just yet, but the Fisker Ocean is officially rolling off the assembly line at Magna Steyr’s factory in Austria. Considering how many companies fail to get to that… Read more.

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UAW Expands Strike, Sending 25,000 To The Picket Line

Jalopnik

The ongoing United Auto Workers strike against the Big 3 expanded Friday to a Ford plant in Chicago and a GM plant in Lansing, Michigan, bringing the total of workers on the picket line next week to 25,000. Read more.

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