Kaffee, who is selling real estate after retiring from Eastern Airlines, made a quick trip back from a Florida vacation to pick up his car, which was delivered at 7 a.m.

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With Square, she was sitting in the back of a car and signed up in a minute and thirty seconds and then could accept credit cards.

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At Renault Mr Ghosn used a similar approach, although a bit higher up the market, to make a back-to-basics car called the Logan at the company's Romanian subsidiary.

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He suggests an idea of "virtual towing" where an idle car could pick up on another vehicle and follow it back to a stack, using inter-car tracking software.

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Think about how much the car has changed, back in the 50s a car would do just as much as your pick up truck does now, carry enough cargo and have plenty of room.

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Better yet, the rear seat is roomy enough for the sedan to be used as a town car of sorts, with a driver up front while the passenger works in the back.

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He would not have to back the car up and over the creature in an attempt to kill it a second time.

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With little inertia, friction or drag, the wheel can be spun up to speed in a trice, and then made to dump its rotational energy back into the car's transmission in seconds.

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Healy and Brewster dream of people someday driving a fuel-cell car up to an Enernoc meter during peak demand and pumping electricity back into the grid.

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"Honda, off the back of a bad season, suddenly when they realise they are up for sale start talking that this (their 2009 car) is a winning design and it's a great opportunity for anyone to buy this winning design, " Coulthard said.

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