Their "MyCarSite" feature lets you enter your car's year and model number and then automatically provides you with a service schedule as well as notification of any recalls or service bulletins.
But at Ford, new product development marketing manager Lew Echlin says the company plans to shrink the number of free-floating options available on its Focus compact car lineup for the 2013 model year because the numbers say it makes sense.
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Determine the year, make and model of the car you want to purchase.
October used to be a special time for car dealers, the start of a new model year, when the latest vehicles would start arriving in showrooms drawing curious buyers looking for the newest styles and latest technologies.
If they can pick up fibres or fingerprints from a crime scene, they can trace it back to the year, make, model of the car that the fibre came from and the thumb that left the fingerprint.
In other cases, a car would have been eligible had it been a different model year or purchased at a later date.
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As a result, your 20-year-old automatic car may have a smoother feel than a new model.
Tesla's Model S was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and after receiving the award Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that an electric pickup truck might be in the company's future.
Ferrari have started the last two seasons with their previous year's car after not being convinced of the reliability of their new model.
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Now that Tesla is striving to be a mass-market automaker, it cannot realistically expect all 20, 000 buyers a year (the Model S sales goal) to be electric-car acolytes who will plug in at every Walmart stop.
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No car company wants to get stuck with too many unsold models from the previous model year.
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As we explained in an earlier article, Mercedes-Benz posted very strong results in the first half of the year, driven by euro depreciation, rising luxury car demand, quality improvements and a successful model mix.
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One People.com commenter even suggested that 2013 was "the year of the 'young-er cougar, ' " noting that race car driver and model Danica Patrick, 30, is dating fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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While sales of its Hornby model railway sets were broadly similar to the previous year, its new Brighton Belle five car set and Flying Scotsman locomotive had seen "notable success" it said.
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There are a few changes to last year's car with Ferrari retaining the front and rear pull-rod suspension, while the rear of this year's model is narrower and more tapered.
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