Soon after Lufthansa began its tarmac car service, Air France added car service for first-class passengers at its Paris hub.

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Passengers travelling first-class are politely summoned into a dining car, where a portrait of the Kenyan president grins down at white linen-covered tables, while attendants shuffle dutifully about the corridors, dispensing blankets stamped with faded Kenya Railways logos.

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You can't beat the Trump-like amenities, either: things like car service to the airport for business and first-class passengers and free alcohol.

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Come evening first-class passengers repair for cocktails to the dome car's snub-nose lounge, where, as they sip Canadian Club or Canadian microbrews and graze on smoked salmon and foie gras, they can visit with one another and enjoy the waning light.

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The development of Sensus Connected Touch gained momentum late in 2011 when Volvo Car Group started sourcing a powerful hardware platform with first-class functional and graphical features and the capacity to handle future expansion.

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From the outside they look like a line of gleaming Airstream trailers, especially the dome car at the rear, whose rounded windows afford passengers traveling first class a glorious 360-degree view.

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