President BUSH: We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen.
In fact, it was eerily familiar: In 2000, Esquire gulled many with a profile of a company called Freewheelz, which supposedly offered free cars to drivers willing to tool around in a vehicle that served as a mobile billboard.
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Joachim Schmidt, global head of sales and marketing for Mercedes, says until batteries get cheaper and lighter, Mercedes will respond to demand for exhaust-free cars (and California clean-car mandates) with small vehicles such as the tiny electric Smart and the compact B-Class, and offer plug-in hybrid versions of its larger models, including the S-class sedan.
As a short-term fix, GM announced it would provide free loaner cars for Chevy Volt owners.
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Ford offers a system called AppLink free on cars equipped with its Sync system, which allows drivers to control smartphones with voice commands or buttons physical and virtual.
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An agreement to bring in free trade in cars by 2007 has been postponed.
The state looked after him well, providing him with a lavish tax-free pension, cars, servants and a lifetime exemption from import duty.
Under the rules of the Southern African Customs Union, a fledgling free-trade area, cars made in Botswana can be exported to South Africa almost duty-free.
And the dealers can offer perks like loaner cars and free car washes.
Since the start of this year trade between Argentina and Brazil has been tariff-free (except for cars and sugar).
Satellite radio, with many six-month free offers in new cars, has become widely available for only a few dollars a month.
While no other major airport offers such a generous incentive, several cities offer free parking for electric cars in metered spaces.
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Big bucks, free booze, fast cars, interesting companions and not much work.
Most credit card companies offer free insurance on rental cars.
Carino Vanorden, 24, was at the wheel Wednesday night when a trailer hauling crushed cars broke free of the big rig that was pulling it, cut across a rural, two-lane road and slammed into the minivan, his mother Kate Vanorden of Fayetteville said.
In the first instance, this would allow Timor to import 45, 000 cars wholly made in South Korea free of duty (the tariff rate for other cars entirely made abroad is 125%).
Without having to worry about distracted driving, electronics companies and app makers could outfit cars with all the distracting entertainment they wished and earn billions off the now-free time in self-driving cars.
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In the long-term, it could have a glittering future for it leads the world in pollution-free hydrogen fuel-cell cars.
Mr. Baum went up against Stephen Bonk, a 49-year-old account manager who races full-size cars in his free time.
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Methanol is a liquid, clean, inexpensive, and potentially domestic, transportation fuel for our new cars that can free us from our dependence on petroleum.
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Henry Seydoux , whose company is best known for the hands-free sets it builds for cars, has just built a self-stabilizing quadricopter you can control with an iPhone.
He probably had one to three cars in front of him at which point he raced into a free left lane (not wondering why there were no cars in that lane).
Wheels of Success cars come with a free, one-year membership to the American Automobile Association.
It also said it would recall cars and fit for free an optional bit of drive-control electronics to improve handling.
At most other intersections, it was a fairly well-mannered free-for-all for both cars and pedestrians.
Revoking such benefits is a delicate task: When the City of London, home to much of Britain's financial industry, abruptly axed free electric-car parking in 2008, angry petitions circulated among drivers demanding the privilege be restored, arguing that many of them bought the small, expensive cars mainly to get the free parking.
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And fuel cells could free its designers to let loose with imaginative cars and small trucks.
Police have also organised a free recovery service for motorists who abandoned their cars on the A3 on Tuesday night, after snow ploughs pushed snow on to cars and iced up doors and locks.
The share of imported cars is rising after the country signed free-trade agreements with the E.
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