Owners of luxury and high-performance cars can expect to shell out more money for repairs over time not necessarily because these are lower-quality cars, but because labor and parts cost more for those vehicles, explains David Wurster, president of Vincentric.

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The camera is certainly a bit larger and heavier than it looks from a distance, but housed within the slightly oversized shell are some pretty good optics and some snappy performance.

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Shell's incentive award targets are largely based on its performance against rivals BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and France's Total.

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Simply by having a broader range of countries, it should be less vulnerable than most to upsets in any one place: Shell's problems in Nigeria made only a small dent in its performance.

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The trailblazing body shell structure of the SLS AMG E-CELL is part of the ambitious "AMG Lightweight Performance" design strategy.

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