As with my spreadsheet method, CarCare is based on the notion that you're willing to enter data into your Mac about as often as you take the car in to be serviced.

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Consumers don't know that they're not going to be able to just go right in and take out a new car loan just, you know, in 10 minutes or a new department store charge account.

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You have to either carry them or take them in a car with the lights off.

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At the end of the ride, there are opportunities to take digital photos with the car you designed, and just raced through the Test Track in.

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An experimental section of road where an external computer can take over your car if you wish (and are suitably wired up) is now open in California to test the idea.

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After all, in nearly every state of this car-crazy country, you can hardly take to the highway without proof of insurance.

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You go to the dealership, hop in the car, slam the doors, smell the leather and take a test drive.

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Accel Telecom wants to take you back there with the Voyager, an Android smartphone with car-centric functions that can stay put in your vehicle.

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How do you take Eminem off the gray, gritty streets of Detroit and get car buyers to pick up the same gritty vibe in a spotless suburban Chrysler dealership in Peoria?

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But versus, say, a Mazda Miata, the only other fun car in this price category, the New Beetle is loads more pragmatic, since you could legitimately take another passenger and still go buy a potted palm tree at the garden center.

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