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Waiting in line for my next Porsche: The 718 Cayman
David Newton Transportation Technology & AutomotiveLast summer, I traded my 2009 Midnight Blue Cayman for a 2016 Macan S, with the self-imposed understanding that I would someday end up in another Cayman — perhaps a GTS or even the GT4. I'm not so sure I could have ultimately pulled the trigger on the Macan otherwise.
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A Carolina crop of all-black Corvettes
Michael Brown Transportation Technology & AutomotiveA few years ago, while visiting a mountain getaway place my wife and I own in western North Carolina, I took a vehicle into Asheville for service. I was there about four hours, and in the course of talking with the service manager, I learned about a Corvette collection that was nearby.
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Why segmentation is the latest buzzword in airline service
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveCompeting with increasingly aggressive low-cost carriers while balancing the expectations of loyal customers has become a full-time focus for legacy airlines and full-service carriers. Now, the latest strategy is to cover all areas through clever segmentation of the aircraft cabin and ticket prices.
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What goes on behind that parts counter?
Pablo Deferrari Transportation Technology & AutomotiveI had none left. It was late Thursday afternoon. I'd decided to change the 968's oil on Saturday, but I had no filters left. There were Mahle filters under the workbench — six OC229s and five OC213s for the 993, two OC46s for the 928 — but not one OC142.
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How ‘redneck ingenuity’ with a Corvette helped launch a racing…
Michael Brown Transportation Technology & AutomotiveJust seven years into a proven and successful racing career, a young Roger Penske decided to pull into the pits for the final time and focus his attention on a new auto dealership he'd acquired. But his time away from racing was short-lived. In 1965 — the same year he started the dealership — he founded Penske Racing. More than 50 years later, Penske Racing is a worldwide conglomerate, and the Penske name is legendary.
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Automation nation: Proactive approach will benefit self-driving car industry
Ronnie Richard Science & TechnologyScience fiction has always taken ideas about technology and fleshed them out in detail long before industry could ever produce the real thing. Artificial intelligence, space travel, robotics, computers, genetics and much more began as abstract fictional concepts. After years of engineering and plenty of trial and error, many of these "fictional" ideas eventually become reality (still waiting on those hoverboards, though).
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Open access: What’s it all about?
Charles A. Turek Transportation Technology & AutomotiveFirst, let's make sure we are clear what open access means — what it is and what it is not in a railroad context in America. Generally speaking, an open-access railway is one that sells slots on its track for trains operated by other companies. In its purest form, these other companies are called train-operating companies (TOCs), and they own trains but no tracks. This is essentially the original U.K. model for open access.
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The builds that came before the Cayman GT4 and Boxster Spyder
David Hurth Transportation Technology & AutomotiveTwo of the more recent additions to Porsche's lineup are cars that many of us have been dreaming about for a while. The German performance car maker finally gave 911 levels of power (albeit slightly detuned) to the well-balanced platform of the Cayman and Boxster in the Cayman GT4 and latest Boxster Spyder.
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Controlled burns: Safety changes on the horizon for helicopters
Mark Huber Transportation Technology & AutomotiveGood news. The past July — typically the worst month of the year for helicopter accidents — was the second-safest on record in 30 years, and the overall accident rate for the first six months of the year is trending down. Good work, everyone.
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St. Louis comes first in Lambert Airport renaming
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveLambert-St. Louis International in Missouri is to get a new name after airport commissioners voted last week to realign it for better visibility and familiarity among the traveling public. Originally, officials planned to rename the airport St. Louis International at Lambert Field, but the decision was made to instead simply switch the existing name to include the city first, becoming St. Louis-Lambert International. This was agreed upon following a plea from the descendants of Albert Bond Lambert and some other locals to keep his name as a prominent feature.
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