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Could a Scent Improve your Drive?

Many automakers believe so. Some add proprietary leather scents, others use systems to perfume the cabin.

Read it online at Autonet.

Read it below clockwise.

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Rolls Royce quietly perfumed the interiors of customer’s cars, and afterwards, the customers informed the auto shop that their car was returned “different, and better”.

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This is the Mercedes‘ “active perfume system.”

And Ford’s recommended driving smells.

I strongly disagree with Basil.

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1/3 of Traffic is Caused by People Looking to Park

Read it online at Autonet.

The average time spent looking for
a curb parking spot is 8 minutes.

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Cities need to find the sweet-spot price of curb parking. If the price is just right, about 1 of 8 spots will be vacant, reducing search time, and therefore congestion.

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There’s No Avoiding Paying the Destination Fee

Different than the “delivery fee”, the destination charge is the cost of shipping the car from factory to dealership.

It’s never included in the price, and you can’t negotiate out of paying it, it’ll just never happen.

Read it online at Autonet.

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When you’re shopping, I’d recommend adding at least $1,200 CDN to the price, and then do your math based on that total.

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Talking About Rat Rods

Rat rod – a custom built luxury machine, with an exterior designed to look the opposite -ratty and worn down.

Read it online at Autonet.

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Then, couple those 500 hp specs with the niche’s bare essentials styling, and the power-to-weight ratio of some of these cars is excellent. They’re also not easy to drive. In fact, the idea is that the harder it is to drive, the better the rat rod.

These are some of the aforementioned rat rods built by the crew of the show ‘Vegas Rat Rods‘, premiering April 17 on Discovery Canada.

And this is Twiggy, the female star of the show, whom I interviewed for this column, and great Canadian girl.

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