Video: Ford’s Active Park Assist in action
As reported yesterday, two new Lincoln’s in mid-2009 will get a new feature called Active Park Assist. The new feature will allow the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and the new 7-seater Lincoln MKT Crossover to parallel park themselves with a simple push of a button.
Ford has just released a video of the new feature in action. So for those of you that didn’t want to read how the technology works in yesterday’s post, Ali Jammoul, Chief Engineer at FoMoCo, will describe the Active Park Assist to you in this 2 minute video.
Click through for the video.
GM kicks off 0 percent loans and cash incentives
Just a couple hours after the U.S. Treasury department announced that it will purchase a $5 billion stake in GMAC LLC, General Motors has announced new incentives. GM announced today that it is offering 0 percent financing on the discontinued Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, Saab 9-7X, Saab 9-3 and the Saab 9-5.
GM said that it is also offering new cash incentives on other vehicles including both 2008 and 2009 models. The incentives will run through Jan. 5th.
According to Automotive News, Mark LaNeve, GM’s North American vice president of sales and marketing said that GM may expand the incentives starting Jan. 6. He said that dealers are happy to have GMAC writing more car loans.
“Any tool they can get to make credit available and put deals together is a good thing,” he said. “Anytime you can make credit available to a wider spread of buyers, that’s a good thing.
Besides the 0 percent loans on some of its vehicles, GM is also offering cash ranging from $500 to $4,250.
Actor Matt Dillon charged with speeding in Vermont
NEWBURY, Vt. (AP) — Actor Matt Dillon was charged with driving at an excessive speed for allegedly going 106 mph on an interstate highway, Vermont State Police said. Dillon, 44, of New York, was pulled over by a trooper on Interstate 91 in Newbury about 10 p.m. EST Tuesday. He was driving a rented 2009 Chevrolet Impala. The posted speed limit is 65 mph, so Dillon was charged criminally under a statute that bans going more than 30 mph above the limit while traveling 60 mph or more….
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Atlanta inner-city school gets $365K from Oprah
ATLANTA (AP) — A letter from Oprah Winfrey last week seemed like the world’s best Christmas present – until teacher Ron Clark noticed an extra piece of paper flutter out of the envelope….
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Brother accused of embezzling from Dane Cook
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The half brother of comedian Dane Cook has pleaded not guilty to embezzling millions from the comedian and was ordered held on $3 million bail….
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Norway: Date set for Amy Winehouse drug appeal
OSLO, Norway (AP) — British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in a Norwegian court on Jan. 12 in her appeal against a fine in a drugs possession case, a police prosecutor said Wednesday….
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