Friday, August 15, 2014

Scoop! Mid-Engine Corvette Is A Go

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The Next ZR1 Will Have a Motor in the Middle


You like rumors? Hot, hard-to-resist rumors? Here's one to jack your blood pressure through the roof! The next Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 will be mid-engined. That's right, kids! Multiple sources have told us that the next version of the Corvette ZR1 will be mid-engined. One of these sources even stated that the next-generation Corvette -- the C8 -- will ship with its engine mounted in the middle. The rendering above, by Tom Matsumoto, shows what the mid-engined Corvette could look like.

Yes, yes -- we know -- another story about a mid-engine Corvette. Will this madness never end? This particular fantasy tale, as some of you know, seems to have been continuously reported on since 1963 when the CERV II was built.

Point is that a mid-engine Corvette has been in the collective Chevrolet consciousness for decades. The story of the (almost) mid-engine car has become part of the Corvette's lore, of its mystique. Grok this: Pre-bankruptcy, Chevrolet was working on a mid-engine C7, but it got shelved when Bob Lutz left GM and former Corvette chief engineer Tom Wallace retired. In other words, mid-engine work has already been done on this generation of Corvette.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Nominate Before It's Too Late!

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Spotlight: Black Mermaid Soaps Says Bathing is Beautiful

Have you ever had a hobby that you thought just might work as a business? Denise Zannu was once a schoolteacher who simply enjoyed making soap for herself. Now she has a full business with multiple product lines including soap and other bath and body products as well. She's been in business almost two and a half years. See how she got there in this week's Small Business Spotlight.


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Permissions for the Facebook Messenger App Raise Concerns

Joshua Sophy - August 12, 2014

The Internet is agog over the seemingly intrusive permissions for the Facebook Messenger app.If you use Facebook to communicate with your contacts, you soon may have no choice but…

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Joshua Sophy - August 12, 2014

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Diane Helbig - August 12, 2014

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Annie Pilon - August 12, 2014

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Susan Payton - August 11, 2014

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Brent Leary - August 08, 2014

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Amanda DiSilvestro - August 15, 2013

Affiliate marketing exists because it can be very successful. However, there are quite a few affiliate marketing myths that revolve around this topic.For those who are unfamiliar, affiliate marketing…


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Friday, August 8, 2014

2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe

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2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe First Drive


The Personal Luxury Car


It's an uncommon term today, but there was once a time when the "personal luxury car," as it was called, reigned supreme. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, personal luxury cars were all the rage among the prodigiously wealthy, peaking in popularity in the 1970s. Today, the class has mostly been lumped into the GT car category.

Personal luxury cars were typically coupes, big and brash, with long hoods and short decks. They usually rode on shortened wheelbases and featured big V-8 power, but weren't preoccupied with sportiness. Though some of them adopted sports-car design cues, these cars were focused on luxury. Unlike GT cars, there wasn't much pretense about handling or outright performance. Being your own chauffeur in a car that screams "look at me" without being obnoxious about it was the modus operandi.

This brings us to the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe, the renamed and restyled replacement for the old CL-Class, which was itself effectively an S-Class coupe in all but name. Like those personal luxury cars of old, it rides on a shortened wheelbase and features big V-8 power, but isn't necessarily concerned with sporty driving, though it's certainly more capable in that regard.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

How To Get More Feedback From Your Customers

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Webinar: 6 Steps to a Complete Customer Feedback Program

You may want more feedback from your customers. But if you're like many small business owners, you're a bit foggy about how to go about setting up a system that collects it. Thankfully, help is at hand. Join Rieva Lesonsky and QuestionPro for a free webinar tomorrow, August 6th, at 11 am EST. They'll take a still-to-be-announced mystery small business guest through the process of setting up a feedback program.


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Sneak Peek at WordPress 4.0

Leland McFarland - August 05, 2014

WordPress 4.0 is slated to be released August 27, 2014. A beta version of this new release of the popular content management system is available for testing.We took it for a…

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