The program goes beyond limited test-drive or quick-return programs extant at other brands, Perry said.
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The other half will be sold direct to buyers who test-drive them at places like shopping malls.
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You may want to test-drive a card before leaving for college, so you can learn how it works with your parents nearby to help.
These assignments allow workers "to test-drive a job or make connections in different departments, " says Amreen Madhani, who oversees the program which launched last March.
The company also offers AppExchange, which is an online directory that provides customers a way to browse, test-drive, share and install applications developed on the Force.com platform.
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The idea is to test-drive it for another six months or so, "to iron out all the kinks and make sure it is running smoothly, " he says.
When it was finally unveiled at a press event Winterkorn was furious after discovering a tiny paint flaw on one of the media test-drive cars, according to one colleague.
Customers can now test-drive and purchase eReaders as well as choose from more than 1.5 million titles from the Borders eBook store within the company's newly unveiled Area-e digital shops.
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The piece also details a conversion experience: Veteran auto correspondent Stephan Wilkinson confesses that when the Veyron was introduced, he considered it an arrogant status symbol and refused to test-drive it on principle.
Benioff also saw that as these chunky apps went online, where customers could test-drive them (instead of taking a salesguy's word for it), they had to be marketed more like soda pop than spreadsheets.
With this in mind, we recruited a crack team of reviewers (that is, Asiaweek Picture Editor Rob Mountfort's sons Kai, 6, and Niko, 4) to test-drive a few of the latest lower-end offerings: the Che-ez!
The machines also come with a test-drive version of Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office and Intuit 's (nasdaq: INTU - news - people ) Quicken.
Caulfield -- who just opened a Manhattan outpost of her Hoboken boutique, Jessie James -- used VocationVacations to match her with an established mentor in her chosen field which enabled her to test-drive her dream job.
Dealers are offering a 24-hour test drive, and the automaker is inviting tens of thousands of non- vehicle owners to a roving "Auto Show in Motion, " during which they can compare the performance of cars like the Cadillac CTS with the BMW 3 series.
Imagine a few years hence taking a real-time, video-quality test drive in a new Cadillac from the comfort of your own couch.
Users can test drive phones--navigating menus and testing applications--via a Web browser and feel almost as if they were holding the handsets in their hands.
One major step forward was taken last week on a motorway outside Barcelona - the first-ever test drive of a road train among other road users.
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Warped or otherwise, I decided to give QS a three-month test drive, downloading Android apps and outfitting myself with devices to track my mood, sleep cycles, calories, location, spending and productivity.
MPs have previously considered introducing a fit-to-drive test.
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In October 2010, four driverless electric vans successfully concluded a 13, 000-kilometer test drive from Italy to China, Nevada has issued the first set of regulations for driverless cars, and WIRED magazine recently ran a cover story anticipating driverless cars in your life in the near future.
Nowhere else can you browse a selection of more than 82, 000 paper books, walk over to Area-e, our new digital hub, where you test drive a variety of e-Reading devices, and then search for your next favorite book in our e-Bookstore.
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With the Focus Electric rolling into showrooms, I took a pre-production model on a two-week tech test drive around the San Francisco Bay Area last month to experience daily life in the cloud with an electric car.
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As someone who has driven the car, and liked it a great deal, I was surprised by how badly it fared during the Times test drive up I-95 from Washington, DC to New York City (it failed miserably according to author John Broder).
For an interview with Miljkovic where he gives us a test drive and a first-hand demo of the Link, check the video below.
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In green transportation news, we watched in awe as Jeremy Clarkson took the world's smallest car -- which is basically a go-kart with body armor -- for a terrifying test drive on England's busy A3 highway.
We test each drive with a Micron 433-MHz Celeron system equipped with 64MB of SDRAM, a 10GB hard disk, and a DVD-ROM drive.
As hinted by the self-centered name, the Egoista Concept is built to let the company toot its own horn, and won't be sold -- anyone who gets a test drive will be part of a very exclusive (and likely ecstatic) club, as you might gather from the video after the break.
Shortly before Lamborghini was set to introduce the new Aventador super-luxury sports car in 2011, for instance, Winterkorn took the 690-horsepower behemoth for a final test drive.
In the Glamorgan bowler's next over, first Test centurion Devon Smith lofted a drive to mid-off to depart for 17.
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