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My wife bought a new Acura RDX a couple of days ago.?ÿ She bought it at a dealer in SoCal, where she'd gone to pay a last visit to her uncle (she didn't make it in time, but that's another story).?ÿ Driving home today the car abruptly died on the freeway.?ÿ She's waiting for a tow truck to take her and the car to the Acura dealer about 45 minutes south of our home (it's at the limit of our 100-mile towing coverage).

While getting driving directions to the dealer's location I decided to check out the StreetView to see where the service entrance is, and saw that the StreetView camera caught a shrouded test car driving past.?ÿ This is in one of those large auto malls, so I can't even guess at the make, let alone the model.

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Edit:?ÿ I guess I'm behind the times (again!).?ÿ When I looked at the car from another angle, I saw that it had just been unloaded from a carrier truck.?ÿ I guess that's the way new cars travel these days.?ÿ So not a test car, just one in travel duds.

 
Posted : July 9, 2018 5:08 pm
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The exposed surface of cars cars are wrapped and caped into custom covers to protect them from road debris and some of the newest models are camoed for the trip to hide their stylings. Different wrap for season and locations.

Once most all vehicles were transported to different cities in special rail cars that were armour enclosed.

There have dealer auctions near the railheads where the hubs to most means of transport are located.

Had to move SWMBO's 250 Lexus and she had to instruct me on how to start and turn off the car.

They are warning people with the electronic remote to carry in foil and avoid people from remote downloads of their keycodes.

?ÿ

 
Posted : July 9, 2018 5:26 pm
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Posted : July 10, 2018 8:00 am
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My facility moved over 50,000 cars last year by rail and truck transport.

We see shrouds over new models (next year's models) and also Maserati's which start at about $72,000.

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Posted : July 10, 2018 8:12 am
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Posted by: A Harris

The exposed surface of cars cars are wrapped and caped into custom covers to protect them from road debris and some of the newest models are camoed for the trip to hide their stylings. Different wrap for season and locations.

Once most all vehicles were transported to different cities in special rail cars that were armour enclosed.

There have dealer auctions near the railheads where the hubs to most means of transport are located.

Had to move SWMBO's 250 Lexus and she had to instruct me on how to start and turn off the car.

They are warning people with the electronic remote to carry in foil and avoid people from remote downloads of their keycodes.

?ÿ

"They?" Who is "They"?

 
Posted : July 10, 2018 10:34 am
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Posted by: Jim in AZ
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They are warning people with the electronic remote to carry in foil and avoid people from remote downloads of their keycodes.

?ÿ

"They?" Who is "They"?

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Posted : July 10, 2018 10:56 am
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Posted by: Jim in AZ

"They?" Who is "They"?

I'm guessing there's more than one of them

 
Posted : July 10, 2018 2:07 pm
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'..look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, I-I-I-I... this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it's not just, it might not be just such a simple... uh, you know?'

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'They' (peering out blinds, looking under lampshade) are around and don't have to be named. ?ÿ

HACKERS REMOTELY KILL A JEEP ON THE HIGHWAYƒ??WITH ME IN IT

FLAW IN NEW 'SECURE' CREDIT CARDS WOULD LET HACKERS STEAL $1M PER CARD

 
Posted : July 10, 2018 2:18 pm
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"They" are the minions of the Pentaverate?ÿ

 
Posted : July 10, 2018 2:22 pm
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..hmmm. If I can't afford to buy Deb a new vehicle, for $100-200 i could get one of those covers, an old '91 Corrola, and ..

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me: Here you go, Honey

Deb: Oh a new car! (kisses me on cheek and removes cover) .. it's a piece of junk.

me: whew! good thing they threw that cover on it when they did, that thing coulda' got ruined !

 
Posted : July 10, 2018 2:51 pm