On an average, on a ten hour shift, police usually idle for about six hours, and according to a recent research study, each idling hour uses about a half gallon of fuel.

Not only will the new vehicle save fuel, but it will also use less power.

The Taurus will have an electric power steering system opposed to the usual hydraulic system. The electric system only uses power when the wheel is turned.

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Dodge is currently taking orders for the vehicles and will begin delivery between April and June of this year.

The law enforcement Durango comes equipped with a heavy-duty battery and water pump, upgraded brakes, and an engine-oil cooler.

Law enforcement will get to choose from either a 3.6-liter V6 engine or a 5.7 liter Hemi V8 engine.

Police, fire, and general fleet customers will be able to use the vehicles.

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Bob Shanks, the current vice president for Ford, and Raj Nair, vice president of engineering, will succeed Booth and Kuzack respectively.

Rumor has it that in August, Booth may step up to CEO, succeeding Alan Mulally, and Mark Fields, head of Ford’s American operations, and Joe Hinrichs, head of operations in China and Asia, are to succeed Mulally.

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The recalled tires were sold in the United States between September 2009 and November 2010. It is the the P225/60R-16 Extensa A/S tires that are being recalled. The tires are labelled “Made in the USA.” Tires made in Japan and China are not being recalled.

The tires are said to be defected due to a kink in the bead, which can lead to deflation and tire failure.

The recall begins February 2, and owners can contact Toyo anytime at (800) 442-8696.

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Before the ruling, law enforcement authorities were allowed to place GPS trackers onto vehicles if they had probable cause because “nobody should expect privacy in public.”

In 2005, law enforcement officials affixed a GPS tracker onto a suspected drug dealer’s vehicle. The officials tracked the supposed dealer, Antoine Jones, for twenty-eight days. The officials were successful in busting Jones with one hundred kilos of cocaine and a million dollars in Maryland.

The court suggested that securing the GPS to the vehicle was an invasion of property (and privacy) akin to a home search.

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BMW pushed Lexus out of the top spot, a spot which Lexus held for eleven years.

Before Lexus took the number one position, Mercedes-Benz held it, in 1999; Mercedes made 245,192 sales in 2012.

Mercedes-Benz’s sales increased 13-percent last year (as did BMW’s sales).

Toyota, on the contrary, experienced a 13-percent decrease in sales in 2012 due to the earth quake that hit the country in March. Toyota’s annual sales dropped to 198,552.

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The gasoline engines are said to be four-cylinder and will be produced in Nissan’s Tennessee engine factory.

Building the engine in Tennessee, right at home in America, eliminates foreign exchange costs and allows for an opportunity for further business development in the United States.

Not much is known about the engiine that is to be made for Infiniti models, but as for the Mercedes-Benz model, the engine will be built for the C-class vehicles.

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Recently, the CEO of Mercedes Benz, Ernst Lieb, 56, was fired for using company funds for uses other than their intended uses.

The new CEO is former vice president of marketing, Stephen Cannon, 50, who will be promoted in January.

Herbert Werner, 56, is the vice president of finance at Mercedes-Benz USA and is the CEO for now.

As you may or may not know, Mercedes Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles. Cannon, however, is an American and is the second American to become CEO of Mercedes Benz (the first being Mike Jackson).

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