The arrival of summer signals the open season for open-air dining, open-air exercise, and of course, open-air driving. Who doesn’t like head room limited only by the lower troposphere? There may be fewer convertibles on the road now than before but the thrill of droptop driving—and a 65-mph hair dryer …
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This story is based on the book Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best, available now. If high society had its way, Lucy Schell would have attended the toniest schools, toured the capitals of Europe, married dynastically and, until her death in …
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In fall 2016, Ricart Automotive Group President Rick Ricart received an out-of-the-blue email from an old college fraternity brother asking whether he was interested in speaking with executives at a fledgling software company that had a new-car retailing platform. In his call with AutoFi, which develops and markets software to …
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