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Lincoln's future: Push-button transmission, glass roofs

Lincoln dealers are skeptical. Ford Motor Co. wants them to invest in dealership improvements and customer services, such as car washes, before the automaker launches vehicles needed to put the struggling brand back in the luxury game.

One Lap of the Web: Packards -- Ask the man who knows way too much about one

-- For some light Wednesday reading, here's more information than you ever wanted to know about Packard. It includes the horrible neoclassics that plagued the 1970s, and the 1995 revival of the Packard name that attempted to stick a shortened rendition of the famous Packard grille in front of a 440-hp V12, all wrapped in a shape that looked like a melted Twix, as shown above. Our august associate editor Graham Kozak owns a Packard, so he could have filled us in on the details.

Fight parking tickets with the Fixed app

There are those among us, brave warriors in our midst, who battle the demonic and convoluted forces of parking enforcement every chance we get. For innocent victims of bureaucracy, accused perpetrators of victimless crimes who are held hostage by our wallets, we have a new weapon on our side: an app called Fixed that's potentially too good to be true. How this latest San Francisco-based startup app works: first, you take a picture of your parking ticket -- ignoring the nagging voice in your head that says a 13-year old neckbeard hacker from R