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Fiat 500 adds electricity Carmaker wants to improve sales numbers in the U.S. market

By Tom Krisher Associated Press

DETROIT — The Fiat 500 is getting bigger and going electric.

Two new versions of the Italianstyled mini-car are appearing at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week: The “500e” is the brand’s first all-electric model in the U.S. while the “500L” comes with four doors and significantly more room than a regular model.

The first 500 hit U.S. showrooms two years ago, promising a stylish and fuelefficient remake of the 1950s original.

Since then, at least four variations of the remake have rolled out.

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The 2013 Fiat 500e mini-car is the brand’s first all-electric model in the U.S. while the “500L” comes with four doors and significantly more room than a regular model. The first 500 hit U.S. showrooms two years ago. AP

RAV4 gets a new look, better gas Revamped model is sleeker, has more leg room

By Dee-ann Durbin Associated Press

DETROIT — The Toyota RAV4 is getting a makeover that could help it retake the crossover crown.

The RAV4 was the first crossover when it went on sale in 1995, and it became a hit with families who wanted the roominess of an SUV with the tighter handling of a car. But as dozens of imitators entered the market offering more power, styling or technology for the price, the pioneering RAV4 was gradually overtaken.

The current version is now the fourth best-selling crossover in the U.S., behind the more recently redesigned Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Chevrolet Equinox. The RAV4 was last redesigned in 2006.

Now, Toyota hopes its revamped 2013 RAV4 can reclaim the top sales spot.

The crossover has a sharper, more muscular look than the boxier outgoing model. It also has a redesigned interior and better fuel economy. It debuts Wednesday at the Los Angeles Auto Show and will go on sale early next year.

Here are some more details about the fourthgeneration RAV4.

UNDER THE HOOD: Toyota will carry over the 2.5-liter, four-cylinder engine from the current RAV4. It gets 176 horsepower, down from 179 in the current model because Toyota had to meet more stringent emissions standards. It will be paired with a new sixspeed transmission, which replaces the fourspeed on the current model. The new transmission

A service dog named Cookie walks around the Toyota RAV4 during it’s world debut at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The crossover has a sharper, more muscular look than the boxier outgoing model. It also has a redesigned interior and better fuel economy. The design is more sculpted and dramatic than the current RAV4, with a sloping hood and more prominent front and rear fenders AP

helps it achieve an estimated 24 miles per gallon in the city and 31 on the highway, up from 22 and 28. Toyota will no longer offer a V6 engine.

INSIDE: The main difference here is that Toyota will no longer offer an optional third-row seat, which had expanded the RAV4’s capacity to seven.

But second-row passengers will have more leg room thanks to thinner

front seats. The cargo area is also longer and deeper than the previous model. When the second row is folded down, the RAV4 boasts 73.4 cubic feet of cargo space, which is more than the CR-V or Escape. A backup camera is now standard on every trim level, as it is on the CR-V. OUTSIDE: The design is more sculpted and dramatic than the current

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RAV4, with a sloping hood and more prominent front and rear fenders. Toyota is introducing a roofhinged liftgate on the new RAV4, a break from its previous side-hinged rear doors. The company says the new liftgate will make the vehicle easier to load from a curb. The new RAV4 will also be the first Toyota to have a system that automatically shifts from front wheel drive to

all wheel drive when the vehicle is accelerating or when it detects wheel slippage.

PRICE: Not yet released, but expect it to be in the $22,500 to $23,000 range in this hotly contested and crowded segment of the market.

CHEERS: It’s a long overdue makeover for a major player in the market and will most certainly increase sales. Toyota

has sold more than 1.7 million RAV4s over the last 17 years.

JEERS: The CR-V and Escape still offer more horsepower and gee-whiz features, like the automatic liftgate on the Escape that opens with a wave of a driver’s foot.

The Chevrolet Equinox gets better highway fuel economy. The RAV4 will still have a tough time competing.

Chevrolet puts a Spark in new car Vehicle brings Siri along for the ride

By Alisa Priddle Detroit Free Press

LOS ANGELES — Chevrolet is offering a way to recharge the new electric Spark in 20 minutes and a passenger who is always there: Apple’s Siri virtual assistant.

General Motors is showing off the $25,000 (before tax credits) fivedoor Spark EV at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week.

GM thinks that when the Spark EV goes on sale next summer it will have the best range in the segment and help the automaker build on the cachet garnered with the Volt.

The current leader, the electric Ford Focus sedan, can go 76 miles on a charge.

Initially the Spark will be sold in only two states: California — where it is eligible for the high-occupancy vehicle lanes — and Oregon. Beyond the U.S., it will be available in Canada, Europe and South Korea.

The Spark can be charged in about seven hours with a 240-volt outlet. But the car has an optional fast-charging capability to reach 80 percent of battery charge in 20 minutes — a first for an electric vehicle in North America.

The lithium-ion batteries provide 130 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque. The motor and drive unit are built in White Marsh, Md. The battery has undergone more than 200,000 hours of testing and has an eight-year or 100,000-mile warranty.

The Spark has two 7inch display screens on which are programmed the controls for audio, phone and temperature, as well as key data such as the expected driving range based on driving habits and conditions.

The Spark EV comes with MyLink radio that uses a smartphone to access apps, including BringGo for navigation and TuneIn Internet radio, Pandora and Stitcher.

For those with Apple’s 4S and newer iPhone 5, it means Siri is along for the ride.

The Spark, as well as the Sonic LTZ and RS, have systems that integrate Siri when the car uses Bluetooth to pair with an iPhone.

Siri also has an “eyesfree” mode that allows the driver to give her voice commands to play music, find a location, and access texts and calendars while keeping the screen from lighting up and distracting the driver.

The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV is being shown this week at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. GANNETT

The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV packs smart performance and connectivity technologies. GANNETT

The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV has exclusive Chevrolet MyLink radio, which brings smartphone-based infotainment including Siri voice recognition. GANNETT

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Luxury models may be better deal

By James R. Healey USA Today

The day could be fast-arriving when a new breed of car buyer considers a new generation of cars, and wrestles with a choice something like: “Hmmm, $30,000. Should I get that loaded Ford Focus, or this new mini-size entry BMW?” Luxury auto brands already are making a living in the U.S. on their smaller models — BMW’s 3-series is the best example.

Now, they’re easing more into the compact- and even subcompact-size market segments and have begun to show teaser versions of remarkably small cars on the auto show circuit.

Buyers more and more will decide whether they value a premium brand name enough to sacrifice size and possibly features they could get for the same price on a larger, wellequipped, non-luxury-nameplate car.

“It’s a weird area. Absolutely it puts a ceiling on what mainstream brands can charge,” said industry expert Jim Hall at 2953 Analytics.

What are the cars like?

BMW 1 Series Coupe that is sold in the U.S. The carmaker is among those looking at smaller versions to attract compact buyers. BMW

The Los Angeles Auto Show, which begins with press previews on Wednesday, will host debuts of several high-end and mainstream small cars, illustrating the industry’s battle for dominance in the fuel-efficient segment.

Ford thinks that design and execution, rather than the status of a high-end badge on the hood, can carry the day.

The automaker said its redesigned, 2013 Fusion midsize sedan, for example, has been luring a notable number of tradeins from Acura, BMW and Audi owners. Half of Fusion’s early sales are to non-Ford owners, and most of those are former luxury brand customers, the automaker said.

Referring to the top version of the Fusion, the Titanium model, Frank Davis, executive director of Ford’s North American product programs, said, “Our Titanium buyer is the lux-

ury buyer — the Acura, the Audi, the BMW buyer.”

The Fusion Titanium midsize starts at about $31,000 and can approach $40,000 once loaded with options and fitted with optional all-wheel drive. A size down, Ford’s Focus compact has a Titanium model, too, for nearly $30,000 with all options.

BMW’s 128 small coupe starts at about $32,000 by comparison. And a new line of smaller BMWs is in the wings, based on a front-drive chassis shared with the brand’s Mini models. Those might be designated 1-series models, making the current 1, in effect, a 2-series.

Mercedes-Benz’ latest-generation A-class subcompacts rolling out in Europe are U.S.bound and likely to spawn a variety of spinoffs as even the brand known for its big, stolid sedans shoulders into the mpg-

oriented small-car segment.

Audi has a line of A1s, about Mini Cooper size, that it has said will include a U.S. version in the future.

“The luxury market has become a blur,” said Art Wheaton, auto expert and industry education specialist at Cornell University.

Will size actually matter?

In the end, whether the small, high-mileage, highbrow, low-luxe cars have a future in the U.S., and whether they threaten some mainstream brands’ plans to get rich on high-end models, might depend on history more than anything.

Americans’ historical preference has been and continues to be for bigger cars, for their greater comfort and ability to swallow the country’s vastness in relative ease.

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FACTORING INTO THE LOW-LUXURY AND HIGH-MAINSTREAM MODELS » Regional preferences. “In areas such as L.A. and New York and big metropolitan areas, which are image-driven, the entry-luxury models do pretty well,” said Jesse Toprak, industry analyst at TrueCar.com. Though it’s less so in Middle America, the coastal ethic “puts a premium on the brand.

People want to be seen in a BMW, in a Benz. Even though from a value perspective, you’re better off getting a non-luxury vehicle.”

That presages success for the new low-luxe entries because of the status badges they wear.

Toprak said he believes automakers are expecting regional strength rather than nationwide success and have factored that into their business plans. » Luxury backlash. “There are buyers who don’t want premium cars because they come with premium maintenance, and a premium image that some people don’t want,” said Rebecca Lindland, director of research at consultant IHS Automotive.

Research by General Motors’ Buick unit — which considers itself a luxury brand — found a deep pool of potential buyers who “were unpretentious.

They were successful, could afford to buy any car they want, within reason.

But they didn’t want to make an overt statement,” said Craig Bierley, Buick’s marketing chief. » Premium purgatory. Lower-end models from luxury brands risk being considered not-quite-real-luxury; more like “premium.” And that, at least according to Bierley, is “where brands go to die.”

He sees no contradiction between small size and big image. “Luxury doesn’t have to be big. Luxury is really a personal thing, how a customer defines it,” Bierley said.

Natural gas drillers target U.S. truck market

By Michael Rubinkam Associated Press

SCRANTON, Pa. — If the trash truck or bus rolling down your street seems a little quieter these days, you’re not imagining things. It’s probably running on natural gas.

Surging gas production has led the drilling industry to seek out new markets for its product, and energy companies, increasingly, are setting their sights on the transportation sector.

Touting natural gas as a cheaper, cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline and diesel, drillers, public utilities and government officials are trying to boost demand for natural gas buses, taxis, shuttles, delivery trucks and heavy-duty work vehicles of all sorts, while simultaneously encouraging development of the fueling infrastructure that will be needed to keep them running.

The economics are compelling. Natural gas costs about $1.50 to $2 per gallon equivalent less than gasoline and diesel.

That can add up to tens of thousands of dollars in savings for vehicles that guzzle the most fuel.

Fleet managers are taking notice. Companies as diverse as AT&T, Waste Management and UPS are converting all or parts of their fleets to natural gas, as are transit agencies, municipalities and state governments.

“Now that you can save a dollar or two dollars a gallon, there’s huge interest in the market, especially in those fleets that use a lot of fuel,” said Richard Kolodziej, president of the trade group Natural Gas Vehicles for America.

Waste Management, the nation’s largest trash hauler, has committed to replacing 80 percent of its fleet with trucks powered

Waste Management driver Alan Sadler fills his truck with CNG gas at the company's filling station in Washington, Pa. Years from now, motorists needing a fill-up might see natural gas pumps sharing space at the neighborhood filling station with ones dispensing gasoline and diesel. AP/GENE J. PUSKA

by natural gas. Rich Mogan, the company’s district manager in southwestern Pennsylvania, said about half of his fleet of 100 trucks now run on the cheaper fuel. They are quieter and less expensive to maintain, he said, and “we are looking at a 50 percent reduction in our (fuel) cost.”

Driller EQT Corp. opened its own natural gas filling station outside Pittsburgh in summer 2011, using it to refuel its trucks while also making it available to the public.

It’s now doing about 1,000 fill-ups a month — and only half involve EQT vehicles. Other users include City of Pittsburgh trash trucks, shuttles run by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a taxi service and a handful of consumers.

EQT wasn’t sure how the station would be received.

“We didn’t have commitments at all beyond our own vehicles. It was really a guess of what we think we could do,” said David Ross, an EQT vice president focused on market development. “We had people who, at the beginning, said, ‘No, we’re not interested.’ Today they actually own a vehicle that’s natural gas. I think having the physical asset sitting there has helped it become real for people.”

Natural gas vehicles aren’t new. But the drilling boom — spurred by new technology that unlocked vast reserves of natural gas in deep rock formations like the Marcellus Shale underneath parts of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio — created a gas glut that depressed prices. That, in turn, has made natural gas more attractive as a transportation fuel.

Partly because of a lack of fueling infrastructure, gas isn’t expected to grab significant market share from petroleum anytime soon. Only a tenth of 1 percent of the natural gas consumed in the Unites States last year was used as vehicle fuel, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Of more than 250 million vehicles on the road today, perhaps 125,000 are powered by natural gas.

But energy companies see potential.

Chesapeake Energy Corp., the nation’s No. 2 producer, has been especially aggressive about targeting transportation.

The Oklahoma City-based driller invested $150 million in Clean Energy, a company backed by Texas investor T. Boone Pickens that’s building a nationwide network of liquefied natural gas refueling stations for long-haul truck-

ers. Chesapeake also teamed up with General Electric on “CNG In A Box,” a compressed natural gas fueling system for retailers; announced a partnership with GE and Whirlpool to develop a $500 appliance that would allow consumers to refuel their natural gas-powered cars at home; and has been working with 3M to design less expensive tanks.

“It’s simply a matter of time before the U.S. meaningfully shifts from transportation systems built around consuming high-priced oil to consuming low-priced domestic natural gas,” Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon wrote to investors this year.

States are also promoting natural gas as a transportation fuel. Nearly two dozen state governments have formed a consortium to add natural gas-

powered vehicles to their fleets, an effort launched by the governors of Oklahoma and Colorado that attracted more than 100 bids from dealerships last month.

Separately, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is dangling $20 million worth of incentives to goose the market for medium- and heavy-duty natural gas vehicles. The three-year program, which launches Dec. 1 and is funded by a state fee on drillers, aims at putting 600 to 700 new natural gas-powered trucks and buses on the road in its first year.

State officials also hope to use the grant program to spur a network of new filling stations. Pennsylvania has only 14 publicly available stations, and more places to fill up could help stoke consumer demand.

“The big prize here is to get consumers purchasing vehicles that run off natural gas,” said Geoff Bristow of the Pennsylvania DEP. Conventional gasoline engines are becoming more efficient, and consumers might balk at spending more on a natural gas-powered car.

The only factorymade, natural gas-powered passenger car available to U.S. consumers is the Honda Civic Natural Gas. While Honda expects sales to top 2,000 this year, that’s a fraction of the number of gasoline-powered Civics it moves in a single month.

Analyst Mike Omotoso of research firm LMC Automotive sees natural gas as a niche transportation fuel.

“There is very little interest in natural gas for cars,” Omotoso said. “People looking for alternatives are looking at hybrids and electric vehicles.”

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Fusion sedan is a sporty beauty Associated Press

Ford’s makeover of its Fusion midsize sedan is a gorgeous delight — undercut by some drivetrain issues in the gasoline models.

The hybrid version, due very late this year, is, in contrast, a genteel champ that delivers strong mileage and pleasing performance.

Fusion and its corporate relatives, such as the mechanically similar Mondeo sold overseas and coming Lincoln MKZ sedan, are huge within Ford Motor. The platform eventually will spawn 10 vehicles that should account for 1.3 million global sales a year, Ford says.

The new Fusion was benchmarked upmarket against Audi and BMW models during development to help make sure the car is good enough to carry that load.

Here’s the result. » Exceptional styling. Not purely innovative, drawing from Audi as well as from the Aston Martin brand that Ford used to own. But if uniqueness were requirement for art, there’d never have been a second rock ‘n’ roll song.

More important is the combination of elements and their impact. To Test Drive’s eye, Fusion is the best-looking current mainstream midsize sedan — and nicer on the eyes than some supposedly artsy sports cars.

The 2013 Ford Fusion features exceptional styling, more rear-seat room and reasonable fuel economy. AP

» Generous rear-seat room.

Fusion has a longer wheelbase than rivals, meaning more leg space in back. Long-legged folk won’t grumble — unless you try three across, because of too much center hump and too little width. » Front-seat comfort. You’ll probably like the driver’s seat a lot, and your main passenger will feel likewise about the shotgun position.

» Quietness. With the exception of engine noise noted below, it’s peaceful in a Fusion. » Reasonable fuel economy.

None of the test Fusions hit the federal ratings, but none fell disappointingly short in realworld driving.

In the end, the grand gripe (and about the only serious one) is about the drivetrain.

Ford’s EcoBoost four-cylinder engines are too noisy, and

the 1.6-liter is especially bad.

Unfortunately, it’s the non-hybrid one that gets the best mileage and is likely to be the one most buyers get.

EcoBoost engines have a coarse grumble typical of engines using direct injection, a fuel-injection system that boosts power and mileage, but is inherently noisier.

All makers struggle with the noise, but many minimize it bet-

ter than Fusion. The direct rival Honda Accord is an example.

Accentuating the negative, the Fusion 1.6-liter’s transmission downshifts too often, revving the engine needlessly and amplifying the racket.

The 2-liter EcoBoost is more tolerable, and isn’t worsened by the transmission because it has more power and doesn’t need the help of a rev-boosting downshift as often.

Frank Davis, executive director of Ford’s North American products, provided Ford test data showing there should be no engine sound problem.

The Fusion is as quiet as many higher-price premium sedans, the data show.

For that matter, Ford’s data also show that the 1.6 engine’s transmission doesn’t downshift unduly often.

But the hybrid, coming soon, has far better manners.

If you slam the gas pedal, the gas engine that’s part of the hybrid powertrain roars, but it seems less bothersome. Driving more gently, the electric motor’s power keeps the gas engine from having to work as hard. A mode switch lets the car operate as a pure electric temporarily. Even without using the electric mode, the trip computer showed Test Drive was running on just battery power for nearly half the distance of short suburban jaunts.

More fall behind on auto-loan payments

By Alex Veiga Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — More

Americans fell behind on their auto-loan payments in the third quarter, when back-to-school shopping and other needs traditionally put a strain on consumers’ wallets.

But the uptick is likely only a seasonal blip in an otherwise multiyear decline in auto-loan delin-

quencies, according to reporting agency TransUnion.

The rate of U.S. autoloan payments at least 60 days overdue rose to 0.38 percent from 0.33 percent in the second quarter, the company said.

That represents only a slight rise from the second quarter, which marked the lowest delinquency rate on TransUnion’s records going back

to 1999.

The July-to-September delinquency rate also was down 19 percent from the 0.47 percent rate a year earlier, the firm said.

All told, the auto-loan delinquency rate has fallen on an annual basis for 12 consecutive quarters.

“Based on the data, this looks like it’s attributed to really just the seasonal factors,” said Peter Turek, a vice president of

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MORE NEW LOANS WITH AVERAGE AT $17,829

In all, new auto loans and leases grew by 16 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, TransUnion said.

The average balance of new auto loans also increased on an annual basis in the second quarter, rising 2.4 percent to $17,829.

TransUnion’s financial services business unit.

Since the housing collapse in 2007 and recession that followed, many borrowers have made keeping up with car pay-

ments a priority above paying their mortgage or other financial obligations.

Given the rise in auto loans going to higher-risk borrowers and the uptick

in average balances, it’s plausible that the autoloan delinquency rate could inch up in the fourth quarter, Turek noted.

“However, as the economy continues to improve and new and used auto demand maintains its current pace, we believe that the auto-loan delinquency rate will either remain the same or even drop a few basis points by the end of the year,” he said.

Young drivers still fiddling with phones Larry Copeland USA TODAY

The 2013 Fiat 500e mini-car is the brand’s first all-electric model in the U.S. AP

Fiat Continued » 1D

The 500 needs to boost its allure in the U.S., where sales remain pintsized compared with the rest of the world. Fiat has produced more than 1 million 500s worldwide since the car’s global launch in 2007, but acceptance has been slow in the U.S., where just over 36,000 sold through October.

Here are some highlights of the car: » Under the hood: The 500e has a lithium-

ion battery that powers a 111 horsepower electric motor. The battery can be recharged in less than four hours with a 240-volt charging station. The car will be able to go 80 miles before its battery has to be recharged, with driving range in the city exceeding 100 miles, according to Fiat, which also runs Chrysler Group LLC. Electric cars and hybrids, in general, have better range in the city because their brakes generate power to recharge the battery. The 500L will have a 160horsepower 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder

engine. » Outside: Engineers made the 500e more aerodynamic than the current 500, improving its wind drag statistics by 13 percent. The electric version gets sculpted new front and rear fascias that were designed by using a wind tunnel. It also has a hatch-mounted spoiler. » Inside: The 500e gets a 7-inch dashboard screen with graphics to show battery charge levels and other functions.

The five-passenger 500L gets so much more interior space that it’s considered a large car, the company says. The interior is

42 percent bigger than a regular 500, which seats four, Chrysler says. » Fuel economy: The 500e will get the equivalent of 116 miles per gallon of gasoline in the city and 100 miles per gallon on the highway, Chrysler says. The 500L gas mileage hasn’t been announced. » Price: Not announced yet for either model. The 500e will be sold only in California at first, starting in the second quarter of 2013.

Chrysler won’t say where it will go next. The 500L will come out in the middle of next year.

Nearly seven in 10 young drivers are still texting behind the wheel, and a growing number of them are accessing the Internet on their cellphones while driving, according to a new annual survey by insurer State Farm.

Despite years-long national campaigns against texting while driving, which is now illegal in 39 states and the District of Columbia, 68 percent of young drivers — those 1829 — reported engaging in the practice, up from 64 percent last year. That compares with 34 percent of all drivers who reported texting while driving, up from 32 percent a year ago.

There were even sharper increases in the equally risky behavior of surfing the Internet while driving: 48percent of young drivers reported accessing the Web behind the wheel, up from 43 percent last year. Those figures exclude programming a GPS device.

“It could be” that the nation’s anti-texting campaigns should include warnings about surfing while driving, says Chris Mullen, State Farm’s director of technology research.

“The evolution of the technology — and the speed at which it’s changing — requires us to continually change our messaging to make sure it’s relevant,” she says.

Since 2009, State Farm has conducted an annual online survey of about 1,000 licensed drivers 18 and older to study driv-

ers’ attitudes and behaviors regarding distracted driving.

The Department of Transportation says that 3,092 people were killed and an additional 416,000 were injured in distracted-related crashes in 2010; 18 percent of all injury crashes that year involved a distracted driver.

Whatever the safety messages, many drivers apparently believe they can safely text and surf while driving.

Patrick Mayer, 35, a technology consultant in Marietta, Ga., who logs about 20,000 miles a year, says he regularly surfs the Internet and texts while his vehicle is moving.

“I do it (surf) if I have to look up something,” he says. “I usually do it at the stoplight or on the highway, usually not on surface streets. I’ve done it everywhere, dirt roads, wherever I need to look up information.”

Mayer, who says he’s had few citations and three minor crashes, none related to distracted driving in 20 years of driving, says he knows that texting and surfing are risky. “But so is putting on your makeup, eating or talking on the phone,” he says. “The most distracted drivers I see are usually people talking on the phone and not paying attention when they’re changing lanes.

They’ve got the phone up to their head, looking forward, talking. I usually don’t even talk on my cellphone. I hate talking on the phone.”

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