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2011 BMW 3 Series 328i for sale in Watauga TX from Jeno Autoplex Inc

Features Overview

• 4-Wheel Disc Brakes • A/C • ABS • Adjustable Steering Wheel • Aluminum Wheels • AM/FM Stereo • Automatic Headlights • Auxiliary Audio Input • Brake Assist • Bucket Seats • CD Player • Child Safety Locks • Climate Control • Cruise Control • Daytime Running Lights • Driver Air Bag • Driver Illuminated Vanity Mirror • Driver Vanity Mirror • Emergency Trunk Release • Engine Immobilizer • Floor Mats • Fog Lamps • Front Head Air Bag • Front Reading Lamps • Front Side Air Bag • Gasoline Fuel • HD Radio • Heated Mirrors • Intermittent Wipers • Keyless Entry • Leather Steering Wheel • Mirror Memory • MP3 Player • Multi-Zone A/C • Passenger Air Bag • Passenger Air Bag Sensor • Passenger Illuminated Visor Mirror • Passenger Vanity Mirror • Power Door Locks • Power Mirror • Power Outlet • Power Steering • Power Windows • Premium Synthetic Seats • Rain Sensing Wipers • Rear A/C • Rear Defrost • Rear Head Air Bag • Rear Reading Lamps • Rear Wheel Drive • Remote Trunk Release • Seat Memory • Stability Control • Steering Wheel Audio Controls • Straight 6 Cylinder Engine • Tire Pressure Monitor • Tires - Front Performance • Tires - Rear Performance • Traction Control • Trip Computer • Variable Speed Intermittent Wipers • Woodgrain Interior Trim

Detailed Interior Features

• 3-spoke leather-wrapped multi-function steering wheel with audio and Bluetooth phone controls • 8-way adjustable front bucket seats includes 2-way headrests with Active Head Restraints feature • Advanced Vehicle Key Memory includes climate-control temperature and air-distribution settings : exterior mirror and power seat settings / audio tone settings and radio presets with optional Navigation system / central-locking preferences / and lighting preferences • Anti-theft AM/FM stereo CD/MP3 player audio system with Radio Data System • Automatic climate control includes micro-filter : automatic air recirculation / left/right temperature control / temperature- and volume-controlled rear outlets / windshield misting sensor / MAX A/C function / heat at rest / and recall of individual user settings • Auxiliary audio input for portable music players • Auxiliary power outlet • BMW Ambiance lighting • Central locking system with center console switch : double-lock feature and 2-step unlocking • Check Control vehicle monitor system with pictogram display : oil status display / and Condition Based Service indicator • Coded Driveaway Protection • Courtesy lights include fade in/fade out : actuation from remote / automatic switch-on when engine is turned off / separately controlled left/right front and rear reading lights / front footwell lighting / and illuminated vanity mirrors • Dark burl walnut wood trim • Driver and passenger visor vanity mirrors • Dynamic Cruise Control • Electric interior trunk release • Floor Mats • Front passenger cupholders • Front seatback storage nets • Front-seat center armrest • HD Radio with "multicast" FM station reception • HiFi sound system • Leatherette upholstery • Locking glovebox • On-board computer with Check Control provides feedback on the vehicle’s operating status: oil level indicator and distance to next service appointment/oil change / as well as other detailed information / such as spark plug and micro-filter status. It also provides travel information travel range on remaining fuel / external temperature and more • Power front and rear windows with "one-touch" up/down operation • Rear window defroster • Rear-seat center armrest with cupholders • Remote keyless entry with remote trunk release • Service Interval Indicator with miles-to-service readout • Tilt/telescopic steering wheel column

Detailed Exterior Features

• 16" x 7.0" V-spoke alloy wheels P205/55R16 run-flat performance tires • Adaptive Brake Lights • Ground lighting located in bottom of exterior door handles • Halogen free-form front foglights • Halogen high- and low-beam headlights and Corona headlight-rings • Heated dual power mirrors and heated windshield washer jets • Rain-sensing windshield wipers and Automatic headlight control

Detailed Safety Features

• Anti-lock braking system • Automatic locking retractors on all passenger-seat safety belts for installation of child-restraint seat • Child safety rear door locks • Crash sensor activates Battery Safety Terminal disconnect of alternator : fuel pump and starter from battery / automatically unlocks doors / and turns on hazard and interior lights • Driver’s and passenger’s front airbag supplemental restraint system with advanced technology: dual-threshold / dual-stage deployment; and front-passenger seat sensors designed to prevent unnecessary airbag deployment • Dynamic Stability Control • Emergency trunk release • Front and rear Head Protection System • Front passenger seat-occupation recognition with passenger’s airbag off indicator • Front safety belts with automatic pretensioners • Impact sensor that activates Battery Safety Terminal disconnect of alternator : fuel pump and starter from battery; and automatically turns on hazard lights and interior lights / and unlocks doors • Interlocking door anchoring system to help protect against door intrusion in side impacts • LATCH attachments on child-restraint safety installation • Programmable Daytime Running Lights • Seat-mounted front side-impact airbags • Tire Pressure Monitor

Detailed Mechanical Features

• 3.0-liter dual overhead cam : 24-valve inline 230-horsepower 6-cylinder engine with composite magnesium/aluminum engine block / Valvetronic / and Double-VANOS steplessly variable valve timing• 4-wheel ventilated anti-lock disc brakes with Dynamic Brake Control• 5-link rear suspension with cast-aluminum upper transverse arms• Chrome-plated exhaust tips• Double-pivot type front suspension with dual forged-aluminum lower arms• Electronic throttle control• Engine Start/Stop button• Engine-speed-sensitive : variable-assist power steering• Extensive aluminum componentry including front suspension components ; subframe; steering rack; and brake components• Front and rear anti-roll bars• Rear wheel drive• Twin-tube gas-pressure shock absorbers

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David Norton’s turbocharged 2002 Lincoln: What a Luxury Performance Car Should Be

David Norton’s 900-horsepower wide-body Lincoln LS is an “if only” car. Imaginary auto executives fantasize, “if only they would let me build cars like that, I could fix Lincoln!” New car dealers dream, “if only they would ship me some of those, I could charge double the MSRP!” And the tetchy bean counters, anonymous committee persons, and bus-riding bureaucrats gleefully posit, “if only I could veto such outrageous, expensive engineering excess!”

Showroom-stock 2000 to 2006 Lincoln LS sedans did not typically spark such passionate thoughts. Sharing the DEW98 platform and engines with a forgettable Jaguar in Ford’s ill-fated Premium Auto Group (and in 2002-05 with the flaccid revival of the two-seat boulevardier Ford Thunderbird), the Lincoln LS was supposed to make a generation of young Europhiles forget about decades of Continental Mark-series mobile isolation chambers.

Although the LS triggered a round of nasty attorney letters between Toyota and Ford over whether anyone would confuse it with Lexus LS400s, the car did too little to shake young junior executives and fashion-plates out of their 5-series BMWs. In an age when average soccer moms wanted high-riding equipment for the Rubicon trail, and dads wanted to pretend the daily traffic jam was on the King Ranch, the underpowered Lincoln LS just never broke through the clutter. Then, as part of Ford’s “Way Forward,” the no-fun committee bureaucrats and penny-pinching bean counters killed it in favor of a cheaper, V8-less, front-wheel-drive Ford platform.

An LS was not David Norton’s first choice for a souped-up Lincoln. Norton, proprietor of SPEC Clutch in Bessemer, Alabama, has a history of building hot road-course iron, including a wide-body Porsche 944 turbo, a 700-horsepower Nissan 240, and an equally powerful BMW 135. Yet his initial conception for a “hot rod Lincoln” trended more toward Kennedy Continentals. “I sought but could not find a decent mid-‘60s coupe,” Norton reported.

Norton switched his attention to the lithe Lincoln LS. Norton admired the lines of Helmuth Schrader’s German-inspired design. “These chassis have a good wheelbase and rigidity for handling bigger power, and feature a 50/50 weight distribution,” Norton explained. Another advantage was that Norton found a one-of-2,331 LS equipped with a Getrag 221 five-speed manual transmission, which reduced the amount of fabrication necessary to fit the TKO600 gearbox behind the turbocharged Terminator DOHC V8 that the car should have had to start with.

An old friend who had been part of a defunct effort to campaign a Lincoln LS in Sports Car Club of America World Challenge racing supplied the final parts of the design. Norton took some broken, one-off fiberglass body components and shirt monogram artwork left over from the racing project, and had the wide-body design revamped for molding in featherweight carbon fiber. Norton’s team added a new carbon fiber hood, doors, bumpers and side skirts to complete “what we imagined a race car would look like.”

The final result is hotter than anything Bill Stroppe, Fran Hernandez, and Clay Smith came up with back when Ford could be bothered to actually race Lincolns. “It is very reliable and handles power better than ever imagined,” Norton said. “It is easy to drive, gets great fuel mileage, and is comfortable. Just what one would expect from a Lincoln.” It is an “if only” car indeed – with no Mathew McConaughey stream of consciousness existentialism necessary.

Tech Notes

Who: David Norton What: 2002 Lincoln LS Where: Bessemer, AL

Engine: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada’s Sean Hyland literally wrote the book on Modular Ford V8 performance (How to Build Max-Performance 4.6-Liter Ford Engines (Cartech, 2003)), so when Norton decided to consign the powerless Jaguar AJ 3.0 V6 to the wastelands, Sean Hyland Motorsports (SHM) got the call. In the end, SHM supplied a balanced 0.020-over Ford Terminator DOHC V8, displacing 283 cubic inches. A quartet of SMH 2723 camshafts, featuring 0.482/0.470 lift and 225/235 degrees of duration at 0.050-inch, conduct the battle symphony from atop ported SHM race four-valve heads with 52cc chambers. From the inside, the SHM Terminator block houses an OEM forged Ford crankshaft, Manley Pro Series I-beam rods, and boost-friendly Manley 11cc dish pistons. ARP head studs clamp down MLS head gaskets from the rebellion of 25 pounds of turbo boost. A mid-frame Borg Warner S400 75mm turbocharger, exhaling into a Sullivan EFI intake manifold brings Norton’s Terminator one step closer to serious horsepower. Breaking the habit of detonation, boost is chilled through a custom charge air cooler based on a Spearco core. Custom stainless steel 1.5-inch primary headers supply spent gas drive to the turbo. A Big Stuff 3 engine controller barks electronic orders to ID1050x injectors, dual Turbosmart Compgate 40 wastegates, and crank-triggered LSx coils on MSD Power Grid brackets. NGK TR6 spark plugs touch off the power making conflagrations. With an Evans water pump, SPAL dual 11-inch electric fans, and a Mocal oil cooler, Norton is less likely to burn it all down. Squelching unwanted sounds are a pair of Borla Shootout mufflers on 3.5-inch stainless steel exhaust pipes.

Transmission: Norton pulled a SPEC PT Trim Super Twin clutch and SPEC forged billet aluminum flywheel from his company’s stock and surrounded them with a Quicktime bellhousing. The SPEC clutch feeds the outpouring of SHM turbo power to a Pro Motion TKO 600 five-speed manual transmission, into a Driveshaft Services custom 4-inch driveshaft.

Rearend: Instead of waiting for the end of the light duty, OEM independent rear suspension, Norton had Barry Trivette and Harry Robinson of Robinson Racing Enterprises fabricate a custom four-link and Panhard bar, and fit in a lightweight Moser 9-inch Ford axle. The husky axle contains 3.50:1 final drive and hardened Moser axles.

Suspension: QA-1 Coilovers suspend all four corners of Norton’s Lincoln. Spherical links and polyurethane bushings firm up the OEM front and rear sway bars. The balance of the suspension and steering are Lincoln Wixom factory-issue.

Wheels/Tires: Stanley Chen of Toyo Tires supplied wide Toyo Proxes T1R tires in 235/35R19 (front) and 315/25R19 (rear) sizes to Norton’s wide-body project. Vincent Wong of I-Forged Wheels provided I-Forged Fortune 19×9.5 and 19×12 wheels to replace the spindly 17×7 Lincoln LS stockers.

Paint/Body: Lincoln ran out of clever names for the clearcoat black hue that cloaks the iridescent, custom dry carbon fiber wide body built by Goolsby Customs of Bessemer, AL. No castle of glass, the LS dry carbon fiber body parts are as much as 70% lighter than even lightweight wet carbon fiber without leaving out any strength. Goolsby Customs relocated the rear door jams to fit the Lincoln’s new wide look. A Fuel Safe fuel cell with a Sparco locking fuel door keeps the hydrocarbons-in-waiting secure.

Interior: Most “if only” enthusiasts will view the inside of Norton’s Lincoln as “somewhere I belong.” Augmenting the factory Lincoln leather-lined luxury is a custom Dakota Digital instrument package integrated into the OEM cluster. A Clarion NX706 head unit with an Arc Audio XDi 1200.6 amplifier, Arc Audio 6.2 and 5.2 components and two Arc Audio XDi 12D4 subwoofers, helping the listeners go numb. Danny Smith of Bessemer, AL handled the wiring. An Optima Yellow Top battery and a 1999 SVT Cobra alternator loose the juice for the entertainment system.

Performance: The potency of Norton’s Lincoln LS is not for the faint, with 900 horsepower at 5,800 rpm and 825 lbs/ft of torque at 5,500 rpm available at the wheels. Off-boost fuel economy checks in with a miserly 17 city/26 highway mpg. Top speed is drag limited to an estimated 200 mph.

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The Many Ways Of Accepting Payment For Your Music and Merch [HOW TO]

For DIY artists looking to monetize their creations, either through music, merch, or something else altogether, there are now more ways than ever to make it fast and easy to sell to your fans with just a single click. Here we walk through the many ways of making it happen.

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Guest post by Glenn Fleishman from Cash Music's Watt

Here’s the best case scenario for every artist: someone finds your music and falls in love with it, and they decide to support your project in some way. They want to buy some tracks or a full album. Or if they catch your live show, grab a t-shirt or other merch after your set. The worst thing that you could do in this situation? Making it hard for them to pay you.

The good news is that new ways to pay for physical or digital goods are popping up seemingly every day. And with them, many more options for the types of payments you can accept. The support of your fans is now a tap, swipe, or click away.

If you’ve never attempted to set up anything online or at your merch table outside of making sure you have enough change on hand to break a $20 bill, this article is here to help gently guide you into the process.

Accepting payment via the web

PayPal is, at this point, the default for most folks looking to accept payments online. Most often that comes from personal accounts where people can log in and pay using a PayPal balance or using stored credit card or bank information. For folks without an account, they can simply enter in their credit card information

Another great option is Stripe, but customers don’t have to set up a Stripe account like they do with PayPal. Stripe plugs into websites and apps, providing back-end credit card processing that is invisible to consumers except at the time they buy something from you online. With Stripe, people have to enter their credit-card information the first time they use it, but they can opt to link their payment information to a mobile phone and reuse it later at any site that relies on Stripe.

While PayPal and Stripe charge almost the same fees to accept payments, PayPal is often seen as more impersonal and sometimes hostile to merchants, freezing payments when a lot of money is collected at once—such as with an album release or a big event. Stripe has better and friendlier policies and customer support, and should be easier to work out the kinds of issues you’d face. The good news, though, is that you don’t have to pick between them. The CASH Music platform supports both PayPal and Stripe, and it makes sense for most purposes to accept both so that you don’t miss out on people who use their PayPal account balance to pay for things.

If you use Squarespace for Web hosting, you can connect Stripe there, too. On a plain Web site, you can also make a simple PayPal payment button that doesn’t require any programming, but you’ll have to handle sales manually. (There are many other payment processors, and different ecommerce and hosting sites may have relationships with them or let you use Stripe, too.)

The advantage with Stripe, however, is that you can also use it with Apple Pay, Apple’s smartphone-based payment system. Apple Pay launched in October 2014, and until October 2016 you could only use it for paying at a store’s point-of-sale terminal or for an in-app purchase on an iPhone (or via an Apple Watch).

But in October, Apple extended Apple Pay to work with its Safari browser in the latest operating systems for Mac and iPhone/iPad (macOS 10.12 Sierra and iOS 10). For people who have both Apple Pay set up and use Safari, when they go to pay on a Web site that uses Stripe, an Apple Pay button appears automatically. They can click or tap it, and then their associated iPhone or Watch lights up with information for them to approve. Much, much easier than entering credit card details.

Accepting payment by text, app, or person-to-person payment sites

Web sites are a great way to take payment directly, but there are other digital options that could be easier for some of your fans, and being set up to take them could result in retaining sales you might have lost from people who don’t want to pay on a Web site or don’t have a credit card or debit card.

Pay via Circle, Square Cash, Venmo, and others. Several companies have set up person-to-person payments systems that let you send small to large amounts of cash directly via their app. Many require that you set up a business account, in which every transaction has a fee that’s about the same as a credit-card payment. But these systems let people draw funds from a bank account or debit card at no cost and can be an alternative for many to credit cards. (See my in-depth article.)

Pay via P2P Web site. All of the sites above also let you use a Web site on a mobile or desktop browser to handle the transaction.You don’t have to have an app.

Pay via Apple’s iMessage. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPad running the latest operating system release, someone else with the same setup can “text” you money as an iMessage through Circle, PayPal, Square Cash, and Venmo. Accepting payment in person

I’m probably preaching to the choir here about accepting in-person payments, because anyone who performs in public and sells stuff themselves has already figured this out. But you might not be up to date with the latest.

Many artists I know long ago got a Square Reader, a dongle that plugs into an Apple or Android phone or tablet, and lets you swipe a credit card. PayPal makes a rather ugly versions of the same, offering up its Mobile Card Reader. The trick is that while the Square reader is free, PayPal charges $14.99 for its swiper (though you may find a better deal via retailers like Office Depot).

However, the latest and greatest Square scanner handles contactless payments from mobile devices, from an iPhone or Android phone, and accepts chip cards. The specialized reader for that costs $49 and also works with Apple and Android devices. Its full name is the Square Contactless and Chip Reader. (Check its list for phone and tablet compatibility; it’s much more restricted than the swiper.)

The price tag may seem high at $49, but people increasingly want to pay in a way that makes them feel more secure. The ease of tapping a phone reduces hassle, and both tapping and “dipping” a chip is safer overall, making people more comfortable with the purchase. The scanner has a built-in battery you can recharge through a standard USB cable, and Square also sells a charging dock for it. (You’re also protected against reversed charges or “chargebacks” if customers tap or dip if the card has a chip. If you swipe a chipped card, you’re responsible if there’s a dispute and you can’t prove the transaction involved the real cardholder.) PayPal offers much more complicated Chip Card Reader that also handles contactless payments and card swiping, and has a tiny screen, so the transaction can happen entirely on the device. But it costs a whopping $149 without any real advantage.

There’s one last low-tech/high-tech in-person payment method. If you’ve been reluctant to take personal checks, many banks and credit unions offer apps that let you deposit a check via a picture taken by a smartphone’s camera.

This option isn’t without issues. Snapping a check on the spot doesn’t verify whether the person has enough money in their account to cover it. Nor does it ensure the check isn’t forged, however unlikely that would be for someone buying your music or merchandise.

But it does have two benefits: first, it makes sure the check can be deposited correctly, and there’s nothing that will keep a bank from processing it, including the numbering information at the bottom that identifies the financial instituti on. Second, it clears more quickly: once you snap and deposit, the funds are available within a business day in most cases.

What you’ll need

Typically to get paid, all you’ll need is a checking account, although a few services also let you withdraw funds via a debit card account or even as a credit to a credit card. But make sure to read the fine print for any service you sign up for, because fees and timing may vary in cashing out the funds collected.

P2P services, like Venmo, tend to accumulate cash in an account, and have limits on how much and how frequently you can transfer funds out. But services will increase limits of all sorts if you provide them more information, such as your social security number’s last four digits and your date of birth, which further verifies your identity.

PayPal and Stripe don’t have a limit on how much you can accept, but do impose delays on withdrawals under certain circumstances, and may require you provide more documentation on your transactions if you’re charging hundreds of dollars a week and then suddenly bump up to thousands at once.

What this will cost you

The fees for transactions reflect a combination of the risk that a payment processor and credit network thinks it’s exposed to, the cost of overhead for handling moving money around, and a profit margin that’s impossible to know. But because there’s so much competition for small businesses (like yours!), fees and conditions started low and stayed there. That’s great news.

For most transactions, you pay about 3%, with an additional 30¢ if the transaction is not done in person. And that’s about it. There are no recurring fees and no rentals required, although as I explain above, you might have to pay for certain kinds of adapters or peripherals to accept cards and mobile payments.

So for an online $5 charge, you pay 45¢ of it: 3% of $5 is 15¢; add the 30¢ flat fee for a net of $4.55. This is rougher on small transactions, like someone buying a 99¢ track: you wind up paying about 33¢ (3¢ as a percentage plus the 30¢ flat fee) and keeping just 66¢.

For in-person charges where someone hands you a card, dips a chipped card into a slot, or taps to pay, the percentage is slightly better for you: 2.7 or 2.75% and there’s no flat fee added. For a $5 charge, you pay just 14¢, netting $4.86. You can also take phone orders and tap in a card with some of these systems designed for in-person use, but you pay a higher rate, because there’s more risk: it’s usually 3.5% plus 15¢.

For now, there’s no lower fee for dipped and tapped transactions, but that may change in the future.

Friction free

The fewer steps and the less typing and tapping, the more likely someone is to make a purchase or complete one in person. Take advantage of everything that’s out there so you’re not leaving fans who want your work and want to support you, but need more options through which to hand over the dough.

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