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The world’s quickest fast food delivery vehicle

Only in Dubai would you find a Jaguar XJ220 being used for fast food deliveries. This land of supercar excess will see an XJ220 deliver burgers, fries and shakes across the Emirate state. The car will be used by Mooyah, a posh new burger chain opening in Dubai’s Battuta mall.

Jeep Grand Cherokee, there’s an app for that

Chrysler said on Thursday that it will release its owner’s manuals as smartphone apps. This is in addition to replacing its hard-copy owner’s manuals with DVDs and small quick-reference guides, something it did last year. The first iPhone manual will be available on June 19, for the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

CES: GM to open the dashboard to developers

At last year's Autoweek Design Forum, father of the iPod and Nest Labs co-founder Tony Fadell suggested that automakers concentrate on designing and building cars, leaving handset makers to handle infotainment. The latest announcements from Ford and GM -- in conjunction with the International CES -- suggest that automakers would rather treat the dashboard space as a handset. Yesterday, Dearborn, Mich., announced the Ford Developer Program, which opens up Sync to outside application development; now General Motors has announced a similar initiative.