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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: March 19, 2015, 11:24 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Mercedes’ F 015 self-driving car[/glow]
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HTML http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mercedes-benz-f-015-live-2015-sg-11.jpg
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J0KfREjCzM
More...
HTML http://www.slashgear.com/i-hitched-a-ride-in-mercedes-f-015-self-driving-car-19374303/
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Chiprocks1 Date: March 23, 2015, 10:14 am
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[center]Self-Driving Car Makes Progress on Cross-Country
Expedition
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tANLQAUQss8
Very interesting to see play out. But given the type of
personality that I am, I always tend to look at the worst in a
situation to better inform my decision and all I can think
regarding this is what happens when a computer hacker gains
access to the car's mainframe and starts running people off the
road? This sh*t isn't fantasy, it's a very real problem. I just
don't like the idea of my life or anyone else's being in the
hands of a complete stranger behind a computer screen.
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: March 23, 2015, 11:26 am
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that's funny... I sent my son this information too and he
immediately replied with a frown and everything wrong with it.
He sounded like an old man... like me. ;D
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: June 22, 2015, 11:38 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Clear Trucks[/glow]
What a cool innovative idea
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GNGfse9ZK8
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: August 7, 2015, 11:02 am
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OHMYGAWD
[glow=red,2,300]Charger prototype finding its way to Model S
[/glow]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMM0lRfX6YI
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Chiprocks1 Date: March 26, 2016, 4:15 pm
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[center]FOX Car Report - Return of the Trans Am
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNWjaidV4go
When I was in Elementary School, there were only 2 cars that I
lusted after, the Corvette and the Trans Am. Sadly, I still
don't own either one. I like this new design. It's modern but
still retaining that classic look.
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: March 26, 2016, 4:53 pm
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I [s]liked[/s] loved the Trans Am... for it's time.
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: April 8, 2016, 12:14 pm
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Is Tesla the Donald Trump of the automotive industry?
Very interesting article on the state of the auto sales,
electric cars and the established industry of selling cars...
Tesla Model 3 depositors vs Chevy Bolt EV: sea change or double
standard?
[quote]More than 325,000 potential buyers have put down $1,000
apiece for a Tesla Model 3 electric car that they won't get for
two years, if not considerably longer than that.
Which must frustrate the electrification team at General Motors
deeply.
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV with more than 200 miles of range and
a starting price of $37,500 is already in pre-production, and
could go on sale late this year—fully a year before Tesla's
announced delivery date for the Model 3.
Two recent articles from Detroit news outlets convey different
reactions to this disparity.
"If you are an executive at a venerable automaker whose company
is working on the same technology," writes reporter Richard
Truett in industry trade journal Automotive News, "seeing crowds
waiting in line to lay down a deposit for a Model 3 had to have
been tough to watch."
The piece goes on to compare the crowd eagerness for Tesla not
to anything else in the auto industry, but the enthusiasm for
the latest consumer electronic devices from Apple.
Remember those lines for the first iPhone, or the first iPad?
Same thing, suggests Truett—who calls himself "an Apple
devotee"—ending his piece this way: "If Tesla is the automotive
equivalent of Apple, the industry will be forever changed."
But why aren't the crowds just as eager for the Bolt EV, you
might ask?
One answer is that they could well be, but General Motors didn't
choose to crowd-source its development funding and reap the
associated marketing benefits of such high numbers.
But another is that GM itself can't take deposits for the car.
It's not legally allowed to sell you a Chevy Bolt EV.
Instead, you must purchase the car from an independently-owned
third party known as a car dealer, under state franchise laws,
after haggling for the vehicle
Both GM and Tesla have many hurdles to cross before electric
cars become a sustainable, profitable, and preferred choice for
significant volumes of car buyers.
But if buyers are viewing an electric car more like a very
expensive piece of consumer electronics, and willing to put down
$1,000 for two or more years to get in line for one, the
auto-industry standard practices that prevent GM from acting
more like Tesla may be seen as confounding and inexplicable.
Savvy industry observer and commentator Daniel Howes explores
this "double standard" in comparing the Bolt EV to the Model 3
in a Detroit News opinion piece this morning.
"The disruption of Detroit has a name," he opens, "and it’s
Tesla Motors Inc."
Howes goes on to note that he asked a ranking GM executive about
the two companies and disparity in their public receptions. (The
executive chose to stay anonymous.)
"He sighed, mumbled something about Tesla being a tech company
dabbling in autos instead of an auto company dabbling in tech,"
Howes writes, "and added that there’s 'no justifiable reason'
for Tesla’s valuation.
Then comes the punchline:
Musk gets the benefit of the doubt from investors, customers,
even a skeptical media.
GM? Not so much, which should be not at all surprising given its
long history of mediocrity, of false promises, of playing a more
conservative game than it talks.
In other words, Tesla gets the benefit of the doubt for the
desirable cars it's launched and the remarkable things it's done
(Supercharger networ, cough) in a very short time.
GM is still atoning for past sins of product design, sins of
assembly quality, sins of financial mismanagement and lack of
board oversight, and many more.
he auto-industry truism in the end is that it's all about the
product.
Which should make the Bolt EV versus Tesla Model 3 battle a
fascinating one indeed. (And then there's the next Nissan Leaf
too.)
Lay in some popcorn, folks. This promises to be fun to
watch.[/quote]
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Mac Date: December 18, 2016, 11:23 am
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You guys might like this...
Nissan Rogue Limited Edition Star Wars
HTML https://youtu.be/18BqKMkoLcU
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Re: New Automobiles
By: Neumatic Date: January 22, 2017, 10:46 pm
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Finally going through my inspiration subscriptions for the first
time in ages and oh my god look at this bike!
HTML http://abduzeedo.com/industrial-design-motorbike-great-japan
[center]
HTML https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/1400/7790f946742741.58659e7ece23b.jpg[/center]
That's a dang sweet lookin' ride.
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