The 2015 Ford Focus, the world’s best-selling nameplate, is expected to hold onto this coveted title with a bold new look that emulates other recent Ford vehicle designs and more advanced technologies that improve driver comfort and ...
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With the launch of Sensus Connect, Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) reveals an updated on-board infotainment and navigation solutions. Now, Volvo Cars truly offers customers a fully connected experience. The cloud-based services allow drivers ...
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U.S. officials are planning to announce Monday whether automakers should be required to equip new cars and light trucks with technology that enables vehicles to communicate with each other to prevent collisions. Such vehicle-to-vehicle ...
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Sears’ new “In-Vehicle Pickup” feature allows its mobile app users to pick up their online purchases at their local Sears store within five minutes of arrival, without leaving the car. Related Sears Sears Shutting Flagship ...
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McLaren Automotive will return to the International Geneva Motor Show this year with its fastest, most engaging, best equipped and most beautiful series-production supercar yet. The McLaren 650S joins the range as an additional model ...
At the next Geneva Motor Show (March 6 - 16, 2014), it will also pack an all-new, three-cylinder turbo gasoline engine endowed with benchmark-setting running refinement, low-end torque and efficiency. And that's not all: this new ...
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Peugeot will unveil two all-new models and two innovative engine technologies at the forthcoming Geneva Motor Show. They signal the start of the next phase in the revamp of the Brand’s entire model range, which is already the youngest ...
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Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
Introduction A glass material becomes smart glass when it is coated or laminated with some smart material or when sensors or other electronics are embedded into it. Smart glass has found used in buildings as well as in vehicles. This ...
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Renault has provided a fresh look at its celebrated city car, the first-generation Twingo. This move comes two decades after the company launched the first version of Twingo. The brand's engineers and designers started from a blank sheet ...
Green Automotive Company, a state-ofthe- art niche vehicle design, engineering, manufacturing, and sales company, driving innovation in the use of cutting edge zero and low emission technologies, today announced that its UK subsidiary ...
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Following its global debut almost exactly one year ago in Geneva, new international car brand, Qoros, presents the world premiere of its second series production car, the new Qoros 3 Hatch, at the 2014 Geneva International Motor Show. ...
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Axalta Coating Systems will begin the next phase of construction to significantly expand its waterborne production capacity at the company's operations in Guarulhos, Brazil. The 2014 construction represents the third year of a $32 million ...
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BASF and BMW have once again teamed up, this time for the i3, the BMW Group’s first model driven entirely by electric power. BASF is supplying basecoats in four colors for the new i3 production line at the BMW plant in Leipzig. The ...
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance sold a record 8,266,098 vehicles in 2013, propelled by record sales in the car group’s two largest markets, China and the United States. Renault-Nissan's 2013 calendar-year sales, which include sales of ...
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