Speaking with Autocar, executives from the BMW i brand are still undecided on the long - term fate of the two
cars it launched with.
Two years ago, Project
CARS launched with a litany of bugs.
Easier said than done, and in the same way you inevitably arrive at
a car launch with hopes and maybe a fear or two.
The third generation of
the car launched with the 2014 model year.
The second and current production generation of
the car launched with the 2012 model year.
Originally launched in 2007, the first generation of the Hyundai i30 — company's first
car launched with the «i» prefix, introducing a new nomenclature and heralding a new era for Hyundai in Europe — has gone through two facelifts before arriving in its all - new form here on the Frankfurt Motor Show stage.
This car launches with the intensity of a sniper rifle bullet leaving a barrel, with more than 500hp constantly taunting the traction control.
Given the GT500s tractable engine
the car launches with authority and provides exceptional scope for driver input and skill with or without the cars traction control activated.
Not exact matches
Wrapify, based in San Francisco and
launched in July, takes an idea that's long been in the marketplace — wrapping
cars with company logos and marketing messages — and drives it into the 21st century.
Still, Lyft (early tagline: «Your friend
with a
car»)
launched with a considerably different style and business model than Uber's original black -
car service.
And Ellis says Relativity has $ 1 billion in letter - of - intent
launch contracts, largely
with companies looking to send up midsize satellites about the size of a
car.
In an attempt to connect
with millennials, the Ontario Toyota Dealers Association (OTDA)
launched TMatch, an online tool that's supposed to help first - time buyers find the perfect
car for their lifestyle.
Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully
launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world
with a Tesla Roadster sports
car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.
With enough fuel and the right trajectory, Falcon Heavy has enough thrust to
launch a payload heavier than a
car to Pluto, let alone Mars.
Since then, Diamandis has
launched several other X Prizes: a $ 10 million purse for fuel - efficient
cars, another for rapid - fire genomic decoding, and a third,
with Google, to send an unmanned rover to the moon, for $ 30 million.
Removing the driver is critical to enable the autonomous mobility services that Uber, Waymo, Lyft, and many automakers plan to
launch with self - driving
cars.
(It's worth noting that on the day Uber
launched UberPool, its carpooling feature, the news arrived in a blog post
with this line: «Since the early days of Uber, we've been excited about the idea of providing transportation so inexpensive and reliable, people can actually sell their
cars.»)
BMW has said it would
launch a fully autonomous
car by 2021, while Ford Motor has said it will introduce a vehicle
with similar capabilities for ride - sharing purposes in the same year.
Uber will also
launch Uber Rent, its first
car - sharing product, beginning
with San Francisco.
The Chiron is the successor to the Bugatti Veyron, which
launched in 2005 and became the fastest production
car on the planet,
with the Super Sport version hitting a top speed of over 260 miles per hour
with 1,200 horses.
The skills - focused platform recently
launched a scholarship in partnership
with Lyft for an «Intro to Self - Driving
Cars» program, in an attempt to make it easier for workers to enter the field.
Avis
Car Rental this week announced the
launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along
with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.
Unless a former University of Oregon athlete teamed up
with his track coach to
launch your company from the trunk of his
car, your story doesn't match the Nike story.
In the meantime, the Byton SUV is expected to
launch next year,
with the intention of being a
car that features a «living room» feel.
Sources revealed that the electric
car company has spoken
with all the major labels regarding plans to
launch its own music streaming service.
Aggarwal, an IIT Guwahati alumnus, worked briefly
with used -
car marketplace Gozoomo, while Maheshwari worked
with e-commerce marketplace Flipkart and tech startup CodeNation before
launching Healofy.
It has just
launched a real - world pilot of self - driving
cars in Pittsburgh — though it's not on par
with Google technologically — and got one of the original members of Google's self - driving project when it acquired autonomous trucking company Otto.
This «full package» of autonomous technologies could then be sold to
car makers that want to create and then alter their own offerings, in a manner not unlike how Google
launched its Android efforts
with both mobile software and hardware.
When Uber
launched in Delhi, he was driving for a
car rental company that Uber partnered
with.
Tesla has forged a partnership
with Panasonic that will help the electric
car company fuel its dreams of building a gigafactory that will introduce low - cost battery packs that will
launch the electric
car into the mainstream market.
The first is
with instant
car - booking service Getaround, which
launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in 2011 to enable
car owners to rent their vehicles to neighbors, tourists and other people within their city.
In addition to a voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles that owes to a problem
with the power - steer component of some of the
cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week
launched an investigation into the role of Tesla's Autopilot in a fatal crash.
Famed automotive designer Henrik Fisker will be making his return to the luxury electric
car scene
with a new company
launching next year.
Amazon has tied up
with carmakers for Alexa - powered features in their infotainment systems and the latest move shows its ambitions to
launch a range of smart speakers for
cars on its own.
As if all that unhinged power wasn't enough, The D comes
with «Insane Mode,» unleashing the
car's full acceleration potential
with a no - holds - barred
launch mode calibrated for maximum thrust.
The initial
launch events will include live demonstrations on how to activate the can, promotional giveaways, shave ice snow cones
with West Coast Chill, and Savolt Motorsports
cars sponsored by West Coast Chill.
As a tribute to
launch announcements, we've come up
with our own, ft a silhouetted
car (ooooh) AND a cover (aaaah)!
We all got a nasty surprise when the F1 2014
car launches got going,
with weird nose after weird nose.
With car launches not far away it'll be interesting to see if there's much difference in what the teams have done with the aerodynamics of their Ha
With car launches not far away it'll be interesting to see if there's much difference in what the teams have done
with the aerodynamics of their Ha
with the aerodynamics of their Halos.
To be fair to Albon he was somewhat unlucky that his
car launched in the air in such a way, and
with a championship on the line you can't really blame him for a small heat - of - the - moment misjudgement.
McLaren went all out for its 1997 F1
car launch,
with the Spice Girls — at the time, one of the biggest music acts in the world — performing at London's Alexandra Palace for the unveiling of the new MP4 / 12, signalling a new livery direction
with the black and silver West colour scheme.
With all the
cars now
launched the next phase of pre-season gets underway — testing.
It's set to be a busy week of
car launches,
with the Sauber reveal being the first actual photos we've seen of a 2017
car, following the Williams render reveal last week.
Another day, another F1
car reveal as
launch week continues
with Ferrari unveiling the
car that it'll race
with this year, called the SF70H.
Each type of
car launch has its pros and cons, whether that's to do
with costs, fan involvement, logistics or exposure.
The 2017
car launches have been relentless since the start of the week,
with Sauber, Renault, Force India and Mercedes already showing off their F1 machines (and Williams sharing a render of its FW40).
Sauber is next to show off its 2017
car,
with images set to drop on the 20th, before Renault
launches the RS17 on the 21st and
car launch week really gets going from there.
The
launches continue tomorrow when Force India will reveal their
car,
with the other teams following suit later in the week before pre-season testing gets underway on the 27th.
The
car Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will be racing
with this year (and likely to be bulletproof, knowing Mercedes) will be
launched at Silverstone on Thursday.
Teams taking the covers off their new
cars through online reveals or pit lane
launches have become pretty common in recent years, but while people go mad for the updates on social media, it'd be cool to bring the fans closer to the new
cars with reveals at the circuit itself, perhaps the day before the first test.