Sentences with phrase «m car world»

MPG and running costs > Being the entry - point to the M car world, economy is decent with the DCT equipped model rated at 35.8 mpg.

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This isn't especially far - fetched in a world where insurance companies are already using sensors in cars to monitor driving habits and adjust policies accordingly.

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

And for me, there's nobody with a better reputation for creating loyal relationships with buyers than Joe Girard, deemed the «Greatest Car Salesman» by The Guinness Book of World Records.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

When Maoli left logistics for luxury car sales, he brought Gabriele with him and took over his first dealership, Lexus of Route 10 in Whippany, N.J. And that's when they discovered that the rarefied world of luxury autos also had a lot to learn from the hotel business.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon visits the Beijing Auto Show to see how automakers are gearing up to compete in one of the world's largest car markets.

Four of the world's largest automakers are part of a new group working to bring blockchain technology, which underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, to your car.

My fondest memory of taking the family to Disney World is of eavesdropping on an exhausted couple and their glazed - over children in a desolate parking lot, arguing about whether they'd left their car in the Pluto section or the Goofy section.

The technology companies are betting that consumers will prefer a standardized in - car Internet experience from one car to the next over a world in which every car's dashboard Internet works differently.

We've got a new partnership with MasterCard, where we're powering the loyalty system for an entire brand, and we're moving into the world of connected cars.

It is now the iconic search engine offering email services, digital advertising, a complete analytics suite, cloud storage, cloud word processing applications, the world's most popular mobile operating system to creating driverless cars.

But the size of the market we're pursuing — data centers, autonomous driving, video games and virtual reality, industrial design — our technology is being used by almost every car company, movie... so almost every data center in the world will be accelerated by GPUs.

The takeover, valued at $ 8 billion including debt, has been broadly welcomed in a sport featuring famous car brands such as Ferrari, McLaren and world champions Mercedes, and which has the Monaco Grand Prix as its jewel in the crown.

«Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day,» wrote Musk in a 2014 blog post.

Since Japan is reliant on selling cars and electronics to the world, that currency appreciation did serious damage.

Volkswagen's goals were audacious: It aspired to be the biggest seller of cars in the world under Piëch protégé Martin Winterkorn.

After World War II, Piëch's uncle Ferry Porsche led a de facto research and development center for VW, an arrangement that provided income to build the sports cars for which Porsche is now famous.

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is sending 5,000 connected cars that can wirelessly communicate with other vehicles and infrastructure onto the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich., in a real - world experiment designed to move autonomous driving closer to reality.

He is the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who built cars for the Austro - Hungarian imperial family before World War I, long before Hitler tapped him to build the People's Car.

World of Tomorrow stuff, but even though Tesla was officially served notice in 2017 that it won't have the electric - car realm all to itself for much longer, there was another major transportation story that loomed over everything else.

This is exactly what US News and World Report delved into when creating a list of the best cars for the money.

When the exhibition resumed after the First World War, car makers, which had yet to begin mass production, were flooded with orders from customers who had to wait months for delivery.

The Japanese car maker will be showing off its «active safety research vehicle, Intelligent Transport Systems and 2013 Lexus LS — equipped with the world's most advanced pre-collision safety system» — at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.

Since then however, virtually all of the world's major automakers have ramped up self - driving car efforts and are currently testing prototype vehicles with various levels of autonomous capabilities.

As Sasa Zorovic, senior analyst for Janney Montgomery Scott, puts it, «They have phenomenal horse and buggy stuff, but we're in a world where cars are taking off.»

It's been an exciting year for self - driving car projects that people can actually see and experience in the real world: In December, Google announced it was spinning out its self - driving car project into Waymo, a company that will partner with automakers to put driverless technology into cars.

It's cheap, it's more diversified than our domestic market and Japan is still a world leader in a number of sectors, such as cars and machinery.

In those happier economic times, when Muhammad Ali was still the world's best - known Muslim, projections for the ultra-luxury car market were rosy.

And he talked about the company's investments in self - driving cars, a new office in Silicon Valley, and transforming Ford into a «mobility» company that was thinking about a world where people might not own cars outright.

«When you go through life, what you'll find is what you take out of the world over time — be it money, cars, stuff, accolades — is much less important than what you've put into the world.»

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

Amazon greatly improved its business by exploring product categories other than books and car manufacturers are currently investing billions in electric car technology in order to be able to compete in a post-carbon world.

While most of the world would simply buy a larger house, a nicer car and better wardrobe, I've been sinking this cash into several other more productive avenues, including more real estate investments, paying off debt and going on some relaxing vacations.

«Our objective and our vision is... more people around the world driving electric cars,» Formula E Holding's Ali Russell told Sustainable Energy.

While car fans across the world will be disappointed, many Britons will smile at the idea of Clarkson's career possibly being cut short.

The thing is a feather in the wind, the most defiantly tossable car in the world, stylish and free - spirited, and, unlike the British roadsters that inspired it, utterly reliable.

They aren't selling cars and consequently aren't seeing much practical real - world testing.

China is now the largest SUV market in the world and last year SUV sales rose more than 30 %, while passenger cars sales climbed only around 10 %, according to China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Today its truck and minivan sales in the U.S. are still growing, and with expectations that revived world economic growth is on the horizon, it is also poised to sell more cars and SUVs in emerging markets such as China, says Oakmark's Bill Nygren.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

So optimistic is Udacity about the future of self - driving cars, that the online learning platform recently launched a contest offering $ 100,000 to anyone who can build the world's first open - source autonomous vehicle.

Microsoft's critical advantage is that in our new connected world, where we get into strangers» cars, invite strangers to stay in our homes and buy things from strangers all over the world, nothing matters more than trust.

In fairness, consumers may be wary to trust companies in the space because they have yet to interact with the cars in a real - world setting.

Breslow had been fascinated by driverless cars since seeing an exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

And transit agencies around the world have been tying their GPS - tracked fleets into Internet systems that can tell riders when the next car is arriving.

«The end of car ownership is real, serious, and going to change your world,» Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer told auto - industry executives at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November.

«For certain areas in the classic car world, you could say so (the market is decelerating),» Tim Schofield, Bonhams U.K. head of cars, told CNBC on Tuesday.

Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day.

But whether your idea of the good life is a big house and a fast car, making the world a better place, or producing work of lasting value in your discipline, are there any common habits that will help get you there?