Sentences with phrase «car companies seem»

Now, all car companies seem to be doing well on rust prevention, considering how much salt they dump on the roads up north.

The German car companies seem to understand service information better than most, with many of their automobiles clearly displaying the time and miles to the next service as soon as you start the car.

Still, car companies seem to think the threat is big enough to warrant multi-million investments in mobility services.

But with plug - in kits costing $ 10,000 and up, mass production by car companies seems to be one of the only ways plug - ins will become any major part of daily life.

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The company will find you a mechanic also to accompany you to a used - car dealer; again, it seems like the mechanic would have a fair amount of discretion in offering his or her services.

This would seem to be the credo of ridesharing company Uber, which is now onboarding the pair of automotive security researchers responsible for hacking a Jeep Cherokee this summer while a writer for Wired was at the car's helm.

Whatever happens, the company's future seems inextricably linked with wireless communications if it truly hopes to be a force in robot cars.

The Nissan people kept hectoring Levandowski about vehicle - to - vehicle communication, which the company's engineers (and many in the automotive industry) seemed to see as a significant part of the self - driving car solution.

Tata's investment in Faraday Future might seem like a hefty sum to pay on a company that is seemingly out of runway, but gaining access to Faraday's intellectual property could be a small investment for Tata's subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover, which looks to launch its own series of fully electric cars.

So ubiquitous are self - driving cars expected to become, «it seems likely that eventually many people will no longer feel the need to own a car or even know how to drive,» according to management consulting firm Bain & Company.

It's remarkable how negative hype mounts when you're running the world's hottest car company, and can't seem to hit production targets for your best - selling — actually, that is the most - ordered, since Tesla can't sell them until it builds them — model, the $ 35,000 - and - up Model 3 sedan.

I can't sit here and tell you to focus only on stocks that seem likely to have strong market power when you have car dealerships trading around book value and bus companies trading around 3 times EBITDA.

«When a big bank or car company goes bankrupt, it gets bailed out, but no one seems to be bailing out the ordinary people who are losing their jobs and seeing their savings diminished.»

Toyota's fuel - sipping sedan has become iconic for gasoline — electric hybrid technology, so much so that the model seems to cast a green aura over the world's largest car company.

Then, it may seem silly that the people driving without proper youall of the policyholders fault or they simply are driving you do get a more reliable than ever before but now the tables have turned to insurance companies that offer froma car, you'll need to spend more amount in damages as well as looking online you will want to do a search on the roads of the policy.

But while the criticisms may sting the sensitive - seeming John Lasseter and company, it's likely to have run off their shoulders easily: «Cars 2» outgrossed its predecessor globally and moved product like it was a damned garage sale, and signs are that they're back to their more creative side for this year's «Brave.»

Whether they are in car adverts, backdrops to photoshoots or decorating the offices of the world's leading companies, they seem to be everywhere.

AM: To that point, the notion that many car enthusiasts and some media members seem to have is, if a certain type of car company builds something outside of its traditional wheelhouse, it ruins the brand or devalues the cars that people do love about the brand.

And if this price point seems like an ambitious playground for a car company from Korea, then what to make of the recently introduced Kia K900 sedan, which starts at $ 60,400?

I am not intentionally being negative towards vw, so far their cars seem to be sensible but fun and economical, but of course for any company the goal is profit so they will change based on the WANTS of their buyers.

There are also many smaller companies offering LED headlights, they seem to be mostly audiophile and car enthusiast specialty sites.

Yet we forget that Musk drove a McLaren F1 to the very first showing of the Tesla Roadster at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, back in 2006, and as he has struggled to build the company's cars and make them reliable since then, he seems to have acquired a deeper understanding of things automotive.

We'll see the concept in the flesh at Frankfurt, but for now, we're just happy that Kia seems to be continuing on the path it's set up with the Stinger — the company's most dynamic car yet.

Altough this seems not so critical, cause the all insane shareholders of Tesla (I m not one of these) don t seem to give a damm about if Tesla is making money or not (any other car company values would crash), but over the years Tesla needs to make profit, and I doubt that this is possible.

This sandbagging seems to reflect the pride and prejudice of a company that's still primarily a race team rather than any actual shortcomings in the cars.

«To add speed, add lightness,» company founder Colin Chapman famously said, and with the aluminum Elise chassis, Lotus seemed to have finally found a way to adhere to its traditional lightweight values while making a car that was strong enough to meet 21st - century crash standards, if you will, head on.

It's said that Enzo Ferrari built road cars simply to fund his passion for racing, and it seems that something of that spirit lives on at Maranello today in the way that the company has no qualms about using its supercar back - catalogue to reference the performance of its latest road cars.

Aside from hardly radical, me - too styling that left the imagination untaxed and the heartstrings worryingly slack, the new cars seemed at first blush to break faith with the company's long - standing tradition of game - changing technical innovation and lightweight construction at all costs, being larger and heavier than anything that had come from Lotus before.

Seeing as Mahindra has its own fair share of troubles, namely its long - delayed entry into the U.S. market, the idea of the automaker purchasing anything — let alone another car company — seems like bad comedy.

The dynamic gains don't seem to reflect the engineering effort that the company has put into the chassis; this isn't a car that will tempt those wedded to a great driving experience.

Audi has long been considered one of the world's great luxury car names, but up until recently, the company seemed content not making waves when it came to rivals BMW and Mercedes - Benz.

The company says in 18 months, which seems to be a proper time frame, it will deliver 25 «Founders Edition» road cars, race at the 24 Hours Nurburgring AND will have scaled up its production to produce 250 cars per year here at a factory in the U.S., possibly in Detroit.

No doubt due to the coveted «millennial» demographic coming of age as the current buyers for new cars it seems appropriate that companies like Toyota and Honda race to their attention.

While it might have seemed like an unusual move for a company known exclusively for its sports cars, Porsche explained the maneuver as being necessary to maintain the financial stability necessary to compete against larger automakers.

This stylish hatchback has been only launched with a diesel engine option, which seems to be a very good ploy by the company as the diesel hatchback's are very much in demand presently in the car market.

The steering system in the concept is drive by wire — a technology that has already made it into Infiniti production cars, and the company seems to be sticking with it.

Just like every other model in the Kia range, the Kia Soul comes with a seven - year warranty, although it seems that you're unlikely to need to get any work carried out in the first years of ownership, as the company's cars are impressively reliable.

Torsten knows that, unless — and this seems unlikely — he hasn't seen the bit on the company stationery that reads «Rolls - Royce Motor Cars».

While there are many brilliant cars in production from the likes of many companies, no one seems to produce such passionate driving machines as consistently as BMW; indeed, they are the «Ultimate Driving Machine».

Another company has turned their attention to the successful Lamborghini Huracan as a base for their aerodynamic alterations and power increase, Ares Design might be a relatively new name in the world of tuners, but after taking a look at their various cars, and more specifically the bright red Huracan on this page it seems they are trying to match themselves against the likes of Mansory.

Electric car sales overall are far from brisk, but other companies seem to be doing better.

And it also noticed that no other car company, except for Audi, seemed to take the AWD car market seriously.

«It seems rather unusual that the same companies who were urging the manufacturers to install anti-lock braking systems are now removing the discounts from cars and trucks that have those systems,» said William H. Noack, General Motors Corp.'s regional director of communications.

With a standardly fit diamond grille and taillights that have a new tailored cut, the Mercedes - Benz CLA and CLA Shooting Brake seem fit for the driving performance that the Stuttgart - based car company has always been so keen on.

Interestingly, BMW claims the new M3 is appreciably faster than its predecessor over the Nordschleife (northern loop) of the hallowed Nurburgring (where all performance cars seem to be fine - tuned these days), but company boffins refuse to divulge the car's best lap time.

Also, as far as OEM wheels, American car companies, and maybe Japanese ones seem to use wheels on the narrow end of the spec for the tire size fitted.

Finding several examples of ugly cars among Mercedes - Benz's portfolio since the company was founded until present day might not seem an easy task.

If the National Highway Trafffic Safety Administration has its way, the auto industry will be forced to install rear shoulder belts not only on passenger cars but on many rear - outboard seats in trucks, multipurpose vehicles and light buses.The companies that seem likely to be most affected are Chrysler Motors, Ford, Nissan and Suzuki.The NHTSA is considering a rule to require rear shoulder belts for 1990 passenger cars, except convertibles, and 1992 convertibles, trucks, multipurpose vehicles and light buses.

Manufacturers seem determined to turn themselves into one big car company, producing a limited number of subcompacts cloned under several different nameplates.

Granted, choosing a Javelin for such a project may seem like a weird choice with much more popular muscle cars around, but it's great to see that big companies like Ringbrothers is trying something different for a change.