Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges takes a fresh look at this fascinating car from the angle of its Italian designer in The genesis of the Bugatti Type 53 / We share some of our highlights from this year's Rétromobile / Noel Macklin's Hudson - engined Railtons were among the fastest production
cars in the world in the 1930s.
The Volkswagen Group's trophy brand, Bugatti, made history when it gave us the fastest production
car in the world in 2005.
Two days ago, Ford announced that the new Focus was the most successful
car in the world in 2012.
In the week Ford built its 350 millionth car, the Ford Focus has been revealed as the best selling
car in the world in 2012.
Polk, probably the world's leading automotive data analysts, have revealed that the Ford Focus was the best selling
car in the world in 2012, selling 1,020,410 cars across the globe.
With more than 150,000 units sold worldwide Ford Mustang is the best - selling sports
car in the world in 2016.
Automotive data experts Polk have declared that the best selling
car in the world in 2012 was the Ford Focus, selling more than 1 million.
The SR - 71 claimed the title of the third fastest production
car in the world in 1990 for a fraction of the price of a Lamborghini Diablo and Ferrari F40 according to the designer Randy Ball.
Other showcases include racing The Stig's digital cousin, taking on some of Top Gear's challenges and racing some of the fastest
cars in the world in overtaking challenges.
Not exact matches
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.
But they also had a physical installation at SXSW, which featured the DeLorean from Back to the Future — the
car of choice for character Parzival
in the film's virtual - reality
world.
Topics which he has tackled range from looking at the latest models to hit the
car market to analyzing ground - breaking moments
in the technology
world.
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.
We will end up playing catch - up with the rest of the
world and miss out on the most amazing transition of our lifetimes: into an era
in which we become the drivers
in driverless
cars.
«You simply submerge
in a new
world with the ease of stepping into your
car and driving to the supermarket.»
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.
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.
In a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stoc
In a
world of connected
cars, they could help predictively maintain a
car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need
in stoc
in stock.
«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.
«I spent 30 years
in the corporate
world, most recently as CEO of Purolator, before moving to [
car - sharing co-op] Modo this year.
The NBA
world rallied behind Boston Celtics star point guard Isaiah Thomas after his 22 - year - old sister, Chyna, died
in a
car crash on Saturday.
Volkswagen's goals were audacious: It aspired to be the biggest seller of
cars in the
world under Piëch protégé Martin Winterkorn.
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.
It came out of nowhere and created the safest
car in America — or the
world, probably.
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.
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.
The investor shared one specific prediction for how machine learning will impact the
world in the next 10 to 15 years: Driverless
car technology will wipe out public transportation.
The
World Health Organization lists car - related death as one of the top 10 killers in the world, while far more people die of traffic fatalities in the United States than through gun viol
World Health Organization lists
car - related death as one of the top 10 killers
in the
world, while far more people die of traffic fatalities in the United States than through gun viol
world, while far more people die of traffic fatalities
in the United States than through gun violence.
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 car
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 car
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.
QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the
world's
car infotainment systems
in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system
in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.
Surely much lower cost than rail
cars and fixed track, and we have the
world's leading ferry builders
in our backyard too.
«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.
Gartner famously predicted that, come 2020, the
world will see 25 billion connected objects
in the consumer and business sectors:
cars, appliances, fitness devices, household products.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made bold predictions about colonies on Mars, artificial intelligence, and competition
in the self - driving
car world.
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.
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.
After PayPal: Departed after the eBay takeover and travelled the
world, before founding San Francisco venture capital firm Founders Firm (slogan: «We wanted flying
cars, we got 140 characters») with Thiel and Howery
in 2005.
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.
But a
world piloted by
cars under Cruise's control would have saved me from two heartstoppingly close calls
in the span of a single day.
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.