Sentences with phrase «executive car with»

The BMW 3 Series in particular achieved a commendable 78 % in pedestrian protection, a good result for a compact executive car with no active bonnet.

Purchased used from dealer (executive car with only 22K miles) It was extremely well taken care of and looks and drives brand new... still smells new!

The S7's interesting and distinctive styling is due to Audi's unusual concept of creating a sleek executive car with a hatchback boot opening that gives a dose of practicality that's rare in this class.

Not exact matches

Ford Motor Co on Monday said it was replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with James Hackett, the head of the unit developing self - driving cars, in response to investors» growing unease over the U.S. carmaker's stock performance and prospects.

Fiat Chrysler executives are considering options including a plan to spin off the upscale Maserati and Alfa Romeo divisions and its car - components operations, according to people familiar with the discussions.

They add that Project Titan has been «re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with existing carmakers, or return to designing its own vehicle in the future» and that «executives have given the car team a deadline of late next year to prove the feasibility of the self - driving system and decide on a final direction.»

JERUSALEM, Oct 2 - Electric car venture Better Place said it had replaced chief executive officer Shai Agassi with the CEO of its Australia unit, five years after Agassi founded the company.

Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood from the beginning the need to partner with car companies and early on sought to imagine how that collaboration might work.

Page oversaw major changes to Google's business structure in 2015, starting with the creation of Alphabet, the holding company that manages Google and all of its related ventures, including Nest, Calico, and Google X. Previously the chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet, which has its hands in everything from home automation to self - driving cars to prolonging human life.

For example, Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, made a splash last month when he said his company would install autopilot in his company's electric sports cars that will help with parking, cruise control and crash avoidance.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

Summer 2015: Anthony Levandowski meets with then - Uber executive Brian McClendon and expresses interest in starting a self - driving car startup that Uber could buy to acquire Waymo's lidar team, according to testimony from Waymo engineer Pierre - Yves Droz.

Tesla, the electric car company of which Elon Musk is chairman, chief executive, and the largest shareholder (with a 26.5 % stake), has just made an offer to acquire SolarCity, the clean energy company of which Elon Musk is chairman and the largest shareholder (with a 22.2 % stake.)

«Mr. Levandowski had previously told me, in or around the summer of 2015, that he had talked with Brian McClendon, an Uber executive involved with their self - driving car project,» a sworn testimony from Waymo engineer Pier - Yvez Droz reads.

«Mr. Levandowski had previously told me, in or around the summer of 2015, that he had talked with Brian McClendon, an Uber executive involved with their self - driving car project,» Pierre Yvez - Droz, an engineer at Waymo, wrote in a sworn testimony.

That's a marked change compared with just last year, when authorities fined Baidu's CEO Robin Li after the firm's executives drove an autonomous car in Beijing in July.

It has had to address allegations of sexism in the workplace; it's grappled with the missteps of its chief executive, Travis Kalanick, who on Tuesday revealed he would take a leave of absence from the company; and it finds itself locked in a legal war against Google amid accusations that one of Uber's former top engineers stole self - driving car technology from the search giant.

According to a lengthy report by Business Insider on the state of Faraday Future, interviews with eight unnamed people with knowledge of the business of the electric car company revealed that Faraday Future was «in shambles,» with over a half - dozen senior executives leaving since last year's spring.

Chief Executive Officer, Taco Bell Corp. «To think a business like ours that spans 6,000 restaurants around the globe, started with a walk - up window no bigger than a two - car garage is truly inspirational.

He has sent copies of an Indy car design with fenders to IRL founder Tony George and to the organization's executive director, Leo Mehl.

After parking her car, she retrieved a duffel of supplies from her trunk and headed up four flights of stairs to see Jenny Crutchlow, a 43 - year - old opera singer / executive recruiter who was eight months» pregnant with her third child.

The county executive race this year has taken a nasty turn, with charges of marital infidelity, a hushed car accident and lots of ink about Latimer's failure to pay the one thing everyone in Westchester hates: property taxes.

Schumer joined Rockland County Executive Ed Day near the train tracks on New Main Street in Haverstraw, where last week a CSX train collided with a commercial truck carrying cars.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney told a Syracuse.com editorial board that she used the five or six hours she spent riding with the governor in a car during last month's «Capital for a Day» event to promote local projects that need state help.

Chief Executive Richard Leaman said: «People with sight loss rely on hearing noise from cars and vans to identify a safe gap in the traffic to cross a road.

It is also clear that the residents of Westchester County want to have Uber and Lyft operating in Westchester and the County Executive's plan to place decals on the cars of drivers who have submitted to and passed criminal background checks with fingerprinting is in my opinion the best scenario that could be reached with Uber and Lyft at this time.»

What with kissing dogs, garbage collection, electric cars and a host of other issues, it's been a busy campaign week in the race for Ulster County executive.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney told a Syracuse.com editorial board Thursday that she used the five or six hours she spent riding with the governor in a car during last month's «Capital for a Day» event to promote local projects that need state help.

The young political aide killed with five others in a Sunday crash on the LIE, may have saved the life of his fiancee when he veered his car as an airborne SUV hurtled toward them, said his boss, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

Indeed the decline in the CAR with ageing has been associated with worse executive function.

A bigger burst of cortisol in the morning (the CAR) has been linked with better brain plasticity (the capacity to learn) and function — especially better goal - setting, decision - making and planning (what we call the executive function).

Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar, Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI @N), said: «The biggest challenge with electric cars in tropical megacities is the range that they can travel on a full - charge, because their batteries are needed to power both the engine and the air - conditioning.

There will also be a wealth of such kid - friendly fare as «Cars 3,» «Despicable Me 3,» with Parkland grad Chris Renaud as executive producer, and the very first «Captain Underpants» movie.

Troy, a neo-beatnik, and Laney, fashionably activist (she refuses to order from Domino's because they support Operation Rescue), live a lie of friendship that's given a shot of sodium pentothal by Laney's car - crash meet - cute with Michael (Ben Stiller, also this film's director), an executive for the MTV clone «In Your Face.»

In an open letter published February 18, Rolls - Royce chairman Peter Schwarzenbauer and chief executive Torsten Mueller - Oetvoes confirmed the development of «an all - new Rolls - Royce with exceptional presence, elegance and purpose... a high - bodied car with an all - new aluminum architecture... that can cross any terrain.»

Motor Trend reports that the project, which would result in a sports car jointly developed by BMW and Toyota, was greenlit by none other than Akio Toyoda, the executive who put his stamp of approval on the FR - S along with the Lexus LFA supercar.

And you do know the «fake sound» came about because, being an executive car, when sat inside with the windows shut you couldn't really hear the exhaust and engine so you could have it piped into the cabin.

To find out, I park the muscle car in a nearby garage and hop into a five - year old Subaru Forester with Susan Mosey, an urban planner from Wayne State and the executive director of Midtown Detroit Inc..

With a wheelbase 5.9 inches longer than normal cars, the 4S Executive and Turbo Executive provide an additional 4.7 inches of rear legroom and more standard equipment.

Henrik Fisker, the founder and creative force behind the California - based car maker Fisker, has quit his position of executive chairman at the company, citing «several major disagreements with Fisker Automotive executive management on the business strategy».

I recommend this car to female executives like myself that want the thrill of a sportscar but the reliability, comfort and safety you feel with a larger vehicle.

So to do electro - mechanical anti-roll bars and, with cars that feature the # 2450 «Executive Drive Pro», a chassis that works together with GPS data to deliver body control based on the topography of the road ahead.

He tells us, «I didn't take the Renegade to the car wash afterwards, because when I parked it in the executive lot on Monday morning, I wanted everybody to see that the tow hook was thick with mud.»

We recently sat down with Detlev von Platen, former president and CEO of Porsche Cars North America, now global sales chief and member of the executive board of Porsche AG in Stuttgart, to discuss Porsche's current marketing strategies in America and abroad.

U.K. tuner Project Kahn has proudly shared a photo of music label executive and television personality Simon Cowell driving a car with Kahn components.

Still, some observers think the decision to go with a Silicon Valley icon rather than a car - industry veteran reflects a dangerous cocktail of naïveté and arrogance, and it's not hard to imagine executives in Detroit rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of seeing this fledgling know - it - all pull a De Lorean.

«It's the antithesis of cars like the Ford Taurus,» DeMatio noted, «which feels small on the inside because its designers were obsessed with providing a supposed executive sporty feel to the cabin so you're enveloped by the instrument panel, the center console, and the high window line.»

Speaking with Autocar, executives from the BMW i brand are still undecided on the long - term fate of the two cars it launched with.

With demand waning for executive sports cars, the automaker is dropping the Eldorado rather than updating the coupe to meet approaching new crash requirements.

The Audi A6 is now in its fifth generation and like its executive car rivals from BMW and Mercedes - Benz, the latest version continues to offer a taste of life in the luxury car leagues, with levels of refinement, driver assistance systems and technology to make you think twice about paying extra for larger saloons from the class above.