A unique rear splitter and Quadrifoglio four - leaf clover badges visually set the most potent Giulia model apart
from base cars.
It's not as extreme as the V - series and its 556 - hp supercharged V - 8, but it's a considerable step up
from the base cars.
That's largely a product of the A5's good looks, though; short of a revised fascia and small S5 badges, there's not much to set apart
from the base car on the outside.
In fact, it's carried over
from the base car.
Sling the car into a corner and you still feel like you're in a big sedan, but it was not all that bad and a definite step up
from the base car.
The S5 distinguishes
itself from the base car with its more pronounced front and rear bumpers, larger rear decklid spoiler, black brake calipers, platinum - colored grille, aluminum - finish mirror housings and a host of little chrome accents, as on the grille and rimming various air ducts.
Hyundai's engineers have also upgraded the suspension, taking out the coupled torsion beam setup
from the base car and replacing it with a more capable multilink apparatus with a stabilizer bar.
It has all the performance bits from the manic 650 - horsepower Z06, but comes with the naturally aspirated 450 - horsepower V8
from the base car.
Not exact matches
The Taiwan -
based firm's new Wisconsin manufacturing facility will make LCDs, which will «be used in everything
from self - driving
cars to aircraft systems and in the fields of education, entertainment, healthcare, safety and surveillance, advanced manufacturing systems and office automation, among others,» Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.
Virtuo, a Paris -
based mobile
car leasing company, raised $ 7.5 million in funding ($ 8.9 million)
from investors including Balderton Capital.
Perth -
based Automotive Holdings Group will incur a $ 35 million write - down hit
from the closure of some of its underperforming businesses, in response to the weak market for
car retailers combined with recent regulatory changes by the corporate watchdog.
The company started renting space at an incubator in Sunnyvale — a 10 - minute
car ride
from Google's headquarters, and just over 20 km
from Facebook's new
base in Menlo Park — only to find out that «the city where young developers want to be is San Francisco,» Doerksen says.
• Europcar (ENXTPA: EUCAR) agreed to buy Goldcar, a Spain -
based low - cost
car rental company,
from Investindustrial, according to Reuters.
Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh -
based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts
from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the
car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting
from sudden temperature changes.
In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections of emissions performance would be
based solely on readings
from a
car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.
It quickly found a niche with a mostly young, hip customer
base who instantly grasped how grabbing a
car for an hour or two
from a nearby spot could fit into their busy lives.
In an effort to get that deal, the U.S. appears to have backed away
from one of its most contentious demands and is no longer insisting that 50 per cent of
cars be made in the U.S., and is now floating a different formula
based on autoworker salaries.
At the moment, everything in a
car from a design point of view is
based on a 100 - year - old package — engine in the front, and a driver holding a steering wheel behind.
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the
car rental service has a fleet of 2,000 vehicles, 10 percent of them hybrids, available to drivers
from Toronto to Minneapolis to Boston and Washington, D.C..
The S7, which was introduced in 2002, is the first
car his company,
based in Irvine, California, has built
from scratch.
Another head has rolled in the corporate watchdog's investigation into Victoria Park -
based car financing business Get Approved Finance, with Grant Parker permanently banned
from the industry.
Based in Abbotsford, B.C., Miller learned the repair trade
from his grandfather and started fixing
cars at age 16.
And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited
from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs
based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German
cars over Hondas and Toyotas.
The former RAF
base's current inhabitant, Dyson, is embarking on its own adventure fraught with peril: a # 2bn project to develop and build electric
cars from scratch.
Cars are then built and sold
from the micro-factories on a just - in - time
basis.
Along with these kinds of changes, and the growing popularity of autonomous driving, the consistent design of services and experiences
from within the
car and beyond will become much more important to
car manufacturers — to a point where it will drive brand identity, said Nils Uellendahl, the Shanghai -
based design director of BMW Group's (bmwyy) global creative consultancy Designworks.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Edwards family, said that Oliver fired three shots into the
car Edwards was in,
based on eyewitness accounts
from the other passengers in the
car.
New York State AG Eric Schneiderman spoke out against a rule that would protect traditional
car services
from the competition of app -
based services Uber and Lyft.
www.emeraldmaterials.com The Carlyle Group has «entered into exclusive negotiations» to acquire a 75 % stake in Homair Vacances (Paris: ALHOM), a French mobile home operator,
from Montefiore Investment (which would reinvest as a minority shareholder), according to the FT. www.homair.com DRB Systems, a n Akron, Ohio —
based provider of software solutions to the
car wash industry, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding
from Prairie Capital.
Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year
from RWDI consultants,
based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers»
cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.
California -
based Tesla Motors Inc. has increased the complimentary free towing limit for its
cars from 50 to 500 miles.
Tesla noted that data
from its
cars on the roads were being uploaded to its servers on a regular
basis to help the company better understand what to do in order to refine the algorithms.
The Senate on Wednesday voted to get rid of a consumer protection measure meant to stop
car dealers
from charging more for
car loans
based on race.
New Delhi -
based intra-city bike and
car - pooling startup Pooltoo, headed by three women entrepreneurs, have raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding
from Devika Ganesh, a high - net - worth individual.
The US -
based automobile factories that benefit
from taxes on imported
cars will suffer
from the impact of taxes on imported steel.
Bengaluru -
based aftersales
car service provider Pitstop has raised $ 1.6 million (Rs 10.6 crore) in a pre-Series A round of funding
from existing investors led by Singapore -
based Goldbell Group and Blume Ventures, a company statement said.
Andrew is our CFO and came on the team after a long career on Wall St.. He's been transformed into a «
car guy» and brings a vast knowledge
base not only
from finance and operations, but also
from compliance with an intimate knowledge of securitization methodologies on consumer loan portfolios.
Like Logitech's
car -
based ZeroTouch, once paired with your smartphone, this headset will summon Amazon's digital assistant
from anywhere, provided you have an Internet connection.
The dealer gets a loan
from a financing company,
based on the value of the
cars.
Merlis Automotive International Inc., an independent automotive research firm
based in Westport, Conn., forecast today that overall sales of
cars and light trucks would dip slightly in 1998, to 14.9 million
from 15.1 million.
The autopilot feature
from Tesla's
cars ranks as level 2, as it is able to do things such as keep the
car centered on a lane, change lanes safely and make speed adjustments
based on traffic levels.
First off the mark is Tesla [TSLA - NASDAQ], a fledgling California -
based company that has grown
from a niche manufacturer of an electric sports
car to the largest North American auto manu - facturer, by market capitalization, in less than 10 years.
While these incumbents have steady cash - flow streams coming in
from their existing business, Tesla loses money as it tries to build up production and sell its
cars below cost to attract a customer
base.
Apart
from releasing its goal of hitting a market cap of $ 650 billion to become one of the world's most valuable companies, the California -
based electric
car maker and energy company also confirmed that Elon Musk would continue to lead the company for the next decade.
In its filing, Waymo said it was inadvertently copied on an email
from one of its suppliers with drawings of Uber's circuit board design for its lidar technology, short for light detection and ranging,» that are laser -
based sensors used in self - driving
cars.
Assurant is a New York -
based insurance company that offers protections for a wide variety of products,
from homes to
cars to major appliances.
The New York -
based Catholic League raised its eyebrows at a 1998 episode featuring this exchange in the Simpsons»
car while driving home
from a church service:
[35] In other words,
CAR activists believe that Christians should refrain
from trapping or severely limit their trapping activities on the
basis that trapping violates God's requirement that humans protect His creation.
I do not believe and I can guarantee you that A) I've NEVER molested a child or person... unlike the Priests and other members of the cloth as you see lawsuits on an almost daily
basis B) Help my fellow man with no questions asked or expectation of return C) Bilk millions of dollars
from people who have so little all in the name of a God, then buy lavish homes and
cars like they're owed it.
A couple of months ago we were driving around Seattle listening to KEXP (a constant in our
car) when «Novocaine»
from Seattle -
based electro po...