He makes it sound like I'm a car.
It's
like being both a car driver and a mechanic; just because you're a driver, doesn't mean you can't also be a mechanic.
No matter the mode, the 2014 BMW M235i turns
like an M car, with meaty, direct, responsive steering.
It also goes
like an M car.
Yes, but both of those have traction issues and Porsche doesn't like it's cars to have traction issues.
It handles
like an M car, its body motions tightly coiled (although suffering a bit too much rebound), its turn - in energetic, and its cornering secure but with rear - wheel - drive attitude available to the brave.
The only downside, really, is that the M235i is also priced
like an M car.
Make It Not Belong To You Just like when you are selling your house, you don't want the buyer feeling
like it is your car.
The BMW X6 M also stops and turns more
like an M car.
It's clear, though, that what we really don't
like are the cars.
Of course, performance isn't that different than in a four - cylinder Chevy Equinox, Ford Escape, Honda CR - V, or Toyota RAV4, but of those cars, this Mazda feels like it's the car that would make the best use of extra power.
Put it in sport mode and it rockets around
like an M car (without the punishing suspension and track - tuned DCT); the growl of the straight - six is muffled somewhat by the turbo plumbing, but the smoothness isn't — it's all silky torque and brilliant shift programming from the eight - speed gearbox.
The Focus was faster but it does feel a bit like it's the car that's fast, as opposed to the driver.
Overall, the Mitsubishi is functional, but rather uninspiring, and while the dashboard rattles came as a surprise, the ASX still feels like it's a car that will take plenty of abuse in its stride.
Every suspension component from the normal 5 - Series has been reworked for the M5, to make sure it feels
like an M car should.
One neat feature that parents will
like is the car's ability to automatically send a text of estimated time of arrival to anyone in the driver's contact book based on what the sat - nav predicts.
Not exact matches
«Accomplishing a goal
is a lot less
like taking a train across country,» he writes, «and a lot more
like driving a bumper
car.»
It
's like if you have a GPS in your
car.
It seems
like I spend twice as long in the
car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the
car in front of me, when I could
be writing and connecting with clients at work.
Whereas Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has spoken about seeing every
car uberized and the company has extended its tendrils into areas
like delivery, Zimmer
is careful to delineate distractions and define the limits of Lyft's goals.
That
's on top of already announced projects
like a fleet of self - driving
cars.
«It
was almost
like they
were doing Kickstarter for
cars.
Cabins «may become
like cattle
cars... but a significant percentage would rather
be treated that way and fly for X» than have far more legroom and have all kinds of things and travel for X plus 25 percent,» he told CNBC in May.
With
car ownership estimated to taper off over the next decade, perks
like complimentary parking
are no longer appealing or possible in metropolitan cities where parking space
is limited.
«It
's like recalling unsafe foods without preventing new food from
being contaminated and sold — or towing away crashed
cars without trying to make new
cars safer,» the researchers wrote.
That
was Gawker Media's model: Its various sites (most of which still exist and
are now owned by Univision) focused on topics
like sports,
cars, productivity, women's lifestyle, and video games.
Electric
car company Tesla announced its compensation plan for founder Elon Musk yesterday, and
like pretty much everything else the company does, it
was calibrated for maximum publicity value.
It
's unlikely that someone will hold a press conference somewhere
like Apple did with the first iPhone that broadcasts the final arrival of the robot
car, because we'll already
be there by then.
It
's like asking what it costs to buy a house or a
car.
In -
car access to smartphones via Bluetooth
is nothing new, but Apple's latest foray into iPhone -
car integration ups the ante by working seamlessly with a
car's tablet -
like mounted display.
Amazon's voice
AI, which works much
like Google's,
was demonstrated in lamps, speakers, vacuums,
cars and even refrigerators.
Drven's product, called Ke (pronounced «key»),
is a small fob that plugs into the same telemetry port a mechanic would access and wirelessly transmits to a smartphone app — kind of
like a Fitbit for your
car.
Snap - on Incorporated
is a $ 2.9 billion, S&P 500 company whose product lines include high - quality hand tools and tool storage solutions, diagnostic equipment, information and management systems, and «under -
car» shop implements
like hydraulic lifts and tire changers.
Going from ADAS to driverless
car is a little bit
like having a microprocessor in a human brain.
Besides, those focused on improving themselves don't work 100 - hour weeks developing SpaceX rockets and Tesla electric
cars like Elon Musk, who
's actually chief executive of both companies.
Telematics can offer up business intelligence: Insurance companies
like Desjardins, for instance,
are offering to adjust rates for consumers who install
car - monitoring devices that will analyze their driving habits.
Electric
cars and connected
cars are among the technologies
being developed by Chinese companies
like Qiantu Motor and LeEco.
When the 2015
cars hit showroom floors this year, some buyers will
be looking at features the
likes of which no one's seen before.
Carbon's printers
are already
being used to manufacture a huge range of items, including
car and airplane parts, props for Hollywood studios and, most famously, the lattice -
like midsole in Adidas» Futurecraft 4D sneakers.
Whether you
're looking for something fun to do
like mini golf or go - karts or a more practical deal
like a discounted oil change or
car wash, you'll find it here.
Some companies,
like Audi and Chevrolet,
are selling
cars with Internet modems and touch - screen systems built in.
The connected
car is here, but
like any emerging technology, it
's arriving in the form of an all - out melee among automakers and technology giants, all fighting over just how the connected
car should work.
And firms
like Mojio, a Vancouver startup whose products
are in pre-market testing,
is one of several firms that
are targeting the vast base of
cars that don't have touchscreens at all, but whose owners would
like to reap the benefits of constant connectivity.
GM will have to acknowledge the fact that many
car users probably don't want strangers to have the ability to text them, even in a country
like China where governmental surveillance
is the norm.
«The trouble
is, switching sleds isn't
like just driving another
car,» said Gibbs.
He
is the author of two books: BIG
LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about
car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.
The app
was quick and easy to use, and the drivers proactively made sure the cleanliness of the
car was first rate, and the temperature and even the music
were all to my
liking.
As of now, both Amazon and Google's voice services
are unavailable for in -
car automobile systems
like BMW's iDrive.
«It
's like when you drive a newer
car and you have lane assist, blind spot monitoring, and collision avoidance.
But, that could change, especially in the case of Google, which has
been focusing on its Android Auto software to power the
car entertainment systems of auto companies,
like Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.