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Friday, December 14, 2018

Invest For Luxury With New Mercedes Benz S-Class 2018

Americans, apparently, have been happier with higher ground clearance and a few extra millimeters of headroom, despite the fact that most five-passenger crossovers and SUVs offer similar space and cargo capacity as a decent station wagon. The five-passenger Sport nixes the third row and measures 8.5 inches shorter bumper to bumper. With a carbon fiber chasis, large spoiler, grounding wings and a 12 cylinder twin-turbo engine, the Audi r10 TDI is most certainly a race car. Like the Audi RS 4, it offers a thrilling V-8 engine but comes with ride quality that's hard to stomach. Benz is still calling it a C63 even though the V-8 engine has been downsized from the epic, naturally aspirated 6.2 of yore to a twin-turbo 4.0-liter unit. The GLC63 drives and behaves much like a car鈥攁nd is basically the closest we will ever get in this country to a C63 wagon鈥攁nd it should prove quite popular for that reason alone. The tastes of the wealthy do not vary much from the average car owner. What about your dream car?

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The GL 63 AMG accelerates from a standstill to 100 km/h in 4.9 seconds; the maximum speed is 250 km/h (electronically restricted). So exceeding the speed of light looks logically impossible. The two AMG SL roadster models for 2009 feature a choice of V8 and V12 power. 2.0 seconds faster than the base Mercedes-Benz E400 4MATIC on which the AMG E63 is based. Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles utilize advanced emission control technology that is designed to comply with current stringent exhaust emissions regulations. Answer . Not overly familiar w/vehicle, but I assume it's at the engine end of the upper radiator hose in a housing that is secured by 2 or 3 bolts.. The 2019 redesign is the most comprehensive change to date, and improves all aspects of performance, handling, ride comfort, luxury and safety, while preserving its off-road prowess. The battery also has its own management system that performs safety, diagnostic and monitoring functions as well as temperature management. AMG鈥檚 venerable 6.2 litre naturally-aspirated V8 has been tuned to deliver 386kW and 630Nm - the same amount of torque, but 8kW more than the outgoing W211 E63鈥檚 engine. In fact, our drive took place the day before it was transferred to Geneva for the show, so there was no small amount of faith and trust on Jaguar鈥檚 part in letting us drive it.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber for driverless cars

UPDATED: 8/27/18 9:32 pm ET - adds details

Toyota Motor Corp. will invest $500 million in Uber to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business.

Toyota, one of the world's largest carmakers, and Uber Technologies Inc., the leading ride-hailing service, are widely seen as lagging the competition in developing self-driving cars. The partnership deepens an existing relationship and reflects CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's strategy of Uber developing autonomous vehicles through partnerships, rather than on its own.

The deal also breathes new life into Uber's self-driving business. Since a self-driving Uber SUV killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in March, Uber has removed its robot cars from the road, laid off hundreds of test drivers and shuttered operations in Arizona, its autonomous testing hub.

The investment values Uber at $72 billion, matching the valuation Uber received in a deal with Alphabet Inc. self-driving unit Waymo this year.

The deal was reported earlier Monday by The Wall Street Journal.

Uber will combine its autonomous driving system with Toyota's Guardian technology, which offers automated safety features such as lane-keeping but does not enable a vehicle to drive completely autonomously. The combined technology will be built into Toyota's Sienna minivans, to be deployed on Uber's ride-hailing network starting in 2021, Uber said.

The companies' aim is to solve the enormously challenging problem of how to mass produce self-driving cars for shared fleets, including ride-hailing services.

Jeff Miller, Uber's head of business development for strategic initiatives, said the partnership "really paints the picture of how we envision deploying autonomous technology in the long term." That includes licensing its autonomous technology to carmakers and enlisting a third party to own and maintain the fleet.

The third party that will operate the Toyota autonomous fleet has not yet been chosen, Miller said.

Toyota has been less aggressive than some rivals on moving toward full-fledged autonomous driving, expressing caution about the technology, and has focused on partial autonomous systems like Guardian. But the company has invested in research and said it plans to begin testing self-driving electric cars around 2020.

A Toyota official said the company would continue its research into self-driving technology, and that it would not combine its research efforts with Uber.

Uber has admitted its technology lags Waymo, and the crash in Arizona was a further setback in development and testing. The Toyota partnership puts pressure on Uber to resume testing on public roads, but the company has run up against regulators and politicians with safety concerns. Miller said Uber plans to have autonomous cars back on public streets by the end of the year.

Khosrowshahi, who took over Uber a year ago, has recently explored options that include more partnerships as well as a potential sale of the self-driving business, separate sources have told Reuters. The self-driving unit is a significant contributor to Uber's losses, which in the second quarter were $891 million.

Uber has a deal to purchase cars from Volvo, outfit them with Uber's technology and maintain them, a more labor-intensive project than the Toyota plans. The company also has a partnership with Daimler AG, in which the carmaker proposes to put its own self-driving cars in Uber's ride-hailing network.

Khosrowshahi's partnership strategy is a shift. Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick had insisted on developing a proprietary self-driving system and called autonomous cars "existential" to Uber.

Previously, Uber and Toyota partnered on an electric mobility project. Two years ago, Toyota invested an undisclosed sum in Uber and the two companies partnered on a car-leasing program for Uber drivers. Uber has since shuttered its U.S. leasing business.

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Why Chevy continues to invest in sedans

RENTON, Wash. -- As Ford Motor Co. exits the sedan business, General Motors is doubling down.

While the U.S. car market continues to shrink as buyers increasingly opt for SUVs and crossovers, it still represents more than 4 million customers and a chance to introduce consumers to GM with entry-level products, says Steve Majoros, Chevrolet's marketing director for cars and crossovers.

Chevy will continue to invest in nearly every sedan segment from subcompact to full-size, and Majoros said he believes GM's biggest and most important brand can gain market share in those segments as competitors retreat.

"It's a pretty big opportunity for us," Majoros said last week on a media drive program here to introduce the 2019 Chevy Camaro and Malibu. "As other people are making noise about leaving the car business or thrifting back their portfolio, there's still business to be had there. It's just going about the business in a smart fashion."

For GM, that includes adding a sporty Malibu RS trim as part of the midsize car's 2019 freshening.

The RS, on sale this fall, starts at $24,995, including shipping, and slots between the Malibu's LS and LT trims. It comes with a more aggressive front end with black accents and a black bow-tie logo, 18-inch wheels, a rear spoiler and dual exhausts.

The Malibu RS is expected to account for about 20 percent of U.S. sales of the Malibu, Majoros said, and will compete against Sport trims of the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.

A new continuously variable transmission comes standard on the L, LS, RS and LT trims and is mated to a 1.5-liter turbo engine. The Malibu's top-end Premier trim keeps its 2.0-liter turbo and nine-speed automatic transmission.

Fuel economy has not been finalized, but GM expects the CVT will help the 2019 Malibu achieve about 2 mpg above the current version, which gets up to 36 mpg on the highway.

The RS represents an attempt by Chevy to target the mid-to-lower end car customer even as overall U.S. car demand shrinks. Cars represent 32 percent of U.S. sales in 2018, down from 46 percent in 2014, Chevrolet says. The midsize car market has shrunk another 15 percent this year, with Malibu demand off an estimated 5.9 percent, according to the Automotive News Data Center.

But the compact and midsize segments still represent one in every five vehicles sold, and Majoros thinks car sales have "hit their floor."

"There's still volume to be had there," he said. "We've done a nice job about taking a responsible approach to the product. If other competitors are leaving, we're very happy to pick up that business, and we'll certainly do that."

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber for driverless cars

Heather Somerville
Reuters
August 27, 2018 20:43 CET

Toyota will invest $500 million in Uber to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business.

Toyota and Uber Technologies, the leading ride-hailing service, are widely seen as lagging the competition in developing self-driving cars. The partnership deepens an existing relationship and reflects CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's strategy of Uber developing autonomous vehicles through partnerships, rather than on its own.

The deal also breathes new life into Uber's self-driving business. Since a self-driving Uber SUV killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in March, Uber has removed its robot cars from the road, laid off hundreds of test drivers and shuttered operations in Arizona, its autonomous testing hub.

The investment values Uber at $72 billion, matching the valuation Uber received in a deal with Alphabet self-driving unit Waymo this year.

The companies' aim is to solve the enormously challenging problem of how to mass produce self-driving cars for shared fleets, including ride-hailing services.

Jeff Miller, Uber's head of business development for strategic initiatives, said the partnership "really paints the picture of how we envision deploying autonomous technology in the long term." That includes licensing its autonomous technology to automakers and enlisting a third party to own and maintain the fleet.

The third party that will operate the Toyota autonomous fleet has not yet been chosen, Miller said.

A Toyota official said the company would continue its research into self-driving technology, and that it would not combine its research efforts with Uber.

Uber has a deal to purchase cars from Volvo, outfit them with Uber's technology and maintain them, a more labor-intensive project than the Toyota plans. The company also has a partnership with Daimler, in which the automaker proposes to put its own self-driving cars in Uber's ride-hailing network.

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