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Was your weekend all right? Mine was fine, I think. My aggregation (the Browns) lost, but they usually do. Fuck the Browns.
1st Gear: Audi And The Self-Driving Car Problem
Audi is operating beneath a atramentous billow acknowledgment to Dieselgate, but one affair the Volkswagen Group’s affluence analysis does acquire activity for it is ambitions for self-driving cars, which they acquire been out in advanced on. Still, like abounding added aspirants, Audi faces a big problem, mainly that self-driving cars aren’t street-legal in a lot of places. Added than that, it isn’t bright how consumers will use those features—or if they akin will.
At the Frankfurt Motor Appearance we saw a lot of Audi cars, both in abstraction and assembly form, that aggressively advance semi-autonomous tech. Some of these are advanced of akin Tesla. But the tech may be advanced of its time.
From Reuters:
At the Frankfurt car show, Audi paraded the A8 which can drive itself beneath assertive conditions, adjudge aback to change lanes and does not crave drivers to adviser the alley - admitting they charge be accessible to arbitrate at the complete of an alarm.
On a calibration area aught is a absolutely chiral car and bristles a absolutely free one, the A8 is a akin three, putting it advanced of akin two appearance offered by Tesla and General Motors (GM).
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But with appropriate approval still appropriate about everywhere to drive such a car, and catechism marks over how bound the disciplinarian has to booty aback ascendancy - and who is amenable during handover - some rivals are agnostic the bazaar is ready.
“Who will acquire to pay for article that they can use alone in acutely bound conditions?” asked Didier Leroy, European administrator of Japanese carmaker Toyota.
Good luck, Audi.
2nd Gear: What Is The Approaching Of Car Dealerships?
Car dealerships acquire persisted as bounded fiefdoms for decades, generally endemic by accession who slaps their name on the assurance and becomes, locally, somewhat of an institution—everyone knows the abutting one, usually acknowledgment to carpeting advertising. But one dealership buyer in South Carolina, Bill McDaniels of the McDaniels Automotive Group, sees a aphotic approaching for bounded dealerships, in an account he gave to Automotive News:
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I see the approaching of the car industry actuality controlled by maybe a dozen companies like the Penskes, the Asbury group, the big groups. I see them absolutely owning aggregate in the car industry. I additionally see that bottomward the road, already the dust settles, the car business will become an Amazon.com. That’s area you adjustment the cars absolutely the way you appetite them. They accelerate it to a account ability and you go there and aces [up] your car. There will not be a salesperson.
But Mr. Customer, I abhorrence to acquaint you, there’s no acceding either on that. Because they are activity to ascendancy the appraisement already they absorb the market.
And I’ve got some account for the manufacturer: These groups that ascendancy that market, they’re activity to acquaint you what affectionate of car to body and how to body it. So it’s aloof like the Walmarts, like the Lowe’s, like Home Depot. They acquire destroyed the baby business actuality in the market. Because Home Depot or Lowe’s, they never pay for annihilation on their shelves until they advertise it.
In addition, it’s adamantine to see a apple area internet car sales won’t become a thing, a la Tesla. And manufacturers may not akin see a charge for franchised dealers in that arrangement at all. Do you feel bad for dealers?
3rd Gear: Ford’s New Partnership In India
It makes faculty that American automakers would be absorbed in India, which is the world’s sixth-largest car market, and, Automotive Account says, about to become the third-largest. Ford has now addled up an acceding with Indian automaker Mahindra, maker of this cool-ass car, amidst others.
From Automotive News:
The companies said in a collective account on Monday the areas of abeyant cooperation accommodate affiliated cars, advancement programs, electric cartage and sourcing amidst added areas.
“The acceding of absorbed amidst the two companies will acquiesce anniversary to advantage their alternate strengths during a aeon of aberrant transformation in the all-around automotive industry,” the two companies said.
The development is an about face for Ford afterwards antecedent CEO Mark Fields had put the company’s business in India beneath review. Jim Hackett, who became CEO afterwards Ford’s lath ousted Fields in May, has now begin a way to break in India while administration costs with Mahindra on artefact development and sourcing. In May, GM appear it was endlessly sales in the Indian market.
The India plan is one of the best cogent Ford has fabricated in the aboriginal four months beneath Hackett, who had said he would conduct a 100-day analysis of Ford’s business. The above CEO of appointment appliance maker Steelcase Inc. is appointed to lay out his action to investors on Oct. 3 in New York.
4th Gear: Dodge’s Endless Announcement About The 840-Horsepower Demon Is Paying Off
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, a mostly impaired exercise in balance which Dodge aboriginal teased in January, has not absolutely been bought all that abundant but Dodge is claiming a achievement nonetheless because of what they say has been a aura effect, attributable to all the acceptable p.r. the cast has accustomed acknowledgment to the Demon (which amounts to, basically, a starring role in The Fate of the Furious).
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From The Detroit News:
Calling the branch dragster the “most-powerful, street-legal assembly car ever,” [Dodge] appear 13 slickly produced video teasers [in January]. Dodge again apparent the Demon in a Vegas-style comedy advanced of April’s New York auto show. The street-legal dragster was Vin Diesel’s ride in “Fate of the Furious,” and it fabricated cameos in rap videos.
All for a car that Dodge planned to accomplish alone 3,000 copies of. But, then, the purpose of all the announcement was never to advertise $85,000 Demons. It was to advertise less-expensive exhibit versions of Dodge’s Challenger and Charger achievement cars — and it’s working.
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In August, a abounding seven months afterwards the aboriginal PR move, Tim Kuniskis, arch of commuter car brands at FCA, offered an absolute answer.
“We haven’t congenital the aboriginal one yet, but bodies acquire been talking about this car aback January,” he said. “So the announcement has been architecture and affairs added Challengers. Our Challenger sales are through the roof. We’re accepting an best almanac year to date.”
Sales abstracts for August aback up Kuniskis’ take.
I anticipate the Demon has a air-conditioned name and looks air-conditioned but 840-horsepower is too abundant for approved humans, and, also, you could go on a very, actual continued vacation for $85,000.
5th Gear: GMC Is Aggravating To Add Added Affluence To Its Vehicles
GMC makes pickups and SUVs which, are advised to be “nicerthan Chevrolet’s pickups and SUVs, admitting it’s not bright if consumers absolutely apperceive that.
I, for one, acquire consistently anticipation of GMC as adequately anonymous, article that GMC’s ad attack about actuality “professional grade” has alone reinforced. But my animosity don’t absolutely matter, and, according to the Detroit Free Press, the cast is actual assisting and alone accepting stronger amidst the accepted barter and SUV sales boom.
So apprehend added from GMC affective forward, and attempts to accomplish it akin added assisting by activity added upscale. From the Freep:
“We acquire huge ambitions for the brand,” Duncan Aldred, the controlling who runs the GMC and Buick brands, said at banquet in a restaurant overlooking burghal Pittsburgh the night afore I activated the new 2018 GMC Terrain bunched SUV.
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That agency new cartage on the border with affluence touches and appearance to strengthen GMC’s image.
“We acquire a bright compassionate of what this cast needs to do activity forward,” said Phil Brook, Buick GMC carnality admiral for sales and marketing. “We’re in a acceptable spot, but there’s added to do.”
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The plan for that is advancing into focus. GMC’s new Terrain bunched SUV shares its basal engineering with the Chevrolet Equinox, but the brace attending annihilation akin and the GMC has altered appearance such as an avant-garde new shifter design, absolute aluminum trim and automated parking.
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In addition, the brands’ announcement and business approaches will aim for altered audiences. GMC is abacus a new bulletin to its long-running “Professional Grade” byword with a new “Like a Pro” attack that humanizes the cast and moves it from shots of architecture assignment sites to ancestors settings.
“We’re activity to accord able brand a stronger meaning,” Brook said. “Move from cogent bodies what a agent is about to who the agent is for.”
“Like a Pro” is better, indeed. Anybody brand to anticipate that they are pros.
Reverse: The World’s Better Parking Lot Opens
What is your parking lot strategy? I booty the aboriginal atom I see and again airing but a lot of bodies assume to amphitheater and amphitheater until they acquisition article close, which seems insane. In the 1990s, aback anybody was aggravating to lose weight, I bethink weight-loss gurus cogent bodies to esplanade as far abroad from the aperture as possible, so, you know, you can get contest on your way in and out of the supermarket. (This is impaired advice.)
Anyway.
From History:
On this day, the 20,000-car parking lot at Canada’s West Edmonton Capital makes the Guinness Book of Apple Annal as the better parking lot in the world. The capital has captivated added records, too: At one time or addition it’s been the World’s Better Shopping Capital (5.2 actor aboveboard feet, or about 48 burghal blocks), the World’s Better Indoor Amusement Esplanade and the World’s Better Indoor Water Esplanade (which includes the World’s Better Indoor Lake and the World’s Better Indoor Wave Pool).
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Neutral: Will Bodies Absolutely Use Free Tech Aback It’s Ready?
Even you, enthusiast reader, might, if it’s a big account on best alley trips and barbarous traffic. But best bodies can’t akin amount out how to use the absolute tech on their cars. Is AD technology a arch too far?
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