“It is always an honor to represent the Show-Me State at America’s premier automotive showcase as we continue to strengthen Missouri’s position as a global leader in auto manufacturing and innovation”.
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While gasoline prices remain low, this would be an ideal time for Congress and President Obama to raise the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon, which has stayed the same for 23 years. An all-new four-wheel-drive, torque-on-demand transfer case; FOX Racing shocks; and six pre-set driving modes, including Baja and Rock, also make it the most capable Raptor ever.
He called General Motors’ upcoming Chevrolet Bolt, unveiled this month, “a nice auto”.
But the highlight of the Ford presentation may have been the new FordPass app, which Ford is making available free in April for both Ford customers and drivers of competitors’ cars. General Motors and Lyft, the app-based taxi service, trumpeted a similar plan. “You can see any type of vehicle that you would like to see”. “There are certainly important vehicles there”, Jack Nerad, an analyst with Kelly Blue Book, said in a telephone interview.
But in what has become the battle of the Internet to be first in just about everything, the Acadia – a crossover aimed at the heart of the midsize segment that also features advanced safety technologies – was the auto show topic featured on Detroit’s TV morning shows and newspaper websites.
After a record year for US vehicle sales, the mood at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show is one of celebration.
Nissan is showing off a concept version of the Titan XD pickup at the North American International Auto Show. If event organizers pumping $200m into a new layout (it had been the same for a few years) is any indication, they are not willing to cede the crown without a fight.
The show will be open to the public January 16-24.
“With over 40 model debuts, 90% of which are worldwide, and more than 30 CEOs on the floor, it’s a couple of big days”. For the more environmentally minded, Ford says its Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid models will be getting more efficient electric motors for better fuel economy and electric driving range.
On the other hand, Mercedes-Benz launched its next-generation E Class vehicle Sunday night and besides illustrating how truly smart the latest auto is, the presentation featured a lecture on artificial intelligence by an MIT professor who assured those in the audience, including NASCAR and IndyCar team owner Roger Penske, that despite all the advances, technology is nowhere close to outsmarting humans.
If you talk to one of the CEOs, they all will actually say things like we don’t want to be disrupted. The Camaro and Volt also made the so-called short list in the vehicle category.
“Technology components that support AVs have already been deployed and tested on our roads, so we did not have to wait to roll out the solutions all at once”. More than half a million jobs have been created and automakers are now able to shift their focus to high tech industry growth in Metropolitan Detroit. The arrival of the Chinese-built Buick Envision, the first of its kind to enter the North American arena, is noteworthy but not an earth-shattering event. Ahead of the Detroit show, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that cars could drive autonomously across the country in two years’ time.
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But automakers have been known to stun with big surprises, as Ford did previous year with its GT supercar debut.
