Thomson ReutersBuick introduces the Avista concept vehicle during a media event before the start of the North American International Auto Show in DetroitWhen U.S. President Barack Obama visits Detroit’s annual auto show on January 20, exactly one year before he leaves office, he is expected to tout how much the industry has changed since he orchestrated a federally funded rescue in 2009.
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“We won the Super Bowl”. No one was more emblematic of that than Ford, which rolled out the SVT Raptor version of its F-150 pickup and shocked everyone by showing a new GT supercar. Ford also unveiled its most technology-packed Fusion to date, including hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions of the new sedan.
If GM carries out its latest plan, the once-bankrupt auto major will have returned to shareholders about $23 billion between 2012 and the end of 2017, or about 90 percent of free cash flow, Chief Financial Officer Chuck Stevens said.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk “has done a very good job at putting electrified vehicles on the map”, Fields said.
“There’s threads of just about everything at this year’s show”, said Angus MacKenzie, editor-at-large of Motor Trend.
Over the last few years, as buyers have migrated to crossovers and SUVs, the minivan market has shrunk to “a consistent 500,000 or so” sales annually, said Bruce Velisek, head of Chrysler brand marketing. “Spurred by historic investments from Ford and GM, Missouri’s automotive industry is back and better than ever – and we’re not done yet”.
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“We all know that we have let down customers, authorities, regulators, and the general public here in America, too”. But automakers are still exploring alternatives to gas-powered vehicles, partly because they have to meet higher fuel economy standards. But that growth is expected to be a modest one to two percent in 2016, Ghosn said.
Korea’s Hyundai is hoping to replicate the success of Japanese rivals Toyota, Honda and Nissan by introducing a separate luxury brand, Genesis. It revealed the G90, which will be the brand’s flagship sedan as it works to build Genesis to six models by 2020.
Though Lexus declined to provide any advance information on the vehicle, Automotive News said the big coupe will ride on a new modular platform that will support future versions of Lexus rear-wheel-drive cars. “There are certainly important vehicles there”, Jack Nerad, an analyst with Kelly Blue Book, said in a telephone interview.
“The E-Class doesn’t just have your favorite music and contacts ready as ou enter, and it’s not just that you can choose from 64 different colors to illuminate the inside of the auto…And the key to this new world is your smartphone”. The same systems that power safety in the auto also improve ease of use: The vehicle can accelerate, brake, and steer automatically, something which Coelingh believes will prevent accidents.
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