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Toyota Puts Fun in Functionality With New Prius
Toyota claims the new Prius engine is the world’s first to achieve an amazing 40% maximum thermal efficiency, the measure of how much energy from the fuel actually reaches the drive wheels.
By Gary Witzenburg • Oct. 6, 2016 -
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BMW 750xi: Ultimate User Experience
The BMW excels on all fronts, from the first impression to the last. It starts with an optional iPhone-like key fob, a technological marvel that functions as a gateway to the 750xi.
By James M. Amend • Oct. 5, 2016 -
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Automakers are evaluating their long-term strategies, revisiting their product mix, and approach to both retail and manufacturing approach along the way.
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Mazda to Add Engine Production at Russian Plant
The 50,000-unit-capacity plant in Vladivostok mainly will produce Mazda’s SkyActiv-G engines for export. Neither Mazda nor the government say whether output of Mazda6 and Mazda CX-5 models now built there will increase as part of the new investment.
By Eugene Gerden • Oct. 5, 2016 -
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Gorilla Glass and Airstream’s Love for Aluminum
A panel session focused on materials at the WardsAuto User Experience Conference includes an Ohio State researcher testing fabrics embedded with sensors capable of reading a person’s vital signs and adjusting seatbelt tension automatically.
Oct. 4, 2016 -
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Augmented Reality Next HUD Frontier
Projecting icons generated by advanced safety systems on the windshield is seen as a way to create safer driving.
Oct. 4, 2016 -
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User Experience Revolution Ahead, Experts Say
Displays, for example, will get larger and resolutions will become richer, while driver information will move from the dashboard and instrument panel to a sophisticated head-up display.
By James M. Amend • Oct. 4, 2016 -
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Mapping the Future of Navigation
Three panelists offer divergent points of view on how we’ll navigate in the future, but all agree that map data and how we use it will play a key role in our vehicles for years to come.
By Bob Gritzinger • Oct. 4, 2016 -
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VW Alltrack’s Amazing Feat: Making the Station Wagon Cool, Rugged
To some people the moniker “station wagon” is synonymous with loser cruiser, vintage 1955.
By Steve Finlay • Oct. 3, 2016 -
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Fuel-Cell Vehicles Don’t Add Up, Analyst Says
The cost of the technology, the energy required to produce the fuel and the resulting well-to-wheel emissions make FCVs less than green, concludes a Hong Kong-based investment firm.
By Roger Schreffler • Oct. 3, 2016 -
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Toyota Brings Stop-Start to U.S. on Highlander, Expands D-4S
An up-to-1 mpg (0.4 km/L) improvement in city driving can be realized by leaving on Toyota’s stop-start.
Oct. 3, 2016 -
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Executive Denies VW Acted Illegally in Dieselgate
Imelda Wander-Lamé, Volkswagen’s director of group aftersales, apologizes “for this inconvenience and loss of trust that we caused to our customers,” but refuses to admit to a consumer group any illegality by VW in installing so-called defeat devices.
By Sara Lewis • Sept. 30, 2016 -
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Mobility Services Key Destination for Opel Ampera-e
Opel marketing chief Tina Müller says EVs will see rapid growth. “In 10 years, I’m sure we will laugh about the old times and internal-combustion engines,” she says.
By James M. Amend • Sept. 29, 2016 -
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Mercedes-AMG Hypercar Confirmed
The new car is expected to challenge the Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1 and Porsche 918 Spyder at the very top of the road car spectrum.
By Greg Kable • Sept. 28, 2016 -
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Green Colors Millennials’ Views on Car Ownership
Of 2,500 Millennials surveyed, 77% currently own cars and nearly two-of-three say they likely will buy a hybrid car in the next 10 years and more than half say they would buy an EV in that time span.
By Alan Harman • Sept. 27, 2016 -
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Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Auto Industry
The technology race is on, with automakers so far leading the disruptors in the number of patents filed.
By Justinas Liuima • Sept. 23, 2016 -
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Toyota Cuts Mirai Lease Price to Help Build Awareness
The monthly payment and down payment to lease Toyota’s first fuel-cell vehicle for retail customers falls for ’17.
Sept. 23, 2016 -
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Korean Prosecutors Question VW Exec Over Dieselgate
Prosecutors questioned Detlef Stendel, the emissions-certification manager at Volkswagen’s German headquarters since 2004, about whether the automaker instructed executives in Korea to install emissions-cheating software in VW diesel engines.
By Vince Courtenay • Sept. 23, 2016 -
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Smart Unveils Electric Drive Lineup
Set to make their public debut at next week’s Paris auto show, the first of Smart’s Electric Drive trio, the Fortwo, is planned to go on sale in North America before the end of the year.
By Greg Kable • Sept. 22, 2016 -
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Ferrari Lifts Wraps on New V-8-Powered GTC4 Lusso T
The addition of the new engine to the GTC4 Lusso marks the first time the venerable Italian automaker has offered a choice of two different engines in the same model at one time.
By Greg Kable • Sept. 22, 2016 -
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2016 Wards 10 Best UX: Surprise and Delight
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.TRANSCRIPTAutomotive companies for years have pinned customer loyalty on the notion of brand identity, or those predominately visual cues, s...
By James M. Amend • Sept. 22, 2016 -
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New Zealand Extends Tax Exemption for EV Drivers
Light EVs are exempt from paying road-user charges otherwise applied to vehicles that don’t pay for gasoline at the pump. The exemption is being extended to Dec. 31, 2021 as part of the government’s pro-EV initiative.
By Alan Harman • Sept. 22, 2016 -
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Bentley’s Bentayga Adds Diesel With 48V Supercharger
The engine marries variable-geometry, sequential twin-scroll turbochargers with a third electric supercharger, powered by 48V technology, and which spools up within 30 microseconds to eliminate turbo lag.
By Paul Myles • Sept. 22, 2016 -
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Land Rover Turns to Tykes for Discovery Tweaks
With thousands of hours of development going into creating the new Land Rover Discovery SUV, chief engineer Alex Heslop says there’s no better insight into the needs of the modern family than the firsthand experience JLR designers glean at home.
By Alan Harman • Sept. 21, 2016 -
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Autonomous-Vehicle Race On, Intel Executive Says
Something happened in the past year to turn autonomous-vehicle development from a science project to full speed ahead, Intel’s Elliot Garbus says.
By David Zoia Editor • Sept. 20, 2016 -
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JLR Adds Gasoline Version to Ingenium Engine Family
The automaker says a host of technology has been applied to reduce energy-sapping friction and other “parasitic” losses within both the gas and diesel new-generation engines.
By Paul Myles • Sept. 20, 2016
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