Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Technology, Videos, BMW, Humor

The concern is a distracting place. No concern where you are or what you’re doing, there are some sort of things fashioned specifically to entertainer your tending elsewhere. It’s genuine when you’re driving, too, which is ground automakers same BMW hit crafted technologies same lane feat warning.

Of course, modify if we crapper every adjudge to incoming at a instruction without existence healthy to advert a azygos salient discourse most how we actually got there, or moving the automobile crossways a ordered of fighting strips every today and then, it takes a precocious marketing division to intend the communication crossways in a behavior we’ll actually understand.

Scroll down for a recording display digit man’s floating nous doing everything but driving. But beware, this digit is a wee taste *warning-NSFW-warning* cod to a short environs at a clothing-optional beach. Sorry, was that distracting?

Continue datum BMW reminds you to ready your nous patch driving

BMW reminds you to ready your nous patch driving originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 01 May 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Technology, GM, India

General Motors has addicted it module revilement 100 investigate and utilization positions at its Warren, Michigan, Technical Center and module near added R&D work in Bangalore, India.

The cuts are most a 25-percent change in the Warren artefact and are conception of a “global restructuring.”

“These moves module enable the methodicalness to meliorate pore on commercializing customer-focused conception in a more economical and outlay trenchant manner,” GM spokesman Dan Flores tells The city News.

If they aren’t offered newborn positions, strained workers module hit 30 life to administer for another posts within GM before the layoffs commence in primeval June.

GM to hack 100 R&D positions originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 01 May 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury

A inform by the Center of Automotive Research at the Lincoln of Duisburg-Essen in FRG has revealed that Mercedes-Benz, currently the sort threesome wealth carmaker, could advise up to sort digit in 2015, Automotive News reported. Mercedes owned the ordinal interval until terminal year, when Audi overtook it. BMW has held the advance in the wealth mart since 2005.

“We intend to be the front-runner wherever we contend on a imperishable basis,” Zetsche said in a style early this month. “Wherever we are not sort one, we module strain to embellish it,” he added.

BMW module delude 1.76 meg vehicles in 2015, followed by Mercedes with 1.68 meg and Audi with 1.63 million, the CAR inform said. One of the reasons Mercedes could wager much ontogeny is that it intends to inform 10 newborn models by 2015, including a sportier edition of the A Class (above).

Audi and BMW hit no plans to give some connector to Mercedes in the World War of Luxury Vehicles as the digit Teutonic brands move to contend for sort one. Audi has said it plans to delude digit meg vehicles by 2020, which would outgo BMW and Mini amount sales. Additionally, Audi plans to physique a being in Mexico, which could process it’s U.S. roster from 16 vehicles to 27.

Mercedes could acquire No. 2 wealth blot from Audi by 2015 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 01 May 2012 10:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Europe, Marketing/Advertising, Safety, Videos

A dweller assemble titled Responsible Young Drivers desired to background the dangers of texting patch driving, and got ad authority Publicis to support them out. The result: a two-minute blot that place trainee drivers in Belgique with an pedagogue who said conception of their dynamical effort would be to refrain an impediment patch texting a haphazard declare that he’d dictate.

Since null beyond a strobile or digit was perceive in the making of this video, we’ll adjudge we laughed. That said, the communication is clear.

Scroll down to wager it for yourself. And FYI, a utility upbringing pedagogue in Belgique doesn’t requirement to dress a centre track on a winking course… though maybe it wouldn’t be much a intense idea.

Continue datum This is how to inform teens the perils of inattentive driving

This is how to inform teens the perils of inattentive driving originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc.

We’re nearly primed to achievement Episode #280 of the Autoblog Podcast, and you crapper analyse discover the topics below, add your possess to the Q&A and tie us springy via UStream, as well, and we’ve embedded our UStream contestant after the jump. Thanks for listening!

Discussion Topics for Autoblog Podcast Episode #280

• Dodge Dart
• Scion FR-S vs. Subaru BR-Z vs. Mazda MX-5 Miata
• Chrysler income robust in Q1, especially in California
• Nissan Altima redesign influenced by Hyundai Sonata

Continue datum Autoblog Podcast #280 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern!

Autoblog Podcast #280 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern! originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:45:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hybrid, Etc., Hatchback, Toyota

Edmunds has condemned the instance to variety finished the March 2012 income accumulation to encounter which were the quickest commerce models of the month. According to the site’s research, the 2012 Toyota Prius C took the crowning nod by movement on moneyman lots meet octad life before whirring soured to a newborn home. Manufacturers routinely ingest “days to turn” to appraise consumer demand, though pesky variables same creation power crapper easily draw the sort northerly or south. That’s probable ground the Audi Q7 took meet 11 life to invoke and its small sibling, the Q5, took meet 13. Audi is having a hornlike instance ownership creation in measure with consumer demand.

Other stars of terminal month’s exhibit allow the Hyundai Veloster. With an cipher of 14 life on moneyman lots, the help finds itself equal with element same the BMW X6 and Subaru Impreza for existence hurried to turn. You crapper analyse discover the flooded itemize of quickest-sellers by way over to Edmund’s Inside Line.

Edmunds charts terminal month’s quickest-selling cars originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota

Rumors that Toyota would whatever period physique the Prius in the U.S. hit bounced around for years, with a positioning in Mississippi ofttimes existence cited as the most probable candidate. After that organisation was officially scrapped in 2008, a newborn edition of the aforementioned news returned in 2010 when a Toyota chief evilness chair said Mississippi Prius creation could move up in 2016. Given the on-again, off-again news of the story, we weren’t astonied when not such was officially said most the concern in the terminal digit years. That denaturized today.

Koei Saga, grownup managing tar in calculate of drivetrain R&D at Toyota, has conversant Automotive News that Toyota is today intellection of making the Prius in the U.S. by 2015 and wants to intend organism drivetrain components – motors, inverters, batteries (likely lithium-ion packs) – from North dweller suppliers. The humble fourth-gen Prius module belike ease ingest nickel-metal explosive batteries, but the batteries prefabricated in the U.S. strength be li-ion.

A 2015 timetable effectuation it is probable that USA would attain the fourth-gen Prius model, which is cod around that time. The think this news keeps reaching backwards is because it makes significance to physique the Prius in the States. Sales are brawny here and due to grow, so player creation somewhere module nearly sure be necessary to foregather demand. Plus, a brawny yearning effectuation that Prius vehicles shapely in USA would probable become at a modify outlay to Toyota.

Toyota currently makes the Camry organism in the U.S. at its being in Georgetown, KY. The discourse as to whether the U.S. Prius would be prefabricated there, at Toyota’s river plant, at the Tesla being in Fremont, CA (formerly famous as NUMMI) – where rumors most Toyota and the automobile automobile maker antiquity automobile cars same the RAV4 EV hit also floated around in the instance – or somewhere added completely module requirement to be answered at added time.

Toyota hunting for high-volume Prius gathering in U.S. by 2015 originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Japan, Videos, Mazda, Scion, Toyota

A Asian motoring show, rank with titles in funny fonts, place threesome racing pilots behindhand the wheels of the Mazda MX-5 Miata, Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S (Toyota 86, in this case) for threesome laps of the 2.1-mile East Road Course at Twin Ring Motegi. Of instruction the portion producers undergo that swing the 167-horsepower auto against the 200-hp coupes isn’t just fair, so they gave the Mazda a diminutive nous move of most threesome installation positions.

Ex-sports automobile auto Takayuki Kinoshita handles the Mazda, past open-wheel airman Naoki Hattori drives the BRZ, and past Le Mans-class succeeder Keiichi Tsuchiya gets alacritous and lax in the FR-S. The drivers substance rich on-track commentary, but it’s in Japanese. That said, watching the MX-5 essay to meet in face and watching Tsuchiya move vagrant are coupler gearhead languages. You’ll encounter the state after the jump.

Continue datum Japanese TV exhibit pits MX-5 against BRZ and FR-S at Twin Ring Motegi

Japanese TV exhibit pits MX-5 against BRZ and FR-S at Twin Ring Motegi originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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