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Volvo has announced a partnership with the ride-sharing company Uber to develop fully autonomous cars together. In this joint project, Volvo will manufacture the base vehicles which will then be bought by Uber. The two companies are each investing $300 million towards this project. Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, said: “Over one million people die in car accidents every year. These are tragedies that self-driving technology can help solve, but we can’t do this alone.“That’s why our partnership with a great manufacturer like Volvo is so important. Vol...
Ford today announced plans to build a fully autonomous vehicle within five years. The car will have no steering wheel, gas pedal or brake pedal, and it will be used for ride-sharing or ride hailing services. Ford made no mention of when the public will be able to buy such a vehicle.“The next decade will be defined by automation of the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago,” said Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO. Ford's entry will be a high-volume SAE level 4 autonomous v...
A new sales record was reported by BMW Motorrad for the first half of this year, and it was the fourth record sales result in succession. The Bavarian manufacturer managed to sell some 80,754 motorcycles and maxi scooters worldwide in the concerned period, that is to say 3 percent more units than the previous year. For the first time ever, BMW sold more than 80,000 vehicles in the first six-month period of a year. With these intermediary results, BMW may expect a sales record whole year. All this being said, in the United States, BMW's unit sales have been worse in no ...
The Toyota Camry is one of the best selling models of the automaker. The sedan has a U.S.-sold domestic content of 75 percent, this fact being important for the annual American-Made Index, in which Camry took the top spot for this year.Toyota sold 429,185 U.S.-built Camrys in 2015 in the U.S. Sales for the current year through May fell 6 percent to 167,149 vehicles. Other vehicle models that followed Toyota Camry in this rating are Honda Accord, Toyota Sienna, Honda Odyssey, Honda Pilot, Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia and Buick Enclave. According to various surve...
The past few years have been a great time for the U.S. car dealers, while manufacturers haven't had it quite so good as retailers. At the same time many auto dealers complained they were often short of the products their customers wanted to buy, and it's pertinent to notice in this context that the factories still make too many vehicles for which there's no demand. Things are going to change soon in the U.S. economy, which will make sales even more exciting for dealers and manufacturers. The American car business will become more dicey for globa...
