Friday, 27 July 2018

GM Lays Groundwork for Robotaxis In San Francisco !! Automotive News TV/CAR NEWS / Auto News


thanks for joining us on this Tuesday morning I’m Jennifer Wong coming upFord’s hunt for old parts but we’ll begin with headlines first up GeneralMotors the automaker is said to have created its own ride hailing platformand quietly built one of the largest charging stations in the US all this inan effort to get its crews self-driving car unit ready to enter the Robo taxibusiness next year sources tell Bloomberg that Cruise has installed 18fast chargers in a parking facility near San Francisco’s Embarcadero that’s thewell trafficked Boulevard along the city’s eastern shoreline where uber andlyft have busy drivers and where GM’s self-driving car unit has been testingits crews anywhere ride hailing app and fleet management system GM has longplanned to start a ride-hailing business using self-driving cars by 2019 howeverit hasn’t said where the service would start or whether it will work with apartner over the weekend Tesla met its goal of producing morethan 5,000 model threes in a week prompting CEO Elon Musk to declare thatTesla had just become a quote real car company well as bloomberg reports evenreal car companies need a breather now and then sources say that after workingaround the clock for weeks on end Tesla is pausing some model 3 production atits Fremont California Factory this week the break will let the company and dobasic upkeep and maintenance most employees will be back to work Thursdaymeantime Reuters is offering a look at how the electric car maker met itsproduction goal workers describe mandatory weekend shifts a tense andshort-tempered musk barking and engineers on the assembly line and Teslapulling workers from other departments to keep pumping out cars one other Teslanote Doug field senior vice president of engineering is stepping down after fiveyears reports emerged in May that the formerApple executive was taking a break from Tesla this is the latest in a string ofexecutive departures at the automaker Ron stack Volkswagen of America’s formersenior vice president of sales has landed at Mitsubishi stack left VW inJanuary after heading US sales for the VW brand for nearly two years MitsubishiMotors North America has named stack vice president of after sales thisfollowing mark Chaffins recent promotion to chief operating officer the companyalso naming veteran IT executive Natalie Milton vice president and chiefinformation officer in other news Frances Renault has launched a mandatoryoffer to buy out the remaining shareholders in Russian automaker AutoVaughan’s ride-hailing company lyft is buying bike share operator motivateparent company of Ford go bike and city bike lift trying to fend off competitionafter ubers April purchase of jump bikes and automakers are rolling out their USsales results for June today stay with our website for continuous coverage itall started with somebody returning a long-lost clock that once adornedDetroit’s old Michigan central train station now that Ford has acquired thelong festering building and announced plans to turn it into office spacerestaurants and residences people are calling the company about returningother items for its spokeswoman Don Booker tells us the company has receivedcalls about returning decorative tiles ticket stubs and even an elevatortransom Booker says lighting fixtures are what’s needed the most but Fordwould also appreciate any ticket window grilles the interior clock and manyother historic hardware used in the station finally you may not have thisguy to kick around with much longer published reports saydoes stopping development work on ASIMO it’s humanoid robot ASIMO has served asa research tool and PR ambassador for Honda since 2000 he can dance delivercoffee take the stairs even ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchangeaccording to one report out of Japan Honda is planning another two-leggedsuccessor to ASIMO and the automaker saying in a statement technologies thatwent into ASIMO are being adopted for use in Honda’s mass production productswill be off tomorrow for the 4th of July holiday here in the US but we’ll see youback here Thursday morning take care



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General Motors Plans To Invest Heavily –AUTOMOTIVE NEWS / CAR NEWS CHANEL


a nearby supply of parts it’s nice to see you on this Wednesday as we told youTuesday General Motors plans to invest heavilyin its US manufacturing operations and create and retain thousands of jobs inthis country turns out the automaker says it has beenmaking it easier for its supplier base to do the samethat’s because GM is continuing to create supplier parks near its usfactories including the automakers fairfax assembly plant in Kansas andSpring Hill assembly plant in Tennessee now GM is not alone for example in 2015Nissan announced plans to add more than 1,000 new supplier jobs and it’sTennessee operations it’s all part of a 160 million dollar supplier park projectautomakers say locating parts maker parks near assembly plans has severalbenefits including reduced transportation costs meanwhile GMyesterday confirming that another supplier has committed to makecomponents for the automakers next gen full-size pickup trucks in Michigan as aresult 100 supplier jobs will move to the u. s. from Mexico now GM and otherautomakers have been sharply criticized by president-elect Donald Trump forbuilding vehicles in Mexico that are imported into the United Statesa few hours after GM’s announcement Trump tweeted quote thank you to GeneralMotors in Walmart for starting the big jobs push back into the US Trumpreferring as well to Walmart’s plan to hire 10,000 US workers in 2017 aspreviously announced by the retailer GM agreeing to pay 1 million dollars toresolve a US Securities and Exchange Commission accounting case related to afaulty ignition switch linked to 124 deaths the SEC saying today the dealwill resolve charges that internal accounting control failures kept GM fromproperly assessing the potential financial impact of the defectiveignition switch specifically the SEC says GM’s internal investigationinvolving the switch was not brought to the attention of its accountants untilNovember 2013 even though other GM personnel knew in the spring of 2012that a safety issue was at hand GM saying in a statement that itconsented to an administrative SCC order without admitting or denying anywrongdoing for some cities one way to ease the flow of vehicles during rushhour reversible highway lanes similar to the ones illustrated in this animationfrom the Georgia Department of Transportation but here’s a question foryou as we move closer to the era of self-driving cars will robot driversknow what to do and say Alain goes west during the morning commute but east inthe evening well Amazon may have an answer yesterday the company won a USpatent for a roadway management system for autonomous vehicles as described inthe patent the system can help a car determine the direction of travel so itknows which lane to enter now a sneak peek at future product we got our handson spy photos of the upcoming Jaguar IPE the crossover is expected to make itsdebut next year the e pace appears smaller than the F pace and is poweredby a four-cylinder engine and will say with product many is giving its JohnCooper Works performance treatment to the second generation MINI Countrymanthe John Cooper Works countryman produces 228 horsepower and 258pound-feet of torque the performance variant reaches us dealerships in Aprila plug-in hybrid countryman is expected to go on sale in June let’s talk oil TIHS market handing out its annual automotive loyalty awards at last week’sAutomotive News World Congress the information provider honoring automakersfor customer retention and conquest efforts during the 2016 model year IHSmarket found that with seventeen point five million new vehicle registrationsduring the 2016 model year 52 point eight percent of customers were turnedto market to purchase another vehicle from the same make they already own thatrepresented a record loyalty rate and an increase of one point three percentagepoints from the previous year here’s IHS market sales and marketing VP steve hasstarts off with a great product and so I think when you look at the winners thatwe have they all have great product so if you don’t have that it’s really hardbut great product alone just doesn’t do it anymore you have to have a greatexperience though that experience tends to revolve around the dealership andwhat you’re doing there from a sales perspective helping out the customercome in GM took home the top prize overall loyalty to manufacturer for thesecond consecutive year and that is our time for today thanks so much forwatching we’ll see you back here on Thursday



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New push to clear the air in Europe .. Automotive News TV/car news


thanks for joining us on this Friday morningcoming up driverless benefits for the blind but first your headlines severaldevelopments on the diesel front first luxury brand OD has launched a recallfor up to 850,000 diesel fuel cars in EuropeHowdy’s thing today that it plans to update emissions control software thisin a bid to avoid potential driving bans how D says the service is also beingoffered to Porsche and Volkswagen branded cars using the same six andeight cylinder engines earlier this week Daimler announced similar plans to cutdiesel pollution including investing 255 million dollars to update more than 3million mercedes-benz diesel cars in Europe according to Reuters autoindustry officials and politicians in Germany have agreed on a two point threebillion dollar plan to prevent diesel bans by cleaning up vehicles throughsoftware updates meantime the European Commission is set to be examiningwhether German automakers colluded in systems they use to clean exhaustemissions the German business newspaper handles blond says the collusion probewas triggered by an Audi presentation that was seized in raids at VW howdy isa division of Volkswagen Group spokesman for the EU Volkswagen and Audi alldeclining to comment and in the u. s. Volkswagen will pay the state ofCalifornia an additional one hundred fifty four million dollars in penaltiesstemming from the automakers emission scandal the California Air ResourcesBoard announcing that it had filed a consent decree requiring the additionalpayment as The Associated Press reports this takes VW’s total settlement inCalifornia to 1. 3 billion dollars Ford is shaking up his design team to shortenproduct development cycles and better define the group’s overarching stressgee among the changes Joel pious Kowski director of Ford of Europe design comesto the US as global director of design overseeing cars and crossovers ChrisVenson design director of the Americas has been named global director of designoverseeing trucks suvs and commercial vehicles david Woodhouse director ofLincoln design takes on the additional role of director of global strategicdesign an uncle lienard’s who will replace pius Kowski as director of fordof europe design for more on the changes see oughtta news. comfinally a gala night in Detroit Thursday as the automotive Hall of Fame inductedits latest numbers among those enshrine in this year’s class former GeneralMotors design chief Ed Welburn Jack Roush the CEO of Roush Fenway Racing andchairman of Roush Enterprises in Alberto Bamba say President of breaking giantBrembo the hall also inducting the late August FRU Hoff inventor of thesemi-trailer and founder of the fru-u– Hoff trailer company his granddaughterRuth accepting on his behalfself-driving cars had the potential to transform mobility for the elderly andpeople with disabilities that’s why advocates for the blind for example havejoined automakers and tech companies in lobbying Congress to help spur therollout of driverless cars the intention of this legislation is to increaseself-driving vehicle testing on US highways a US House panel on Wednesdayapproved their first legislation on autonomous vehicles and advocates forthe blind have a special set of concerns as bloomberg reports the advocates wantaccessibility incorporated into car design and states to steer clear of lawsthat would prohibit the blind from one day sitting in the driver’s seat onechallenge today is that policy makers and companies working on fullyautonomous cars assume riders see the road aheadcase in point some states including New York already have laws that requireoperators of automated vehicles to have a driver’s license which requires avision test time companies including Google’s way Moe unit and GM are gettinginput from the blind as they develop robot cars the vehicles though stillmany years away from being widely availableremember your industry news update is available 24/7 atnews. com enjoy your weekend we’ll see you right back here Monday morning



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Thursday, 26 July 2018

Tesla’s Latest Stunt is Out Of This World …Automotive News TV/CAR NEWS / Auto News


thanks for joining us on this Wednesday morning i’m jennifer bong coming upsubaru gets a little help from its friends but let’s begin with your topnews stories kia may have scored some kudos in lexus attracted eyeballs withSuperbowl ads on Sunday but as Bloomberg says no Auto brand has pulled off apublicity stunt quite like the one Tesla just managed Ilan mas very own cherryred Tesla Roadster was the payload as the Falcon heavy rocket from us SpaceXventure launched for the first time the car floating through space to the shearsof a crowd and David Bowie’s life on Mars this at the end of a 43 minutewebcast that drew millions of viewers their car making the cover of today’sNew York Post with the headline car Trek musk outfitted his roadster with camerasto capture views of the car in orbit behind the wheel was star man clad inthe same spacesuit that astronauts will wear during SpaceX flights to theInternational Space Station a live stream of star man on YouTube drawingmore than 7 million views you can tell it’s real because it looksso fake honestly musk telling a news conference that the whole thing seemssurreal to him musk adding quote crazy things can come true this may bring muskdown to earth alittle Tesla is due to release its fourth-quarter earningsafter the stock market closes today we’ll bring you the results onThursday’s newscast the last of four people charged in connection to the UAWfiat-chrysler corruption scandal pleaded guilty to x’ day to one of five chargesMonica Morgan the widow of former UAW vice president general Holyfieldpleading guilty to one count of subscribing to a false tax returnsentencing is scheduled for June 4th Morgan faces a mansome of 27 months in prison former uber CEO Travis kalanick making his firstpublic comments on allegations that uber stole its self-driving car technologyfrom way mo Callen ik testifying that delays and ubers self-driving cardevelopment led him to hire a star engineer from way mo he said he begannegotiations with Anthony Levin dusky y11 douse key was still working forwhammo on the witness stand Callen ik acknowledged that he was aquote big fan of lovin douse keys lawyers for way mo are expected tofurther question Callen ik today in other news Mazda says its quarterlyprofit more than doubled to 280 million dollars a weaker yen and lower costsoffset weaker sales in North America and Chinese ride-hailing giant diddy juicingis setting up an electric car sharing service with 12 automakers includinglocal partners of Ford it seems subaru can do no wrong in the u. s. the companyis currently riding a streak of 74 monthly year-over-year increases onepotential weakness though is a lack of electrified vehicles but the automakeris diving into that arena this year with the u. s. launch of a plug-in hybrid afull Eevee will be offered in 2021 and as our Hans grime all reports Subaru isrelying on its friends to help bring those vehicles to market subaru has along-standing partnership with Toyota which owns 17% of the smaller car makerin fact Subarus plug-in hybrid will pull largely from the Toyota Prius primesystem meantime subaru has joined a new Eevee venture members include ToyotaMazda and Suzuki while Subaru has an in-house electrification teampartnerships are crucial as the automaker rushes to comply withemissions regulations now to the Philippines in this firstshift freeze-frame and for you car lovers you might want to close your eyesmore than two dozen luxury cars in the country were crushed on Tuesdayaccording to Reuters the smuggled vehicles which include used Lexus BMWand Jaguar models were worth a total of 1. 2 million dollars the demolitionshowcasing the Philippines Presidents crackdown on crime and corruptionfinally a quick birthday to note turning 69 today is auto nation CEO Mike Jacksonthat is our time for today keep it here on our website for breaking news 24/7take careyou



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Musk Labels Rescue Diver a Pedophile in Twitter Rant —- Automotive News TV/CAR NEWS / Auto News


welcome to a Monday edition of first shift hope you enjoyed your weekend 60years of Motorsports in car culture will explain just after your morningheadlines I’m not going to make any further comment about him but I thinkpeople realize what sort of guy is that’s British diver Verne Unsworthspeaking in an Australian television interview he was responding to anow-deleted tweet by Tesla CEO Elon Musk that belittled the cave Explorer as apedophile would you consider taking legal action against him yes it’s notfinished mosque posting the tweet after Unsworth criticized musk effort to helpin the rescue of a Thai soccer team as a publicity stunt as we’ve reported muskhad offered a quote kid-sized submarine to help rescue the boys and their coachafter they became trapped in a cave in northern Thailanda Thai official said the equipment built by musk rocket company SpaceX wasn’tpractical musk traveled to the site but the team was rescued by Thai divers withaid from an international group of volunteers Hans worth a volunteer whoplayed a key role in organising the rescue said in an interview Friday withCNN that the submarine was a PR stunt he also had this to say in sticky submarinewhere it hurts just had absolutely no chance of workingover the weekend musk fired back in a series of tweets without specificallynaming Unsworth he said he would make a video to prove that the mini-sub couldhave helped in the rescue adding quote sorry pedo guy you really did ask for itthe story comes our way from Bloomberg new this morningdealership software giant cdk global says it has agreed to acquire e lead onethe transaction has been unanimously approved by CDKs Board of Directorsatlanta-based elite1 provides customer relationshipmanagement sir and marketing products cdk global CEOBrian McDonald saying in a statement quote we determined that elite onescenterpiece CRM offering and fully integrated suite of layered applicationsfit well with our diversified product offerings Germany’s motor vehicleauthority has confirmed that it’s conducting a hearing into the emissionstechnology used in three Opel diesel models according to a German newspaperthe authority found reliable evidence that an exhaust gas treatment in somemodels shuts down during driving and finally I have great memories and andnot many sorrows the sorrows are being away from my kids missing the action butthe action I get well for just taking care of myself and enjoying the rest ofmy life ex Minnesota mega dealer Danny hackers kingdom came crashing down in2011 after he was sentenced to ten years in prison for receiving more than eightymillion dollars in loans by forging documents now at age 66 Danny hacker isout of prison I burned up a lot of years missing working too hard for for me tofill my own my own ego coming up this afternoon on Auto news now in anexclusive interview with automotive news reporter Larry Valiquette hackerdiscusses his tumultuous career life behind bars and his plan to ensure otherretailers don’t follow in his footstepstoday marks the 60th anniversary of Autoweek magazine a sibling publicationof automotive news its roots go back to 1958 when it was founded as competitionpress west Raynal editor of auto week who has been with the magazine since1989 says while much has changed in the industry the publication’s philosophyremains the same we’ve been a place where the reader can go and getperspective and insight into Motorsports and culture in cars and we would like tothink that that is been a recurring theme throughout our 60 years today’sanniversary issue highlights those three pillars as for the next 60 years Raynalsays Auto Week is putting a bigger focus on its growing audience of youngerreaders we have tilted the editorial effort a little bit to be more a littlebit more inclusive of them and so like we’re about to publish an issue that wedo every year called 13-under where every story is written and every photois shot by someone 30 or under and Raynal says he’d like to dispel the myththat Millennials aren’t interested in cars the notion that kids don’t likecars I think it is ps4 more from Auto weeks 60th anniversary issue you canvisit the website address on your screen thanks for joining us on first shiftwe’ll catch you back here at Tuesday morning



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Why Chevrolet Built The Corvette ZR1 Drop Top !!! – Automotive News TV / CAR NEWS CHANEL


welcome to a Wednesday morning edition of first shift from Los Angeles I’mJennifer Vaughn and I am Tom Maura Beck it is press preview day number one hereat the LA Auto Show however some automakers got a head starton the competition Tuesday afternoon that’s right let’s getto the unveilings and executivesNissan’s luxury brand infinity unwrapping the redesigned qx50 thenext-gen compact crossover is built on an all-new platform featuring afront-engine front-wheel-drive base layout the qx50 marks the productiondebut of infinities new variable compression turbocharged engine itpromises the power of a six cylinder from a more efficient four-cylinder unithere’s Christian moon a infinities global division vp of marketing andsales response for dealers is outstanding they’re really reallyexcited you know that we’re looking for it you know for a long time we had theprevious generation that we carried for a little too many years and they’re veryexcited they can see that as a big opportunity for their business for theircustomer base and and all together for the future of Infiniti we’re verybullish with the future of Infiniti the future is bright the redesign qx50 isexpected to go on sale early next year Infiniti hopes it will help boost theluxury brands US sales which were up 15% through OctoberSubaru is reentering the big crossover market with the all-wheel-drive ascentthe automaker taking the CUV on an off-road adventure during its debut inLa Tuesday night the three row ascent has room for up to eight people or dogsthat’s right Subaru of America boss Tom Dahl helpinga tail wagging canines out of the vehicle to show its roominess the ascentfeatures more than 72 cubic feet of cargo spaceit comes with an all-new power plant a turbocharged 2. 4 liter boxer engine thatproduces 260 horsepower Dahl says the ascent will play an important role inSubarus lineup unfortunately but what happens before we get buyers when theywere younger but then when they were in their family formation years they had toleave us to go to some larger vehicle well now we have the opportunity to keepthem in a Subaru family all the way through their ownership experience sowe’re very excited about the ascent and what it means to our franchise and brandgoing forward Subaru has been unable to cash in on the hot 3-row crossoversegment since output of the ill-fated Tribeca ended in 2014ascend production will begin at the automakers laughing at Indiana plannedin the second quarter of 2018 the first models are set to arrive at dealershipsby early summer you are looking at the Lincoln Nautilus and it signals the endof the marks MK naming scheme that some customers still haven’t figured outafter more than a decade first to go is the MK X which will become the Nautiluswhen the 2019 model reaches showrooms in the spring the MK X is Lincoln’stop-selling US nameplate the Nautilus will get a new front end and new 8-speedtransmission the brand says it shows the Nautilus name lanten for sailor becauseit fits well with the travel theme evoked by the navigator and ContinentalLincoln plans to recurse in the MKC and MKZ when those vehicles getsignificant updates meantime Lincoln says it will pilotmonth-to-month vehicle subscriptions next year executives say the programlikely will start in a few California cities Lincoln is promisingsignificantly lower prices than similar car subscription services from rivalbrands including Cadillac and Porsche that can cost thousands of dollars theundisclosed fee for the Lincoln service will be all-inclusive covering insurancemaintenance roadside assistance and vehicle pickup and delivery customerscan change vehicles every month the fastest most powerful productionChevrolet Corvette ever is going topless Chevrolet unveiling the 2019 Corvettezr1 convertible it is the first cr1 drop-top since the original 1970 modelyears zr1 hears General Motors global productdevelopment boss Marc Royce this is sort of the ultimate punctuation of the c7model run four four Corvette for performance so you know this is wealways if you look at the history of this the z-c are ones were always thepinnacle of whatever a generation of Corvette that came out and for this onethe convertible we brought back because the the backbone of the c7 is so strongand so so good the convertible is expected to go on sale in the spring of2018 pricing starts at just under 124 thousand bucks to the new generation2018 Jeep Wrangler the last time the vehicle was redesigned 2006 under thehood all of Wranglers engines will now come standard with stop-start technologyinside the cabin there’s an upgraded infotainment system and informationcluster visibility has been improved with larger windows and a new power sky1Touch retractable top allows a driver to retract the Wranglers canvas soft topwith a touch of a button the jl wrangler hits us showrooms in january pricing hasnot been announced it’s going to be a very busy week around here we will ofcourse have much more from the Auto Show floor later today onAuto news now and for breaking news 24/7 stay with our website Auto news. com takecare everyone we’ll see you soon



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China U.S. Starts ‘largest-Scale Trade War’ in History… Automotive News TV/CAR NEWS / Auto News


thanks for joining us on this Friday edition of first shift I’m Jennifer bonglater we talk dashboard and dealership designs but first up your morningheadlines we’ll have the latest on IPA chief scott pruettresigning in just a moment but first the us-china trade conflict continues toescalate and the auto industry is caught in the middle this as US tariffs onthirty four billion dollars in Chinese imports including Auto Parts took effectas a deadline passed on Friday China said it was forced to retaliatemeaning 34 billion dollars worth of imported u. s. goods also faced 25%tariffs but that number is significantly higher for automobiles china plans tohike tariffs on US light vehicle imports to 40% from 15 percent the duties willhave a disproportionate impact on major US vehicle exporters such asmercedes-benz BMW Ford and Tesla sources tell Reuters some Chinese ports delayedclearing goods from the US on Friday China’s commerce ministry says the u. s. quote initiated the largest-scale trade war in economic history and the battlemay get bigger president Donald Trump warned Thursday that the US mayultimately target more than 500 billion dollars worth of Chinese goods orroughly the total amount of US imports from China last year as we’ve reportedTrump has threatened 25% tariffs on imported vehicles and automakers arescrambling to ship vehicles to u. s. to preempt possible higher duties data froma number of US ports show a surge in vehicle exports and imports in May theUS ports of Baltimore Jacksonville Florida and Brunswick Georgia are thethree leading US ports for importing automobiles in May those ports unloadeda combined 23,000 more light vehicles thandid a year earlier meanwhile auto exports out of Baltimore in Jacksonvillein May roads 39 percent and 19 percent respectively we have done a tremendousamount as a country to achieve reductions in co2 embattled EPAAdministrator Scott Pruett has resigned following months of damaging revelationsabout his conduct in office and allegations of ethical lapses Trumpannounced the move in a Twitter post Thursday afternoon he added quote withinthe agency Scott has done an outstanding job and I will always be thankful to himfor this Pruett led the charge to scale back Obama era fuel economy standardsfor light vehicles his deputy Andrew wheeler now takes over as ActingAdministrator Pruitt was aggressive on the deregulatory front he worked to undoat least a dozen environmental regulations promoted by his immediatepredecessors meanwhile Pruett has been under constant fire for months overallegations of conflicts of interest wasteful spending and improper use ofauthority there are at least a dozen federal investigations into his behaviorand Nissan says it is still committed to cooperating with Daimler this followinga report that Nissan suspended joint development of a luxury compact car amidan uncertain US market outlook according to Japan’s Nikon kokyo newspaperNissan’s Infiniti brand decided to halt development of the vehicle because ofthe dramatic shift in US demand away from passenger cars and toward lighttrucks the rise of electric cars will give rise to digital dashboardsas bloomberg reports automakers are already replacing speedometers and dialswith fully digital screens but those screens will increasingly become a keyselling point as the industry moves toward V’s that’s according to Japandisplay the world’s biggest supplier of panels and carsthe company says drivers are paying more attention to the interior aestheticsthan what’s under the hood for now digital dashboards are mostly used inhigh-end cars made by automakers including outtie and mercedes-benzaccording to IHS market Japan display controlled 19% of the 6. 7 billion dollarglobal market for automotive displays last year LG Display was second with 14%from dashboard design to dealership design here’s a peek at Mitsubishi she’snew look for its 5,000 stores around the world the company aims to provide abetter customer experience in a high quality retail environment MitsubishiMotors North America says this is the first dealer visual identity update in16 years the program will take effect later this year and is based on the newbrand message drive your ambition that wraps up today’s newscast feel free tosend us any feedback or story ideas at jayvon at crane comm enjoy your weekendwe’ll see you back here on Monday you



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