Auto Site News http://www.autositenews.com Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:37:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Video: BMW takes its autonomous 5 Series onto the autobahn http://www.autositenews.com/video-bmw-takes-its-autonomous-5-series-onto-the-autobahn/ http://www.autositenews.com/video-bmw-takes-its-autonomous-5-series-onto-the-autobahn/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:37:55 +0000 admin http://www.autositenews.com/video-bmw-takes-its-autonomous-5-series-onto-the-autobahn/ Continue reading →]]> Filed under: Safety , Technology , BMW Last May we went for a high-speed run around Laguna Seca in BMW’s Track Trainer , a modified 3 Series that can click of two-minute laps without the driver touching the controls. Now, BMW has packed a 5 Series with the next iteration of the technology and taken it on to the open road. This latest ConnectedDrive experiment uses much of the same tech, but beyond the radar and camera systems on the 3er, it includes new ultrasonic scanners and lasers to re-read the road surface, lines and surrounding vehicles. We say “re-read” because like the system we sampled at Laguna, this version needs to have the road data downloaded into the car before it can drive sans human intervention

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]]> http://www.autositenews.com/video-bmw-takes-its-autonomous-5-series-onto-the-autobahn/feed/ 0 2013 BMW X6 gets a facelift, M Performance package http://www.autositenews.com/2013-bmw-x6-gets-a-facelift-m-performance-package/ http://www.autositenews.com/2013-bmw-x6-gets-a-facelift-m-performance-package/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:37:22 +0000 admin http://www.autositenews.com/2013-bmw-x6-gets-a-facelift-m-performance-package/ Continue reading →]]> BMW has released the first images and details for the new facelifted X6 Sports Activity Coupe. Changes are minimal but the highlight is the introduction of the new M-Performance package.

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]]> http://www.autositenews.com/first-test-2012-honda-ridgeline-sport/feed/ 0 Report: Volkswagen says it could conclude takeover of Porsche this year http://www.autositenews.com/report-volkswagen-says-it-could-conclude-takeover-of-porsche-this-year/ http://www.autositenews.com/report-volkswagen-says-it-could-conclude-takeover-of-porsche-this-year/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:25:41 +0000 admin Continue reading →]]> Filed under: Porsche , Volkswagen , Earnings/Financials It’s been a whole three weeks since we checked in with Volkswagen’s takeoever of Porsche , and the most recent news wasn’t so good: investors filed a $2.6 billion suit against Porsche over the Stuttgart maker’s attempt to gobble up VW. Those same investors also filed an arbitration application against Volkswagen . That hasn’t stopped a VW executive from saying that its ownership of Porsche could finally be concluded this year, according to a report in Der Spiegel . VW had earlier predicted the deal would be done last year, then released a statement in September saying that that too many hurdles and unknowns remained concerning investigations and economic ramfications for the deal to get done in 2011.

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]]> http://www.autositenews.com/report-volkswagen-says-it-could-conclude-takeover-of-porsche-this-year/feed/ 0 Report: Volkswagen says it could conclude takeover of Porsche this year http://www.autositenews.com/report-volkswagen-says-it-could-conclude-takeover-of-porsche-this-year/ http://www.autositenews.com/report-volkswagen-says-it-could-conclude-takeover-of-porsche-this-year/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:25:41 +0000 admin Continue reading →]]> Filed under: Porsche , Volkswagen , Earnings/Financials It’s been a whole three weeks since we checked in with Volkswagen’s takeoever of Porsche , and the most recent news wasn’t so good: investors filed a $2.6 billion suit against Porsche over the Stuttgart maker’s attempt to gobble up VW. Those same investors also filed an arbitration application against Volkswagen . That hasn’t stopped a VW executive from saying that its ownership of Porsche could finally be concluded this year, according to a report in Der Spiegel . VW had earlier predicted the deal would be done last year, then released a statement in September saying that that too many hurdles and unknowns remained concerning investigations and economic ramfications for the deal to get done in 2011.

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