BMW 7-Series If you're going to go exclusively, you go all the way. BMW showed off its flagship vehicle, the BMW 7-Series at the exclusive Monticello Motor Club. It would have taken hours to drive there, not that we couldn't have gone there in luxury since the new 7-Series is a long-wheel, bordering on limousine [...]
FASB No. 19 In the '80s Edward John DeBartolo Jr. "Eddie" DeBartolo was a household name. DeBartolo was the owner of the San Francisco 49ers, the team of the decade with names like Joe Montana, Dwight Clark, Kenna Turner, Eric Wright, and Duane Board. DeBartolo loved his team, and they loved him. With each season [...]
Landing in St. Johns NFLD, Canada with a beautiful full moon glowing from above, and then a soggy takeoff on the way back to the United States on Driving the Nation
Most States have four seasons, Spring, Fall, Summer, Winter. In California, we have five seasons. The fifth season is called the fire season. Most people don't even realize it when they say it, but once the rain stops, and the grass starts turning green people start talking about California's fifth season, fire season. More acres [...]
In Tesla's financial press release it shows the surprise, "Automotive revenue for Q3 included $31 million of powertrain sales primarily to Daimler for the Mercedes-Benz B Class Electric Drive. It also included $93 million of regulatory credit's, including $76 million of Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) credit's. ZEV credit revenue was much higher than [...]
Terrafugia in the Big Apple We've seen the Terrafugia transition at the New York auto show. Now Terrafugia is bringing out TF-X, a flying car that, according to Terrafugia, should take an average driver no more than five hours to learn how to safely operate. From Terrafugia's website Safety Operating a TF-X vehicle should be [...]
Alex Innes is the bespoke designer for Rolls-Royce. Innes studied automotive design under the umbrella of industrial design and came to Rolls-Royce five years ago, right out of college. It's striking that such a young man is designing a car for such a mature cultured car owner. There are products and designs that you will [...]
John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor radio show, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com about tesla talking to Google about autonomous vehicles, and Audi's car commercial that star Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. Google was the first autonomous vehicle to get a license to drive their autonomous vehicles in Nevada, Audi was the [...]
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 12 2013 (IPS) - Two years after Japans Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the country faces 100 to 250 billion dollars in cleanup and compensation costs, tens of thousands of displaced people and widespread impacts of radiation. The nuclear industry and it's suppliers made billions from building and operating Fukushimas [...]
Art for children the noise, vibration, harshness table It's happening all over the United States, government funds are being cut and private individuals and companies are stepping in to give financial support to the causes they believe in. In Ford Motor Companies case, today, it was children and innovation via the Smithsonian Spark! [...]