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    Vintage Car Ads: Safety

    JJD Twin Tyres I haven’t heard much about how”safety markets”in recent times. Automotively, we’ve proceeded from security– as a whole terms– to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems(ADAS). ADAS systems include things like blind-spot alert, rear cross-traffic alert, pedestrian detection, and lane-keep help. Truly, things we need to all be pretty good at by now– without assistance. Prior to the technological ramp-up to the autonomous-car age, which we are currently in– safety was a bigger bargain. Think about that, for the initial half of the auto age, a lot of autos were geared up just with drum brakes, which were a lot less effective than disc brakes, and also suffered diminished efficiency…

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    Forgotten Concept: Saturn Flextreme

    Saturn Flextreme Concept This is an installment in a series of blog posts recalling on program autos that we really feel was worthy of a little even more interest than they obtained. If you have a suggestion for a ForgottenConcept subject, please shoot us a line or leave a comment below. Saturn Flextreme Shown: 2008 Detroit Auto Show Summary: Plug-in crossbreed compact car Sales Pitch:”Flextreme reveals that unusual reasoning can lead to wonderful autos.”More Forgotten Concepts Saturn Flextreme Details: First seen at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, the Saturn Flextreme Concept was an online clone of the Opel Flextreme Concept which had been introduced at the 2007 Frankfort Auto Show…

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    GM going to get US Buick suppliers

    General Motors will certainly provide buyouts to U.S. Buick dealerships that don’t want to make investments pertaining to the brand name’s all-electric transition, the head of Buick said in a meeting with The Wall Street Journal released Friday. All of Buick’s about 2,000 car dealerships will be provided a possibility to take a buyout, Global Buick employer Duncan Aldred claimed in the meeting. That would certainly imply giving up the franchise as well as no longer selling Buicks, yet many suppliers also market various other GM brands, the Journal noted, adding that Aldred was arranged to describe this strategy at an online supplier meeting Friday. Buick Wildcat EV idea “Not…

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