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DIGITAL
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Smartphone technology plays key role in VW future
VW – Vorsprung durch Digital – Digital Car-Net ecosystem – User-ID – always on – own profile in multitude of vehicles –
personalisation from standardisation
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Vorsprung durch Technik – Audi’s promising new modus operandi leading eventually to the ‘Smart Factory’
You can’t but feel pity for Audi’s strategists. With the scope for unique technological individuality of its cars shrinking both progressively and inevitably, Audi’s strategic thinkers came up with a plausible plan capable of breathing some vital new life, albeit in different form, into its Vorsprung durch Technik
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Self-parking cars - Bosch and Daimler’s car2go pool know-how The way technology has progressed, in the
near future specially equipped cars will look on their own for vacant spaces in say a city parking
garage and on request will return to the waiting driver all by themselves, using either a button on
the car’s key-fob or a smartphone app
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Not a Driving Machine – 1st FWD BMW aims for niche that is no longer hot New Active Tourer, first BMW-badged car with
front-wheel-drive, has been developed to do battle with same concept Mercedes B-Class
and Volkswagen’s roomier family size Golf Sportsvan. UK prices for BMW’s first-ever
People-Carrier start at Ł22,475 for the manual 136PS 3-cylinder petrol-fuelled 218i
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SEAT Leon X-Perience, with new 4WD Leon estate heads for Quattro country With eyes focused on the perpetually expanding
market for affordable and versatile family-size cars with four rather than two driven wheels,
VW Group’s SEAT offshoot has joined its Czech Škoda brother by also launching its Golf-based
Leon estate with a near go-anywhere all-wheeldrive system
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Volkswagen’s plug-in Golf GTE reaches UK shores - Taxing issue Not so long ago, particularly in key non-diesel
car markets like the US, where Toyota has been selling annually well over 200,000
Prius range hybrids alone, the media has continually challenged Volkswagen to turn its widely
admired technical automotive know-how to latest state-of-the art hybrids.
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Moving on up -
VW Passat |
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We’ve got 2nd stage ignition - |
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Audi’s driveway prestige symbol replaced |
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New VW Passat - scaled up Golf VII |
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New Twingo - Full of smart ideas |
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Toyoya Aygo - Not exactly up, up and away Toyota’s new Aygo faces stiffening headwinds from all directions > New product | Late to Crossover party - Suzuki SX4 S-Cross |
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Late to Crossover party - Suzuki SX4 S-Cross Suzuki’s new SX4 S-Cross joins UK’s crowded SUV-Crossover scene > Nissan’s reworked new Qashqai – builds on successful qualities |
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VW - Why four or more when three will do? Volkswagen unveils some of its latest EU6 petrol and diesel engines > Zafira Tourer - company’s 1st Euro 6 diesel |
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SEAT’s new Leon Estate Pretty, dynamic and yet surprisingly functional when needed > Dacia Logan - Romanian immigrant with a difference |
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Rebirth of design icon Audi’s 3rd generation TT adds new shine to Vorsprung durch Technik > Nissan Qashqai – builds on successful qualities |
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Qashqai – Nissan’s hero Nissan’s reworked new Qashqai – builds on successful qualities ● Dacia Logan - Romanian immigrant with a difference |
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Romanian immigrant with a difference Dacia Logan MCV – fourth Dacia model to reach British shores ● New Product Baby Crossover boom - Renault Captur |
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Cayenne – Porsche’s hero Porsche’s top-seller by far, some 84,000 Cayennes sold last year |
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Swimming with the stream - Mazda3 |
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New
Mini technology will spread to small BMWs |
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Midlife redo - big infotainment upgrade |
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Future
belongs to the risk takers - Audi A3 Saloon |
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Opel/Vauxhall
rolls out brand-new Euro 6 diesel |
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Mercedes’ reworked new E-Class estate |
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Volvo’s V60 Plug-in
- Diesel that thinks it’s electric |
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Sudden
spring in SEAT’s step - 3-door Leon |
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Baby Crossover boom - Renault Captur |
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It’s
third time round for Porsche’s Boxster |
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Škoda’s
all-new Club-Class Octavia |
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New
Mercedes S-Class |
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Drive on air - Peugeot compressed air hybrid |
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BMW/Sixt’s
DriveNow car-sharing scheme |
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