When I worked at Disney, we came up with the Aladdin Magic Carpet Ride virtual reality roller coaster around ‘95 or ‘96. It was actually a motorcycle type of interface on a motorized gimbal, with counterweighted headsets (they were CRT because LCD didn’t exist at the size and res they needed back then).
Which “performance” FWD cars are you talking about?
If you’re talking about gerontological luxury car buyers, I’m sure you’re right. If you’re talking about stingy “luxury car buyers”, you may be right.
Nonetheless, Cadillac seems pretty convinced that RWD and competing with the Germans, not the Japanese, is the road to…
FWD-based AWD is acceptable. And only BMW and Mercedes cheapest cars are FWD, and they generally don’t have big engines. I’m not sure where this car fits size wise, but it looks like it competes with E-class, 5 series BMWs and the Cadillac CTS (RWD) or CT6 (AWD standard).
What I’m saying is not that this car needs RWD,…
I would argue that there are zero powerful front wheel drive cars that have no torque steer at all without holding back throttle. It is physically impossible to prevent, though some of the mini double A arm suspensions mitigate it somewhat.
Front wheel drive has everything to do with being a major luxury brand that…
FWD should not be an option on any “luxury” car. AWD is acceptable. FWD “luxury cars” are what (currently) makes Buick a joke.
I owned a 1970 GT from 1979 to 1981. It was funky, fun and absolute crap. The bumpers were attached to sheet metal in the back, and if someone touched the car, the back of your car was caved in. It had no trunk. Just the smallest space behind the driver where a rear seat couldn’t go. In 4th gear, it couldn’t go with…
6th: I think Cadillac will assert itself and say that the Avista is “too good for Buick and would compete with Cadillac directly”. It will die because GM is GM, and has never addressed that serious management pathology.
And another cross generational experience dies.
If the i3 wasn’t a BMW, or worse, if it came from GM....the press would have Azteked it. We see more than our fair share around here in LA’s Westside (and much much more than the average number of Teslas), and they are...well I think i3 fans use the phrase “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” more than the average…
That would be a Buick I would actually want. I wouldn’t be able to get it, but I’d want it.
Please do this in LA.
Drifting Lincoln Town Car disputes your contention.
The only thing that makes sense for the future of driver instrumentation, is a full heads up display. Maybe one that follows your eyes. The large screen displays on the dashes seem too large for the function, and I can’t think of any circumstance where you or your passenger should be watching video in the cockpit…
I gas and go at the end of a tank, the largest distance in the 400 mile range. Stopping only long enough to fill my tank, and then continue. Second fill up I’ll eat and use the bathroom. Third I’ll stop for the day. For me, this is usually LA to Portland or Seattle. It’s also LA to Denver. Although when going to…
Apple gets out their rolled up newspaper and whacks VW on the nose for poaching Johann Jungwirth. Whom they had just poached from Mercedes.
People waving their hands in the air like they have a hornet infestation inside their car because they picked their nose and the system interpreted it as “Play Nickleback, full volume”, will soon replace people yelling at their voice prompt systems like a parent yelling at their 2 year old when they try to eat cat…
The stated range was overly optimistic, as most stated ranges were. It pretty much had the Volt’s “electric only” range in reality. Hence GM’s obsession with “range anxiety” in designing the Volt.
Never experienced anything like that. But we also tip well.
As a human, you learn your driving skills by circumstance over your lifetime. You have rules of thumb for handling a variety of traffic, risk and unexpected occurences. But you are limited only to the knowledge you’ve acquired through experience and education. Google’s autnomous vehicles gain from the experience of…
I can see a lot of logic in this approach. California is ahead of the curve in developing and testing autonomous cars, has 30 million cars supposedly, and every type of driving condition.
