In a much-need spot of car-making consolidation, Daewoo , the fourth-largest chaebol, said it was buying the debt-laden car unit of Ssangyong , another conglomerate, for an undisclosed sum.
Jacinto 5 plays an important role in the new architecture of Audi's high infotainment systems, which consist of a multimedia applications unit ("MMX") and a highly integrated radio and car control unit ("RCC").
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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Pioneer became the latest company to jump on the car-tech bandwagon on Wednesday when it unveiled a new car stereo unit that has maps with local searches, a "music sphere" and tunes from the Internet radio site Pandora.
Not long after the last such session, the president of Allied's North American replacement car-parts unit got yanked from his post.
In terms of producing hydrogen to power a car, the unit can make enough gas overnight to provide fuel for 25 miles.
CloudCar calls out for attention as the most distinctive: going beyond the existing BlueLink system, it pairs the car's infotainment unit with at least a Jelly Bean-equipped Android phone to put an always-online interface in front of the driver.
That's because the used car market is very deep, better than twice the size (in unit volume) of the new car market.
The Logan--a simple, reliable car built by its Romanian unit, Dacia--is a hit in many developing markets, and by 2010 Renault plans to build 1 million Logans in eight countries.
After Ayaz quit his job in February 2013, we packed our worldly goods into a storage unit, bought a car and set out to see more of the world.
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GM's Korean unit handles small-car engineering, for instance.
The car you drive will soon be the storage unit for all your energy needs.
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About 30 traders ran stalls and Boots the Chemist opened a temporary unit in the centre's car park on Saturday.
Eclipse has emulated the success of the TomTom One's concept with the announcement of the AVN2210p, although their solution is arguably less elegant seeing as it's based around a double-DIN sized unit designed to be integrated into car dashes.
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Near Balad, about 50 miles to the north, another car bomb killed six members of a tribal police unit.
The data from these is combined with that from a conventional GPS unit to pinpoint a location of a car to within 2m in cities.
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As well as selling metal and a power unit they could bolster revenues by selling car and travel apps to go alongside all those downloads from Apple and Android.
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Together, the camera and laser sensors monitor the white lines and, if the car strays out of its lane, an electronic control unit attached to an electric power-steering unit corrects it.
Costs are kept low by using production car engines, with the Dallara being powered by a unit straight out of a Toyota MR2, and by making tyres last two or three races.
Last week, Mr Zuma said South Africa had deployed 200 troops to CAR in January to help train the army and VIP protection unit.
The bulletins on luxury hotels said analysis of previous attacks abroad and thwarted plots showed that terrorists have used paramilitary and "small unit" tactics, explosives, improvised explosive devices and car bombs.
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The solid powertrain unit also performed strongly, where Tesla develops electric capacities for other car manufacturers.
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More than 600 car parking spaces are also included in the plans, as is an office unit.
In Baghdad's central Karrada district, a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest detonated minutes after a bomb in a parked car exploded, the Interior Ministry's head of Explosives and Ordnance Disposal unit said, speaking on state-run al-Iraqia television.
As if that wasn't enough, the installer apparently also used tape to hold the GPS unit in place, installed the antennae on the inside of the car instead of the outside, and used a glue gun to install the speakers instead of bolting them in place.
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The family of a woman who died after falling from a Leicester multi-storey car park say they are angry at the care she received at a mental health unit in the city.
Other likely candidates for stock tickers: Zipcar (a car rental service), Nielsen (media measurement firm) and NXP Semiconductors, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics.
Mr Agnelli had adopted a strategy of nursing Fiat's core car business back to health, but the group remains under pressure to put the auto unit up for sale.
Personally, I like having it all on my phone, one unit that does everything (and I probably won't forget it in the car to be stolen).
The new Mercedes V10 engine is not only sited lower in the car for a lower centre of gravity, it is also reputed to be the lightest power unit in F1 at a little over 90kg.
This feature is for all of us who have had to use the base unit beeper to locate the cordless phone or who routinely cannot remember where they kept their car keys.
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