BMW, for example, has successfully fused its global slogan of the "ultimate driving machine" with a Chinese-style declaration of ambition.
Unfortunately for BMW owners, this is hardly the first time that sudden engine stalls have besieged the owners of the ultimate driving machine.
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Now, they can jump from their first "I can just manage this" vehicle to the ultimate "my company went public" driving machine without ever owning a sedan.
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Pretty good reason to spring for the Ultimate Driving Machine.
Instead, industry executives say, the appeal is a combination of exclusivity and the pride of owning a driving machine capable of scorching up a racecourse even if it never does.
So, too, does the idea driving the ultimate driving machine, BMW. This company has stayed on track with this fundamental notion for as long as its cars have been running.
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Raymond Freymann, managing director of BMW's research and technology group, gets decidedly agitated at the mention of speed restrictions, and not just because customers are unlikely to pay top dollar for a hobbled Ultimate Driving Machine.
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Is BMW really the ultimate driving machine?
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In sync with the show's evocative look back, Martin Puris, the genius "Mad Man" behind the automotive company's tag line "The Ultimate Driving Machine, " introduced the program's opening ad, a superbly crafted vignette, complete with historical footage, that brings to life the story behind the car and how it came to stand for what it does in the minds of consumers.
But one PlayStation-only game released in June, Metal Gear Solid 4, has been driving sales of the machine.
That just ups the importance of America pushing, driving, the innovation machine to keep developing more, new solutions that keep us ahead of competitors.
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The offenders reversed into a police car, before driving off and abandoning the vehicle and cash machine at the junction with Low Road, police said.
Excite Mobile's location-based services, which include yellow pages and white pages, driving directions, and an ATM (automated teller machine) locator, are provided by AirFlash Inc.
In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine.
Google has suggested it could sell auto makers the mapping and machine-vision technology it's developing for its self-driving cars, or offer that technology for free as part of a package of other Google products and services.
This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, driving back to Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
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