Workers at Ford factories in the USA will wear wristbands made by South Korean tech giant Samsung – and similar to the one above – that buzz to help maintain social distancing, Bloomberg news agency reports. The ‘fitness-like’ devices are supposed to vibrate when employees come within about 1.8m of each other. The experiment will initially be trialled by 12 employees, a Ford … [Read more...] about Ford and Samsung get together to help workers stay apart
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1932 – the invention of the Ford V8 engine
Alastair Sloane writes: I grew up on a farm where my dad used an ex-army Bren gun carrier as a tractor. It was just after World War II and there wasn’t enough money around for a new Massey Ferguson or Fordson Major. They came later. The Bren carrier humped cream cans a few hundred meters from the cowshed to the ‘cream stand’, where the local dairy company truck would pick them … [Read more...] about 1932 – the invention of the Ford V8 engine
World COTY: Kia SUV wins main gong, Mazda takes design award
South Korean carmaker Kia has won the overall World Car of the Year award with its Telluride SUV (above), a seven-seater available only in some left-hand-drive markets but with a styling language shared by the smaller Seltos, which went on sale in New Zealand last year. The top gong wasn’t Kia’s only award – it also won the World Urban COTY for its battery-electric Soul, … [Read more...] about World COTY: Kia SUV wins main gong, Mazda takes design award
New vehicle sales: the best- and worst-case scenarios for 2020
The best-case scenario for new vehicle registrations in 2020? Around 60-65 per cent of the 154,479 logged by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) last year – or between 90,000 and 100,000 vehicles. That’s a 30-40 per cent slump on 2019 numbers. It would be the biggest in a decade, after the 30 per cent year-on-year fall in 2008-2009 in the midst of the Global Financial Crisis … [Read more...] about New vehicle sales: the best- and worst-case scenarios for 2020
The 25 most expensive cars sold at auction …
Fans of exotic classic cars are already asking what affect the COVID-19 pandemic will have on upcoming auctions, like the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August. The elite auction houses, like RM Sotherby’s and Bonhams, constantly hold high-profile sales in both the USA and Europe, and it can be difficult to keep tabs on the multi-million dollar trade in these dream … [Read more...] about The 25 most expensive cars sold at auction …